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Individual stations at twin racks of new terminal provide overhead loading facilities for four shippers at a time. New Calnev Pipeline Terminal Eliminates While most marketers have long scoffed at the ?ǣbuild a better mouse trap?ǥ philosophy of selling, the political leaders of Nevada have successfully applied this theory to some of the most desolate waste land in the country. With an open-door philosophy on basic human inclinations and their exploitation, over ten million tourists are now attracted annually to the bright lights of Las Vegas. The city's popula- tion also soared from 24,000 to 64,000 between 1950 and 1960. Gasoline consumption has proportionately spiralled. Not only have fun lovers and conventioneers beaten a path to Las Vegas casinos; but, in recent months to serve this expanding market, the new Calnev prod- uct pipeline snaked its way from Colton, California, over two 4,000-ft. mountain ranges to a new product terminal a few miles east of Las Vegas, off the Salt Lake City highway. Jointly owned by Union Pacific Railroad, the major stockholder, and its builder, William^ Bros. Company of Tulsa, the Calnev Pipe- line Company now serves six oil companies marketing in Southern Nevada. Refined products of these companies are received from the Southern Pacific Pipeline system into the Calnev pipeline at Colton. Along its route to Las Vegas, it crosses a 4,425-ft. elevation prior to dropping to 2,900 feet at Victorville, California, where it serves George Air Force Base. It drops another 1,000 feet to Barstow, where it supplies storage and loading rack facilities,: and again climbs over the 4,700-ft. level before dropping down to serve the Las Vegas market. A Las Vegas take-off supplies Union Pacific's diesel fuel requirements, prior to termination of the line at the new marketing tank farm adjacent to Nellis Air Force Base. Prior to the opening of the new Calnev terminal facilities, petroleum products were trucked into the Las Vegas market direct from Los Angeles basin refineries or from the Southern Pacific pipeline outlet at Colton. Most marketers combined direct station drops at larger-volume Las Vegas outlets with deliv- eries into bulk plants from which smaller accounts were served. The steadily increasing demands of the market in recent years had built up truck transport shuttle deliveries over a route increasingly congested with passenger and other commercial traffic. Western marketers currently shipping finished products over the line and operating from the new Las Vegas terminal include Standard of California, Mobil, Shell, Richfield, Wilshire and Union. Their supply lines into the market have been shortened by approximately 250 miles of costly truck transport The A. 0. Smith key lock system employed at the terminal uses three to five "pancake" units per stack to control unattended product withdrawals. Separate product positions and product stacks segregate shippers and products.