The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-06-08
KODOL DYSPEPSIA CURE 0'eYESS55is 0'eYS5 sx4 WHAT Sold by E. 6. Fowler and E. V Runter. Druggists,
ICE MINES IN ARIZONA
NATURES RELIEF FOR AN EZ.
 TREMELY ToRR1D STATE
Caves as Tefrigerators-ccinpany Has Been F1rned to Make < Commercial Use of the D..
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Brooklyn Eagle

Brooklyn Eagle.
 Nowhere in the world does there exist .l industry to unique as that just being put in operation in. Northern Arizona, where elaborate plans are being iaid 10 atilize the product of the ice caves h ,xistence there. Strange it seems. to6, hat Tn this land of great heat, wRafs in some places ice Is a priceless luxury, made so by excessive freight rates which prevail in the territories. mans ingenuity has not heretofore conceived the whole sale appropriation of the relief which na- ture has provided.
 Not until very recently has any attempt been made to take away the apparently ineXhaustible quantities of ice which save been found in the caves near Flag staff. Now. however. 1t is intended 10 literally mine or quarry the ice, ana tne promoters of the scheme declare IL VIII prove great profit producer frani the yery outset, as they expect to sesiirs Ice enough to supply the scores or smail,r stations, towns and lumber camps in that vicinity, but to provide supply for the railroads of Northern Arizona and New Mexico. even into California. as in the vast regions of what was once the north ern part of the great American desert ice factories have not as yet become com mon. Indeed. the Factories at Los An geles. Phenix, Albuquerque and Las Fe- gas have for years supplied most Of that district with ice. although at prices that that necessarily wa-e Orohibitive, made so by the long railway haul.
 Caves of Volcanic Origin.
 The main. or best known ice cave, lies at the head of Clarks valley, seventeen miles southwest of Flagstaff Although others may be larger, they are not so accessible. A wagon road leads nearest to the cave. and the Arizona Lumber Company's Railroad at one time passed near. but it's route has since been oh ang- ed. The people of the country think the cave was originally what is termed a s4l-r AL. AIaaY ,lr. a1 I "a by water or gas, during some convulsion of nature, in the early history Of our planet. There are many of these blow outs of various sizes and extent scat tered over Arizona.
 But comparatively few people have vis- tied tho caves until recent years. when tho tourists first began to learn Of the great natural wonders of Northern Arl- zona. But little, too, has been written which Is at all authentic of the caves. The earliest mention that can be found of the ice caves is in the report of Lieut. R. O. Hill. who headed an ex- ploring expedition through Northern Ari- zona and Southern California, Utah and Colorado early in the '40s. He speaks of an immensely deep Assure. where na- ture had stored many tons of ice. And we descended part way into the fissure. says Hill, "the change from the terrific July heat was so quick and intense as to make many of us severely i'll. Indeed. 1t was not less than sixty degrees drop In temperature which we encountered 'n the course of perhaps twenty minutes Of our descent"
 The Hill party took along supply of ice which lasted them for several days, a luxury certainly. under the fierce beat ing of the sun on that then trackless desert.
 Explorations of Recent Date
 Hill says that the Indians of the Nav ajo and Pueblo tribes knew of the ice caves hut never ventured near them, having fear of what was to them a su- pern1tural creation.
 Until last August the main cave had only been penetrated to a depth of 200 feet. ana even that distance could only be reached by the possessors of small bodies At that time F.. R. Dulton, a young man from New York. succeeded in creeping and crawling through the narrow crevicc at the 200-foot point, and over 100 feet further he found the cavity gradually widening until it grew into a cavern much larger than that near the surface. He found several smaller caves leading cut of the large one. all in all most solid ice. and he believes that they lead far down into the earth.
 The majority of the visitors have gone less than fifty feet into the earth, pro- gress being made only on hands and knees and by aid of rope.
 The cave is torturous passage through the rock and ice. and although in no place has any other opening than that al the surface been found, the ventiia- tion is perfect. a condition which has led Dulton to make plans for further exDlo- ration of the cave and its recesses dur