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INDUSTRIAL Principal products are sodium chlorate, potassium chlorate, potassium I^S|m!rat!aj^Hm^mH|^enmlQratfi'.- ahd manganese dioxide. The sodium chlorate output is sold largely in the western states for weed killer pro- ducts and shipments are made to paper manufacturers throughout the United States for use as a bleach. are used product used by the battery manufacturing industry, largely for prod^^^^^^^^Sydut^Sffm?SSM^viSSI for the U. S. Army Signal Corps. A. F. N.( Inc., a high energy fuel project in which American Potash has n a I Distillers and Chemical Corpora- tion 25 per cent each, operate this plant. *j DIVISION of the FLINTKOTE COMPAN gypsum plants in the twMlSS and waIIboard plants about twenty miles southwest of Las Vegas, The gypsum deposit, which has been 1 92many years' operation. The mines a^B^[ a plateau in the Sppmg^^^^^m Range, about 1,500 feet above the desert floor. vAngl 1 -mile rail road Ka?╜rrer(j??^3|m^^^^^^^B^Mthe)'.Union Pacific Railroad line at Arden. Employment numbers close their.fami^^^^^^^^^^wn homes' ih^moder|81^MTOB!^^Msa'Bal^^a near the plant site, which has a post office, store, school, swimming pool and other recreational facilities. BONANZA AlR LINES, in its 1 7th year of scheduled airline service, has itsIpj^^MB^eV company general offices and its operating and maintenance base are located at McCarran Field, La's Veg^j where approximately half of of eleven d gives mulitple daily service to Phoenix, Salt Lake City, Reno, Los Angeles, San Diego, Grand Canyon, Palm Springs airo| other cities of Vegas every day, carrying 26% of the system total traffic of 425,000 passengers. Annual payroll in Las over $2 million. Due to fast and frequent schedules, 40-passenger radar-equipped jetprops on all flights, a Io years*' has been able to garner the largest percentage of traffic increases in the airline industry, trunk or regional. G E R A L p ) K. HELLER COMPANY, was established in Las Vegas during February of 1957, having moved into Southern Nevada from Baltimore. The company manufactures electronic motor controllers which are sold and e world and occupies its own recently Golden Gate Industrial Park, Las Vegas. 19 years. From a Small fabrication operation, it has grown to be the largest business of its kind in Southern mining machinery, steel structurers and specialty steel items. It has furnished f?SliSI!^Sap^t1^1s'trflc- tural Nevada Test - SNIF - Page Twenty-foui OPERATIONS LINCO LN WELD ING WORKS, INC., a I icensed genera I eng i neeri ng and structu ra I contracti ng f i rm, has been past twenty-one years. This company maintains a large fleet of equipment quarters on Industrial Road as does Cra^^g^S^j|^g^^g^^|jMM^Jof.crane ac?╟  cessories, equipment and safety devices. - SNIF - PABCO GYPSUM DIVISION of Fibreboard Products Corporation conducts an extensive gypsum mining opera- tion a few miles northeast of Las Vegas at Apex. Gypsum mined at Apex is shipped to Pabco's plants at BMgk and South Gate, ?╟÷ SNIF ?╟÷ MBn^FNrBBSBi & MHfcfl p?? of the Basic Magnesium Project to manufacture ammonium perchlorate. Subsequent expansions have -"^ perchlorate is the oxidizer for all of the high performance solid fuel rockets and missiles such as Minuteman STAUFFER CHEMICAL COMPANY has been producing chlorine an<a??BHwf ??d a the ??*her ,duUmammsmm BBWBBBBWBHBBBWiBHBMIHBBeyada vmmm 1M MMWiM the development and pro- duction of missile and jet engine components. The electronics div.s,on ,s active m sohd state applicat on research, especially in the fields of digital processing and sonar. The principal Straza plant complex is located BHHL HBIHHnY HUarerit THE INERTO COMPANY moved tc.Las Vegas; from San ?√ßa brewing products - chillproofing. It has customers in the Phill.pines and Hong toRg a. ^la- in Western Europe and South Africa, in addition to many in the United States. Las Vegas affords a convert- ient location near the company's source |HgHg||^W^||^gsert;. *' Inerto, the parent company, produces special chemicals processed from its mine for cosmetics, pharma- ceuticals, paint, lubricants and many other products. ?╟÷ SNIF ?╟÷ ?╟? ^171?╟ú Corporation, operates metal from ore. The finished ingots, produced at Henderson, are shipped to the company s mill m Toronto, Page Twenty-five