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Production of cement in New York 



YEAR 



PORTLAND CEMENT 



Barrels 



Value 



NATURAL CEMENT 



Barrels 



Value 



1891 

 1892 



1893 

 1894 



1895 

 1896 

 1897 

 1898 

 1899 

 1900 

 1 901 

 1902 

 1903 

 1904 



1905 

 1906 

 1907 

 1908 

 1909 

 1910 

 1911 



87 000 

 124 000 

 137 096 

 117 275 

 159 320 

 260 787 

 394 398 

 554 358 

 472 386 

 465 832 

 617 228 

 156 807 

 602 946 

 377 302 

 117 822 



423 374 

 108 450 

 988 874 

 061 019 



364 255 

 416 400 



$190 250 

 279 000 

 287 725 

 205 231 

 278 810 



443 175 

 690 179 

 970 126 



708 579 

 582 290 

 617 228 



521 553 

 031 310 



245 778 

 046 864 

 766 488 

 214 090 

 813 622 

 761 297 

 939 818 

 930 434 



931 306 



780 687 

 597 758 

 446 330 



939 727 

 181 918 

 259 186 



157 917 

 689 167 

 409 085 

 234 131 

 577 340 

 417 137 

 881 630 

 257 698 

 691 565 

 137 279 

 623 588 



549 364 

 292 760 



274 973 



$3 046 279 



3 074 781 

 2 805 387 



1 974 463 



2 285 094 

 423 891 

 123 771 

 065 658 

 813 500 

 045 451 

 117 066 



135 036 

 510 529 

 207 883 

 590 689 

 184 211 



757 730 

 441 136 

 361 605 

 147 202 

 134 900 



The one new producer added to the list during the year was the 

 Knickerbocker Portland Cement Co., which began operation in 

 the summer at its plant near Greenport, Columbia county. The 

 mill is equipped with three rotary kilns, each 10 by 175 feet, and 

 under full headway is expected to turn out 3000 barrels a day. The 

 limestone quarries are situated on Becraft mountain close by and in 

 proximity to those of the New York-New England Company, in an 

 outlier of the Coeymans and Manlius formations. The clay is 

 obtained locally. 



CLAY 



The clay-working industries rank first in the value of annual out- 

 put among the mineral industries of the State. Their prominence 

 is chiefly due to the widely distributed deposits of common clays 

 suited for building brick, drain tile and materials of that class and 

 the very extensive local markets for such articles. As the whole 

 area of New York lies within the zone of Pleistocene glaciation, 

 residual clays are of rare occurrence and of little commercial 

 importance. 



Most of the clays that are utilized are modified glacial deposits. 



