Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1894-07-29
COLD FACTS.
Ice Is Ice But There Is More
Than One Kind.
An Explanation of the Superiority
of the Arctic Ice Company's Pro-
duct Over Other Kinds.

81 have no anniversaries in my bust
ness; my machinery is so recent and up
to date that an anniversary would be
ridiculous Anniversaries commemor-
ate affairs and things of former age,
but the Arctic Ice machine is thing OF
today; its improvements are only a
year old, so you see couldn't have an
anniversary this year."
This is the way P. Minor broke the
ice yesterday in conversation on the
subject Of congealing water in Phoenix.
He continued, 81 want to tell you
something about making ice; maybe
you know it, but there are very few
people except those engaged in the
business who do: In the first place,
many people believe that all ice is the
same. That's SO in just the same sense
that warmth IS warmth and cold is
cold. You know that some cold things
are colder than other cold things; that 8
the way with ice. There is greater or
less warmth even in ice. so that the
coolest ice is only comparatively cold.
The scientific basis of cold, that is, a
point at which there is an entire alb
sence of heat is 400 degrees below zero.
a point, which, by the way, has only
been theoretically reached. There is.
therefore, nothing ever seen by mortal
man which may be described as abso-
lutely cold.
"But that's scientific, and the man
ufacture OF ice is practical. The best
and cheapest ice is the purest and the
coolest; that is, the kind that will
melt the slowest. That is the kind of
ice made by the Arctic Ice machine,
and there is no other method in che
valley, of freezing ice so cold and pure.
"I'll explain the method briefly so
you'll understand it: In my factory is
tank with a capacity for freezing
twenty tons of ice daily. This tank is
filled with brine penetrated by pipes
carrying ammonia, which in com juno
ton with the brine, produces the low
est degree of temperature capable OF
being pro luced on large scale. The
distilled water to be frozen is contained
IN clean cans set in the brine and SO
carefully separated from the brine and
ammonia that no trace of either can by
any possibility be conveyed to the ice.
H6H Lne cans are removed Lno Ice is
found to be hard, solid and clear,
sparkling with frost so that when it is
ready for delivery it has not begun to
melt and is of full thickness when de-
ivered to the customer.
''By the other system in use the ice
is simply frozen to the ammonia pipes,
which can freeze only to thickness of
sixteen or eighteen inches. In order
to remove the ice from the pipes it is
necessary to allow the frost to get out
of the ice before getting it off the pipes,
and it is not only not OF full thickness,
but it is in condition to melt away
rapidly, and if the ice should hold to
the pipes too firmly there is chance OF
the ammonia leaking by loosening the
pipe joints and getting into the ice and
the water from which the ice is made.
This is why customers say that the
Arctic Ice machine ice will last nearly
twice as long as any other ice that can
be obtained here.
"But there is one quality in ice
which is even more important than its
lasting quality that is its purity. Nc