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List of brine plants. The manufacturers of salt in the Syracuse 

 district, using the solar process, include the following who were in 

 operation in 1916: J. L. Cady, P. Corkings, Draper & Porter, Empire 

 Coarse Salt Co., Thomas K. Gale, Geddes Coarse Salt Co., High- 

 land Solar Salt Co., P. J. Johnson, Cady & Johnson, Salina Solar 

 Coarse Salt Co., Turk's Island Coarse Salt Co., Western Coarse 

 Salt Co., John White & Son, Salt Springs Solar Coarse Salt Co. 

 All the solar salt is marketed through the Onondaga Coarse Salt 

 Association. It is sold in seven sizes, of which six represent the 

 different sizes of salt crystals, separated by screening, as follows: 

 Diamond C, BC, Standard, Diamond F, BF, and 6-me3h BT. The 

 finest size is 8-mesh, which is crushed and passed through a screen 

 of eight meshes to the inch. 



The list of manufacturers of artificially evaporated salt for recent 

 years has included the following: International Salt Co., with works 

 at Myers, Ithaca and Watkins; Worcester Salt Co., Silver Springs; 

 Rock Glen Salt Co., Rock Glen; Eureka Salt Co., Saltvale; Rem- 

 ington Salt Co., Ithaca; Watkins Salt Co., Watkins; Genesee Salt 

 Co., Piffard; LeRoy Salt Co., LeRoy; Solvay Process Co., Solvay. 



Production. The record of salt production in New York State 

 is practically complete from the start of regular operations in 1797. 

 In that year the output was 25,474 bushels, or 5095 barrels. By 

 1828 the production had grown to over 1,000,000 bushels, or 200,000 

 barrels, and by 1849 it passed 1,000,000 barrels. In the succeeding 

 30 years it made slow growth; in 1880 when the manufacture of 

 salt from artificial brines was about to begin it had increased only 

 to 1,599,750 barrels. The production since then has made rapid 

 strides. Altogether the product of brine and rock salt in the State 

 in the period 1797-1918 has amounted to the total of 323,870,546 

 barrels. 



. The production of salt by grades for the last three years is shown 

 in the tables below : 



Production of salt by grades in 191 6 



GRADE 



BARRELS 



VALUE 



VALUE A 

 BARREL 



Common fine 



I 694 943 

 267 421 



I 308 529 



249 728 



10 567 129 



$828 617 



153 844 

 940 969 



iio 505 



I 664 863 



$.48 



•57 

 .71 



Common coarse 



Table and dairy 



Solar 



Other grades a 



•44 

 .16 









14 087 750 



$3 698 798 



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