Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-03-26
Ice Business on the Kennebec

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We have obtained the names Of proprietors
Of ice houses on the Kennebec, with one or
two exceptions, the location of houses, stock
of ice on hand or cut the past season, and
publish the same below, together with such
general remarks as are suggested by the sub
ject. We will begin at Augusta, and men,
ton the houses in rotation, as we proceed
down the river:
Morse & Co., Augusta; Spring Brook Ice
house; 1900 tons, put in this winter, for re-
tail in the city.
Page & Co., Hallowell; house on Steam
boat landing, capacity for $4,000 tons; 10, 900
tons in house; probably be purchased by New
York parties.
Lombard Rich, Farmingdale; Farming
dale Ice Co.-two houses in Farmingdale, sit
uated on Capt. A. Rich's farm; capacity for
1000 tons; now filed.
Knickerbocker Ice Co., of Philadelphia !;
headquarters in Gardiner; three ice houses,
in Pittston, Hallowell and Farmngdale; 3d.
900 tons put up this year. The houses are
only used for storing purposes, the company's
market being in Philadelphia.
Kennebec & Chelsea Ice Co.. house in Chel-
sea- capacity, 1000 tons; have at present
ten or eleven thousand TONS
Kennebec Land and Lumber Co.; house
close to mills in Pittston; have put up this
winter $1,000 tons.
Bradstreet & Co., of Gardiner; house in
Pittston, 1000 tons capacity, 5000 tons stored.
Berry, Flitner and others house at Green's
ledge in Pittston, 10000 tons capacity, Il, 900
tons on hand.
James S. Barker and others; house in
Pittston, 900 tons. These gentlemen are
interested in an ice company in Washington,
D. c., and they get their supply for the mar
ket there from the Kennebec and the Poto-
mac.
Lawrence Brothers, South Gardiner; ice
house in Pittston, 1000 tons.
Weeks & Storer, Augusta; ice house at
Dresden. empty.
Il. O. Mitchell and others of Gardiner: Gar
diner Ice Co.; six houses at Dresden, of a ca
pacity of $4,000 tons; filed. Company have
bought out parties in Savannah, Ga, and will
supply their customers in that market.
Arthur Berry and others, Gardiner; ice
houses at Dresden, $4,000 tons capacity
filed.
James l.. Cheesman, bought out the Cedar
Grove Ice Co.; houses In Dresden, Is, 900
tons capacity; not quite flled contain say
$1,000 tons; market in Washington, d. C.
Sturgis and others Of Augusta and else
where; house at Richmond, 10000 tons.
American Union Ice Co., composed of par
ties at Richmond, Pittston and Gardiner;
house at Richmond, capacity 10, 1000 TONS no
ice on hand.
Lincoln Ice Co., composed of parties in
Richmond; six houses in Dresden, 90, 1000
tons capacity; filled.
Sagadahoc Ice Co., Oler & Co., of Balti-
more, and parties in Richmond, proprietors;
houses in Dresden; capacity about $4,000
tons; filled.
Benz. Wright of Boston, and parties in
Richmond, capacity of houses $1,000 tons;
partly filled, say $4,000 tons.
Ice house on Swan Island; capacity 1000
tons; filled.
Total amount of ice stored in the above
houses, 300 500 tons, or nearly 10000 tons
of "solid comfort" to be turned down the
parched throats Of the thirsty multitude, or
used for the thousand and one purposes for
which ice has become an absolute necessity.
1t will be noticed that parties owning ice
houses on the Kennebec, and getting their
supplies here, are interested in local COM
panies in the large cities, thus ensuring the
annual sale of their ice, and not being obliged
to depend upon fuctuating market. This is
the present general tendency of parties large
ly interested in the ice business on the river.
No better ice can be produced than that
taken out Of the Kennebec. This is the uni
versal testimony in markets where 1t has
come in competition with ice from other Sec
tions of the country.