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Show ICE QUARRIED IN THE A'S. 8wlti Communes Make Money Ship-ping Ship-ping Glaciers. Washington. Ico quarrjlng U a now Industry thnt has sprung up In Switzerland, according to a report received re-ceived here by tho consular bureau. Whllo blasting Alpine glnr-lyra threat,-ens threat,-ens to destroy some of ilia mugnl-flcenco mugnl-flcenco of tho Sttucry, SwIbs communes. com-munes. flro making money granting concessions for quarrying theBe great manses of Ice for distribution In largo cities of the continent According to the Information received re-ceived here, largo sums havo been expended ex-pended constructing Ice slIdeB, or V-shaped V-shaped troughs, In which blocks of Ice, often of largo sire, blasted out of tho glacier nro transported to tho vicinity vicini-ty of tho Htntlons for comoyane, In carefully refrigerated cars to Lyon, and other large cities rcmoto from tho Alps, Tho method of blasting with black powder so us to a-, old tho discoloration dis-coloration and soiling of the Ice, and englnecilng ability displayed In erecting slides mid In providing pro-viding Btitllclcnt friction by means of curves to aiiold excessive speed In tho downward Journey of tho Ice blocks, nru spoken of as examples of considerable Ingenuity nnd Bklll. Glacier Ice, which Is perfectly pure nnd transpaient, nnd which has many qualities greatly appieclatcd by consumers, con-sumers, commands n higher value than that or tho usual kind obtained from tho surface of frozen ponds or lakes. A nlngular fenlmc In connection with tho preparation of tho Ico for tho market Is that It has been found necessary nec-essary to stoie It sovornl days In apodal apo-dal waiehouscB, formed of a doublo thickness of boarding with a stratum of sawdust Intorposcd, In order to remove re-move n coating of frosted or non transparent Ice which tends to form on the siirfaco of each block as It leaves tho glacier. |