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grades inasmuch as the salt consumed by the Solvay Process 

 Co. bears only a nominal value. 



Production of salt by grades in 1906 



GRADE 



BARRELS 



Common fine. . . 

 Common coarse. 

 Table and dairy 

 Coarse solar. . . . 

 Packers 



I 164 064 



182 636 



I 211 936 



510 800 



39 286 



aOther grades i 5 905 271 



Total 



9 013 993 



VALUE 



5413 462 



62 758 



603 034 



191 551 

 14 100 



846 745 



!2 131 650 



VALUE 



PER 

 BARREL 



•35 

 •34 

 •50 

 .38 

 .36 

 .14 



$ .23 



a Includes rock salt, salt in brine used for soda manufacture, and small amounts of brine 

 salt for which the uses were not specified in the returns. 



Production of salt by grades in 1907 



GRADE 



Common fine . . . 

 Common coarse. 

 Table and dairy 

 Coarse solar. . . . 



Packers 



aOther grades . . 



Total 



BARRELS 



VALUE 



VALUE 



PER 

 BARREL 



214 093 



155 593 

 183 643 

 415 971 



43 614 

 644 629 



9 657 543 



$446 618 



64 794 



639 464 



156 072 



14 993 

 [ 127 237 



>2 449 178 



•37 



.42 



•54 

 •37 

 •34 

 •17 



$ .25 



a Includes rock salt, salt in brine used for soda manufacture, and small amounts of brin e 

 salt for which the uses were not specified in the returns. 



Onondaga county ranks first among the counties of the State 

 in quantity of annual output and has contributed by far the 

 largest total production. Between the years 1797 and 1892 there 

 was made and sold from the Onondaga Salt Springs an aggre- 

 gate of 71,284,419 barrels, equivalent to 9,979,819 short tons. 

 If the salt utilized for soda manufacture be also included, the 

 production of the county to date can not be much less than 

 20,000,000 tons. Up to the year 1880, when the beds of rock 

 salt in the western part of the State began to be utilized, Onon- 

 daga county supplied the whole output, but since then it has 



