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NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



Production of salt in New York 



YEAR 



BARRELS 



VALUE 



1890 

 189I 

 1892 



1893 

 1894 



1895 

 1896 

 1897 

 1898 

 1899 

 .1900 

 I9OI 

 1902 

 1903 

 1904 



1905 

 1906 

 1907 

 1908 

 1909 

 I9IO 

 I9II 

 I912 



I913 

 I914 



I915 



532 036 



839 544 

 472 073 

 662 074 

 270 588 



832 331 

 069 040 

 805 854 

 791 798 

 489 105 

 897 071 

 286 320 



8 523 389 



8 170 648 



8 724 768 



8 575 649 



9 013 993 

 9 657 543 

 9 005 311 

 9 880 618 



10 270 273 

 10 082 656 

 10 502 214 

 10 819 521 



10 389 072 



11 095 301 



266 018 

 340 036 

 662 816 

 870 084 

 999 146 

 943 398 

 896 681 



948 759 

 369 323 

 540 426 

 171 418 

 089 834 

 938 539 

 007 807 

 102 748 

 303 067 

 131 650 

 449 178 

 136 736 

 298 652 

 258 292 

 191 485 

 597 260 

 856 664 

 835 706 

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SAND AND GRAVEL 



The production of sand and gravel should be given consideration 

 as one of the branches of the mineral industry. It is carried on in 

 one or more places in practically ever^ county of the State; but 

 only in a few sections has it become really stabilized so as to be 

 conducted on a more or less permanent basis. For that reason a 

 statistical investigation of the industry is attended with considerable 

 difficulty, and the results may be lacking somewhat in accuracy. 



Such is the case more especially with the ordinary building sands 

 and gravels which are so widely distributed that in most places 

 they have little or no intrinsic value, the requirements being sup- 

 plied from deposits in the immediate vicinity at a nominal expense 

 above the cost of handling. In recent years, however, there has 

 been a manifest tendency toward a standardization of these 

 materials when they are to be employed in important structures or 

 engineering works. It has been found that they have a very direct 

 influence upon the quality of the mortar or concrete into which 

 they enter, a fact that has not received so wide appreciation as it 



