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Show COLD STORAGE FOR CEDAR CITY Enterprising Biederman Market Provides This Necessity and a Small Ice Plant. Last week one of the most impor-i impor-i tant local items of news escaped us, on account of our reporter's notes being be-ing mislaid. We refer to tho excellent little artificial ice and cold storage plant installed by Biederman Bros, of the Biederman Market. This will bo a splendid asset to the comunity and will fill a long felt want. It will enable en-able the proprietors of tills thriving business to provide tender, properly cured beef and other kinds of fresh meat and other perishable food products pro-ducts on hnnd nil the time, even in the warmest of summor weather, and to supply any shortage of ico in tho community. The machine was purchased from G. W. Kettering of Denver, and is manufactured by the Buhc3 Ice Machine Ma-chine Co. of Omaha. It has a capacity capac-ity of five tons of ice each 21 hours if devoted exclusively to the manufacture manu-facture of ice, and it is estimated thnt it will supply the refrigeration required re-quired for the market, keeping a supply sup-ply of beef to last several days in a frozen condition and produce from 2Va to 3 tons of ico per day. Tho refrigeration refrig-eration is carried into the show cases and store room, so that everything i will be kept sweet nnd wholesome. Artificial ice is produced from pure water from the city system and is suitable for use in ice water, iced tea and other things where it comes into , direct contact with food or drink. It is claimed by experts that being frozen froz-en under a, lower temperature than j natural ice; will resist heat longer, mcltng less quickly in the rays of the !sun. pound for pound. The plant, of course, is not a large one. but it is vcrv compact, and will perhnps answer the immediate needs 'of the town. The cost, installed, was nearly $4,000', and the installation was ' in charge of Wm. II. Fox, the com- I panv's engineer, who was assisted by , A, B. Smith, also in the employ of the vendors. Connniscurs of meat, such, for instance, in-stance, ns the J'ullmnn car service department, de-partment, do not consider serving a piece of steak until it has been held in cold storage from 30 to GO days, and that is the secret of their tender cuts of beef. Tho installation of this refrigerator plant, when fully completed, com-pleted, will enable the Biederman ! Market to supply beef of similar quality. |