Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-01-02

100 TONS REFRIGERATION DAILY
Articles Of Incorporation of the New
Iowa Artificial Ice and Refrigerat-
ing Company Will be Filed Shortly
Capitalized at s5o,ooo-Mr. Wood
bury to Take Majority of Stock.

| as now expected, Marshalltown will
have in operation the largest artificial
lice plant in the state of Iowa. The ar
ticles of incorporation Of the Iowa Arti-
| fetal Ice and Refrigerating Company
are now being prepared and will be
| filed within few days. 1t will be CAPT.
talized at $4,000. and Mr.. John p.
Woodbury., president of the First Ma
+, tional bank, will head the list of stock
holders.
That the company means business is
shown by the fact that the contract for
the extensive machinery necessary TO
carry on an ice manufacturing industry.
| was let today to the Arctic Machine
Company, of Canton, o., a branch of the
celebrated Aultman Company, Of the
same city. Six other firms including
one in New York, York, Pa. Waynes-
boro, Pa, and Milwaukee and two in
! Chicago, bid on the machinery, but the
Canton firms proposition was con-
sidered the most favorable as being the
best, and most complete and thoroughly
modern.
100 Tons Refrigeration.
The Iowa Artificial Ice and Refrig-
Grating Company will have a capacity
of 100 tons refrigeration daily, in other
words the plant will have the cooling
property of the melting of 100 tons
every twenty-four hours. 1t requires
two tons Of refrigeration for one ton of
lice, and each day there will be manu-
featured thirty-five tons Of the manu-
featured article, leaving balance of
thirty tons for refrigerating purposes.
The little ten-ton plant now owned by
the Iowa Fruit and Produce Company
will be kept as an auxiliary, to be used
for emergencies in mild winter weather.
The cold storage capacity Of the new
concern will be just three times greater
than that Of the Iowa Fruit and Pro-
duce Company. While the company
does not anticipate a capacity of more
than thirty-five tons, which is greater
than the city's demands will warrant
at the present time, the machinery Just
contracted for is guaranteed to produce
so per cent more, should the output be
required
1--WE are putting in this Ice plant"
said Mr.. John P. Woodbury. this morn
ing, mot for today, but for what the
town will demand in the future. Il is
expensive business to rebuild an ice
plant, or even to add to it from time
to time. I am therefore building a
larger plant than necessary, and will
wait for the demand to equal the out
put. have received compliments from
every firm bidding on the machinery
because of this, each saying that it was
the wise thing to do, and showed fore
sight not usually displayed by firms
erecting plants.
To Begin Building at Once.
The work on the new building for the
plant, on South Third avenue, will be
begun at once, a contract having been
let today for the removal Of the john
son residence from the lot. Mr.. Wood
bury has entered into an agreement
with the Arctic Machine Company to
have the foundations ready in sixty
days, so that the machinery can be
set. The company, in turn, agrees to
have the plant in operation by May l.
Ice to be Absolutely Pure.
1--WE are going to give the people
of Marshailtown absolutely pure ice"
said Mr.. Woodbury.. Another new we'll Is
to be sunk Immediately. and an analysis
of the water of the well already sunk
shows the water to be chemically pure.
One of the principal ingredients is sui
phata of soda which neutraliZeS what
little lime and magnesia there is in
the water. The water is free from or
ganic matter, and reaches the surface
at IS degrees temperature, so cold as
to make the manufacture of ice cheaper
than at most places. The test OF the
water was one of the first things had
done when the artificial ice plant idea
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