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contributed by approximately thirty mines and works distributed 

 over the counties of Livingston, Onondaga, Schuyler, Wyoming, 

 Tompkins and Genesee in the relative order given of their output. 

 Of the plants, all but two were engaged in brine salt operations. 



Production of salt in New York since 1887 



VALUE 



1887 

 1888 

 1889 

 189O 

 189I 

 1892 



1893 

 1894 



1895 

 1896 



1897 

 1898 

 1899 

 1900 

 1901 

 1902 

 I9O3 

 I904 



1905 

 1906 

 1907 

 1908 

 1909 

 I9IO 

 I9II 

 1912 

 1913 



353 56o 

 3i8 483 

 273 007 

 532 036 

 839 544 

 472 073 

 662 074 

 270 588 

 832 33i 

 069 040 

 805 854 

 791 798 

 489 105 

 897 071 

 286 320 



8 523 389 

 8 170 648 

 8 724 768 



8 575 649 



9 013 993 

 9 657 543 

 9 o°5 311 

 9 880 618 



10 270 273 



10 082 656 



10 502 214 



10 819 521 



894 

 1 130 409 



1 136 503 

 1 266 018 

 1 340 036 



1 

 1 

 1 



662 816 



870 084 



999 146 



1 943 398 



1 896 681 



1 948 759 



2 369 323 

 540 426 

 171 418 

 089 834 

 938 539 

 007 807 

 102 748 

 303 067 

 131 650 

 449 178 

 136 736 

 298 652 

 258 292 

 191 485 

 597 260 

 856 664 



Occurrence of salt. The productive sources of salt are natural 

 brines and beds of rock salt. Natural brines have been found in a 

 number of places and in various rock formations, but the only occur- 

 rence that has had any great commercial importance is in the vicinity 

 of Syracuse on the old Onondaga Salt Springs Reservation, which 

 was sold to the State by the Indians in 1788. The brines are en- 

 countered in loose gravels, sands and clays which extend to depths 

 of several hundred feet and apparently lie in a channel or basin hol- 

 lowed out of the Salina rocks. The original wells were shallow, 

 but it was later found that the strength of the brine could be in- 

 creased by going deeper and wells were put down to depths of from 

 200 to 400 feet from which the present supplies are obtained. The 

 borings of the underlying strata in the basin show that they contain 



