386 
MINERALS YEARBOOK, 1967 
 
 
Table 2.—Value of mineral production in Maine, by counties 
County 
1966 
1967 
Minerals produced in 1967 in 
order of value 
Androscoggin                  
Aroostook                     
Cumberland -Franklin                     Hancock                     Kennebec
                   Knox                       Lincoln                   
  Oxford                      Penobscot                   Piscataquis   
               Sagadahoc                   Somerset                     Waldo
                      
$502,040 
1,555,576 
1,125,971 
 168,000 
1,247,087 
 400,000 
W 
 98,000 
 287,084 
1,110,000 
W 
W 
 315,000 
 278,000 
$425,308 
1,278,654 
1,024,861 
 218,000 
 527,309 
 376,047 
W 
 98,000 
 241,660 
 680,371 
W 
W 
 342,586 
 193,053 
Sand and gravel, clays, stone. 
Sandandgravel,stone. 
Stone, sand and gravel, clays. 
Sandandgravel. 
Sand and gravel, stone, clays. 
Sandandgravel,stone. 
Cement, stone, sand and gravel. 
Sandandgravel. 
Sand and gravel, feldspar, stone. 
Sand and gravel, stone. 
Stone,sandandgravel. 
Sand and gravel, stone. Do. 
 Do. 
Washington                   
York                        
Undistributed 1                 
 
Total                   
W 
W 
9,647,650 
W 
W 
9,475,914 
Sand and gravel, peat, stone. Sand and gravel, stone. 
~ 
 
16,734,000 
14,882,000 
 
 W Withheld to avoid disclosing individual company confidential data. 
 1 Includes value of gem stones and sand and gravel that cannot be assigned
to specific counties and values indicated by symbol W. 
 
Table 3.—4ndicators of Maine business activity 
 
1966 
1967 P 
Change 
 
 
 
(percent) 
Personal income:' 
 
 
 
Total millions~ 
$2,422 
$2,549 
±5.2 
 Percapita                                         Construction activity:

$2,477 
$2,620 
+5.8 
Construction contracts 2 thousands - 
$169,809 
$160,162 
—5.7 
Nonresidential do~~Residential do~Nonbuilding construction do~. 
$66,603 
$60,476 
$42,730 
$76,822 
$55,924 
$27,416 
+15.3 
—7.5 
—35.8 
Cement shipments to and within Maine 3 
thousand 376-pound barrels - 
1,050 
1,043 
— .7 
Mineral production thousands 
$16,734 
$14,882 
—11.1 
Annual average employment:1 
 Total labor force do. 
382.7 
388.1 
+1.4 
Unemplnyment do - - - 
16.1 
15.3 
—5.0 
Totalmanufacturing do~ 
 Lumber and wood products do~ Food products do.~ Textile-mill products do.~
Paper and allied products do~ Leather and leather products do 
115.0 
14.6 
12.0 
13.1 
18.2 
29.7 
116.6 
14.6 
12.6 
12.4 
18.8 
29.7 
 +1.4 
 
 +5.0 
 —5.3 
 +3.3 
  
Totalnonmanufacturing do~   Contractor construction do~ 
194.2 
14.8 
200.2 
14.5 
+3.1 
—2.0 
Total agricultural doTotal all other do~~ 
16.4 
41.0 
16.2 
39.8 
—1.2 
—2.9 
 '  Preliminary. 
 ' Source: Bureau of Census, U.S. Department of Commerce. 
 2 Source: F. W. Dodge Division, McGraw-Hill Information Systems Company.

Source: Bureau of Mines, U.S. Department of Interior. 
 Includes portland and masonry cement. 
Source: Bureau of Employment Security, S. S. Department of Labor.