Show I I ARTIFICIAL ICE TIE CHEAPEST ITlost People Cling to the Pond i Grown Article AH Clear as Glass I guess it is a fact said an ice machine I manufacturer in response to a Herald inquiry I in-quiry that we make the most expensive machines turned out in Chicago Our fifty i ton ice machines cost 32000 each In several i sev-eral breweries we have put in a pair of these j machines Yes ice can be successfully made i for the trade Our business is increasing I every year and of course the bulk of our i output goes into breweries for cooling beer but ice machines can be worked profitably j even in the North A fifteenton machine is running at Cairo and doing well I know j whereof I speak when I say a man could setup set-up one of our machines down on the lakefront I lake-front and freeze ice artificially every day cheaper than he can cut store and bring into the city the natural crop I takes a large I force of men and teams considerable fore team coiderable apparatus ap-paratus and big storehouses both in country and to take of of natural city care a crop t ice Freight from the lakes to the city is a big item With one of our machines set upon up-on the lake front where the water would be inexpensive a man could beat natural ice out of the market And as for purity no ice would be purer than that made by machinery More than once have I tested a block twenty eight inches through by placing it upon a < newspaper and then reading the fine print I of the paper through the ice just as if it were a piece of glass We have fee machines making all the way from one ton in twenty four hours to thirtyfive tons The size of the blocks of ice varies from 8x11x8 inches to 11x22x28 inches the latter weighing 200 lbsChicuyo Herald |