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Table 15.—Sand and gravel sold or used by producers, by classes of
operations and uses 
(Thousand short tons and thousand dollars) 
1966 
 
1967 
 
Class of operation and use 
 
 
 
Quantity Value 
 
Quantity Value 
 
Commercial operations: 
Sand: 
 
 
 
Construction: 
 
 
 
Building 899 
Paving 135 
$1,021 
157 
806 
172 
$1,006 
210 
Fill 52 
26 
133 
' 23 
 Industrial: Blast 1  Total 1,087 
 
Gravel: 
1 
(1) 
(1) 
 
1,205 
1,011 
1,239 
 
 
 
 
Construction: 
 
 
 
Building 1,009Paving 1,280Railroad ballast (2)Fill 64 
1,298 
1,433 
(2) 
 
49 
 864 
1,133 
 
 89 
1,354 
1,415 
 
 45 
 Miscellaneous  2 14 
  Total 2,367  Total sand and gravel 3,454 
 
Government-and-contractor operations: 
Sand: 
2 9 
48 
56 
 
2,789 
2,134 
2,870 
 
3,994 
3,145 
4,109 
 
 
 
 
 Building 3 
 Paving 488 
Other                                                     
 Total 491 
 
Gravel: 
 4 
381 
248 
 5 
228 
 7 
 
385 
253 
235 
 
 
 
 
 Paving 11,550 Fill 8 
 Total 11,558 Total sand and gravel 12,049 
 
All operations: 
 Sand 1,578 
 Gravel 13,925 
 Total 15,503 
8,646 
4 
11,048 
226 
9,878 
114 
 
8,650 
11,274 
9,992 
 
9,035 
11,527 
10,228 
 
1,590 
11,439 
1,264 
13,408 
1,474 
12,862 
 
13,029 
14,672 
14,336 
 ' Fill and blast sand combined to avoid disclosing individual company confidential
data. 
 2 Railroad ballast and "Miscellaneous" gravel combined to avoid disclosing
individual company confidential data. 
 3 Data do not add to totals shown because of independent rounding. 
 
tons). Smaller quantities of dimension stone consisting of basalt, granite,
marble, sandstone, and miscellaneous stone were produced, as was crushed
granite. Nearly all classes of stone production declined, except for an insignificant
yield of dimension sandstone. Production of dimension basalt was unchanged.
No dimension limestone was produced; output had been reported in 1966. Output
of stone by commercial operators (640,285 tons) declined 23 percent; production
by Governmentand-contractor operators dropped 59 percent to 751,071 tons.

 Crushed limestone and the other crushed stones were used mainly in concrete
or as road metal and riprap. Most of the crushed 
limestone was used to manufacture cement at the Tijeras plant of Ideal Cement
Co. Some crushed limestone was also used as stone sand, as flux, and in the
manufacture of lime. Small amounts of crushed sandstone were used for decorative
purposes. 
 Commercial stone operations, with production in 1967 but not in 1966, included
the following: Hamilton Brothers, Inc., crushed basalt and crushed limestone,
McKinley County; Smith & Aguirre, crushed limestone, Dona Ana County;
Haake Construction Co., crushed limestone, Eddy County; Radium Springs Marble
Co., Inc., marble, Dona Ana County; Manzano Quartz, Inc., crushed sandstone,
Bernalillo County; Empire Quarries and Los Corn-