Arizona republican., 1901-09-25
ICE BY ELECTRICITY
And Incidentally a New Plan for
 Water Storage.

The Republican Is permitted to make public the following extracts from a private letter to well known citizen. who is interested in one of the most important irrigation schemes in ths southwest. The communication is strictly confidential. hence al names are withheld. For obvious reasons the parties concerned desire to keep the matter secret tor the present, but their plans have been sufficiently consum- mated, that this mention is permit ted. Nothing Is known further of this great discovery than is disclosed in this letter, but the names of the parties concerned inspirs confidence in the claims set forth.
 Dear Friend: At last success has crowned my efforts, and my patient digging for five years seems in a fair way to be rewarded.
 ''I wrote you last year that I was about despairing of ever being able 10 produce ice by electric currents. a. though my research and experiments had convinced me that 1t could be done. Just as I was ready to give up in ds- spair. stumbled onto the process. which Is even simpler than producing | heat or ligh:, and I now have it per ! fected. with the exception of two or three minor details Until these are 1 completed and patents secured here and in Europe. my discovery must be kept secret. and I shall trust you to protect me. Heretofore we have only known how to produce heat by electric ity bu. by a simple process reversing the familiar methods. I secure the op- rosIte result and produce intense cold.
 T want you to hep me take advan- 7 tage of this discovery and to share in 1 the benefits. I can produce ice al ' about one-fifth the cost by present pro- cesses on a small scale. but the cost decreases rapioay as power and capac- ity are increased. While by present methods 1t requires approximately one horsepower to produce one ton of ice per day, l can increase this ratio from | one to two hundred times according to J the power used. I want to put this dis covery to the best and the biggest use
 possible and from my experiments have conceived the iuea of utilizing it ] for the storage of water for irrigation i purposes, as vel as to manufacture ice for domestic use.
 .The plan I have in mind Is to To- cate power sites on the headwaters oi your rivers. where large power can be developed during high water and con venient to reservoir sites. Our plants c2n De 1nSt01ed ana rtSeTNoir Site' properly wired during the dry season
 90 that everything may be in rea,ines. ' for the freshets. To secure best re suits these plants should be of not less than 10.oc0 horse power. and the carger
 the more ecnomical. The reservoir sites should not be more than ten oi
 fifteen miles from the power-th' nearer ihe better.
 Tn selecting reservoir sites it is moi
 necessary to look for bedrock or boa canyons. for all that will be required is temporary dam ten or twelve feel
 high to check the water while we be-
 gin to operate on it. As my method can be used on flowing as well as or stiil water. a large basin or reservoi,
 can be quickly and easily filled witf solid ice. in successive layers. if suf ficient power is applied
 "The melting of these artificia
 glaciers in high attitudes during th'
 summer with furnish steady suppl,
 of water for your streams when 1t il
 most needed