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until recently the State supplied the brine to the individual plants, 

 exacting a small tax on the product to cover the cost of pumping 

 and supervision. The lands and wells were sold in 1908 to private 

 companies and the historic connection of the State with the salt 

 business has been definitely terminated. Solar salt is made from a 

 natural brine, the only instance of its use in New York. 



The accompanying tables give the statistics of salt production for 

 recent years. The output for 1909 and 19 10 is distributed accord- 

 ing to grades, so far as the classification could be made without re- 

 vealing the individual figures. The grades depend upon methods 

 of manufacture and the 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 tables which also includes small quantities of evap- 

 orated salt not specially classified in the returns. The evaporated 

 salt is chiefly marketed under the grades of common fine and table 

 and dairy salt. Common coarse, coarse solar, and packers are the 

 other grades of evaporated salt. The prices range all the way from 

 about 50 cents a barrel for the table and dairy grade down to a few 

 cents for the salt used for chemical manufacture. 



Production of salt by grades in 1909 



GRADE 



BARRELS 



VALUE 



VALUE 



PER 

 BARREL 



Common fine ^ 



I 436 233 

 130 200 



I 281 207 

 540 614 



99 123 

 6 393 241 



$494 464 



45 569 



633 195 



162 253 



38 344 

 924 877 



$ -35 

 •35 

 •50 

 .30 

 .40 

 .14 



Common coarse 



Table and dairy 



Coarse solar 



Packers 



Other grades ^ 





Total 



9 880 618 



$2 298 652 



$ .233 





1 Common fine includes a small amount of common coarse. 



2 Include rock salt, salt in brine used for soda manufacture, and small amounts of brine salt 

 or which'^the uses were not specified in the returns. 



