Los Angeles daily herald., 1890-03-18
THE ICE CROP.
The Reason Why the Price
Will Go Up.
INTERVIEW WITH JOHN CAsHIN
The Union Ice Company on the
Subject-Excessive Shows in the
North-Scarce Crop East.


called to see John Cashin, the manager
of the Union Ice Company, at Is and II
South Alameda street, to make some in.
quiries about the supply of ice for the
coming season. This company deals in
natural ice, harvested for the most parI
in the vicinity of Truckee.
The conversation was somewhat al
follows:
"Mr. Cashin, in the interest of the con
sumers of ice would like to ask you 6
few questions, if you have no objec
tion.'
''No sir, / have no objection"
"What was the immediate and chiei
cause for the advance in price of ice in
this city ?"
''The immediate cause, I suppose, was
over and above the cost of the article
sumers that ice-dealers in and around
Los Angeles have lost money in the bus
mess during the past two years; hence
the necessity of replenishing the invested
capital. The next and most pressing
cause, presume, was the extraordinary
expense attached to saving and storing
Sierra Nevada mountains this winter,
tinuous snowstorms prevailing"
"rhe readers of the HERALD's dis
patches will know that there was a
good deal of snow," said the reporter.
eyes, the depth of snow was immense,
measuring q great many feet perpendicu-
larly, averaging from thirty to forty feet
h. f- Z A.
1.500 men constantly shoveling snow,
and receiving good wages therefor, say
from So to 81 per day, and double time
for night work. In addition, upwards OF
100 horses with scrapers were used haul
ing and carrying the snow up and over
its self-made mountain DUMP"
"Was there large crop of ice?"
mo; there was not a full crop. A
quarter ct crop would be about right 20
give as the extent of the harvest"
lis there likely to be an ice famine ?"
"No; think there will be no scarcity
this year. Sufficient has been carried
over from last years crop to meet this
years consumption"
''How about the Eastern crop?"
'There is very great deficit in the
Atlantic States this year; in fact, an ice
panic will exist, and cannot be avoided,
as the consumption is immensely large.
All the ice made and stored in this State
could readily be disposed of at paving
prices and shipped East.''
The Truckee Republican, a semi-weekly
paper published in the town of Truckee,
town in the midst of snow and ice
ponds, has the following to say about ice
and ice people:
BIRDS OF FEATHER.
There was big gathering Of ice men
in town Monday. At one time on Front
street could be seen in earnest cenfabu.
lation, Jas. Mcdonald, Martin Sullivan,
J. F. Moody, Warren Richardson, Dem
mis- Burkhalter, and Chss.' Painter. II
looked like called meeting of the Ana
MAS Club. The absence of Dave Dysart
and James Crawford was all that was
lacking to make the meeting complete
OF course they told how much ice each
had put up and that not a single cake
was less than % inches thick. They
figured up their losses, which averaged
from six to seven dollars a ton, and they
sympathized with each other. 1t was an
affecting scene.
THE ICE CROP.
The following figures have been or
tanned relative to the amount OF ice put
up along the Truckee river this winter