At home in Las Vegas-Xtreme blazes the trail as an equipment maker in the Entertainment Capital of the World

摘要

Manufacturing isn't the first thing that comes to mind when talking about Las Vegas. Tourism and gaming are the city's major employers, with gaming directly responsible for 24% of the area's jobs. It's difficult to ignore the city's success. Las Vegas was a remote desert oasis when Montana's William Andrews Clark created a railroad town there in 1905 to support the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake line (Clark's railroad would shave 663 miles off the route between a seaport and his wealthy mines in Montana). Legalized gambling put the city on the tourism map in 1931, and the ribbon cutting for the first megaresort casino in 1989 ushered in an era when slot machines were only part of the Vegas experience.