Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 107, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1899 — The Standard Oil Company’s Improvements. [ARTICLE]

The Standard Oil Company’s Improvements.

The work connected with the the Standard Oil Company’s big reservoir tank, east of the depot, is now nearly completed. The tank itself is in position, and rests on masonry at an elevation of about 6ft. It is a pretty large affair holding 25,000 gallons, or about as much as four ordinary tank cars. The tank is divided into two compartments, one for gasoline and one for kerosene, otherwise “coal-oil.” The*gasoline compartment is the smallest, holding about 10,000 gallons. The portion of the tank holding the gasoline will be protected from the sun by an outer covering of corrugated iron, the idea being that if exposed to the direct heat of the sun, gas in dangerous quantities might be developed, and blow up the whole affair. The kerosene end of the tank will be left to take the weather as it comes. Pipes and pumps are being so arranged that when a car load of oil or gasoline is received it will be run on the side track and stopped next to the tank, and a man. inside the oil house will pump the oil out of the car and into the tank. A car load can be pumped in about three hours. The tank, and oil house have been surrounded with a ' six foot high picket fence. O. W. Duvall is the Standard Company’s resident * wholesale agent and wiU have charge of the new tank when completed,