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  Forty-seventh 
  Report 
  on 
  the 
  

  

  York 
  does 
  not 
  rank 
  as 
  a 
  mining 
  State, 
  its 
  mining 
  products 
  are 
  of 
  

   great 
  value, 
  the 
  brick 
  industry 
  alone 
  amounting 
  to 
  $8,500,000 
  a 
  

   year. 
  TJie 
  product 
  of 
  its 
  quarries 
  of 
  building 
  stone 
  is 
  enormous, 
  

   although 
  an 
  accurate 
  statement 
  of 
  its 
  annual 
  value 
  can 
  not 
  yet 
  

   be 
  made. 
  The 
  salt 
  industry 
  amounts 
  to 
  over 
  $1,500,000 
  a 
  year. 
  

   A 
  large 
  amount 
  of 
  capital 
  is 
  invested 
  in 
  the 
  iron 
  industry 
  of 
  New 
  

   York, 
  although 
  the 
  present 
  state 
  of 
  the 
  iron 
  market 
  has 
  closed 
  

   many 
  of 
  the 
  mines. 
  The 
  blay 
  industries 
  of 
  the 
  State, 
  the 
  brick 
  

   and 
  pottery 
  works, 
  have 
  now 
  become 
  an 
  important 
  source 
  of 
  

   income 
  to 
  many 
  residents 
  of 
  New 
  York, 
  and 
  are 
  the 
  fountain- 
  

   head 
  of 
  much 
  interstate 
  commerce. 
  Early 
  in 
  his 
  official 
  life 
  in 
  

   Albany, 
  the 
  Assistant 
  Director 
  recognized 
  the 
  propriety 
  of 
  a 
  

   bulletin 
  of 
  reliable 
  information 
  on 
  the 
  subject 
  of 
  the 
  clay 
  indus- 
  

   try, 
  and 
  secured 
  the 
  services 
  of 
  Mr. 
  Heinrich 
  Ries, 
  Ph.B., 
  who 
  

   has 
  visited 
  all 
  the 
  works 
  of 
  the 
  State 
  manufacturing 
  articles 
  from 
  

   this 
  material, 
  and 
  has 
  prepared, 
  under 
  Dr. 
  Merrill's 
  direction, 
  a 
  

   full 
  and 
  very 
  valuable 
  bulletin 
  upon 
  the 
  clays 
  of 
  New 
  York. 
  It 
  

   is 
  a 
  matter 
  of 
  great 
  regret 
  that 
  the 
  necessary 
  funds 
  have 
  not 
  been 
  

   in 
  hand 
  to 
  publish 
  this 
  bulletin 
  of 
  so 
  much 
  use 
  to 
  the 
  taxpayers. 
  

   The 
  clay 
  collections 
  for 
  the 
  exhibit 
  at 
  the 
  World's 
  Fair 
  were 
  

   made 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Hies, 
  who 
  was 
  also 
  the 
  Assistant 
  in 
  charge 
  of 
  the 
  

   installation 
  of 
  the 
  mining 
  exhibits, 
  and 
  discharged 
  his 
  duties 
  in 
  a 
  

   manner 
  alike 
  creditable 
  to 
  himself 
  and 
  the 
  State. 
  

  

  The 
  iron 
  ores 
  exhibited 
  by 
  the 
  State 
  were 
  obtained 
  by 
  corre- 
  

   spondence 
  and 
  supplemented 
  by 
  specimens 
  from 
  the 
  Museum. 
  

  

  The 
  mineral 
  waters 
  of 
  New 
  York 
  State 
  are 
  so 
  well 
  known 
  as 
  

   to 
  require 
  no 
  comment, 
  but 
  an 
  entire 
  case 
  was 
  devoted 
  to 
  samples 
  

   from 
  the 
  various 
  springs 
  and 
  wells, 
  representing 
  an 
  industry 
  of 
  

   considerable 
  financial 
  value. 
  

  

  " 
  The 
  Salt 
  and 
  Gypsum 
  Industries 
  of 
  New 
  York 
  " 
  form 
  Bul- 
  

   letin 
  No. 
  11, 
  Yol. 
  3, 
  of 
  the 
  publications 
  of 
  the 
  New 
  York 
  State 
  

   Museum, 
  by 
  Frederick 
  J. 
  H. 
  Merrill. 
  This 
  Bulletin 
  is 
  in 
  itself 
  

   explanatory 
  of 
  the 
  State 
  salt 
  exhibit 
  at 
  the 
  World's 
  Fair. 
  It 
  

   consists 
  of 
  89 
  pages, 
  and 
  contains 
  a 
  map 
  showing 
  the 
  geographi- 
  

   cal 
  distribution 
  of 
  the 
  Salina 
  Group 
  of 
  rocks 
  in 
  New 
  York, 
  and 
  

   the 
  locations 
  of 
  salt 
  wells 
  and 
  of 
  quarries 
  of 
  gypsum 
  ; 
  and 
  a 
  map 
  

   of 
  the 
  salt 
  district 
  of 
  Genesee, 
  Wyoming 
  and 
  Livingston 
  coun- 
  

   ties, 
  showing 
  the 
  locations 
  of 
  productive 
  and 
  unproductive 
  salt 
  

   wells 
  and 
  mines, 
  and 
  the 
  underground 
  contours 
  of 
  the 
  salt 
  beds. 
  

  

  