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In 1907. Japanese were beginning to be hired at the McGill Copper Mine in East Nevada near the Utah border. They did not begin to show up at Las Vegas until about 191415. Three miles out of Reno in a town called Sparks. which became a center for railroad workers. the Nichibei Employment Co. in San Francisco first sent out several hundred Japanese laborers in With the decline in immigration. the Japanese population in the Reno area was reduced to about 30 to 40 families by 1940. In Eastern Nevada. Japanese were mainly concentrated In White Pine County in the McGill.