The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-04-14
v,nufacturers Say the Supply
. will Be Sufficient, and the
Price Reasonable.
NSSuMERS, HOWEVER,
HOLD DIFFERENT VIEW
yahu c. Lynch of Salt Lake Ice
Company Announces the
Price Schedule.

jsouiry by Tribune reporter Friday
,-onp persons interested in the ice
.5ustry, regarding the ice situation in
Mi Lake City for the approaching sea-
ru was met with expressions of be
"a Oh the part of some that the sup
v NAV not be equal to the demand, In
i,t in the opinion of several, ice will
y lee this summer, and II may be nee
surv TO advance the price. Certain
s,is that there will be no decrease,
isJ say.
,;ll como about because of the small
fpplv of the natural product. Last
Mster was n poor season for natural
;s on account of there being so much
ran weather. The freezing spells were
q few and far apart that the season,
"a rule, was unfavorahle to the nat
Enl ice industry, and there was not as
rach stored away as in former years.
Neither was the quality as good, it IS
,.imed, The precipitation last year was
aEeent to produce a big crop OF nat
,al ice, but the weather man failed TO
Emish the right kind of weather TO
a proper Job of freezing in many
The elements say each succeeding sea-
4, is becoming more unfavorable to the
ABDUCTION of natural ice.
Artificial Ice Is Best.
The ice manufacturers will tell you
,nt the natural product is inferior to
h, manufactured article, anyway.
lrong these is Bishop Woolley of the
lIi.ka Ice and Cold Storage company,
~ being formed to manufacture ice.
NJ Woolley gives ii as his opinion,
ipm his observations and what he has
..,rd, that the natural product fire.
gently is of a poor quality and un-
FAITHFUL, because of the conditions sur
runding its production. The health
lsspector sometimes condemns such ice,
Il is said
The Alaska Ice ana Cold Storage com.
nly is not expecting to do a heavy
icsiNcss the first of the present season,
ist by the end of the year it antici-
,ilss playing a material part in sup
lyipg the local trade. The plant will
! 50 constructed that the output may
te Increased easily, and with little ex-
Ysse, from twenty-five tons to fifty.
W. Woolley says the manufacture Of
h FROM city water costs about 25 cents
.on more than from artesian wells or
rnDg water
John c. Lynch, manager Of the Salt
lake Ice company, the biggest ice pro-
tdng concern in Salt Lake, is one of
is men who differs from those who
.ar an ice famine here tins summer.
Dis plant has a capacity OF ninety tons
day and besides there are 5000 tons
! storage ready for delivery, either
y the carload or in much larger guam
sles Mr.. Lynch also says that his
ampany put up $4,000 tons of natural
" at GogoZa, near Park City, last win
a. that is just as good rs any manu-
ihnred ice, especial care having been
taAen in producing and harvesting the
re to insure its purity. The Gogoza
East Canyon creek.
The Price Schedule.
Mr.. Lynch has practically arranged
u price schedule for this summer. To
linllles, saloons, restaurants and such
iaees there will be no change in the
flcs this year over that Of last, 80
.tais hundred pounds TO families and
lantS TO saloons and restaurants, the
Incs 10 the latter depending to GER
an extent on the amount consumed.
70 The butchers there will be a slight
'M'Vance, based on tho amount used and
=. distance TO haul. The price to
Gs'chers last season was $5 a ton, or
SSents hundred.
The big squares and the absence Of
sleys IN many parts of the city are
rrs'PpnSlblc in way for the increase.
utqqentiy, Mr.. Lynch says, it is neces-
Ny !or the ice wagon TO travel many
ssT1r1 yards on account of tho large
aecks, there being no alleys to give
91,fkcr access to the place Of delivery.
Dir Lynch is sapguine that he can
| nnPply the ice demand IL Salt Lake this
sason He save that the demand in
ssa city viii be looked after first; then
ls outside trade Will receive atten-
tuc Salt Lake Ice company employs
WV. eighty men and twenty teams and
s2ons IT. the rush of the summer sea-
w now there are but i've wagons
"a 20 deliver ice, but III Il few days
wiz be necessary TO increase the de-
lmefy force, Mr.. Lynch says he sold
L = mere cheuper LAST summer than the