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Show RESERVOIR SS TO COVER NINE ACRES v (' 1 J. P. O'Neill Construction Company Building the Largest Ice Plant in the State for the Ogden City Ice Company Natural Ice Plant Will Be Doubled in Capacity If Necessary. ' . .' Manager Samuel Thomas of the Ogden Og-den City Ice company, has let the contract to the J. P. O'Neill Construction Construc-tion company for the building of a dam, near where the Ice company now has Ur ponds west of the mouth of Ogden canyon, the dam to coer an area of approximately nine acres. When complotcd the reservoir will be 'part of the largest natural ice plant in the stato. New ice houses are to be built and plaus will be made for the cutting and ytorlng of H.Oi.O tons of natural ice each ' wlDter, or nearly double the tonnage stored during past winter. Mr. Thonum aas the dirt embankment embank-ment forming the reservoir will be eon feet high and allow of a deplh of (He feet of water. With machinery for automatically conveying the cakes of lee from the reservoir to the ice houses, the Ogden City Ico company will be in u position posi-tion to store Ice at a minimum of expenses. ex-penses. The reservoir is to be tilled with water from the Utah Light A: Hull-way Hull-way company's Mg pipe line, the water wa-ter being conveyed from far up tbe canyon. Mr. Thomas was asked If the larger larg-er tonnage of natural Ice was for the purpom of displacing the artificial pro-duel, pro-duel, and he said "No, we have a contract with the Rocker Brewing & Malting company and that company will continue to supply us with ice for the houses and for other than storage purposes There has been a u-port circulated to the effect that the artificial plant was unable to meet the demands of the market, bnt O. L. Hecker of the brewery company says that at no time has hU ice plant been worked to its rapacity, and that, for only three months In the year. Is the demand within five ton per day of what his company can produce. Should the consumption of artificial ice increase, at comparatively small outlay the brewery ice plant can be doubled in productivity, and this will be done whenever the demand warrants. |