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1 Comments for talk at Las Vegas Call attention to the prophesy made by Mr. Jeffers at the opening of the new passenger station in March 1940 that Las Vegas would ultimately come into it's own as an industrial city and pledged the unqualified support of the Union Pacific in bringing this about. While the present industrial development has been largely actuated by war conditions yet it required something of that nature to start the ball rolling and there is every assurance that this very substantial development will continue after present emergency is over. r Pew of us realize, I believe, the.possibilities A, in connection with the magnesium development and the by-products it will produce. Due to restrictions being imposed on the use of many of our essen­tial materials in favor of the all-out war effort, a great many industries are being deprived of materials wM n h -msm ordinarily used ih peace times and it will take years after hostilities have ceased before we can build up the shortages brought about by these emergency demands, and appreciating the fact that in years gone by so much of our metal requirements have been taken care of by importations from foreign countries, there is every reason to believ<re the — ? B i ? H U H * ^ • 4 'ik. ,A V H | H U whlcn is taking/" a place here will L 4; continue indefinitely. We all know there are millions of tons of so-called low J grade ores in Nevada and ways and means are now being^HeteS^by government experts and others whereby these ores can be commercially $ produced.| The pilot plant at Boulder City is doing a wonderful $