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Show of about $6,400 per employed worker, related in i960 dollars, while the per capita income was about $2,300. This is slightly lower than the national average per capita income. Gross Regional Product-the payments to local, state, and Federal governments, wage payments, and profit and other income, including depreciations-amounted to over $6 billion in 19^5 • Industries In 1965, there were about 7*900 farms in the Region excluding Indian reservations. The value added to the regional economy by agricultural production in 1965 was $232 million; about 5 percent of total value added. Indirectly, agriculture provides a much greater contribution to the econ- omy since large quantities of industrial goods are used in producing, processing, and marketing agricultural products. Agriculture also pro- vided jobs for about 6 percent of the people employed. For all practical purposes, the crop production is on irrigated land located largely in the lower desert areas. The Region produces a significant amount of the Nation's citrus, and during the winter and early spring months, much of the Nation's vegetables are produced here. See Figure 3 for percentages of value added by industries. In 1965, value added from the mining industry totaled some $317 million and the industry employed about 18,000 people. The Lower Colorado Region produces almost 60 percent of the copper produced in the United. States and nearly kl percent of the uranium ore. Likewise, it produces nearly 10 percent of the gold, lU percent of the molybdenum, 16 percent of the silver, 10 percent of the zinc, and 23 percent of the pumice. Forestry, in 1965, employed less than 10,000 people and the value added from forest products was about $12 million. The forests and timber lands support much of the wildlife, are enjoyed by many thousands of recreationists, and support about 30 percent of the total livestock, grazing. The forest land occupies nearly a third of the total land area in the Region. Other commodity producing industries consist of manufacturing and the processing of natural resource commodities produced or imported into the Region. In 19&5* value added from these economic activities was $7^1 million and employment was about 90,000 people. Industries repre- sented in this category include food and kindred products; lumber and wood products; chemicals; printing and publishing; fabricated metals; primary metals; stone, clay, and glass products; textiles and apparels; leather and leather goods; and other minor manufacturing plants. Numerous assembly plants for small electronic-associated products and such products as radios, refrigerators, and television sets, are located in central Arizona. Fabrication and development of many items used in the NASA program are located in the Region. The large chemical 19 |