The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-04-08
MAKES REPLY TO ICE CO.
Frank G.. Scott Calls the Cedar Lake
Ice Company's Statements
in Question.

With reference to the lowering of Cedar
lake by ice cutting and more particularly
to the statement of the Cedar Lake Ice
company. published last Saturday, Frank
G. Scott makes the following statement:
1t is stated that Cedar lake has been
lowered only AZ feet in the last eighteen
years; that Cedar lake never had a surface
outlet; that 10000 tons of ice is the most
ever cut per year by all companies from
Cedar lake; that there is a subterranean
outlet.
"As to the first, it can be verified nv
many witnesses that the lake has been
lowered seven feet within the last four
teen years, I myself and the others can
swear as to this. ...., ..- = -. -
LAS to the second statement the sur
face outlet of Cedar lake passed within
$50 feet of the Cedar Lake icehouse and
run through the gap into Bryn Mawr.
Part of this outlet can be seen to-day.
railroad tracks are laid. The lake has
been lowered some nine feet below the
level necessary to run through this outlet.
'As to statement No. 3, it may be sa
that last year the capacity Of the Cedar
Lake house was $4,000 tons and in the
fall an addition holding 5000 tons was
built, making a total capacity for this one
company for storing at the lake 81 900
tons of ice, or Il, 209,170 gallons of water.
It is fair to assume that $4,000 tons was
not sufficient or else this addition would
not have been built. Besides this COM
pany, there were four other companies
cutting ice on Cedar lake last winter
and removing their ice directly to the city
by car and wagon. My estimate for the
cutting Of these last four companies was
$4,000 tons, which, together with the
capacity of the Cedar Lake ice house.
would aggregate 1O1, 900 tons as against
| 10000 in the Cedar Lake company's state
ment. &C.. -4.'
1.-The above company's statement says
that 10000 tons Is equivalent to lowering
the lake ~ inches. Should this be the
| fact, 101, 900 tons would lower it some
! thing over Az inches. 49,.
LAS to the fourth assertion, any subter-
| ranean outlet is purely a matter Of con.
! lecture and speculation: There can be nc
| positive evidence of such a fact.
1.-The writer Of the ice companys state.
ment admits that the lake has been low
cred 8 inches per year and that half OF
| this or ~ inches, is due to, ice cutting
| and yet this contradictory statemen is
| made: Its level would have been the
same If no ice company had ever tres
| passed upon it's crystal surface
IF the writer of the ice company:
l. statement is correct and the lake has beer
lowered only AZ feet in eighteen years
| and half Of this Is due to ice cutting, the1
| 2h feet of this is due to ice cutting.
GAS a matter Of fact, upon a careful ex
| animation and investigation, the lake will
| be found to have once had a surface out
let running within the last twenty -fiv,
years; it will be found to have beef
lowered feet in fourteen years, the ic
cut by the ice companies each year will
be found to exceed 100, 900 tons 70
i the last season and the lake to have beel
lowered thereby about inches in one yea
by ice cutting alone. / have lived on tn
shores Of this lake since 1863