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Production of salt in New York 



YEAR 



BARRELS 



VAI.UE 



1897 

 1898 

 1899 

 1900 

 I9OI 

 1902 

 1903 

 1904 



1905 

 1906 

 1907 

 1908 

 1909 

 I9IO 

 I9II 

 I9I2 



I9I3 

 I914 



I915 

 I916 



6 805 854 



6 791 798 



7 489 105 

 7 897 071 



7 286 320 



8 523 389 

 8 170 648 

 8 7?4 768 



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 

 14 087 750 



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 

 on 932 

 698 798 



SAND AND GRAVEL 



The sand and gravel industry is represented in every section and 

 nearly every county of the State. The deposits of these materials 

 are so widespread that usually the ordinary demands of each com- 

 munity, so far as building purposes are concerned, can be met from 

 supplies close at hand. 



The sand and gravel beds of the State belong mainly to the 

 Pleistocene formations, accumulated as the result of the great ice 

 invasion which moved from north to south and reached as far 

 south as northern New Jersey and Pennsylvania. This ice sheet 

 swept the rocks bare of their former mantle of disintegrated material 

 and in its place left a covering of transported boulders, gravels, 

 sands and clays. These deposits, when laid down directly by the 

 ice as ground moraine, are so intermixed as to have little or no 

 industrial value. Such unmodified drift covers a considerable por- 

 tion of the area, especially of the hilly country; in the valleys and 

 lowlands the ground moraine has been removed by stream action or 

 concealed below beds of sorted gravels and sands that were laid 

 down in bodies of standing water whose existence in most cases was 

 incidental to the flooded waters of the Glacial period. In some of 



