THE MINING AND QUARRY INDUSTRY I909 

 Production of common building brick 



27 



COUNTY 



1908 



Number 



Value 



1909 



Number 



Value 



Albany 



Cayuga 



Chautauqua . . . 



Chemung 



CHnton 



C^ohuTibia 



Dutchess 



Erie 



Greene 



Jefferson 



Livingston 



Monroe 



A'assau , 



Niagara , 



Oneida 



Onondaga 



Ontario 



Orange 



Rensselaer 



Richmond 



Rockland 



Saratoga 



Steuben 



Suffolk 



Ulster 



Westchester. . . . 

 Other countiesa. 



Total 



55 677 



1 309 

 8 046 



14 87,3 

 640 



61 971 



132 003 



35 960 



12 094 



2 321 

 490 



15 617 

 II 675 



I 543 

 17 436 

 14 028 

 768 

 869 

 10 949 

 25 398 



2 

 151 



000 

 000 

 01 1 

 000 

 000 

 000 

 973 

 325 

 825 



749 

 000 



815 

 000 

 014 

 000 

 000 

 000 

 000 

 400 

 500 



173 926 



094 



51 034 



000 



2 651 



080 



20 108 



150 



179 165 



560 



39 801 



577 



9 452 



400 



T 056 769 



283 



S'255 013 

 8 480 



50 919 



89 000 



3 920 



283 720 



605 371 



202 943 



57 923 

 17 897 



3 555 

 93 730 

 63 890 

 10 892 



83 731 



76 030 



16 946 



747 637 



60 723 



89 083 



800 603 



243 728 



21 870 



122 430 



816 947 



184 774 



52 639 



I 



7 

 10 



88 

 170 



43 



42 



I 



I 



23 

 20 



3 

 16 

 22 



2 



164 



19 



37 



000 

 000 



343 000 

 612 000 

 815 000 

 500 000 

 250 000 

 026 000 

 615 

 379 

 794 000 

 450 000 

 100 000 



493 000 

 000 000 

 368 000 

 000 000 

 800 000 

 350 000 



680 



895 000 

 500 000 

 275 262 000 



70 



3 

 1 1 



304 

 72 

 10 



539 000 

 480 000 

 870 000 

 904 000 

 265 000 

 836 000 



$5 064 194 I 507 126 000 



$429 

 10 



52 



I 



472 



876 

 243 



246 



II 



6 



126 



118 



22 



83 



154 



14 



814 



102 



170 



I 488 



333 



30 



68 



I 620 



392 

 57 



554 

 200 

 047 

 000 

 500 

 280 

 207 

 786 

 982 



175. 

 700 



950 

 560 



923 

 500 

 250 

 200 

 440 

 225 

 475 

 457 

 728 

 132 

 370 

 468 



577 

 080 



$8 009 766 



a Includes in 1908, Allegany, Broome, Fulton, Herkimer, Montgomery, St Lawrence, 

 Schenectady, Tioga, Tompkins, Warren and Washington. In 1909 the following counties 

 are included: Allegany, Cattaraugus, Fulton, Montgomery, St Lawrence, Steuben, Tioga, 

 Tompkins, Warren and Washington. 



Hudson river region. By far the greater part of the output 

 of common brick comes from nine counties bordering the 

 Hudson river from Albany and Rensselaer counties southward. 

 In this area the banks of the ^river are made up of a series of 

 terraced deposits of clay with occasional sands or gravels. This 

 more or less continuous clay bed is one of the most extensive 

 in the United States and supports a brickmaking industry second 

 to none in America or Europe. 



The clays which are very constant in character are bluish in 

 color, weathering to red at the surface and are rather calcareous 



