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lower value. Nine Arkansas counties were credited with sand and gravel output
of 400,000 tons or more and accounted for 
49 percent of the total production. Cross County led with an output of 1.4
million tons and was followed, in order of tonnage produced, by Miller, Crawford,
Calhoun, and Hot Spring Counties. The Arkansas State Highway Department provided
the largest single market in the State. 
 Soapstone.—Arkansas' only soapstone producer, The Milwhite Co., Inc.,
increased output about 29 percent in 1967. The soapstone was mined and ground
in Saline County and was used principally in insecticide and roofing compound
manufacture. The soapstone was mined by open-pit methods and trucked to the
company plant in Bryant for drying and grinding. 
 
Table 13.—Sand and gravel sold or used by producers 
(Thousand short tons and thousand dollars) 
Year 
Commercial 
~—————~—— 
 Quantity Value 
Government-and-contractor 
 
Total 
Quantity. Value 
 
 
 
Quantity 
Value 
 
 
1963                 
1964                 
1965                 
1966                 
1967                 
 7,699 $9,096 8,637 10,990 9,559 12,001 11,677 15,656 10,202 13,113 
4,400 
3,157 
3,247 
4,379 
4,037 
$4,493 
3,846 
3,835 
5,382 
2,414 
12,099 
11,794 
12,806 
16,056 
14,239 
$13,589 
14,836 
15,836 
21,038 
' 15,531 
' Data does not add to total value because of independent rounding. 
 
Table 14.~—Sand and gravel sold or used by producers, by classes of
operations and uses 
(Thousand short tons and thousand dollars) 
Class of operation and use 
1966 
 
 
1967 
 
Quantity 
Value 
Quantity 
Value 
Commercial operations: 
Sand: 
 
 
 
 
Building                            
Paving                             
Fill                                
1,443 
3,047 
372 
$1,616 
3,076 
334 
1,145 
2,681 
W 
$1,190 
3,290 
W 
Other '                             Total sand                          
 
Gravel: 
340 
1,128 
640 
1,056 
 
5,202 
6,154 
4,466 
5,536 
 
 
 
 
 
Building                            
Paving                             
Fill                                
1,696 
4,751 
21 
2,733 
6,751 
10 
1,431 
4,214 
21 
2,217 
5,275 
12 
Other 2                            Total gravel                        Totalsandandgravel
               
 
Government-and-contractor operations: 
Sand: 
7 
8 
70 
73 
 
6,475 
9,502 
5,736 
7,577 
 
11,677 
15,656 
10,202 
13,113 
 
 
 
 
 
Building                            
Paving                             
 
Total sand                         
 
Gravel: 
10 
1,963 
10 
1,817 
W W 
W W 
 
1,973 
1,827 
1,397 
765 
 
 
 
 
 
Building                           Paving                             
83 
2,323 
123 
3,432 
2,640 
1,653 
Totaigravel                        
2,406 
3,555 
2,640 
1,653 
Total sand and gravel                
4,379 
5,382 
4,037 
' 2,414 
Grand total                        
16,056 
21,038 
14,239 
15,531 
W Withheld to avoid disclosing individual company confidential data. 
' Includes fill (1967), other construction sand, and industrial sand (ground
and unground). 
2 Includes other construction gravel and railroad ballast (1966). 
Data does not add to total shown because of independent rounding.