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Behind the house at Death Valley Mine is a tank presumably for stove and furnace oil, and an exterior bathtub room
Note the "Shell Oil" engraving on the tank. Oil drums like these were once common on the east coast in towns where old stoves for heating, cooking and hot water burned oil.