The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-06-24
PROFIT IN ICE-MAKING.
ANOTHER NEW ENTERPRISES IN
THE FIELD.

The Chatham Ice Manufacturing and
Tanning Company Organized-An-
other Fifty-Ton Ice Plant to be in
Operation by October-savannah's
Ice Product Next Season to APP
proximate 200 Tons a Day.
The demand for ice continues to exceed
the supply, and piece of ice that sells for
dime is, in the eyes Of the consumer, not
mucn larger than the coin. The new ice
factory at Bay and Abercorn. has quit SELL
ing tickets, it is said, and 30O-pound blocks
which sold at IS cents last week, cannot
now be bought for less than 81.
Ice men say that the scarcity of ice is
easily accounted for, es there is less ice for
sale now than when natural ice was brought
to Savannah, and with the growth of the
city, the amount of ice used for cold storage
at the brewery, and at the two extensive
packing houses, it cannot be expected to
have ice enough. Besides ice has been
shipped to Charleston and Brunswick which
has still further curtailed the supply.
The St. Nicholas took a shipment to
Brunswick on her last trip, which is said to
have cost $24 ton by the time it was de-
ivered.
NEW ICE COMPANY.
The ice scarcity led to the informal
organization of new ice company yester
day, which proposes 10 put in fifty-ton
plant at once. An application for a charter
was filed in the superior court by
the Chatham Manufacturing Company.
The incorporators are j. p Williams, A.
LETTER, George w. Tiedeman, Robert P.
Lowell, Charles II. Dorsett, George A. Hud-
son, w. G. Cooper, Thomas Il. Williams, ].
H. Furber, +. r. Dancy, Charles Kolshorn,
DR.. George II. Stone and Isaac Beckett.
The company asks to be granted the
power to operate tanneries as well as ice
factories, and it is one of the peculiar feat
ures of the petition for charter that
the plant is to be located in Chatham
county, which would lead to the conclusion
that the plant is to be located outside of the
corporate limits.
And one of the projectors of the new en-
terprise said last night when questioned
about the matter that it is quite likely that
the plant will not be located within the
taxable limits of the city. This, however,
will be determined during the present week,
as a committee will be appointed to select
a site. "We expect to order the plant be-
fore the close of the week and have it in
running order by Oct. l" said the gentle
man,
TO ESTABLISH A TANNERY.
what do you mean by wanting the
right TO operate tanneries!n the gentleman
Guilty in the way of operating tanneries in
the south is that the water in the watts in
this climate cannot be kept at the suitable
temperature. 1t requires a temperature,
on the average, as low as 46e Fahrenheit,
which can be maintained in connection with
the operation OF an ice plant, and on the
same principle as the temperature in cold
storage rooms is reduced and kept at a
fixed degree. He added that within twenty
four hours practical men can be enlisted to
operate tannery in connection with the
ice plant.
The capital stock of the new company is
s60,0O0 all Of which will be paid up, but the
charter asked for provides that 1t may be
increased to 81, 900 900.
The question was asked Of one of the
stockholders what would be the effect on
the price of ice when the new factory is in
operation, and he replied that the company
Is not composed of men who will sell out or
go into pools, but that ice will be sold at
from IS to So per ton, certainly not above
the higher figure.
There is a rumor afloat that one of the ice
plants of this city will supply ice through
out Savannah next summer at 25 cents per
hundred delivered, but the rumor has not
been confirmed. A gentleman well &C
quainted with ice manufacture informed a
MORNING NEWS reporter last night that a
hfty-ton plant will turn out ice at a maxi
mum cost of 81 per ton, 80 it will be seen that
there is some margin to go on after delivery
at s. per ton.
ICE FOR THE PACKING HOUSES.
1t is understood that when the big pack
ing houses on West Broad street were going
up, the agent of the Armour Packing Com
pany proposed to his neighbor that it would
be good plan to put in flfty-ton ice
plant to keep their packing rooms cold by
the cold storage system and sell the surplus
g..
ably received, the agent of the Armour
Packing Company agreeing to take $4,000
OF the stock, aud the other house to
take a like sum- A prominent
merchant on the Bay asked an option on
the rest of the stock, which was given him,
and in twenty -four hours he notified the
Armour Packing Company that he had
placed the stock. The Central railroad was
Wiling to help the enterprise along, and
site was stepped off near the packing houses.
but the project fell through, as one of the
packing house agents, much to the regret
OF Armour's house, was unwilling at the
critical time to go into the scheme, 1t is
believed, however, that something may yet
come of it, as there are now three large
houses which require $50 tons of ice to keep
their storage rooms at the proper tempera-
ture for the proper preservation of their
meats.
Based on the estimated capacity Of the ice
plants now In operation, the new plant GO
ing In at the Savannah brewery, the addi-
tlonal vat at the Winter factory, and the
fifty ton plant of the Chatham Manufacture
ing Company, the daily output of ice in
Savannah next summer will be about 1915
tons. This, 1t is believed by many will be
inadequate, but it is understood that the
new company will purchase an extensive
site SO that it may have ample room to
double or even quadruple its capacity whom
ever it deems it practicable