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The classification, as given in the tables, is based on the com- 

 mercial grades, so far as practicable. In case, however, a certain 

 grade is made by a single producer, it is merged with other grades, 

 so as not to reveal the individual figures. Rock salt and the salt in 

 brine converted into soda appear in the last item of the tables, 

 which includes also small amounts of evaporated salt not specially 

 classified in the returns. Table and dairy salt includes the superior 

 grades of artificially evaporated salt that are specially prepared for 

 the table and for butter and cheese making; it brings the highest 

 market prices. Under common fine are listed the other grades of 

 fine, artificially evaporated salt that are not specially prepared. 

 Common coarse represents the coarser product from artificial 

 evaporation. Solar salt is made by evaporation of brine in shallow 

 vats exposed to the sun's heat. The process is employed only by 

 the manufacturers on the old Onondaga Salt Springs Reservation 

 at Syracuse, and can be carried on of course only in the summer 

 months. The product is used practically for the same purposes as 

 rock salt. Packers salt includes the grade sold to meat packers and 

 fish salters. 



The salt industry is confined at present to six counties, as fol- 

 lows : Genesee, Livingston, Onondaga, Schuyler, Tompkins and 

 Wyoming. Of these, Livingston county is the sole producer of 

 rock salt ; while the others are represented only in the evaporated 

 salt industry, and derive their brines from wells sunk to the salt 

 beds, or, in the case of the Onondaga county solar salt industry, 

 from wells that yield a natural brine. 



The following is a list of the active companies in the evaporating 

 industry during 191 5 : International Salt Co., with works at Myers 

 and Watkins ; Worcester Salt Co., Silver Springs ; Rock Glen Salt 

 Co., Rock Glen; Remington Salt Co., Ithaca; Watkins Salt Co., 

 Watkins ; Genesee Salt Co., PifTard ; Le Roy Salt Co., Le Roy ; 

 Solvay Process Co., Solvay, and the several makers of solar salt at 

 Syracuse who market their output through the. Onondaga Coarse 

 Salt Association of that city. The rock salt mines, of which two 

 were active, were worked by the Sterling Salt Co., Cuylerville, and 

 the Retsof Mining Co., Retsof. One company, the Eureka Salt 

 Corporation of Saltville, who made a production in 1914, was in- 

 active last year. 



The salt deposits of the State are widely distributed and of in- 

 exhaustible character. Practically all the territory to the south of 

 the outcrop of the Salina formation, west from Madison county, 



