Clark County, Nevada Historic photos, documents, and people

Las Vegas, Nevada. The basic townsite office and part of the 1,000 unit housing development on the grounds of Basic Magnesium Incorporated in the southern Nevada desert

Las Vegas, Nevada. Pipe fitters at work alongside of one of the 540-foot peat storage buildings at the Basic Magnesium Incorporated plant in the southern Nevada desert

Las Vegas, Nevada. Peat storage buildings, silos for the storage of ore, and other structures of the Basic Magnesium Incorporated plant in the southern Nevada desert

Las Vegas, Nevada. Painters at work seventy feet above ground on the gigantic construction of the Basic Magnesium incorporated plant in the southern Nevada desert

Las Vegas, Nevada. Painters at work seventy feet above ground on the gigantic construction of the Basic Magnesium Incorporated plant in the southern Nevada desert

Las Vegas, Nevada. Painters at work seventy feet above ground on the gigantic construction of the Basic Magnesium Incorporated plant in the southern Nevada desert

Mt. Charleston, commonly known as the Desert Alps, near Las Vegas, Nevada. Where winter sports can be enjoyed while the valley below is basking in warm sunshine.

Las Vegas, Nevada. A rigger and a welder at the Basic Magnesium plant in the southern Nevada desert pausing for a moment in their work on the gigantic structure

Las Vegas, Nevada. Giant silos, eighty-four feet high, for the storage of ore for the manufacture of magnesium, on the grounds of Basic Magnesium Incorporated

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