Salt Lake Tribune | 1913-02-12 | Page 12 | Ice Harvest is Large

Ico Harvest Is Large. Special to Th Tribune. POCATELLO, Feb. 11. Thirty-one thousand tons of natural ice from the Short Lino's ponds at Humphries, near the summit of tho continental divide between be-tween Tdaho and Montana, have been harvested so far this winter and hauled In spocla! trains to the three mammoth ice houses In Pocatello. More than 900 caro have been shipped so far and a largo gang of men arc still at work finishing fin-ishing tho 6torlng of tho ico. The Ice this year is particularly fine, being over twenty-seven Inches thick and very transparent. Each of the three Ico houses here has a capacity of over 15,-000 15,-000 tonn, as Pocatello Is the central store point on tho system, and a great numbor of fruit caro are rolced here every summer, sum-mer, besides the dally use of great quantities quan-tities on tho regular O. 3. L. trains.