Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-05-17
TO GET CHEAPER ICE.
TO BE ESTABLISHED ON
THE LlBBY-PRISON SITE.
Bexsdes Making Ice There VIII BE Cold
Storage for Meats, Fruits, Vege-
bIes, &c.

The citizens Of Richmond stand what ap-
pears 70 be an excellent chance OF having
ice furnished 10 them at much lower prices
than those which now obtain here oeiore
the heat OF the summer is spent.
In fact il Is given as an assured certainty
that before the middle of July. when the
season of greatest suffering from heat Is
just reaching its zenith, the freezing luxury
will be dispensed through the streets OF
Richmond at prices far cheaper than are
now exacted.
II has been intimated that this necessity
TO comfort in the domestic part OF lie WIN
be offered TO our people at tarif not IN
excess Of sixty cents per hundred pounds:
and there have been rumors to the eHeSI
that more reasonable tariffs VIII De oo-
served where the quantities dealt III are
large.
FACTORY AT LIBBY PRISON.
However this may be, there Is certainly
TO be another large factory here for the
manufacture of transparent ice, and there
is no reason 10 doubt that the article can
be made by the process which Will be
adopted and furnished 10 consumers upon
the terms named and at profit TO those
engaged in the enterprise.
The factory will be located on the site OF
Libby Prison, which building has been
moved TO Chicago and reerected in practl-
cally the same form that was here.
Mr.. Charles A. Rose, real estate agent and
auctiOneer, acting for the Chicago syndl-
cate, has sold the Libby-PTison lot TO the
Crystal Ice Company. The negotiations
were conducted with Mr.. G. ID. WinSheld,
the secretary treasurer and general man
ager Of the purchasing company. This lot
"a a .gt aIf Z located
southeast corner Of Cary and Twentieth
streets. 1t has q front Of 13O feet and runs
back 100 feet TO the dock. The con-
sideration was $4,000 cash.
Mr.. Rose has also sold Mr.. Wingtield Tor
the company the adjoining lot, 44xl20 feet.
owned by the Southern Fertilizer Com
pany, for 81 .760.
READY TO BUILD.
Mr.. Rose has received the deed Of con-
veyance from the Libby-Prson War
Museum and it has been delivered 10 the
purchasers for record at once. This closes
out the interest Of the Chicago concern
here. Members of the syndicate in re-
cent letter TO Mr.. Rose express the hope
that they would soon be able. to come to
Richmond and visit our citizens, with
whom they formed pleasant acquaintances
when on their last trip here.
Mr.. Wingfield has received estimates OF
the cost OF the buildings proposed TO be
erected, the plans are now being perfected,
and the contracts will be let in a very few
days and work will begin at once.
WHAT WILL BE DONE.
The company proposes 10 erect buildings
on these two lots for two 35-tOn ice-machines
of the most improved kind refrigerating
ice-houses holding 5000 tons OF ice, ond
commodious cold-storage departments for
preserving meats. fish, butter, eggs, and
vegetables.
They will increase their ice-making ca
paclty TO 100 tons per day as soon IA addl-
tional machinery can be procured and will
run winter and summer. In winter they
will store their surplus stock in houses IN
which the temperature will be kept below
the freezing point. so that when the ice is
taken out in summer it will be as good as
when il was put in. The ice will be absO-
lutely pure. being made from distilled
water. and 1t is claimed will last longer
than the natural article.
Mr.. Wingfeld, who was formerly with
Allen d Ginter, has recently been engaged
in the manufacture of ice III the South
west. and he will adopt here the process
which he has found 10 work very success
fully. He expects TO he able to put the
ice on the market by July 1st.
THE CHATTER.
The CRYSTAL Ice Company was chartered
by Judge Wellford, of the City Circuit
Court. on the 2Gth Of February, and its
purposes, as defined in the petition to the
Court, are TO manufacture, buy, store. and
sell ice and to buy. store, and sell meats,
fruits. and all other kinds Of provisions
for table use usually stored in ice-houses
or cold departments.
The capital stock of the company is TO
be not less than $5O,0OO and may be in
creased to 100000.
Real estate may be held no. exceeding
four acres at any one time. and authority
is gwen to erect buildings, put in ma
chinery. &c.
The officers are: President. John Pope !;
Vice President. Thomas +. JeiFress; Secre-
tary and Treasurer. c. ID. Wlngfeld; Direc-
tors, the above and Messrs- Lewis Glnter
and Howard SwinefoTd.