Show A HEAVY ICE HARVEST tec fee house well filled plowman misfortune of 0 late there lias baa been considerable talk about the iha old kimball grist mill which had recently been owned by WD major and sold so d to the bountiful ice company compan yso so our pencil pusher thought he would take a spin up there to note some of the changes made by the new company unity it any upon tho scribes arrival lie be noticed that tha mill in I 1 I 1 proper was in a dilapidated condition belts that had been broken asunder were hanging from the various loui A heels the floor find and other things appeared to need some repairs some signs however of recent chopping choppin of grains were not leable adjoining the east side of the mill and extending g past he north wall of the same with the comb board running at angles to the une one on the old mill and the tha root roof ot of which is nearly as high as that of 0 the mill stands a huge frame building which is built after hay shed style but quite substantial at the time of the visit seven or eight hands were employed and busy filling it with ice we have learned since that upwards of COO tons of ice have been stored away in the above mentioned mention shed filling ailing it to tile lie roof especially among the hands wa was james dunlop danloe with his fur far cap and his long rod with a prong on the end of it giving him the appear nance of one of those seal hunters of the artie region lie he was very bagy ansy however palling icea hore and starting it down dowa the thirty five toot foot shoot which is 13 about three feet wide and one toot foot high men below at the end of the shoot placed the lee ice in tiers hera where they wanted it and saw dust was between it and the besides sides of the building to see them float the ice down along therides the sides of a canal which they had made tho tha whole lengst of the pond by sawing or ploughing sloughing hing through the ice ra inda oneff tho stories told of ot floating logs down the rivers river ain in some of the lumber regions furrows were ploughed sloughed hed r running anning par albel with the first farrow on the edge of 0 the canal and each one about twenty one inches from the one preceding it these blocks ot of ice tiding nearly one hundred and fifty yards la in length were again sawed into info lumps lamps of 0 three feet long the sawing being comm eced at the end ot of the pond nearest the mill one lump after another was then pushed toward the shoot by men who walked up op on the ice near the edge of tho the canal in this manner tho the ice fee on both sides of the original canal was towed to the shoot until the respective sides bides ot of the pond were reached this easy and convenient way of gathering ice is also attended with but little expense it should have been stated that the company has a complete set of tools toola such as are now used by ice gather gathens gat henr r consisting of plows saws and various kinds of hooks harch resides at tho the mill waa the main man with the plow or the one who did most of the sloughing ploughing hing on oil the ice we have been told and consequently was exposed to all kinds of wet experience that is ia guilly entin eted with work ot of that kind A neighbor ro re that one day when erick brick was pa 0 0 he stepped off into the water DO less than twice la ia sida of halt half hour of 0 course ho would have been alright it he had been dressed dress d in III a bath ing suit A person having studied the boyant force and then look at mr hogans form would wonder how be could sink another little story is told but in a tone that ati CLIPPER should not get hold of it that one day two of the men were upon tha pond plowing ice with a little sharp shod pony of course the one leading it and the othar holding the plow when all of pe udden the pony became angry and took after the tha person leading it striking him in the forehead with its front feet but not inaki tig any serious wounds stephen bills was nf at ter forwards wards been with scars on his fact face but we ire are not right sure that he was the man the ice fee put lut up by this company is of excillie nt quality clear aa a idd and can be profitably used need not dot only by the ice cream man but also alco fur for domestic purposes the bs 0 of bill ull Is that the company has a largo supply ef c that luxury for next bummer |