New-York tribune., 1874-02-10
THE WINTER HARVEST,
TIE ICE COMPANIES BUsILY AT WORK CUTTING ICE
"A SMALL QUANTITY STORED.

TIE ICE COMPANIES BUsILY AT WORK CUTTING ICE
A SMALL QUANTITY STORED.
The sanguine feeling OF the ice companies,
which was developed by the cold of inst day
OF last week. lessened by the heavy snow which
came after and by mitigation OF the harsh tempera
ture Only company has yet got in any consider
able show OF its seasons supply, and the remaining time
is short But unless the mild weather OF yesterday
grows still mlder they hope 10 get to work this week
at nearly all the stations the Hudson, and late as 1t
s may yet get of their stock from that river The
President OF the Washington Ice Company told TRIB
UNE reporter yesterday that only about 10000 tons Of
the 25OOOO wanted by that Company had yet been
housed but storing is going on at three stations,
Coeymans, Glasgow and Rogers Island; at the rest,
except EsOpus and ROndout Creek, the men were cut
ting canals yesterday and, unless the weather is unfa
vOrable will begin storing to-day. AT Coeymans, near
Albany the ice is lOs and IL inches thick further down
the river II Is inches thick II has not become
much heavier in the past few days because of the deep
snow upon it, With tolerable weather and opportunity
for work all its stations this Company store 10000
tons per day. The prospect said the President, 10 a
little better than short time ago, but not such TO
warrant the hope OF getting the usual quantity from
the Hudson. The Washington Company is now storing
ice in Maine aud providing in other ways against a
scarcity.
The Vice President Of the KnckerbOcRer Company
said that only small part of the $4,000 tons which 1t
must have for full stock has yet taken IN. Work
was going on yesterday at most OF the upper stations
At Barren Island the ice is 10 inches thick Storing in
progress at this station and at New Baltimore Cox
sackie, schodack, Athens, Hamburg, Cdsk, Sears
port, and Castleton by the Knckerbocker and other
companies At the several stations the is nine and
ten inches thick IL has thiCkened somewhat since Sat
urday IN several places where the snow has been
scraped of. II the weather continues favorable the
Kuickerbocker Company house from 1900 10 10000
tons per day. rain now, II followed by freeze,
would be rather advantageous 10 the ice men, as the
pould ha frOza lp no
vet begun at R0ckland Lake, which supplies large
part OF this COmpanys ice. III the air is cold enough
storing will set there by the middle OF this week
in thickness This Company prepared 10 bring
daily 30 carloads OF iceS0O tOns-from Southwick,
Mass but there is delay in getting enough.
This Massachusetts ice Is now almost IA inches thick
IL stated at the office OF the Consumers Ice Com
pany ice had been stored yet Their station is
West Camp on the Hudson aud the ice there has been
thin 1t 10 now about eight inches n thickness, and
as the has been partly scraped OFF allow IL TO
tmcken, cutting will probably begin on Thursday or
store from 900 TO $4,000 tons in week OF the 80
required Its reliance is the Hudson only, and no
arrangements have been made TO get ice elsewhere IL
the Hudson fails.
The officers Of the Mutual Benefit Company said that
they have got IN very little OF their supply vet Hardly
ANYTHING has been done their lake but unless this
weeks weather prove too mild, cutting Will be pushed
forward.
The National Ice Company Ia the only one which has
its work well advanced owing 10 the earlier freezing
Croon Lake, from which threeourtbs OF its supply of
over 100 Its houses at CroOn Lake
now more than half full and operations begun
yesterday at TucKahoe, where the rest OF It's
procured. Unless disappointment in weather occurs
the entire stock can be gathered In fortnight The
Croton ice IL inches thick, clear and frm
while the ice TucKahoe Is from 10 10 IL inches.
The thermometer at POuRhkeepse yesterday showed
that tine temperature was IA degrees below zero, al
though toward nightfalI the weather was mlder The
storing OF ice begun at all the ice houses the
Hudson River above Pougbkeepsle.