THE MINERAL INDUSTRY OF WYOMING 
885 
 
per year. In Park County, Bighorn Gypsum Co. increased output of gypsum for
use in manufacturing plasterboard; shipments of gypsum milled by Cody Sulphur
Products Co. from the 1955 Wyoming Gulf Sulphur Corp. stockpile declined
slightly. 
 
 Lime.—Value of quicklime manufactured was $66,000 greater than that
of 1966. The Great Western Sugar Co., at Lovell, and Holly Sugar ' Corp.,
at Torrington and Worland, produced quicklime for use in refining beet sugar.

 
 Phosphate Rock.—Output of phosphate rock by San Francisco Chemical
Co., the only producer in the State, declined 5 percent. Ore produced in
Utah also was processed at the company-owned plant in Lincoln County. Susquehanna-We3tern,
Inc., a subsidiary of The Susquehanna Corp., was the successful bidder for
an additional 7,000 acres of Federal land in the South Pass area, bringing
the total acreage under lease to almost 15,000 acres. 
 
 Sand and ' Gravel.—Production and value of ' sand and gravel increased
14 percent and 10 percent, respectively; the average value decreased to $1.01
per ton from $1.04 in 1966. Producers reported that 
62 commercial operations yielded 14 percent of the total output in 20 counties;
the remainder was produced by 137 Government-crew-~and contractor operations
in every county. Ninety-eight percent of the sand and gravel was prepared
for use by washing, crushing, or screening. Uses of sand and gravel were
94 percent for road construction, 4 percent for building, and 2 percent for
fill and miscellaneous uses. Major commercial producers reporting output
were, in order of quantity, BoatrightSmith; McGarvin-Moberly Construction
Co.; Casper Concrete Co.; Kylander Construction; Yeoman Construction Co.,
Inc.; and Reeves, Inc. 
 Road construction contracts awarded by the State for 1967 totaled $37.7
million—$23.8 million for the Interstate Highway System, $10.1 million
for Federal-Aid 
Primary and Secondary (ABC) roads, and $3.8 million for roads financed by
the 
-'  State. Under the 1967 Interstate program 8 30.3 miles of road were opened
to traffic, bringing the total opened since July 1, 
1956, to 566.8 miles. Total designated mileage for the State was adjusted
to 
 
909.2 miles. 
 
Table 9.—Sand and gravel production in 
1967, by counties 
(Thousand short tons and thousand dollars) 
County Quantity Value 
Albany 323 $825Big Horn 241 244 
Campbell 250 186Carbon 863 866 
Converse 694 694 
Crook 186 186 
Fremont 438 441 
Goshen 133 133 
Hot Springs 22 25Johnson 396 385 
Laramie 173 153 
Lincoln 844 347 
Natrona 1,440 1,495 
Niobrara 23 23 
Park - 351 381 
Platte 142 143 
Sheridan 449 455 
Sublette 154 145 
Sweetwater 430 477 
Teton 214 226 
Uinta 623 615 
Washakie 191 205 
Weston 87 89 
Yellowstone 14 14 
Total 8,181 8,253 
 Sodium Carbonate and Sulfate.—Essentially no change was recorded in
the production of sodium carbonate (trona). 
HR. 208 "Right of Eminent Domain," 
passed by the Wyoming legislature, provided that operators of mining properties
have a right-of-way, up to 250 feet wide, under or through another owner's
property for underground passages or tunnels if the properties ' have common
section corners. Opponent to the bill was Union Pacific Railroad Co.; proponents
were Allied Chemical Corp., Olin Mathieson Chemical Corp., Texas Gulf Sulphur
Co., Phillips Petroleum ' Co., Wyandotte Chemical Corp., Diamond Alkali Co.,
Church & Dwight Co., Inc., and Phiadelphia Quartz Co. 
 Under the Public Sale Act of 1964, the town of Green River purchased title
to 70 acres of public domain land that had been withdrawn for oil shale and
sodium compounds and issued $25 million of tax-exempt industrial bonds for
construction of all facilities, mine, and processing plant of Allied Chemical
Corp., which, in return, signed a long-term lease with Green River. 
 
 Engineering News-Record, State Highway Department's Construction Plans for
1968 . 
and Budgets for Maintenance: Highway Spending Goes for a New Record Despite
Federal Aid Cuts. v. 180, No. 14, Apr. 4, 1968, pp. 
68—87. 
 8 Federal Highway Administration. Quarterly Report on The Federal-Aid Highway
Program, Dec. 31, 1967. Press Release FHWA-118, Feb. 14, 1968.