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entire amount of salt taken from the mines and wells, and that a 
certain and not inconsiderable part of this amount represents the 
salt contents of brine which is not evaporated, but converted directly 
into alkali products. On this part of the output a very low valua- 
tion, representing practically the mere cost of pumping, is placed. 
The production of this brine is confined to a single company, the 
Solvay Process Co., which has a number of wells in the town of 
Tully, Onondaga county, whence the brine 1s carried by pipe line to 
the alkali works near Syracuse. 
The accompanying tables give the statistics of the salt production 
for recent years. For the years 1911 and 1912 the output is given 
according to grades, so far as the classification could be made with- 
out revealing the individual figures. The grades depend upon 
methods of manufacture and purposes for which the salt is used. 
Rock salt and salt in brine consumed by the alkali industry appear 
in the last item of the detailed tables which also includes small 
quantities of evaporated salt not specially classified in the returns. 
The evaporated salt is chiefly marketed under the grades of com- 
mon fine, table and dairy, common coarse, common solar, and pack- 
ers salt. Table and dairy salt includes the finest grades of artifi- 
cially evaporated salt specially prepared for the table and for butter 
and cheese making; it brings the highest market price. Under 
common fine are listed the other grades of fine, artificially evaporated 
salt that are not specially prepared. Common coarse represents the 
coarser product from artificial evaporation. Coarse solar salt is 
made by evaporation of brine in shallow pans exposed to the sun’s 
heat. This process is employed only by the manufacturers in Syra- 
cuse and vicinity, and can be carried on, of course, only in the 
summer months.. Packers salt includes the product sold to meat 
packers and fish salters. 
Production of salt by grades in 1911 
Hobe VALUE A 
GRADE BARRELS VALUE aoe 
Common finite ener I 143 886 $328 127 $.29 
Commlonicoarsenaneee eee 285 407 96 968 ent 
slablevandiG any ee ante eee I 312 000 629 581 .48 
Coarse Solar erm cece aera 434 414 131 247 30 
IPACKGrS Spe og eta EAE tn cee be ere 40 721 II 402 .28 
Otheneradese eee eee ee | 6 866 228 994 160 .14 
Totale. eso Soe eee 10 082 656 $2 ror 485 Geomy 
1 Common fine includes a small quantity of common coarse. ¢ 
2 Include 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. 
