Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-07-13
ONE MORE.
Another Ice raefsry--Thc old Fork Pack
v.tIa.t Made Of Practical rse-
what tho Company ffo-

what tho Company Poo
poses 10 Do.
. Fort Worth il making grand stride
rewards advancement. and 20 keep
nase with the oyress of the metropo-
liz OF North Texas, one must be alive
10 the paSsing events OF the day and
watch carefully, how day by day some
new project Is brought forward by ac-
tive. energetic men and old oues devel-
oped. Three years ago the idea of es-
/ tablishing an ice factory IN Fort
( Worth was laughed at. II
X was preposteroue, II would
/ never pay. And yet in spite Of these
( iiscoufaging representations, men
I were found who, enterprising and
I progressive themselves, were deter
! mined the town they lived in should
I be so too. a factory with a machine
1 having only capacity of three tons q
I day was first established and sue
eeeded so well that when the factory
( started this summer il was with three
machines, one of ten and two of three
I tons. But thirty-two thousand pounds
I Of ice day was not enough to supply
I the Fort Worth people and the trade
( built up in the surrounding towns.
\ The old pork packery in the
I East end OF the city was purchased 10y
I the Fort Worth Ice Company and new
machinery added To the old already
+ there and to-day, the machine stal Is
I up and another ice factory with ca
I paciiy of four tons day, goes into
( operation.
I A GAZETTE representative visited
I the factory yesterday in company with
I Mr.. Il. +. Maddox. q large stockhold-
or in the corporation, and one of the
original promoters OF the scheme, and
here il will not be out of place 10 say
that the progress made by Fort Worth
and its present and future prosperity
il due in great measure to just
such enterprising, go-ahead men as
/ Mr. Maddox, men who have young
blood in their veins, who are alive to
the requirements of the day, and not
afraid TO invest their money in
new channels and new enterprises.
The reporter was shown over the build
ing by Mr.. Maddox, but it is not nee
essary here to explain the process by
which ice is made, that i, already ia
miliar to nearly every one. The estab-
li-hment Of this additional ice factory
is only temporary, and Is de-
signed to supply the additional
demand for Ice this summer.
During the winter the company
propose 10 take out the ice machine,
from the old pork packery and send it
and the two small machines to some of
the interior towns, where they intend
to establish ice factories. These ma
chimes will be replaced by two new
ones having each n capacity of
ten tons a day, thus enabling the COM
pauy 10 manufacture with the large
machine Their now have, sixty thou
sand pounds day. At present, tile
company make forty thousand pounds
4 day, and of this between twenty
four and twenty-five thousand pounds
il the daily consumption in this city.
The remainder is shipped to Sherman
DenisOn and neighboring towns aud
points west of Fort Worth. The re-
moval OF the ice machine from the old
pork packery will leave this building
vacant, but it will not remain SO long.
y refrigerator for the cooling of beef,
preparatory To shipment will be put in
The building. In other words it is
proposed to tit up the building with
machinery necessary for the refriger-
ating beef and shipping it dressed to
is peculiarly adapted to this use.
1t t. is large and commodi-
Gus and basement, well
finished with good floor, paved and
cementcd. furnishes the best of store
rooms. This basement is exceedingly
COOL even in the hottest weather, and
is an admirable place in which to store
the dressed meat. 1t is intended to
first put in machinery, which will
have II capacity for refrigera;ing or
freezing twenty-five tons. OF this
twenty-five tons will be the meat for
shipment and the three remaining
tons will be ice, to be used in packing
II in the cars. Some idea may be OBJ
tanned of the quantity of meat dressed
for the market each day, from the
fact that the factory will turn
out carload n day, and each ear will
hold in the neighborhood of forty-iive
heeves and thirty sheep. when
dressed. To equip and put in running
order this factory will necessitate an
outlay of about $500 but those who
are nj the helm are men of ENTERPRISE
and business ability, and know what
they are doing, and do not fear failure.
There are six acres OF land attached to
the building itself, and the company
nave ut their command sufficient pas
turage Tor all purposes. 1t is pro-
posed to increase the capacity of the
establishment rs the business grows.
ana what is now Il small beginning
VIII eventually he great institution.
The greatest drawback will be the get
ting of cheap fuel, but it is hoped that
this problem Will he satisfactorily
solved. 1t viii of course be some time |
before the establishment is IN running
ORDER, but il is an assured fact and the |
projectors are now making the neces-
siry arrangements, looking to the pur-
chasing OF machinery and putting it
up.