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SUMMARY
  1483SALT
By F. E. HARRIS AND K. G. WARNER



SUMMARY OUTLINE
Summary                          
Salient statistics
Production
By States                         
Methods of manufacture
Evaporated salt
Rocksalt
Pressed blocks
Salt content of brine
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 1483 Uses. -
 1483 Marketing -
 1485  Prices -
 1485  Market grades and packages -
 1485  Distribution of sales__________________
 1486 New sources -
 1486 Imports and exports
 1486 World production
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 Total salt production in 1941, which aggregated 12,720,629 short tons valued
at $33,620,376, increased 23 percent in quantity and 27 percent in value
compared with 10,359,960 tons valued at $26,474,619 (revised figures) in
1940. Of the total in 1941, salt in brine increased 27 percent, evaporated
salt 20 percent, and rock salt 16 percent. The unit value per ton of the
total salt increased from $2.56 (revised figure) to $2.64.
 Increased supplies of various kinds for waging war required larger quantities
of salt of all classes—a fact confirmed not only by the following table
of salient statistics but by figures obtained regarding uses of salt. Although
the import statistics for 1941 given below céver only 9 months of
the year, they indicate a declining rate. Exports likewise declined; however,
they maintained the favorable trade balance that has existed for some years
past.

Salient statistics of the salt industry in the United States, 1930—34
(average), 1935-49
(average), and 1940—41

1930—34
(average)
1935-39
(average)
1940
1941
Sold or used by producers:
 Manufactured (evaporated) short tons-- Inbrine do~ Rock salt do~

Total:
Shorttons                       
Value'                         
Average per ton'                

imports for consumption:
 Forcurlngflsh shorttons~  Value                            In bags, barrels,
etc short tons- -  Value                            In bulk short tons -
 Value                            

Total:
Short tons                        Value                            
Exports:
Short tons                         Value                             
Apparent consumption short tons~
2,251,226
3,333,391
1,822,889
2,507,374
4,205,587
1,947,254
2,782,741
' 5,311,671
2,265,548
3,330,106
6,771,436
Z619,087

7,407,506
$22,331,641
$3.01
8,660,215
$23,405,612
$2.70
' 10,359,960
' ~26,474,6l9
1 $2.56
12,720,621)
$33,620,376
$2.64

20,360
$34,492
2~620
$24, 796
16,721
$37, 579
' 21,250 3$43,722
1,385
$11,813
24,131
$55, 876
112,965
' $25,174
1,024
$6, 601
16,413
$59, 029
44,821)
' $16,421
915
' *9,301)
~5,871)
' $13,331

39, 701
$96, 867

88,662
$64~2, 384
46,766
$111,411

90,214
$521,652
30, 4Q2
$90, 804

147,044
$699, 340
411, 605
*39,062

87,807
$574960

7,358,545
8,616,767
110,243,318
(' )
* Revised figures.
5Values are f. o. b. mine or refinery and do not include cost of cooperage
or containers.
1lncludes salt In bags, sacks, barrels, or other packages: 1938, 93 tons
valued at $673; 1940, 6 tons, $12.
4Figures cover January to September, Inclusive.
' Figures not available for publication.