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NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



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1906 



1907 



COUNTY 



Number 



Value 



Number 



Value 



St Lawrence 



Saratoga 



Seneca 



a 



a 



800 000 

 50 798 000 



a 



3 287 000 

 20 130 000 



1 100 000 

 260 404 000 



5 020 000 



2 750 000 

 59 307 000 

 II 370 000 



$6 000 



70 509 000 

 6 050 000 

 4 705 000 



21 710 000 

 a 



$385 950 



36 400 



31 800 



137 500 



a 



I 465 457 

 a 



18 100 



458 000 



94 606 



254 385 

 a 



Steuben 



29 818 

 124 610 



Suffolk 



Tompkins 



Ulster 



7 100 



I 322 476 



25 000 



14 300 



323 553 

 70 169 



252 665 000 

 a 



3 300 000 

 70 621 000 

 16 919 000 



Warren 



Washington 



Westchester 



Other counties^ . . 



Total ...:... 



I 575 434 000 



$9 302 165 



I 351 591 000 



$7 201 525 



o Included under " other counties." 



b Includes in 1906 the following: Allegany, Cattaraugus, Fulton, Herkimer, Livingston, 

 Montgomery, St Lawrence, Schenectady, Tioga, Tompkins and Warren. In 1907 the fol- 

 lowing counties are included: Allegany, Cattaraugus, Fulton, Herkimer, Livingston, Mont- 

 gomery, Schenectady and Seneca. 



Hudson river region. The counties situated along the navi- 

 gable Stretch of the Hudson river constitute an exceptional 

 region as regards the clay-working industry and deserve special 

 consideration. No other part of the State, or indeed of the 

 aountry, supports so extensive a development of brick manufac- 

 ture. The district supplies practically all of the common grade 

 of brick consumed in the building operations of New York and 

 vicinity in which market it has a decisive advantage owing to the 

 facilities for transport by water. The yards for the most part 

 are placed close to the river so that the brick can be shipped to 

 destination at a minimum of expense. In the nine counties in- 

 cluded in the region there are more than 125 yards with a com- 

 bined capacity of about one and a half billions a year. 



Owing to the depressed state of the trade during 1907, there 

 was a notable reduction in the output of the region as compared 

 with that for the two preceding years when conditions were 

 specially prosperous. The production of common brick reported 

 by the 122 plants that were active aggregated 1,051,907,000 

 valued at $5,471,713. In 1906 the production, the largest on 

 record, amounted to 1,230,692,000 valued at $7,352,377, dis- 



