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NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



and the Iroquois China Co.,- of Syracuse, the Buffalo Pottery Co., 

 of Buffalo, and the Union Porcelain Works, of Brooklyn. Porce- 

 lain electric supplies are manufactured by the Empire China Works, 

 Brooklyn, Locke Insulator Co., with plants at Lima and Victor, 

 Pass & Seymour, Syracuse, General Electric Co., and Weber Elec- 

 tric Co., Schenectady. Chemical and sanitary ware are made by 

 the Chas. Graham Chemical Pottery, Brooklyn. The other products 

 include stoneware, red earthenware, cream-colored ware, clay to- 

 bacco pipes, etc. 



The total value of the pottery produced last year was $2,876,762, 

 as compared with $2,196,054 in 191 1. The electric and sanitary 

 wares accounted for $1,727,553, of which the greater part was 

 represented by the value of the electric supplies. The value of 

 certain metal fixtures is included, however, with that of the electric 

 supplies. China or porcelain tablewares accounted for the next 

 highest total, $1,038,428. The stoneware was valued at $46,024 and 

 red earthenware at $29,697. All other products represented a value 

 of $35>o6o. 



Value of production of pottery 



WARE 



1910 



1911 



1912 



Stoneware 



$41 925 



25 713 



1 027 249 



991 131 

 50 500 



$39 095 



32 495 



1 048 872 



1 026 517 



49 075 



$46 024 



29 697 



1 038 428 



1 727 553 



35 060 



Red earthenware 



Porcelain and semiporcelain 1 



Electric and sanitary supplies 



Miscellaneous 





Total 



$2 136 518 



$2 196 054 



$2 876 762 





Includes china tableware and cream-colored ware. 



CRUDE CLAY 



The clay produced in a few localities is not utilized by the original 

 producers, but is shipped to others for manufacture, some of it 

 going to points outside the State. This production, therefore, is 

 listed separately from that of clay materials. The clays most ex- 

 tensively exploited for shipment are the Albany slip clay and the 

 fire clay found on Staten Island. The slip clay is a variety of the 

 ordinary glacial clays found in the Hudson valley in association 

 with the brick clays, differing from the latter in its finer grain and 

 higher content of alkaline constituents. It has a relatively low 



