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An inexpensive type of an automobile shelter that may be supplanted at a later 
time by a more pretentious garage if required 
companies have very definite rules regarding the location 
of gasoline tanks, their requirements, like the laws of the 
Medes and the Persians, must be respected. Generally the 
gasoline tank for the garage is built at a distance of not less 
than thirty feet from any building, and under ground, with 
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The country dweller who does not wish to go to great expense, 
may well erect a little garage of this sort 
pipes below the gas line, in which portable lights are carried. 
Nevertheless, the gasoline tank need never be a blot upon the 
landscape, for it may be hidden by shrubbery or screened 
with a vine-covered lattice. Apropos of the garage, the 
country dweller should try to provide a shelter of some kind 
This is an excellent type of the cement garage for a small country place, designed to harmonize with the architecture of the dwelling and with the 
landscape into which it fits. The matter of harmonizing the outbuildings is always one of importance, deserving more attention than it receives 
