Table 23.—Stone sold or used by producers, by kinds and uses 
 1966 1967 
Uses 
 Short tons Value Short tons Value 
 1,202,347 $1,175,814 W W 
 8,826,102 11,618,915 8,434,686 $11,208,321 
 581,979 949,974 546,384 885,078 
 2,515,582 2,672,949 2,686,043 2,848,122 
 21,085 647,802 6,906 507,610 
 355,703 821,046 1,101,515 1,144,508 
 17,886,500 12,775,534 16,593,639 
 5,823 141 3,800 
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MINERALS YEARBOOK, 1967 
Limestone: 
Riprap                           
Concrete aggregate and roadstone 
Agriculture                       
Cement                          
Dimension                        
Other'                           
 Total 13,502,798 
Sandstone: Dimension 305 
 Grandtotal' 14,027,004 18,789,408 13,551,000 17,805,841 
 
 
W Withheld to avoid disclosing individual company confidential data; included
in total. 
' Includes riprap (1967), flux (1967), railroad ballast, cement rock, whiting,
and other uses. 
2 Includes crushed sandstone, and miscellaneous stone. 
 
 The principal user for crushed stone included concrete aggregate, roadstone,
cement, riprap, and soil conditioner. Dimension stone was used for building
stone, curbing, and flagging. Commercial producers supplied 93 percent of
total stone output. 
 
 Vermiculite.—The Dodson Manufacturing Co., Inc., plant for exfoliating
vermiculite at Wichita was shut down during 
1967. 
 
 Water.—The State of Kansas published a report entitled "Kansas Water
Law." The publication contains: (1) The Republican River Interstate Compact
Between Kansas, Colorado, and Nebraska, the Arkansas River Compact Between
Kansas and Colorado, and the Arkansas River Basin Compact Between Kansas
and Oklahoma; (2) the Basic Water Law Doctrine in Kansas; (3) the Important
Court Decisions Concerning Water Rights; (4) the Present Kansas Water Appropriation
Statutes; (5) the Opinions of the Attorneys General of Kansas on Riparian
Rights, Littoral Rights, Ground Water Rights and Powers, Rural Water Districts,

and Watershed Districts; (6) the Organization and Responsibility of the Kansas
Water Resources Board; and (7) information on other State agencies and commissions
interested in water use and supply. 
 
METALS 
 
 The Kansas lead and zinc producing area in Cherokee County is part of the
Tri-State District, which includes northeastern Oklahoma and southwestern
Missouri. Further details on Tn-State activity are in the Oklahoma Chapter.

 
 Lead and Zinc.—Eleven small lead-zinc mines operated in the Kansas
portion of the Tri-State District. Five of the mines produced 96 percent
of the crude ore. 
 The Eagle-Picher Industries, Inc., are reopening the Swalley-Paxson area
2 miles west of Baxter Springs, Kans. An incline tunnel will be driven and
the ore transported by conveyor from the underground crusher to the unit
train loading station on the surface. Production is expected to reach 3,000
rock tons per day. 
 
 7 Shurtz, Earl B. Kansas Water Law. Water Resources Board, Kansas P—43
Rept. 16(f), September 1967, 104 pp.