The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-26
AN ice TRUST FORMED
A Big Howl From the Citizens
of Butte.
PRICES ARE JUMPED UP
The Butte Ice Company Has Bought Out
Its Competitors and the Ice Man
Has Everything His
Own Way.

The dilettante who is more than any
thing else connoisseur on interior dec
orations should pay a visit to the o.
flee of w. Nee. White if he would sea
the very latest fad in the way of in
terror Office decorations. Mr.. McWhite
has worked out most novel and in
genious decorative scheme which can
not fail to interest people whose in
clinations run in this direction. 1t is
exceedingly appropriate for this partic
ular season as it has cooling
effect which males itself felt as
soon as one enters the office. Ice tongs
form the central figure. In fact ice
tongs are about the whole thing. Two
massive pairs of ice tongs grace the
sides of the entrance to the office and
more pairs are strewn in graceful pro-
fusion about the place, and miniature
ice tongs are used for paper weights,
to hold ink stands, etc. There are ice
tongs everywhere, and the effect is
certainly very novel The occasion for
the welI-known broker and polit clan
adopting this peculiar style of decora-
ton is that he is now the ice man."
A wall went up yesterday morning
that could be heard in every quarter OF
lht City WHtic lSc 10 uSbu, when the Ice
man made his appearance to fill the re-
frigerator. With the exception of those
employed by two companies, the
drivers of Ice wagons informed their
patrons that ice had gone up and tina.
they would have to pay double the
price that has been charged in the
past. When customer inquired the
reason, the ice man produced for in
forma ton a circular of which, the fol-
lnUinp CT q
Butte, Montana, July %, 1899.
To Our Patrons:
The undersigned have sold all of their
ice to the Butte Ice company, and re-
tire from business this date.
COLUMBIA GARDENS ICE co.
CRYSTAL ICE co.
LAKE ICE co.
INDEPENDENT ICE co.
Butte, Montana, July %. 1899.
To the Public:
The Butte Ice company having ac-
quired all of the ICE Of the above named
companies, respectfully solicits your
patronage.
The price of ice from and after this
date will be as follows, to-wit:
To business houses. 49,. Coo per hundred
To residences. .......S1.00 per hundred
Wholesale G. ton lots or more) de-
livered on sidewalk ... 5000 per ton
Respectfully.
BUTTE ICE CO,
Office II West Broadway.
The circular explains itself. 1t mere
ly means an ice trust has been formed
which has taken in the four companies
mentioned in the circular, and that
henceforth people must pay for their
ice, as the trust controls the supply, for
while there are two companies which
are not in the trust. the Basin and
the Yankee Doodle companies. 1t Is
said their supply is very limited, so
much so that if they were to attempt
to supply the city their ice would last
but 40 or 20 days at the outside, while
if they simply supply their regular GUS
toners their supply will not run the
season out. If this is true the public
is at the mercy of the trust, and must
pay the price.
The organization of the trust was en-
by w. Nice. White, who, 1t is
is to direct the affairs of
the Butte Ice company, the trust. Who
the others in the combine are Mr.. Nee
White said yesterday he was not at
liberty to divulge.
The advance in the price of ice Is all
the way from so to S5 per cent. Up to