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Furnace flux. The value of the hmestone used in blast furnaces 

 for flux is second only to that of crushed stone. The principal 

 quarries of this material are in the Onondaga limestone of Erie and 

 Genesee counties, from which the Buffalo iron furnaces derive much 

 of their supply. The Lockport dolomite is also quarried in Niagara 

 county and shipped to furnaces in that section. The furnaces of 

 northern New York derive their supply of flux from the Chazy lime- 

 stone of Clinton county and the crystalline limestone in Essex 

 county. One quarry in the Gouverneur marble district ships its 

 product to furnaces in western New York. 



The production of flux in 1910 reached a value of $538,491 which 

 was the largest ever recorded. The output for the preceding year 

 was valued at $434,311, so that the gain was nearly 25 per cent. 

 Erie county contributed a value of $322,067, or about 60 per cent of 

 the total. Genesee county made an output valued at $90,132. 



Production of limestone by counties in 1909 



COUNTY 



CRUSHED 

 STONE 



LIME 

 MADE 



FURNACE 

 FLUX 



BUILDING 

 STONE 



OTHER 

 USES 



TOTAL 



Albany 



Cayuga 



$105 440 



36 734 



21 735 



9 883 



365 661 



447 605 



$4 600 



400 



47 488 



4 000 



375 

 18 900 



5 400 



""'|6l0 

 14 200 



3 460 



$200 



6 835 



13 325 

 200 



$2 500 

 532 



$110 240 

 47 079 

 97 280 



13 543 

 369 661 



853 764 

 18 900 



230 223 

 4 707 

 9 961 



212 350 



Clinton 



Columbia 



Dutchess 



Erie 



2S7 Q66! TTQ T7/I 



28 684 



Fulton 







Genesee 



123 784 



4 177 

 6 611 



1 000 

 940 



24 176 

 20 218 

 42 832 



2 060 

 no 886 



15 700 



6 630 



II 316 



18 913 



I 050 



48 022 



22 938 



47 660 



8 252 



240 091 



99 814 



I 225 

 500 



30 



Greene 



Herkimer 



3 350 



a 57 368 

 8 000 





Jefferson 





562 



887 

 840 



3 917 

 10 440 



5 587 

 17 380 



3 550 

 2 993 



100 

 25 885 



865 

 I 200 

 I 156 



153 420 



2 359 

 12 000 



2 454 

 I 503 

 612 

 231 842 

 6 750 

 I 103 



210 



1 750 



2 000 



3 465 

 561 



Lewis 



Madison 



12 186 

 37 016 

 50 182 



Monroe 



23 593 





Montgomery 



Niagara 



54 775 



39 179 

 360 708 



26 075 



40 070 

 II 416 

 45 198 



2 S2S 



3 000 

 a 600 



5 350 



27 920 



75 

 23 994 



Onondaga 



Rensselaer 



St Lawrence 



Saratoga 



Schoharie 



Seneca 



400 



360 



II 360 



175 830 



43 200 



30 000 



9 300 



40 



Ulster 



60 582 



Warren 



201 674 



Washington 



Westchester. . . . 



92 860 







41 717 

 256 512 



Other counties?).. . 



6 232 



328 



Total 



$1 744 3i4'to2 874 



1 



I434 311 



$217 109 



I451 775 



$3 300 383 





^ Lime used by Solvay Process Co. and Union Carbide Co. included in " Other uses.' 

 " Includes Essex, Ontario, Oneida, Orange, Rockland and Schenectady counties. 



