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business. Mather estimated the output for that year at 600,000 

 barrels. The height of prosperity was attained in the decade pre- 

 ceding 1900, when the output of this district reached a maximum of 

 about 3,000,000 barrels a year. In 1892 the production, as given in 

 Mineral Resources, amounted to 2,833,107 barrels, while the output 

 of the State amounted to 3,786,687 barrels and of the entire country 

 to 8,211,181 barrels. F. L. Nason^ has supplied a list of the manu- 

 facturers for 1893, with details of the quarries and kilns operated by 

 each and of the estimated output, which will be of interest as a record 

 of the industry in its prime. 



Manufacturers of natural cement in Rosendale district 



NO. 



OF 



KILNS 



ESTIMATED 

 PRODUC- 

 TION 

 1893 



Newark Lime & Cement Co. 



N. Y. & Rosendale Cement 



Co 



F. O. Norton 



High Falls & Binnewater 



Cement Co 



D. A. Earnhardt 



J. H. Vandemark 



Lawrenceville Cement Co . . . 



New York Cement Co 



Newark & Rosendale Cement 



Co 



A. J. Snyder & Son 



Connelly & Shaffer I 



Lawrence Cement Co 



Rondout , 



Rosendale, Wilbur, Creek 



locks, E. Kingston 



High Falls 



Binnewater 



High Falls 



Bruceville 



Binnewater 



LeFevre Falls 



Whiteport 



Lawrenceville 



Creeklocks ^ '. 



Rock Lock, Eddyville, Bin- 

 newater, Lawrenceville. . . 



200 000 



450 000 

 25 000 



225 000 



55 000 



32 450 



100 000 



290 000 



155 000 

 115 000 

 135 000 



910 056 



Most of the plants in the above list were later taken over by the 

 Consolidated Rosendale Cement Co., which secured control of the 

 larger part of the manufacturing capacity and conducted operations 

 at the more advantageous localities. Notwithstanding the effort 

 to affect economies in production and to increase the sales, the indus- 

 try rapidly declined after 1900. In the last few years operations have 

 been restricted to one or two mills, with only a nominal output. 



Erie county once contributed a large output of natural cement 

 from works in Buffalo and near Akron. It would appear that the 



^ Economic Geology of Ulster County. 

 1894. P- 593- 



47th Ann. Rep't, N. Y. State Mus, 



