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Abitibi Consolidated Sales Corporation, Arizona's only pulp and paper mill, is Snowflake and Taylor's largest industry. Located on a 640-acre site 15 miles west of Taylor, it is one of the most modern and efficient facilities of its type in America. Its daily production of newsprint and kraft linerboard supplies the fast-growing Southwest region. The plant's permanent employees are supplemented by another large group who work as wood cutters, truckers, and in other plant-affiliated jobs. The present annual payroll and substantial contribution to local taxes has contributed immensely to the economy and growth of the snowflake/Taylor area. Precision Pine and Timber maintains a sawmill in the Heber area that converts the logs into rough boards. Precision Pine and Timber Planer Mill Surfaces the rough lumber that is wholesaled to retailers and dealers needing finished lumber and also rough lumber for railroad ties, and all kinds of timber, posts. There are three molding companies that are large employers in the Snowflake/Taylor vicinity, manufacturing interior and exterior pine moldings. Livestock production in the Snowflake/Taylor area is significant. Recently, 32,000 head of cattle have grazed annually in the country, many of them in the Snowflake/Taylor area. Hog production has also greatly increased in importance, reaching 250,000 head annually.
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