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  NEW 
  YORK 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  first 
  months 
  pointed 
  to 
  slow 
  progress 
  extending 
  over 
  some 
  time 
  

   rather 
  than 
  a 
  rapid 
  recovery. 
  

  

  The 
  combined 
  production 
  of 
  portland 
  and 
  natural 
  cement 
  in 
  New 
  

   York 
  State 
  amounted 
  in 
  1908 
  to 
  2,612,462 
  barrels 
  valued 
  at 
  $2,254,- 
  

   758. 
  In 
  1907 
  the 
  combined 
  total 
  was 
  3,245,729 
  barrels 
  and 
  the 
  

   value 
  $2,971,820. 
  There 
  was 
  thus 
  a 
  decrease 
  in 
  output 
  of 
  633,267 
  

   barrels, 
  or 
  nearly 
  20 
  per 
  cent. 
  The 
  loss 
  was 
  mostly 
  in 
  the 
  natural 
  

   product 
  which 
  reached 
  the 
  lowest 
  figure 
  attained 
  in 
  a 
  great 
  many 
  

   years. 
  

  

  Of 
  Portland 
  cement 
  the 
  output 
  of 
  1,988,874 
  barrels 
  valued 
  at 
  

   $1,813,622 
  as 
  against 
  2,108,450 
  barrels 
  valued 
  at 
  $2,214,090 
  in 
  the 
  

   preceding 
  year 
  showed 
  a 
  decline 
  of 
  less 
  than 
  6 
  per 
  cent. 
  The 
  value 
  

   of 
  the 
  cement 
  per 
  barrel, 
  however, 
  averaged 
  only 
  $.91 
  in 
  1908 
  

   compared 
  with 
  $1.05 
  in 
  1907. 
  There 
  were 
  seven 
  companies 
  who 
  

   operated 
  during 
  the 
  whole 
  or 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  year, 
  or 
  two 
  less 
  than 
  in 
  

   1907. 
  The 
  works 
  of 
  the 
  Hudson 
  Portland 
  Cement 
  Co. 
  at 
  Hudson 
  

   and 
  of 
  the 
  Iroquois 
  Portland 
  Cement 
  Co. 
  at 
  Caledonia 
  were 
  closed 
  

   down 
  throughout 
  the 
  season. 
  The 
  former 
  company 
  was 
  recently 
  

   bought 
  out 
  by 
  the 
  Atlas 
  Portland 
  Cement 
  Co., 
  a 
  Pennsylvania 
  cor- 
  

   poration, 
  which 
  it 
  is 
  understood 
  will 
  dismantle 
  the 
  plant 
  and 
  erect 
  

   new 
  works 
  at 
  Greenport 
  with 
  a 
  capacity 
  of 
  5000 
  barrels 
  a 
  day. 
  

   The 
  plant 
  of 
  the 
  Iroquois 
  Portland 
  Cement 
  Co. 
  was 
  taken 
  over 
  in 
  

   May 
  1908 
  by 
  the 
  Marengo 
  Portland 
  Cement 
  Co. 
  After 
  extensive 
  

   improvements 
  the 
  latter 
  company 
  intended 
  to 
  restart 
  operations 
  

   this 
  spring. 
  The 
  Seaboard 
  Cement 
  Co. 
  of 
  Alsen 
  and 
  the 
  Knicker- 
  

   bocker 
  Portland 
  Cement 
  Co. 
  of 
  New 
  York 
  were 
  organized 
  during 
  

   the 
  year 
  to 
  engage 
  in 
  cement 
  manufacture 
  in 
  the 
  Hudson 
  river 
  

   region. 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  natural 
  cement 
  industry 
  the 
  main 
  feature 
  of 
  the 
  year's 
  

   record 
  was 
  a 
  further 
  decline 
  of 
  production 
  which 
  amounted 
  to 
  

   623,588 
  barrels 
  valued 
  at 
  $441,136 
  against 
  1,137,279 
  barrels 
  valued 
  

   at 
  $757,730 
  for 
  1907. 
  There 
  were 
  six 
  firms 
  who 
  were 
  operative, 
  or 
  

   two 
  less 
  than 
  in 
  the 
  preceding 
  year. 
  Of 
  the 
  total, 
  three 
  companies 
  

   in 
  the 
  Rosendale 
  district 
  contributed 
  579,588 
  barrels 
  with 
  a 
  value 
  

   of 
  $419,936. 
  

  

  The 
  accompanying 
  table 
  gives 
  the 
  production 
  of 
  both 
  portland 
  

   <ind 
  natural 
  cement 
  in 
  New 
  York 
  State 
  since 
  1890. 
  

  

  