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entire amount of salt taken from the mines and wells, and that a 

 certain and not inconsiderable part of this amount represents the 

 salt contents of brine which is not evaporated, but converted directly 

 into alkali products. On this part of the output a very low valua- 

 tion, representing practically the mere cost of pumping, is placed. 

 The production of this brine is confined to a single company, the 

 Solvay Process Co., which has a number of wells in the town of 

 Tully, Onondaga county, whence the brine is carried by pipe line to 

 the alkali works near Syracuse. 



The accompanying tables give the statistics of the salt production 

 for recent years. For the years 191 1 and 1912 the output is given 

 according to grades, so far as the classification could be made with- 

 out revealing the individual figures. The grades depend upon 

 methods of manufacture and 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 detailed tables which also includes small 

 quantities of evaporated salt not specially classified in the returns. 

 The evaporated salt is chiefly marketed under the grades of com- 

 mon fine, table and dairy, common coarse, common solar, and pack- 

 ers salt. Table and dairy salt includes the finest grades of artifi- 

 cially evaporated salt specially prepared for the table and for butter 

 and cheese making; it brings the highest market price. 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. Coarse solar salt is 

 made by evaporation of brine in shallow pans exposed to the sun's 

 heat. This process is employed only by the manufacturers in Syra- 

 cuse and vicinity, and can be carried on, of course, only in the 

 summer months. Packers salt includes the product sold to meat 

 packers and fish salters. 



Production of salt by grades in 191 1 



GRADE 



BARRELS 



VALUE 



VALUE A 

 BARREL 



Common fine l 



I 143 886 



285 407 



i 312 000 



434 4H 



40 721 



6 866 228 



$328 127 



96 968 



629 58I 



131 247 



II 402 



994 160 



$.29 



34 



Common coarse 



Table and dairy 



.48 



Coarse solar 



.30 



Packers 



Other grades 2 



.28 

 -14 



Total...,-. 



10 082 656 



$2 191 485 



$.217 



1 Common fine includes a small quantity 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. 



