Table 3.—-Indicators of Idaho business activity 
 
 
1966 
1967 P 
Change, percent 
 
Personal income: 
 
 
 
 
Total millions..Percapita                                          
$1,704.0 
$2,445.0 
$1,823.0 
$2,608.0 
+7.0 
+6.7 
 
Construction activity: 
 Building permits millions. 
Heavy engineering awards do~ 
State highway commission: 
 Value of contracts awarded do. 
$37.1 
$167.9 
 
$18.6 
$42.2 
$59.4 
 
$34.2 
+13.7 
—64.6 
 
+83.9 
 
 Valueofcontractworkperformed do~ Cement shipments to and within Idaho 
 thousand 376-pound barrels -Cash receipts from farm marketings millions~Mineralproduction
do~Factorypayrolls do.~ 
Annual average labor force and employment: 
 Totallaborforce thousands~ 
Unemployment do~~ 
$35.5 
 
1,354.0 
$541.9 
$114.9 
$198.5 
 
278.4 
11.1 
$27.5 
 
1,130.3 
$537.2 
$109.4 
$209.7 
 
282.2 
12.3 
—22.5 
 
—16.5 
—0.9 
—4.8 +5.6 
 
+1.4 
+10.8 
 
Employment: 
 Construction do 
10.2 
9.9 
—2.9 
. 
Lumber/wood products do.~Food products do~All manufacturing do.~Allindustries
do.. 
12.0 
13.4 
35.6 
267.0 
11.7 
13.2 
35.3 
269.7 
—~-2.5 
—1.5 
—.8 +1.0 
 
P Preliminary. 
 
 
 
 
 Sources: Survey of Current Business, Construction Review, Pacific Builder
and Engineer, Idaho State Highway Commission, The Farm Income Situation,
Idaho Labor Market, Labor Force and Employment in Idaho, Distribution by
Industry of Wages Paid for Covered Employment in Idaho, and Bureau of Mines.

 
 
 
Table 4.—Annual employment and wages paid in the mineral industries

'  Preliminary. 
 Source: Idaho Employment Security Agency; employment covered by unemployment
insurance. Industry groups may not correspond with those in the Bureau of
Mines canvass. 
262 
MINERALS YEARBOOK, 1967 
 
figures for 1966. Heavy engineering awards decreased from the 1966 levels,
which had included a large single contract for the Dworshak Dam. Building
permits registered gains that should reflect the easing of the money market,
a constraint on business activity that has persisted for the last 2 years.

 
 Employment.—Mining industry employment and wages were surprisingly
firm 
when considered against the background 
of a nationwide strike of copper workers. Since 1963, the annual average
weelØy earnings and hourly pay for production workers in the mining
industry had both risen about 25 percent. 
 Probably as a consequence of curtailed activity brought on, by the strike
and declines in employment for the construction and wood products industries,
unemployment was up 11 percent from the 1966 figure. 
 
 
 
 
Mining 
 
 
 
 
 
Metals 
 
Nonmetal 
 
Fuels 
 
Total 
 
Year 
Annual average employment 
Annual 
payroll 
(thou- 
sands) 
Annual 
average 
employ- 
ment 
Annual 
payroll 
(thou- 
sands) 
Annual 
average 
employ- 
ment 
Annual 
payroll 
(thou- 
sands) 
Annual 
average 
employ- 
ment 
Annual 
payroll 
(thou 
sands) 
 1963 2 926 1964 2,951 1965 2,935 1966 2,915 1967 2,718 
$17 650 
18,310 
18,563 
19,758 
20,089 
285 
327 
540 
704 
637 
$1 519 
1,901 
3,431 
5,059 
4,432 
13 
14 
3 
3 
3 
$84 
82 
11 
9 
9 
3 224 
3,292 
3,478 
3,622 
3,358 
$19 253 
20,293 
22,005 
24,826 
24,530 
Stone and clay 
 products Prima 
Phosphate fertilizers, elemental phosphorus, 
ry metals and sulfuric acid Total 
 1963 823 $4,369 971 $5,694 1,217 $8,342 3,011 $18,405 
 1964 757 4,138 1,032 6,425 1,106 8,086 2,895 18 649 
 1965 854 5,210 1,296 8,234 1,245 9,042 3,395 22,486 
 1966 955 5,899 1,316 8,951 1,443 11,563 3,714 26,413 
 1967 P 930 5,959 1,302 9,850 1,490 12,613 3,722 28,422