THE MINING AND QUARRY INDUSTRY 949 



5,268,431 barrels valued at $1,869,271, came from Livingston, 

 Wyoming, Schuyler, Tompkins, and Genesee counties in the order of 

 their rank. 



The production last year compares well with previous records, 

 and, when considered in connection with the expansion which 

 the industry has recently undergone, it shows that the manufacture 

 of salt in New York is carried on under very stable conditions. 

 The season on the whole was rather unfavorable to producers. 

 The demand in the larger markets was not equal to the supply, 

 and there was a good deal of competition among the companies. 

 The output of solar salt at Syracuse was adversely affected by 

 the weather, which was unusually cloudy and wet throughout 

 the summer. The report of the State Superintendent of the 

 Onondaga Salt Springs, states that the production showed a 

 decline of about 200,000 bushels from the total of the previous 

 year. The quantity of salt inspected was 1,743,388 bushels 

 of 56 pounds each, of which 1,608,298 bushels were made by the 

 solar process, and 135,090 bushels by artificial evaporation. In 

 1903 the quantity inspected was 1,933,224 bushels. There were 

 22 producers in Syracuse and vicinity. The output is all handled 

 by the Onondaga Coarse Salt Association of that city. 



The most noteworthy change in the trade during the year was the 

 merging of the works owned by the National Salt Co. into the 

 International Salt Co. The former company had been in the hands 

 of receivers since 1902. The International Salt Co. which also 

 operates the Retsof rock salt mine, assumed control of the prop- 

 erties on Aug. 1, 1904. The offices of the company are in New 

 York city. During the year the following plants of this company 

 were active: Glen works, Wat kins; Ithaca works, Ithaca; Cayuga 

 works, Myers; Hawley, Warsaw and Yorkshire works, Warsaw. 



SLATE 



Quarries of roofing slate are worked in Washington county 

 near the Vermont state line. The productive district includes 

 a narrow belt running nearly due north from Salem through the 

 towns of Hebron, Granville, Hampton and Whitehall. Efforts 

 have been made to work slate in other parts of the State, par- 

 ticularly in the Hudson river metamorphic region, but for reasons 

 no longer apparent they have not led to the establishment of a 

 permanent industry. Hoosick, Rensselaer co., New Lebanon, 

 Columbia co., and New Hamburg, Dutchess co., are among the 

 places that have furnished slate in the past At the locality 



