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Show ! making! ice. j Everything in "its season, . Here is ' the Rio Grande, making ice w hile the ; r.un Is hid from view, which -Is a re- versal of tho hay-making motto. ! The 100 or more men employed at 1 the ice houses . near the Rio Grande ! depot have profited by the frosts ot j winter. All kinds of weather are necessary and It is an ill wind which blows no one good. There is a small lake on the top of I the Wasatch range where the Rio ! Grande road winds its way to Park ( "City. When Ogden is enjoying the 1 temperature of spring, .that lake is 1 frigid and the thermometer registers ' 20 degrees or 30 degrees below zero. I Great blocks of ice are cut, which are I IS or 20 inches thick They aro load-j load-j ed Into cars and shipped here. It is i ice from that lake which Las kept as j high as 169 men busy at tho Rio Grande ice houses in Ogden during the weeks. If Ogden winters continue to bo as mild as during the last three seasons, our local ice men will be compelled to search out some such lake or pona where the cold days and nights force nature to wrap itself in a covering of |