THE MINERAL INDUSTRY OF MINNESOTA 
 
 
Table 2.—Value of mineral production in Minnesota, by counties—Continued

(Thousand dollars) 
429 
County 
1966 
1967 
Minerals produced in 1967 in order of value 
Wabasha                 
Wadena                  
Waseca                  
Washington               
Watonwan                
Wilkin                   
$310 
 66 
 49 
3,381 
 75 
 29 
$231 W 
 W 
3,349 
 6 
150 
Stone, sand and gravel. 
Sand and gravel, stone. 
Sand and gravel. 
Sand and gravel, stone. 
Sand and gravel. Do. 
Winona.                 
Wright                  
Yellow Medicine           
Undistributed 1                   
1,104 
 207 
 315 
7,204 
 943 
 290 
 340 
2,619 
Stone, sand and gravel. 
Sand and gravel. 
Sand and gravel, stone. 
Total 2                     
550,277 
523,326 
 
 W Withheld to avoid disclosing individual company confidential data; included
with "Undistributed." 
 ' Includes some sand and gravel and stone that cannot be assigned to specific
counties, and values indicated by symbol W. 
 2 Data may not add to totals shown because of independent rounding. 
 
Table 3.—Indicators of Minnesota business activity 
 
1966 
1967 
Change, 
 
 
 
percent 
Personal income: 
 
 
 
 Total millions.. 
 Percapita                                         
Construction activity: 
 Building permits: 
Valuation of authorized residential and nonresidential private 
 construction millions 
$10,323 
$2,904 
 
 
 
 $333.8 
P $11,144 ~$3,111 
~ 
 
 
$457.3 
+8.0 
+7.1 
 
 
 
+37.0 
Number of private and public residential building permits issued        
                              
10,387 
17,396 
+67.5 
 Contract construction work performed: 
 Total millions~ 
    Non-residential building do    Residential building do    Non-building
do.. State highway commission contracts awarded do - - - 
 Portland cement shipments to and within Minnesota 
 thousand 376-pound barrels_Cash receipts from farm marketings millions~Mineral
production do.Manufacturingpayrolls do. 
Annual average labor force and employment: 1 
 Total labor force thousands.. Agricultural employment do... Nonagricultural
employment 2 do~. 
 Manufacturing do.~ Construction do... 
 $894 
 $322 
 $277 
 $295 
 $103.5 
 
8,173.9 
$1,814.6 
 $550.3 
$1,922.0 
 
1,561.5 
 213.1 
1,299.7 
 287.9 
 61.7 
 $899 
 $345 
 $356 
 $197 
 $114.1 
 
 8,366.4 
$1,844.0 
 $523.3 
P$2,111.1 
 
 1,600.7 
 199.9 
 1,349.7 
 303.8 
61.9 
+0.6 
+7.1 
+28.5 
—33.2 
+10.2 
 
+2.4 
+1.6 
—4.9 
+9.8 
 
+2.5 
—6.2 
+3.8 
+5.5 
+0.3 
Transportation do.~Mining and quarrying do~Metalmining do..Stone, clay, and
glass products do~~Primarymetalindustries do.. 
55.3 
14.9 
13.3 
7.4 
6.9 
56.5 
14.4 
12.8 
7.5 
7.0 
+2.2 
—3.4 
—3.8 
+1.4 
+1.4 
 P Preliminary. 
 1 to March 1967 benchmark levels. 
 2 Includes nonagricultural, self-employed, and unpaid family workers, and
domestic workers in private households. 
 
 Sources: Survey of Current Business, Construction Review, Statistical Abstract
of the United States, Minnesota Department of Highways, Farm Income Situation,
Minnesota Department of Employment Security in cooperation with the U.S.
Department of Labor.