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Production of salt 



The total production of all the factories belonging to the 

 National Co. and independent salt companies in the western 

 New York field is stated by Mr N. S. Beardsley, receiver of the 

 National Salt Co., at 2,000,000 barrels for the year ending- Sep. 

 30, 1902. Of this amount 40$ was table, the rest common salt. 

 On the same authority the production of rock salt was 250,000 

 tons, the equivalent of 1,800,000 barrels. The portion of this 

 produced by persons outside the National Salt Co. is shown by 

 the following table. 



Company Location Product 



Genesee Salt Co. Piffard 1378 . 9 tons 1 



Empire State Salt Co. Leroy 34,258 " 



Remington Salt Co. Ithaca 2 



Watkins Salt Co. Watkins 38,848 



Worcester Salt Co. Silver Springs 64,635 " 3 



Iroquois Salt Co. Perry 13,478 



Caustic soda and bleaching powder 



In 1901 the National Salt Co. sold its salt works at Rock 

 Glen to the American Electrolytic Co., of which W. C. Gouin- 

 lock, Warsaw N. Y., is president. In the spring of 1902 the 

 company began the manufacture of caustic soda and bleaching 

 powder by the Moore electrolytic process. Both products were 

 successfully made and marketed at current prices. Hardly was 

 the enterprise under way when the great strike in the coal 

 regions occurred, rendering it difficult to obtain fuel, and, at 

 the same time, the price of bleaching powder fell 50$. The two 

 causes rendered manufacture unprofitable, and work was sus- 

 pended awaiting more favorable conditions. 



At Niagara Falls there are two companies making caustic 

 soda and bleaching powder by electrolytic methods. The Cast- 

 ner Electrolytic Alkali Co., office, 33 Wall street, New York 

 city, uses the wet method. The raw material is rock salt ob- 

 tained from the Retsof Mining Co. of Piffard N. Y. Lime is 



1 Given as 491,640 bushels to Dec. 31, 1902. 



2 Not in operation before Sep. 30, 1902. 



3 Given as 2,326,859 bushels. 



