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Agriculture, forestry, 7.4 ~.4 43.7 7.2 and fisheries , Mining , 3.2 2.4 14.3 2.1 Construction 7.4 5.4 44.2 6.5 Manufacture 20.3 14.9 98.9 14.5 '. Transportation, communica- 8.8 6.5 49.9 7.3 tions and utilities Trade 22.8 16.8 127.9 . 18.8 Finance, insurance, and 4.4 ~.2 29.6 4.3 real estate I Services 30.4 2~.5 151.7 22.3 Public administration and 22.3 If.4 68.5 10.1 armed forces Industry not reported 3.2 '2.4 21.2 3.1 Total employed 130.0 9L6 654.9 96.2 Total unemployed 6.0 t 26.0 3.8 Total labor force 136.0 10.0 680.9 100.0 . , Office 0 Business I Economics '1 t ~ 1'0. ,. H. ,c, -.( ........ .~ the employment in Colorado, and 23.1 percent of the unemployment. The area also had a much higher percentage of its labor force in the public administration and armed forces category than did the State as a whole. The major employing industries are trade, service, and manufacturing. As indicated in table 5, the basin area also has a higher percentage of its employment in the service and manufactyring industries than does the State. This fact assumes further sign~ficance when it is reeognized that the State of Colorado ranked fifth am9ng the States in percentage gain of value added by manufacture betweeni1954 and 1958. Value added by manufacture for 1958 was about $781 million for Colorado and $147 mil- lion for the study area. Shift analysis of the period, 1940-1960, reveals that relative to the-rest of the United States, new industrial growth has been predominantly slow-growth activities ~uch as farming and mining. I TABLE 5. -- Labor Force~ 19601 I , , Indust Grou Stud rea Perce~t 0 LaboriForce 55. In 1960 total personal income inithe study area amounted to about $595 million. Per capita income was I $1,610 and disposable per I 18 , . ~ ~~.J. .;, i ;1 -.'W ;! l