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NEW YokK STATF. MUSK I'M 



Production of salt in New York since 1887 



YEAR 



BARRELS 



[MS 7 

 1888 

 1889 

 1890 

 1 89 1 

 1S92 



1893 

 1894 



i«95 

 1896 

 1897 

 1898 

 1899 

 1900 

 1 90 1 

 1902 

 1903 

 1904 



1905 

 1906 

 1907 

 1908 

 1909 

 1910 



VALUE 



$936 894 



I 130 409 



1 136 5°3 



1 266 018 



1 340 036 



1 662 816 



1 870 084 



1 999 146 



1 943 398 



I 896 681 



948 759 



369 323 



540 426 



171 418 



089 834 



1 938 539 



007 807 



102 748 



303 067 



131 650 



449 178 

 136 736 



298 652 



258 292 



191 485 



The large number of producers in Onondaga county is incident 

 to the solar salt industry which is carried on extensively around 

 Syracuse. The brine used by the solar evaporating works or salt 

 yards is stored in glacial gravels and is pumped and distributed by 

 central plants. The principal supply comes from the old Onondaga 

 Salt Springs Reservation that was sold by the Indians to the State 

 in 1788. The manufacture of salt was placed under State control 

 in 1707 from which time complete records of the industry are 

 available. At one time artificial evaporation was extensively 

 practised but this has been given up almost entirely in recent years 

 with the increased competition from other districts. The solar salt 

 : s sold through the agency of the < )nondaga Coarse Salt Associa- 

 tion. 



With the exception of the salt made at Syracuse the entire pro- 

 duction is obtained from the deposits of rock salt which are found 

 in the Salina formation, a succession of shales and limestones with 

 intercalated beds of gypsum and rock salt. The Salina strata out- 

 crop in an east-west belt across the State from Albany county to 



