Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1894-07-29

ice is pure unless it is frozen from dis
titled water. The popular notion that
impurities in water are excluded from
the ice in the process of freezing is
erroneous. 1t is we'll known that many
kinds of dangerous bacteria live in ice
for months, and one eminent authority
has shown that bacilli of typhoid fever
will live in ice three months at least.
water may be classified as rain
water, surface water, subsoil water and
deep water. The first when gathered
in the open country is the most nearly
pure. 1t however contains particles of
organic matter, living and dead,
gathered from the atmosphere. Other
waters. however pure they may appear,
are heavily charged with variety of
poisonous matter. Water taken from
Lake Superior, which has always borne
the reputation of being pure, upon
being tested showed beyond question
that it contained poisonous germs and
furnished the explanation for 1,500
cases of typhoid fever, with which, in
epidemic form. the city of Duluth was
afflicted some years ago. Anew months
ago in the laboratory of the Michigan
University series of thorough expert
ments with water were made. The
water appeared to be pure. DIR.
Vaughn, who conducted the tests, tried
several samples; in thirty-six of them
he found poisonous germs, which were
tried on white rats, thus proving their
dangerous character.
st is well known that every form OF
fever, diphtheria, stomach, kidney and
liver, and other diseases may be caused
by impure water, and ice made from
such water unquestionably aids in the
production of these dread diseases. 1t
is safe to assert that no ice made from
natural water can be found 80 pure
as artificial ice made from that which
is distilled. Distillation not only de-
stroys by subjecting to a high tenn
perature-about 2l2 degrees Fahren-
helt-all bacteria and disease germs,
but drives out all foul substances and
gases, but it is also an improvement,
inasmuch as it drives off the air con-
tanned in the water, and thus renders
the ice made from it clear, pure and
firm, a matter of great Importance in
considering the appearance of the ice
for table use. A further important ad-
vantage is that such ice being frozen
more solidly and at far lower degree,
it necessarily lasts longer.
"Also another advantage which is in
favor of Arctic ice frozen inc cans, is
that the cakes have the square shape OF
the cans, which is 44x22x11 inches, SO
one can cut it in any shape for ice
boxes, while with the other system, the
ice frozen on pipes has the shape of the
pipes to which it is frozen, and one end
round 80 that the cakes cannot fill any
ice box exactly.
"Arctic Ice cakes, in hauling to the
butchers and elsewhere through the
sun, freeze together, showing that the
frost is still in the ice, while by the
other method of ice frozen on pipes is
unable to do this, as the frost is out OF
it before it can be taken out of the tank.
"Arctic Ice, being frozen at a far
lower degree is mole dense, so that q
cake weighing fifty pounds would look
smaller than that frozen by the other
method, though it will weigh the same.
1.-THE Arctic Ice works is the only es
tablishment in the valley which freezes
its ice from distilled, purified water"