THE MINERAL INDUSTRY OF ALASKA 73 1' Preliminary.1 Data do not add to totals
shown because of independent rounding. 
 
through Bettles and Anaktuvuk Pass to Umiat and the Sagavanirktok River.
The classification would withhold the land from all forms of settlement leading
to title transfer or patent until the State Department of Highways chose
a right-ofway for a proposed road to the Arctic. The purpose of the classification
was to prevent speculation while the Department was choosing a route. 
 At the State level, the Division of Mines and Minerals headquarters was
moved from Juneau to the campus of the University of Alaska at College. State
officials envisioned establishment of a FederalState-University minerals
research center in the interior region. The petroleum staff and backup services
were kept in Anchorage. Information services were maintained at Juneau. The
Nome ai4d Ketchikan offices were closed several years ago. 
 ' As a means of raising revenue to provide disaster relief for the victims
of the August flood in Fairbanks, a special ses 
sion of the Alaska Legislature temporarily increased the severance tax on
oil and gas production to a total of 2 percent. The tax would revert to 1
percent once the special relief fund reached $7.5 million but would automatically
be reimposed when the fund fell below $5 million. 
 
 Wages and Hours.—Total insured wages in the mineral industries in
the calendar year 1967, as reported by the Alaska Department of Labor, were
$28.4 million ($14.4 million in 1966). The average monthly employment was
1,967 (1,171) with 130 units reporting. In the mineral industries covered
by the Employment Security Act (operators with hired labor), monthly earnings
averaged $1,206 compared with $1,062 in 1966. Monthly earnings in metal mining
were $804, in nonmetal mining, $892; in coal mining, $1,163; and in oil and
gas including production and exploration, $1,259. The figures for 1966 were
$848, $963, $1,084, and $1,105 respectively. 
 
Table 4.—Employment and injury experience in the mineral industries

Year and industry 
Average 
 
men 
 
working 
 
daily 
Days 
Active 
Man- 
days 
worked 
(thou- 
sands) 
Man- 
hours 
worked 
(thou- 
sands) 
Number of injuries 
———— Fatal Non- 
 fatal 
 Injury rates per million man-hours 
  
 Fre- Se- 
 quency verity 
1966: 
Coal and peat       
Metal             
Nonmetal          
Sand and gravel     
Stone             
 Total 1  1967:P 
Coal and peat  
Metal             
Nonmetal          
Sand and gravel     
Stone              
Total 1              
172 
311 
7 
639 
184 
299 
160 
87 
214 
133 
51 
50 
1 
137 
24 
421 
414 
5 
1,098 
198 
 19 
 1 18 
 
 22 
 4 
45.12 72045.89 14,975 
20.03 41020.15 600 
 
1,313 
200 
263 
2,137 
1 63 
29.95 3,309 
 
155 
270 
15 
765 
150 
289 
162 
81 
204 
160 
45 
44 
1 
156 
24 
368 
369 
11 
1,406 
195 
 1 16 1 6 
 1 
 15 
 5 
46.24 17,01818.98 16,79491.83 27510.67 26725.69 678 
 
1,360 
199 
271 
2,348 
2 43 
19.17 5,521