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MINERALS YEARBOOK, 1967 
 
 
Table 2.—Value of mineral production in Arkansas, by counties—Continued

County 
1966 r 
1967 
Minerals produced in 1967 in order of value 
Van Buren         
W 
74,906 
Stone. 
Washington        
White             
Woodruff                     
Yell              
Undistributed       
Total..~    
985,598 
882,812 
 
282,391 
1,342,810 
546,497 
626,553 
329,912 
354,402 
17 235,946 
Stone, sand and gravel, natural gas. Stone, sand and gravel. 
 Do. 
 Do. 
~ 
 
190,127,000 
179,453,000 
 
 Revised. W Withheld to avoid disclosing individual company confidential
data; included with "Un. distributed". 
 
Table 3.—Indicators of Arkansas business activity 
 
1966 
1967 P 
Change 
(percent) 
Personal income: 
 
 
 
 Total millions~ 
 Per capita                                        Construction activity:

 Building permits millions~ Construction contracts do~ 
$3,931.0 
$2,010.0 
$105.1 
$502.0 
$4,113.0 
$2,090.0 
$110.4 
$485.0 
+4.6 
+4.0 
~ 
+5.0 
—3.4 
 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers contracts awarded '  do - - - 
 State Highway Department: 
 Value of highway contracts awarded do~ 
Cement shipments to and within Arkansas 
 thousand 376-pound barre1s~Mineral production millions.Cashreceiptsfromfarmmarketings
do._Manufacturing payrolls doNonmanufacturingpayrolls do~~ 
Annual average labor force and employment: 
 Totallaborforce thousands~ 
$48.0 
 
$77.2 
 
4,903.0 
$190.1 
$935.4 
$645.1 
$896.1 
 
688.7 
$47.0 
 
$57.8 
 
4,436.0 
$179.5 
$852.1 
$703.9 
$962.5 
 
698.8 
—2.1 
 
—25.1 
 
—9.5 
—5.6 
—8.9 
+9.1 
+7.4 
 
+1.5 
TJneniployment do~~Employment do~_ 
 Food and kindredproducts                            
 Lumberandwoodproducts                           
 Chemicals and allied products                          
 Petroleum refining and related industries                 
 Stone, clay, and glassproducts                         
 Primary metal industries                             
 Mining                                           
 Contract construction                                
30.3 
658.4 
23,261 
24,245 
4,894 
1,859 
4,158 
3,524 
4,954 
21,848 
31.4 
667.4 
23,470 
23,096 
5,792 
1,877 
4,034 
3,916 
4,785 
31,369 
+3.6 
+1.4 
+9 
—4.7 +18.3 
+1.0 
—3.0 +11.1 
3.4 
—1.3 
P Preliminary. 
' Little Rock District Office only. 
 
 Sources: Bureau of Business and Economic Research, University of Arkansas;
Survey of Current Business, U.S. Department of Commerce; U. S. Army Corps
of Engineers, Little Rock, Ark.; State Highway Department, Arkansas; State
Employment Security Division, Department of Labor, Arkansas. 
 
 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Arkansas State Highway Department provided
major markets for stone and sand and gravel. Construction contracts were
awarded by U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Little Rock District, in the Arkansas
River Development Program, at the sites of Locks and Dams 1 through 13, which
includes Dardanelle and Ozark Locks and Dams. At yearend, the lock and dam
construction projects were 75 to 100 percent complete. Significant progress
was made in construction of the De Gray, Gillham, and Dc Queen Dams. The
agency pro- 
vides markets for more than 1.7 million tons of stone valued at $2.5 million.
Arkansas State Highway building programs required 4.8 million tons of stone
and 6.2 million tons of sand and gravel valued at $6.6 million and $4.4 million,
respectively. The need for construction materials declined as compared with
former years, as many major highway construction projects were nearing completion.

 Utility, transportation, and communicátion firms continued expansion
of systems and services in 1967, with expenditures totaling $126 million.