Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 157, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1913 — Had Trouble Burying A Big Gasoline Tank. [ARTICLE]

Had Trouble Burying A Big Gasoline Tank.

Jamie Willis, proprietor of the Willis Garage, who will occupy the new Kurrie building within a few days, found some trouble this Monday morning burying a big 1,000 gallon gasoline tank. An excavation was made at the corner of Washington and Cullen streets and the tank placed in it. By means of force pumps the gasoline will be conducted through pipes to the automobile tanks, although the big tank will be about three feet beneath the ground, the supply pipes just coming above the ground. In order to settle the earth about the tank water was used freely as the earth was put in to cover the tank and this floated the tank and kept it on top of the moistened earth. The fact that the tank kept rising was not noticed for some tWne and then it was found that it had raised some fifteen inches and it had to be taken out of the hole and all the earth excavated again. In order to hold it down the tank will be filled with gasoline before the filling process is again undertaken. Henry Bacon, of New York, is the winner of the government award for the supervision of the building of the Lincoln memorial monument, to be erected in Potomac park, Washington, D. C. Mr. Bacon’s reward will be approximately SIOO,000, or six per cent of the amount expended on the monument