THE MINERAL INDUSTRY OF IOWA 
 
 
Table 2.'—Value of mineral production in Iowa, by counties "—' Continued

315 
 
 
(Thou 
sand dollars) 
 
County 
1966 
1967 
Minerals produced in 1967 in order of value 
 
Pottawattamie           
Poweshiek              
W W 
W W 
Stone, sand and gravel. Stone. 
. 
Sac                    
Scott                  
Shelby                 
Sioux                  
 $665 
14,992 
 565 
 603 
 $537 
13 789 
 237 
 607 
Sand and gravel. 
Cement, stone, lime, sand and gravel, clays. 
Sand and gravel. Do. 
 
Story                  
Tama                  
Taylor                 
1,121 
 W 
 W 
1,718 
 W 
 W 
Sand and gravel, stone, clays. 
Stone, sand and gravel. 
Stone. 
 
Union                  
W 
W 
Do. 
 
Van Buren              
Wapello                
Warren                 
Washington             
Wayne                        
802 
523 
83 
W 
592 
494 
82 
W 
W 
Stone, sand and gravel, coal. 
Stone, sand and gravel, clays. 
Sand and gravel, clays. 
Stone. 
Do. 
 
Webster                
Winnebago              
Winneshiek              
Woodbury              
Worth                 
Wright                 
Undistributed 2                 
5,474 
W 
440 
225 
W 
171 
16,085 
5,223 
W 
505 
W 
365 
144 
15,389 
Gypsum, stone, clays, sand and gravel. 
Peat, sand and grave!. 
Stone, sand and gravel. 
Sand and gravel, clays. 
Stone, peat, sand and gravel. 
Sand and gravel. 
 
Total             
119,313 
113,222 
 
 
 W Withheld to avoid disclosing individual company confidential data; included
with "Undistributed." 
 1 Davis and Ringgold Counties are not listed because no production was reported.

 2 Includes some sand and gravel and stone that cannot be assigned to specific
counties and values indicated by symbol W. 
 3 Data may not add to totals shown because of independent rounding. 
 
Table 3.—Indicators of Iowa business activity 
 
1966 
1967 
Change 
 
 
 
(percent) 
Personal income: 
 
 
 
 Total millions.... 
 Percapita                                        Construction activity:

$8,258.0 
$2,992.0 
P $8,516.0 
P$3,093.0 
+3.1 
+3.4 
Building permits: 
 Valuation of authorized residential and non-residential 
 
 
 
 private construction millions... 
Number of private and public residential building permits issued        
                              
 Contract construction work performed: 
    Total millions....    Nonresidential building do......    Residential
building do.. - - -    Nonbuilding do...... State highway commission contracts
awarded 1 do.. - - - 
 Portland cement shipments to and within Iowa 
 thousand 376-pound barrels.. -Cash receipts from farm marketings millions..
-Mineral production do......Manufacturing payrolls do...... 
Annual average labor force and employment:2 
 Total labor force thousands.... Agricultural employment do...~... Nonagricultural
employment 3 do.. - - - 
 Manufacturing do...... Construction do....... 
 $199.6 
 
7,477 
 
 $737 
 $325 
 $199 
 $212 
 $120.8 
. 
8,779.4 
$3,460.4 
 $119.3 
$1,386.8 
 
1,186.2 
 216.7 
 945.1 
 211.5 
 40.7 
 $231.3 
 
 9,012 
 
 $635 
 $245 
 $225 
 $165 
 $126.3 
 
 9,034.9 
$3,356.7 
 $113.2 
P $1,484.2 
 
 1,205.2 
196.6 
978.0 
218.5 
41.6 
+15.9 
 
+20.5 
 
—13.8 
—24.6 
+13.1 
—22.2 
+4.6 
 
+2.9 
—3.0 
—5.1 
+7.0 
 
+1.6 
—9.3 
+3.5 
+3.3 
+2.2 
Transportationandutilities do......Mining do......Stone,clayandglassproducts
do......Primarymetalindustries do...... 
50.2 
3.3 
6.8 
8.7 
50.6 
3.3 
6.6 
8.7 
 +.8 
  
 —2.9 
  
 P Preliminary. 
 1 Fiscal year ending June 30. 
 2 Adjusted to March 1967 benchmark levels. 
 ' 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, Iowa State Highway Commission, Farm Income Situation,
Iowa Employment Security Commission in cooperation with the U.S. Department
of Labor.