THE MINING AND QUARRY INDUSTRY I9IO 55 



Production of salt by grades in 191 o 



GRADE 







VALUE 





BARRELS 



VALUE 



PER 

 BARREL 





I 322 015 



I378 547 



$ 



28 



243 928 



81 233 





33 



I 258 089 



611 271 





49 



439 780 



129 295 





29 



37 935 



13 277 





35 



6 968 526 



I 044 669 





15 



10 270 273 



$2 258 292 



$ 



22 



Common fine ^ . . 

 Common coarse. 

 Table and dairy. 

 Coarse solar. . . . 



Packers 



Other grades ^ . . 



Total 



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 

 for which the uses were not specified in the returns. 



Six counties of the State are represented in the industry. Liv- 

 ingston county leads in quantity and value of output, its importance 

 being due chiefly to the mines of rock salt, of which there are two 

 in active operation, situated at Retsof and Cuylerville and owned 

 respectively by the Retsof Mining Co. and the Sterling Salt Co. 

 The mines are worked through vertical shafts from looo to iioo 

 feet deep. They are capable of a much larger output than is made 

 at present. The Genesee Salt Co. is the only producer of evaporated 

 salt in Livingston county. 



Onondaga county ranks second in output though it actually pro- 

 duces little marketable salt. Its prominence is due to the operations 

 of the Solvay Process Co., whose alkali works at Solvay are the 

 largest of the kind in this country. 



The other counties in order of production are Tompkins, with 

 three evaporating plants, two of which are owned by the Interna- 

 tional Salt Co., and the other by the Remington Salt Co. ; Wyoming 

 county with two plants, owned by the Worcester Salt Co., and the 

 Rock Glen Salt Co. ; Schuyler county with two works, owned by the 

 International Salt Co., and the Watkins Salt Co. ; and Genesee 

 county with the single plant of the Le Roy Salt Co. 



The salt production during the last 25 years is summarized in the 

 accompanying table which has been prepared from the preceding 

 issues of this report and fro .11 the statistics published in the volumes 

 of the Mineral Resources, issued by the United States Geological 

 Survey. 



