Smyrna times., 1890-09-24
FOr the Smyrna Times.
The New South.

The New South.
CORDELE, GA, Sept. 20, 1S90.-Nex
to thunder gust at the close of a sui.
try day, an ice making machine in
the South fills not only an aching void,
but helps vastly in emerging from
swaddling clothes in casting about for
something to do. Hardly can any
tOwn-beg pardOn-city-have genu-
inc all around boom without an ice
machine. With an intention of itself
of the highest commendation, embryo
cities enact local option ordinances
which incidentally cover the roofs OF
bottling establishments with many
shingles. Every body drinks soda
water as as a corrective to the very
water of which it is nine tenths COM
posed of, but then soda water without
ice-ugh
An ice making machine is simply a
mass of conduit pipe of more than lab
yrinthian maze. After you follow me
through the mysterious process where
by strong hopes are entertained of ul-
timately becoming independent of
Jack Frost in the extreme North and
kicking KnickerbOcker ice companies
in the warm wave states that in COM
parisOn the need of praise is certainly
due to frost and Knickerbocker ice
Company for handling an immense
output of the frozen necessity with
comparatively no machinery at all. On
the other hand the process by an ice
machine from the start is very COM
plicated and interesting, involving for
an ordinary plant so much as $4,000
invested capital to start on and pro-
cure the large amount of pipe cor4u-
its necessary to a successful freeze.
First huge iron tank is built nearly 40
feet squareand four feet deep, and made
of boiler plate closely riveted along
the plate seams. On the outside this
space is enclosed in boarded up Frame
work u inches away all around from
the tank, the space between being FL
led with saw dust to serve as a non.
conductor for something. The space
inside the tank is filled with piping of
about an inch in .iiameter. The pipes are
placed in the tanks in tiers with return
coils for each set. Between each stack
Ofpipes space is had to place tin cans
filled with water, which, when frozen,
becomes 200 pounds of Ice to each. A
tank 40 feet square will hold 100 cube
cans, equivalent to an output each day
of 10 tons.
After the cans in the tank are filled
with water the remaining space out
side is filled with brine water to within
8 inches of the tops of all the cans.
This brine in completely surrounding
the pipes through which passes Liquid
AnhydrOus Ammonia. This chemical
passes quickly under pressure from
liquid to a gaseous state and by its ex-
pansiOn instantly reduces the tempera-
ture Immediately about the pipes to
within few degrees of zero. After
making the circuit of the pipes it is
passed to a condenser and returns to
the pump again in liquid form to go
Gd iafnitum upon its mission Office max
ing. The water used is exhaust steam
from the cylinders and cleared of oil
and dOubtly filtered through alum and
gravel so that whether or not the much
mOOted theory that the impurities of
water frozen in rivers are retained
hardly can be said of this as it is first
thoroughly boiled.
If none of the pipes leak charge of
$50 pounds of Ammonia will last ten
years, so will the salt brine; water is
cheap so that taken all around very
little money is required to be spent for
working material.
Ice being throughout the year a
prime necessity throughout the South,
1t becomes evident that an ice machine
can work the year round at profit in
running steady. During the summer
season orders came thick aud fast in a
climate that is especially hard on ice
natural or manufactured. These ma
chimes are now in successful operation
all over the South and have long since
passed from the experimental stage to
legitimacy as honorable as ice cream
making itself.
The effect Of this industry being es-
tablished on firm basis, naturally
leads to the sequence that Kennebec
river ice is not imported to any great
extent in the South. While the Coast
ing Marine deriving a large and lucra-
tive trade in ice carrying from the
North supplements the seasons work
with timber cargOes from Brunswick,
Darien Ga, and other sea board ports
south. In the growing of her great
staple, cotton, the once ignored cotton
seed finds now place to fill and is
quoted as high grade ammoniate.
But in timber the supply seems mex
haustible; first the trees are bled three
years for their turpentine and rosin,
and after this period they are cut for
the saw mill, and such trees they are
as straight as stretched string for 80,
60, and often a 100 feet high and clear
of limbs until the top is reached, when
enough start our horizontally to from a
good sized umbrella. These trees will
saw up into logs 40 feet long and IA
inches square, and no one seems to
think that is anything unusual.
JAMES B. SCOTT.
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