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Show manufacturing plants located at Henderson, Nevada, also employ a large number of workers. The noncommodity producing industries consist mainly of wholesale and retail trade, the electric utilities, contract construction, food and lodging, transportation, rentals, finance, and similar service-type activities. Value added by these industries in 1965 amounted to about $2.2 billion; employment was approximately 435,000. See Figure 3 for percentages of gross output by industries. Economic and Population Projections The role of irrigated agriculture in the Region's economy is expected to continue and to grow in the future; however, the contribution will decrease in importance to the total economy. It is expected that the irri- gated harvested acreage will increase from 1,226,000 acres in 1965 to 1,584,000 acres in 2020; employment, 39,000 to 1*3,000; and total value added, $232 million to $647 million. Forestry and forest products are expected to follow a trend similar to irrigated agriculture. Employment will decrease from about 9,000 in 1965 to about 8,000 in 2020, while total value added is expected to increase from $12 million in 1965 to $18.3 million in 2020. In the mining industry, employment is projected to remain at about 16,000 to 18,000 people throughout the study period. Total value added from mining, however, is expected to increase from $217 million to about $895 million. Manufacturing activities show rather spectacular growth between and 2020. Manufacturing employment is projected to increase from about 90,000 people in 1965 to over 478,000 in 2020. Total value added from this activity is projected to increase from about $74l million in 1965 to more than $13 billion during the projection period. The noncommodity producing industries are projected to become much more dominant in the future• These activities employed about 435,000 people in 1965 and value added was about $2.2 billion. By 2020, it is projected that some 2,036,000 people will be employed in these industries and total value added will be about $36 billion. The per capita income and the earnings per employed worker reflect similar characteristics of growth during the study period. Per capita- income, about $2,300 in 19&5, is projected to increase to about $12,OCX) in 2020, and the per employed worker income of $6,400 in 1965 is projected to be $23,500 by 2020. 21 |