THE MINING AND QUARRY INDUSTRY I912 55 



Production of salt by grades in 191 2 



GRADE 



BARRELS 



VALUE 



VALUE A 

 BARREL 



Common fine : 



1 408 543 



204 I36 



1 353 643 



296 814 



72 771 



7 166 307 



$519 844 



82 880 



819 103 



103 886 



30 564 



1 040 983 



$0.37 



.41 



6l 



Common coarse 



Table and dairy . . . 



Coarse solar 



•35 

 .42 



•15 



Packers 



Other grades 2 



Total 



10 502 214 



$2 597 260 



$.247 



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. 



The output in 1912 was contributed by 30 mines and works dis- 

 tributed among 6 counties of the State. Onondaga county was 

 represented by the largest number of producers, having 20 in all. 

 Livingston county was represented by 3, of which 2 were rock salt 

 mines, the only ones now active. Schuyler, Tompkins and Wyom- 

 ing counties each had 2 producers, and Genesee county had 1. 



Production of salt in New York since 1887 



YEAR 



1887 

 1888 

 1889 

 189O 

 189I 

 1892 



1893 

 1894 



1895 

 I896 

 I897 

 1898 

 1899 

 I900 

 1901 

 I902 

 I903 

 I9O4 

 I905 

 I906 

 I907 

 1908 

 I9O9 

 I9IO 

 I9II 

 1912 



BARRELS 



353 56o 

 318 483 

 273 007 

 532 O36 



839 544 

 472 073 

 662 074 

 270 588 

 832 33i 

 069 040 

 805 854 

 791 798 

 489 105 

 897 071 

 286 320 



523 389 

 170 648 

 724 768 

 575 649 

 013 993 

 657 543 

 005 311 

 880 618 



10 270 273 

 10 082 656 

 10 502 214 



$936 894 

 1 130 409 

 1 136 503 

 1 266 018 

 1 340 036 

 1 662 816 

 1 870 084 

 1 999 146 

 1 943 398 

 1 896 681 



1 948 759 



2 369 323 

 2 540 426 

 2 171 418 

 2 089 834 



1 938 539 



2 007 807 

 2 102 748 

 2 303 067 

 2 131 650 

 2 449 178 

 2 136 736 

 2 298 652 

 2 258 292 

 2 191 485 

 2 597 260 



