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Show SHELL COMPANY BUILDS CALIEXTE OIL DEPOT The Shell Oil company, which recently re-cently secured a block of ground adjacent adja-cent to the Caliente Power plant on East Clover street at Caliente, have commenced work with a crew of nine men. The piece of land secured has . ' a frontage on Clover street of 130 feet and goes back 120 feet, the railroad spur, giving the full 130 feet in front for the warehouse, yard, platform and garage to house the big truck. The gasoline tank will have a capacity of 25,000 gallons and will be of standard dimensions. The warehouse, ware-house, which will be of substantial construction, will be 12 feet by 20 feet in size, an office room 10 by 12 feet and a loading platform 30 by 36 feet in size including barrel racking space, while the garage will have two stalls and be 24 by 30 feet. A small building will house the pumping plant and a filling stand for trucks are .minor installations of the substantial plant now going up under the active direction of E. M. Davidson, superintendent superin-tendent of construction for the Shell Oil company. Caliente Herald (Nev.) |