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Show the motor power. Let Salt Lake rejoice. re-joice. The artilicial ice has come, ana come to stay. It is bettor and more valuable than the natural ice, being more solid and frozen from absolutely pure water. .,,1.1 , The company in future will ba known as the Mountain Ice & Cold Storage Company, with an uptown office at 54 E. 2nd South St. Mr. John Heil. Jr., is president and Mr. W. B. Mesick sec retary and treasurer. la the kindness of the latter gentleman The Times representative is indebtea for the pleasure and instruction derived from an hour spent in prying into the mysteries of this vast establishment. From the courteous treatment received we feel justified in saying that Mr. Mesick Me-sick will take pleasure in explaining to all curious persons the many interesting interest-ing features connected with the establishment, estab-lishment, of which the company is justly just-ly proud. a - . A NEW INDUSTRY- Salt LaUe Assured of Plenty of Ice in the Future. During the past week many of the citizens of this city have experienced the iuconvenience of being limited in their supply of ice. A wise l'rovidence has so ordered tho universe that the cold of winter may be stored up to be used by man in tempering the heat of sumrner. But how much greater the wisdom displayed in providing the means and giving to man the knowledge knowl-edge to use them, whereby ice can be made even though the sun be shining with torid heat. Nature is a grand thing to "hold communion with," but when it comes to freezing water in the mild climate of Utah, tho result is very unsatisfactory. ,, Among the solid institutions of this city none stands higher in the estimation estima-tion of the community, and none carries car-ries so much cold pleasure into the thousands of homes of Salt Lake City, as the Mountain Ico company. This company is composed of enterprising business men, who early saw that the increased in-creased business of their city could not long be supplied with ice from the natural nat-ural but limited resources in this vicinity. vicin-ity. In many industries the presence of ice is as necessary as that of coal in the manufacture of gas. Then, too. the natural ice was soft, being nearly half snow, and filled with impurities. In rmany of the southern cities cit-ies ice has been manufactured successfully for several years. During the past two years Denver has derived most of her supply by artilicial means. The process has been tested and found lo work admirably. It has been weighed in the balance and has not been found wanting. Early last spring the Mountain Ico company began negotiations with afirm in Chicago for the purchase of the latest improved machinery used in manufacturing manufac-turing ice. So many orders were ahead of theirs that only until recently were they ablo to secure tho desired plant. They, however, began at once the erection erec-tion of a proper buildihg. No expense ex-pense was spared, and they now have what is undoubtedly the most complete manufactory ami cold storage house in the west. The factory is located near the railroad at tho corner of Third West and Ninth South. The building is 150 feet by 05 feet, and built entirely of brick. The front has the appearance of being three stories in height, but really is only two, tho upper storv beinir sumilied with two rows of windows, the upper ones being for ventillation purposes. In front the first floor is occupied by the main office of the company, and by six largo cold storage rooms. On the second floor are twelve more storage, rooms, making in all eighteen. These rooms are about 18x20 feet. The walls are made hollow doublo-boarded , and lined with heavy paper, . so as to perfectly per-fectly insulate the interior from tho warm air without. Each room will be supplied with pipes from the cooling room and can be reduced to any desired temperature. Meats may be placed in one and kept frozen the year round. Eggs may be placed in another, butter in another and so on, and each supplied sup-plied with the temperature most suited to its conditio1 '-(.We believe the merchants mer-chants of Salt Lake will not bo slow in availing themselves of the advantages here offered for storing and preserving perishable merchandise. The engine room is provided with a Hamilton Corliss eugine of loO-horse power. In thoi boiler room are two large 14-foot boilers, though one only is now , used in running the machinery at the present capacity. The compauy, however, expect soon to double the output which is now 25 tons per day. To enter 'fully into tho details of the manufacture of ice, .would extend this article far beyond, its desired length; but a general outline of tho process may be given which we believe will not be void of interest to the readers of The Times. In the freezing room, two large steel vats, each about 20 feet square, are placed side by side and then thickly walling them around thus completely separating them from tho surrounding atmosphere. The cover to these im-meuso im-meuso vats consists of nearly five hundred hund-red trap doors each about 10x20 inches. These vats are then filled with strong brine, and the cans containing pure distilled water is passed through the trap doors from above into the brine beneath none of the latter, however, can possibly enter the cans. Passing through tho brine and close to the side of each row of cans, is a continuous coil of heavy iron tubing. Liquid Ammonia, Am-monia, under a pressure of ISO pounds to tho square inch, is forced into one end of this coil wire, the pressure being be-ing removed it suddenly expands into a gas of intense coldness. It then passes through the coil, passing out at the opposite op-posite side of tho vats, and is carried back to the pressure chamber of the eugine, reduced once more to a liquid and again sent on its freezing process The gas, in passing through tho pipes in the brine, reduces the temperature of the brine bcluw 83 degrees F the freezing point of pure water, when the water in the cans becomes ice. The whole process is as simple as that of freezing the proverbial cream of which young ladies are so fond; and no more is the ice affected by the ammonia am-monia used in its manufacture than is the cream by the salt used in making it. 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