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the product of building stone reached a value of $245,655. Erie 

 county contributed a value of $77,689 to the total last year. The 

 industry in Schoharie and Herkimer counties, once quite important, 

 has shrunk to small proportions. 



Furnace flux. The value of the limestone used in furnaces for 

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

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

 Genesee counties and the Clinton limestone of Niagara county. 

 They supply the iron furnaces at Buffalo and vicinity. Some flux 

 is obtained in the Gouverneur marble region for use in the furnaces 

 at Charlotte. The furnaces in the Lake Champlain section derive 

 their flux from quarries in Clinton and Essex counties. 



The production of flux in 191 1 was valued at $454,800 repre- 

 senting a total of 792,248 tons. The shipments were smaller than 

 in the preceding year, owing to the dull conditions in the iron 

 market. Erie county contributed the largest value, $268,082, and 

 Niagara county ranked second with $141,824. 



Production of limestone by counties in 1910 



COUNTY 



CRUSHED 

 STONE 



LIME 

 MADE 



FURNACE BUILDING 

 FLUX STONE 



OTHER 

 USES 



TOTAL 



Albany 



Cayuga 



Clinton 



Erie 



Genesee 



Greene 



Herkimer 



Jefferson 



Lewis 



Madison 



Monroe 



Montgomery . . . 



Niagara 



Onondaga 



Rensselaer 



St Lawrence . . . 



Saratoga 



Schoharie 



Seneca 



Ulster 



Warren 



Washington .... 

 Westchester .... 

 Other counties b 



Total 



$125 450 

 39 019 



13 549 



476 490 



118 797 



8 225 



8 520 



I 693 



I 195 

 52 028 



17 423 

 29 810 



5 000 



150 640 



15 000 



870 



15 114 



12 441 



I 625 



20 654 



31 378 

 50 000 



59 387 

 561 501 



$4 500 



48 823 



^52 



5 000 



3 114 

 a 55 837 

 200 



$12 364 



322 067 



90 132 



29 520 



2 625 



4 000 

 a I 620 



76 695 



7 240 



128 



192 



II 897 



140 576 



44 200 



27 008 

 192 



K 



$7 690 



4 160 



53 881 



480 



$13 745 

 200 



200 

 520 

 800 



2 589 

 8 622 



3 197 

 12 092 



100 



362 



7 



I 567 



I 192 



168 265 

 726 



I 583 



5 840 7 408 



1 719 



2 125 

 406 



233 228 



70 



I 116 



624 

 75 



3 802 



518 



$129 950 



46 709 



78 896 



866 335 



214 609 



8 225 



10 434 



225 995 



5 641 



55 453 



51 251 



40 557 



89 298 



397 580 



15 170 



36 596 



15 121 



14 760 



3 276 



32 551 



537 



200 



173 

 94 



63 189 

 575 274 



$1 815 8091365 839 $538 491I $99 049,^426 619 $3 245 807 



a Lime made bv Solvay Process Co. and Union Carbide Co. included in " Other uses." 



b Includes Columbia, Dutchess, Essex, Fulton, Oneida. Ontario. Orange and Rockland counties. 



