The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-06-04
ICE NO LONGER A LUXURY.
New Factories Bringing Down the
Price-Another Factory Ready.

New Factories Bringing Down the
Price-Another Factory Ready.
| Savannah has another ice factory, which
will be in operation within two or three
days. with capacity of thirty-fve tons
per day. 1t is the factory Of the Crystal Ice
Company, and is located on Harris street,
just back of the Armour Packing Com
pany's warehouse, near the Central railroad
passenger depot.
The Crystal Ice Company was organized
about three months ago, with w. G..
Cooper, president; John Thomas of Kansas
City, vice president; c. A. Drayton, treas
urer and manager, and G. Y. Richardson,
secretary. Its capital is 100000. 1t re-
ceived its charter March Is. and the next
day work was begun upon the factory.
The building was completed and engines
machinery and the ice plant complete put
in in little more than two months. So
quickly and quietly has the work been done
that the general public does not and will not
know. until il roads this announcement,
that there is annther ice factory in the city.
Savannah is in big luck this year on the
ice question compared with last summer,
whom ice was a luxury aud at times could
hardly be had for love or money. With
the product of the new ice company added
to that of the Gorrie company, the Savan-
nah Brewing Company and George Meyers
shipments of natural ice the people of Sa-
vannah may congratulate themselves on
the assurance of a full supply of cheap Toe.
Already big cut has been made in the
price, due partly, no doubt, to the erection
of the new factory. The difference between
a plentiful and a scant supply OF ice can be
appreciated nowhere better than Savannah.
The new factory Is built with Savannah
and Kansas City capital and will be man
aged by Savannah business men.
A MORNING NEWS reporter visited the
factory yesterday afternoon and found
Messrs. Richardson and Drayton and
Thomas OF Kansas, who has had charge of
its erection. Mr.. Thomas has bad great
deal Of experience in putting up ice ma
chimes and erecting cold storage houses for
the Armour Packing Company. The plant
is fitted up with an improved Arctic Toe
machine, with 600 Of the 200-pound freez>
ing cans.
The plant is run by a 140-horse power
engine. The water for the ice is supplied
from the companY's own artesian we'll,
6-inoh well 354 feet deep. The water is
condensed, distilled and filtered before
going into the ice cans.
The Crystal Ice Company has a contract
with both the Armour aud the Nelson,
Morris & Co. packing houses to
supply them with ice or cool them by run
ming pipes from the plant through the pack
ing houses ana pipes are now being lalu
to supply the cold storage. 1t also has a
contract with the Central railroad and the
Ocean Steamship Company to furnish them
with all the ice they require. A Central
railroad track runs to the door OF the
factory.
President Cooper says Tire company pro-
poses to carry on a wholesale ice business,
and will furnish ice in any quantity at the
factory and will ship ice in carload lots and
less. The company already has orders for
several carloads. Its object is to give the
people of Savannah cheap ice. 1t expects to
sell ice at about IS cents per 100 pounds.