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The Rock Glen Salt Co. has taken over the plant at Rock Glen, 

 Wyoming co., once worked by the Kerr Salt Co. 



The Sterling Salt Co. has opened a mine of rock salt at Cuyler- 

 ville, Livingston co. The shaft was started in 1905 and was finished 

 and equipped for hoisting in the latter part of 1906. It is bottomed 

 at about iioo feet in a bed of salt that averages 21 feet thick. It 

 has a cross-section of 11 by 21 feet over all and is divided into two 

 hoisting compartments and one ladderway. The equipment on the 

 surface and underground is of the most approved type. The build- 

 ings, including shaft house, power houses and storage bins, are con- 

 structed of reinforced concrete. The output of the mine when under 

 full headway will exceed 1000 tons a day. The first shipment was 

 made in November. 



The Retsof Mining Co. was a producer of rock salt from its shaft 

 at Retsof, Livingston co., which for several years past has been the 

 only active mine in the State. There are three salt shafts that are 

 not now operated. 



The accompanying tables show the production of salt distributed 

 among the various grades as marketed. The output listed under 

 " Other grades " is made up principally of rock salt and salt used 

 for soda manufacture, but includes small quantities of other kinds 

 not specified in the returns. The valuation placed upon this item, as 

 will be noted, is much lower than that for the preceding grades. 



Onondaga county ranks first among the counties of the State in 

 quantity of output, due principally to the operations of the Solvay 

 Process Co. Its production of marketable salt, however, is com- 

 paratively small. The relative rank of the counties according to 

 their output of salt sold as such in 1906 was as follows, in the order 

 of their importance : Livingston, Wyoming, Tompkins, Schuyler, 

 Onondaga and Genesee. 



The report of the superintendent of the Onondaga Salt Springs 

 Reservation for the fiscal year ending September i, 1906, states that 

 a total of 1,817,113 bushels of salt was inspected, as compared with 

 1,654,448 bushels inspected during the preceding year. The increase 

 was due to the favorable weather conditions which govern the solar 

 salt industry. Some new wells have been put down during the year 

 by the Onondaga Pipe Line Co. to supply manufacturers outside of 

 the reservation. All of the salt made here is marketed through 'the 

 Onondaga Coarse Salt Association. 



