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Show EVANSTCjlHOTES (Evanston Times.) The importance of tho ice industry at this point is better understood when it Is stated that about 60,000 tuns will, have been cut before the season is over. The most modern facilities fa-cilities for harvesting this crop are in uso at the.jce ponds. Thousands of tons are shipped to Ogden, and about 40,000 tons are put up in tho fivo houses at this point. From ten to fifteen men are employed in the more Intricate work who receive a salary of $2 a day, and about one hundred hun-dred and fifty Japs, Austrians and Greeks are employed on the ponds at $1.60 a day. Ono day last, week this ice was put up for 13 cents a ton, but the average cost Is said to be 22 cents a ton. This in turn is sold by the railroad company for Icing refrigerator refrig-erator cars during the summer months and is said to net the company from 5 to $7 a ton. Tho company claims that after selling a product for $5 that cost 22 cents, it is impossible to pay better wages.' W. D. Shaw, a well known harness maker xt Ogden, has taken the management man-agement of the Evanston Harness company and is now prepared to turn out high grade harness and saddles. Mrs. William Verry, who ha3 spent several days with relatives ln Evanston, Evan-ston, returned Tuesday to her. home in Ogden. |