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Show Ice In the Summer Time .Host .Modem Plant In Cniiiit.V nn In . Siim-PKftil Operation. For tho first tlino In Lohi's liislory k 1 Ico was this wvok froze Into blocks In tho good old Hummer tlmo while the thormomoter was fitimdlng nt between Y SO nnd 80 In the shade. Lust Monday -jig ) ,' the flrat blocks of lea woro taken out P& ' of tho Oarff Uros. Ico plant, each block ftL ' - weighing 200 jiounds. The blocks nro ' " J h "' ' - ' frozen In heavy galvanized Iron cans '" ill " of 1,x22x32 '"dies '" 8lzu' Tllu bl8 i. ji :, ft Iron vat holds sixty-three of theso lb' 4M i' cans. It requires about forty-eight W 111 i ( '' hours to freeze a cako of Ice. When f I ' 0M0 ca" '8 cml,l'c,l another Is tilled &-, 8 ,' with pure, fresh city water, thus innk- rrL- Wk li l"B the process continuous and giving MmI''SRi ft'' ' "'" ',mul " capacity of about three ttjjl ' I $g ' " toiiB every twenty-four hours. The TOP), t Tjrl -' machinery Is built for u six-ton capa- wfi m f1 c"' wn,cU ",n't cn" uo ri'ched hy Erf ' i ' ' Installing another vat. iSfy' i v h Tim factory consists of a twonty- pPfe ' ' . horsepower electric motor, u eondens- 'M '' 'v ' '"J ta,lI' n compressor pump, u system Sff , f . .'., or cooling pipes and u big Iron vat ! f i i '. . 3x10x20 feet, filled with salty brine, fj-' j In which Is sot cans or moulds tilled J- , l ' ! w,t" fresh city wator. Running back & "f i and forth through tho salty brine and r&f .1 1 between tho cans Is n system of pipes It -,1'i ""oi1 w'tn an,,ydruB ammonia. As the EHfN if ' ammonia enters tho pipes In tho vat It IhI1 lilt - passes through a small opening on one EsL i'i , sldo of which the pressure Is ICO I Be, nf : pounds. Tho sudden transition from IsP' ,M0 Krunlor ,0 "lu lesser pressure IE Vi changes It from a liquid to a vnpor, E,' ' which action reduces It to a tempera- ffl:' I, i turo way below freezing point. The fie 't'i ! cold passes through tho pipes to the St V'ri brluu and from the brine Into the Im- &V ' jlij merscd cuiib of wator, Ufa" 111! After It has been reduced again nl- 9R ?' m08v ,0 'rc(-'zlg point, the ammonia Is IR- i Wi ' subjected to a liquid again by going Sr, ' j'j through tho compressor. This process it Si) causes great heat and this heat Is 111" til ' ' takon out by passing tho liquid am- , lt moiilii through u system of pIpcB which 111 Sfl thomsclvs are encased In pipes tilled Ki I ' JllS ) with flowing wator, the latter as It '' w ( i'"" away taking off tho heat. I MX l ' Tllu ,cu I,lnnt la '" connection with ' Hrs I "10 Qnrn ros. now meat market nnd I j 1M J i refrigeration plant. Their meat box HI: wg v, has n copaclty of twohty-nvo beeves, K In 'j besides a lot of hogs nnd sheep. It Is B' jjS'J divided Into two compartments, ono Tm (IxSxU feet where the heat Is taken out ' hm of tho meat, and tho other 12x8x1-1 Teet, H fii r, ' where It Is kept lu storago ready for H -gj; ' use. Tiie meat Is liung on an over-H over-H "S ' head track and will bo kept at u torn-1 I , gl. pernturo of about 32 degrees, Tho big !t box Is kept at a low temperature by a .; system of pipes, through which tho BE OT Ico cold brine Is pumped after being B , -M coolod in tho big vnt. Thoy nlso have H "i i'' " showcaso In which cuts will bo kept , I SM nnd through which tho rofrlgorntlon H "''-'E Jp I'1os wl" hu I,as8ctl. so .that tho meat S IS nt nil times will bo keptnt n low torn- : H S fi poraturo nnd In a sanitary condltlonr H "iS ''a '"" " "'" ' ' Tft6 'punrniul'"Oio feb box cost bo ll lK'3 -& twocn 4,000 and C,000 nnd weighed II -slH ff& ovor 2C.000 pounds. There was over I lP - Blx l0118 ot rock wol lllsu,utlo '"-H '"-H vjrarl torlnl nlono with which tho Ico vat and Bn ?-V refrigeration boxes nro lined. Hi. ii il Tll only oxPcl,Bo ot operating tho V"' tir '- -IInnt is for electric power, nB tho Hli 'S ' nmmonla and brlno nro used over nnd Hh )ivB ovor "Bain. ji '( Tho plant was made by tho Artie d 1 . Ico Mnchlno company of Canton, Ohio. J9 ,0 It was Installed by H. H. Keener of JI ' & Salt Luke City, who says that It Is the H W best equipped plant In Utah county BH ? nnd ono of tho best In tho stnto. BH '& ' Tho Oarft Uros. hnvo put n cement Hi i'Ji I floor In their shop and will probably BH i " un l)0n for huslncss In their now I 1 1 qunrtors tho first of tho week. They It Ir I now are making Ico for the trade at HK fii tho rnto of three tons per dny. |