THE MINERAL INDUSTRY OF OREGONTable 2.—Value of mineral production
in Oregon, by counties 
(Thousand dollars) 
665 
County 
1966 
1967 
Minerals produced in 1967 in order of value 
Baker                  
 
Benton                 
Clackamas               
Clatsop                 
Columbia               
Coos                   
Crook                  
Curry                  
Deschutes               
Douglas                
Gilliam                 
Grant                  
Harney                 
Hood River              
Jackson                 
 
Jefferson                
Josephine               
Klamath                
Lake                   
Lane                   
Lincoln                 
Linn                   
Malheur                
Marion                 
Morrow                 
Multnomah              
Polk                   
Sherman                
Tillamook               
Umatilla                
Union                  
Wallowa                
Wasco                  
Washington              
Wheeler                
Yamhill                 
Undistributed 1             
$6,499 
 
 907 
7,474 
 900 
 258 
1,112 
 247 
 188 
1,003 
9,929 
31,950 
 367 
 275 
1,465 
3,402 
 
 217 
1,146 
2,124 
1,020 
8,500 
 W 
3,429 
1,091 
1,145 
 W 
6,200 
 482 
1,424 
 753 
1,820 
 461 
 330 
 374 
2,466 
 247 
 366 
7,913 
$5,985 
 
 210 
7,574 
 19 
 W 
 686 
 237 
 157 
1,054 
9,730 
 171 
 857 
 233 
 364 
2,843 
 
 133 
 298 
1,716 
 808 
7,890 
 484 
 534 
 727 
 571 
 69 
6,748 
1,129 
 236 
 263 
5,378 
 445 
 W 
 146 
2,441 
 37 
 681 
5,706 
Cement, stone, sand and gravel, lime, clays, pumice, gold, perlite, diatomite,
silver. 
Sand and gravel, stone, clays. 
Cement, sand and gravel, stone, clays. 
Sand and gravel. 
Stone, sand and gravel. Do. 
Sand and gravel, stone, clays. 
Sand and gravel, stone. 
Pumice, sand and gravel, stone. 
Nickel, sand and gravel, stone, mercury. 
Stone, sand and gravel, pumice. 
Sand and gravel, sto~ie, mercury, gold. 
Stone;sandandgravel. 
Sand and gravel, stone. 
Stone, cement, sand and gravel, clays, gold, mercury, silver. 
Pumice, stone, sand and gravel. 
Sand and gravel, stone, gold, silver, soapstone. 
Stone, sand and gravel, pumice, clays. 
Stone, pumice, mercury, sand and gravel, diatomite. 
Sand and gravel, stone, mercury, pumice. 
Stone, sand and gravel. 
Sand and gravel, stone. 
Lime, sand and gravel, gold, silver. 
Sand and gravel, stone, clays. 
Stone. 
Sand and gravel, lime, stone, clays. 
Sand and gravel, stone, clays. 
Sand and gravel, stone. 
Stone, sand and gravel, clays. 
Sand and gravel, stone. 
Stone, sand and gravel, clays. 
Peat, stone. 
Stone, sand and gravel. 
Stone, sand and gravel, clays. 
Stone, sand and gravel, mercury. 
Stone, sand and gravel, clays. 
Total             
107,484 
66,560 
 
 W Withheld to avoid disclosing individual company confidential data. 
 1 Includes value of mineral production that cannot be assigned to specific
counties and values indicated by symbol W. 
 
 Bestwaii Gypsum Co., third largest manufacturer of gypsum products in the
Nation and a recently acquired division of Georgia-Pacific Corp., transferred
its headquarters from Pennsylvania to Portland. A new $250,000 research and
development facility for the division was to be constructed in the Tigard
industrial area near the interstate freeway. 
 
 Consumption, Trade, and Markets.— According to figures published by
the Oregon Department of Employment, an alltime record of 881,400 employed
workers was reached in August 1967. Comparatively good weather and minimal
rainfall held employment losses in construction and wood products industries
(8.2 and 5.3 percent, respectively) to a low level in spite of both the continued
tight money market and the curtailed general building activity. 
Indicative of the slowdown in the construction industry, heavy engineering
awards were down 35 percent, expenditures on highway contract work were down
24 percent, and cement shipments to destinations within the State were off
27 percent. An encouraging note was a 15-percent increase in building permits.
Any resurgence of the financially restrained activity in the residential
and nonresidential building industry directly affects the lumber and wood
products sector of the economy. 
 For 66 consecutive months, through the end of 1967, total employment for
each individual month had been above the respective figure for that month
in the prior year. However, the labor force in the State continued to increase
faster than the economy was able to provide jobs for the additions. As a
result, the rate of unem