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NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



Production of salt in New York 



YEAR 



1890 

 1891 

 1892 



1893 

 1894 



1895 

 1896 



1897 



1898 



1899 



1900 



1901 



1902 



1903 



1904 



1905 

 1906 

 1907 

 1908 

 1909 

 1910 

 1911 

 1912 



1913 

 1914 



1915 



BARRELS 



2 



532 



036 



2 



839 



544 



3 



472 



073 



5 



662 



074 



6 



270 



588 



6 



832 



33i 



6 



069 



040 



6 



805 854 



6 



791 



798 



7 489 



105 



7 



897 



071 



7 



286 



320 



8 



523 



389 



8 



170 



648 



8 



724 768 



8 



575 649 



9 



013 



993 



9 



657 



543 



9 



005 



311 



9 



880 



618 



10 



270 



273 



10 



082 



656 



10 



502 



214 



10 



819 



521 



10 



389 



072 



11 



095 



301 



VALUE 



I 266 0l8 



I 34O 036 



I 662 8l6 



I 87O 084 



I 999 I46 



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 

 835 706 

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SAND AND GRAVEL 



The production of sand and gravel should be given consideration 

 as one of the branches of the mineral industry. It is carried on in 

 one or more places in practically every county of the State; but 

 only in a few sections has it become really stabilized so as to be 

 conducted on a more or less permanent basis. For that reason a 

 statistical investigation of the industry is attended with considerable 

 difficulty, and the results may be lacking somewhat in accuracy. 



Such is the case more especially with the ordinary building sands 

 and gravels which are so widely distributed that in most, places 

 they have little or no intrinsic value, the requirements being sup- 

 plied from deposits in the immediate vicinity at a nominal expense 

 above the cost of handling. In recent years, however, there has 

 been a manifest tendency toward a standardization of these 

 materials when they are to be employed in important structures or 

 engineering works. It has been found that they have a very direct 

 influence upon the quality of the mortar or concrete into which 

 they enter, a fact that has not received so wide appreciation as it 



