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Show SHOUT LINE ICE HARVEST PfK ATKI.I1. Keb. Tkirty one thousand tons of natural ire from tka Short Line's pond, at Humphries, Dear the summit of the continental divide between Idaho and Montana, have been harvested so fsr Ihi. winter and hauled in spatial tram, to the three mam moth ieebon.ei. in Fm-atello- More than car? have been shipped so far and a law irana of men is still at work finishing the storina of the ie. The ire this vear is particularly fine, being over twenty-seven inches thick and very transparent. Kaeh of the three icehouse here has A capacity of over 15,000 tons, as Poratello is the central store oint on the system, and a frreat number of fruit cars are iced here everv summer, beaides the dally use of great nuftntitiee on the regular Oregon Short Line trains. |