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California Casinos Keep Raising Slot Manufacturers' Fortunes.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, April, 2001

By Dave Berns, Las Vegas Review-Journal Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Apr. 6--California casinos will continue to generate a lucrative market for slot manufacturers, as the state's tribes build new casinos and replace slot machines at old ones, a Golden State tribal official said.

Depending upon the interpretation of a 2000 statewide ballot measure that legalized tribal casinos in California, the state's casinos could have anywhere from 45,000 to 214,000 slot machines, said Anthony Miranda, president of the Pechanga Development Corp. in Temecula, Calif.

The Strip has about 60,000 slot machines.

"Every tribe I know of is looking to upgrade their facilities and make them nicer," said Miranda, whose tribe operates a Southern...

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