Arizona republican., 1905-12-08
A FREEZING POINT
 ESTABLISHED HERE
A Description of the Constable Cold
 Storage System.

Taking as a criterion of it's future growth what has been done in the way of improvements in the past five years, it is safe to predict that the section of Phoenix west from Second avenue to Thirteenth avenue and for block on both sides of Jackson street will build into the wholesale and the warehouse section of this city. Close to shipping facilities, and as near to the center of town as it is possible to find vacant property which may be bought at a reasonable figure, this section has been chosen as the sites for nearly $100,000 worth of improve ments in the past three years.
 Of all the buildings constructed in this neignborhood none present a more attractive appearance than the struct- ure built last June by w. H. Constable for the home of the Constable Cold Storage company. Including the ma chinery and the building, MT. Consta- ble has an investment representing $25,000 The business of the company is well known and the building at the corner of Fourth avenue and the Sta ta Fe tracks will be the distributing point of the company for this terri tory. Besides the products of the Cudahay Packing company, of which MT. Constable is the agent in the southwest, there are about forty other accounts carried by the firm, ali tend ing towards grocery lines. In addition it is a plan for the future to take up and hold in storage various products of the valley that are plentiful during the spring and summer months but scarce during the winter. It is for such tl,nt T ment was made of the building.
 In all it occupies about one-half of the floor space and the eight different rooms give a capacity of 2S.000 cubic feet of room. Since so much depends on being able to maintain a low tenn perature at all times in a cold storage plant, the failure to do so at a critical time entailing a great loss to the company great care was taken in selecting the machinery. That which was finally installed is the most modern money could buy A big thirty-five horse power dynamo gen. crates electricity and furnishes the power to operate the compressor. The | system is known as the brine circulat- i ing system and is of a capacity of | twelve tons refrigerating or six tons of ice making in every twenty four hours.
 The water necessary in operating 1 the plant is obtained from a well forty feet deep and by the use of a pump of late design thirty-five gallons of water are pumped per minute. Such | an amount of water is necessary in operating the plant. By an attach ment easy to operate and placed at convenient places in the building this same volume of water may be diverted and thrown into a fire extinguisher, making protection from fire almost as perfect as is possible to obtain. An additional fire protection is rolling screen doors built of metal, with which the entire building is fitted.
 So perfectly is the plant construct ed and the machinery operated that peaches placed in cold storage can easily be held for a period of three months, apples for eight months, and eggs for a year. The eggs of the val
 ley, however, are very hard to handle i by reason of the fact that the shells are very brittle. This is because the farmers of the valley feed very little bone meal to their hens. The eggs are therefore too brittle to stand the storage. Cheese and butter are easy to handle and at the present time the company has a carload of New York | state cheese on storage.
 To be able to conduct such a busi- ness one must of necessity be in close touch with the entire trade of the ter .ritory and no one may be said to be better advised on the wants of the diff ferent retail merchants than is MT. Constable. For twenty-one years he has made this territory and for sev- enteen years has ne been the repre- sentative of the Cudahay company.
 The Phoenix plant is under the management of MT. George N. Mar shall, a man very popular with the trade and in commercial circles.