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Furnace flux. The value of the Hmestone used in blast furnaces 

 for flux is second only to that of crushed stone. The principal 

 quarries of this material are in the Onondaga limestone of Erie and 

 Genesee counties, from which the Buffalo iron furnaces derive much 

 of their supply. The Lockport dolomite is also quarried in Niagara 

 county and shipped to furnaces in that section. The furnaces of 

 northern New York derive their supply of flux from the Chazy lime- 

 stone of Clinton county and the crystalHne limestone in Essex 

 county. One quarry in the Gouverneur marble district ships its 

 product to furnaces in western New York. 



The production of flux in 1910 reached a value of $538,491 which 

 was the largest ever recorded. The output for the preceding year 

 was valued at $434,311, so that the gain was nearly 25 per cent. 

 Erie county contributed a value of $322,067, or about 60 per cent of 

 the total. Genesee county made an output valued at $90,132. 



Production of limestone by counties in 1909 



COUNTY 



CRUSHED 

 STONE 



LIME 

 MADE 



FURNACE BUILDING 

 FLUX STONE 



OTHER 

 USES 



TOTAL 





Albany 



Cayuga 



Clinton 



Columbia 



Dutchess 



Erie 



Fulton 



Genesee 



Greene 



Herkimer 



Jefferson 



Lewis 



Madison 



Monroe 



Montgomery. . . 



Niagara 



Onondaga 



Rensselaer 



St Lawrence . . . 



Saratoga 



Schoharie 



Seneca 



Ulster.. *. . . 



Warren 



Washington .... 

 Westchester .... 

 Other counties?). 



Total 



5105 440 



36 734 



21 735 



9 883 



365 661 



447 605 



123 784 

 4 177 



611 



1 000 

 940 



24 176 

 20 218 

 42 832 



2 060 

 no 886 



15 700 



6 630 



II 316 



18 913 



I 050 



48 022 



22 938 



47 660 



8 252 



240 091 



$4 600 



400 



47 488 



$610 



14 200 



3 460 



$200 

 6 835 



13 325 

 200 



52 500 

 532 



4 000 



375 

 18 900 



5 400 



257 966 

 99 814 



3 350 

 a 57 368 



8 000 



23 593 



3 000 



a 600 



27 920 



5 350 



75 

 23 994 



II 



400 



360 



360 



175 830 



43 200 



30 000 



9 300 



40 



$1 744 314^452 874 



6 232 



^434 311 



119 134 



28 684 



I 225 

 500 



30 



562 



887 

 840 



3 917 

 10 440 



5 587 

 17 380 



3 550 



2 993 



100 



25 885 



865 



I 200 



I 156 



153 420 



2 359 



12 000 



2 

 I 



231 

 6 

 I 



454 

 503 

 612 



842 



750 

 103 



210 



328 



1 750 



2 000 



3 465 

 561 



5iio 

 47 

 97 

 13 

 369 

 853 

 18 



24 

 07 

 280 



543 

 661 

 764 

 900 



230 223 

 4 707 



9 



212 



12 



37 

 50 

 54 

 39 



961 

 350 

 186 

 016 

 182 



775 

 179 



360 708 

 26 075 

 40 070 



II 



45 



2 



60 



201 



92 



41 

 256 



416 

 198 



525 

 582 



674 

 860 

 717 

 512 



$217 109 



I451 775 



$3 300 383 



^ Lime used by Solvay Process Co. and Union Carbide Co. included in " Other uses. 

 ^ Includes Essex, Ontario, Oneida, Orange, Rockland and Schenectady counties. 



