Arizona republican., 1907-06-10
l0UNT ICE FACTORY
 STORAGE BUILDING
Recent Improvements That Make 1t a Model Plant and Greatly Increase the Possible Product.

There is a recently built structure in this city of considerable size and inn portance that has never received more l than cursory mention in the papers,
 or brief reference as construction pro-
 ceeded. It is the big storage room added to the Lount ice plant, doubling ] the size of the big plant both in ap- pearance and output, though but little
 new machinery was added and no new | freezing tanks. The new building was the conception of w. E. Lount, the head of the company, though he drew no plans for it. depending rather on personal conferences with the builder. ! D. C. Warren. who has executed his ideas to a nicety. superintended an ex- cellent job of work and got exactly what was wanted without trouble. os- tentation or display.
 The statement that the capacity of the plant was doubled without new machinery is explained in this way. The storage capacity is so much great er that the machinery can now be run more continuously and the ice made for surplus storage whether there is present demand or not, while before it was necessary to keep the plant closed for sometime during the cool weather. In the summer time there was demand for even more ice than could be made but in the winter time good time was lost for the reason that there was no place to keep the surplus. During the cGntaloupe season last year there was very serious ice shortage. the local factories not being able to turn out ice as fast as it was required. This new storage room has d capacity of l4OO or 1500 tons and before the cantaloupe shipping season is at hand, il is eN- pected it will be full. a surplus stock to draw on. If anyone doubts that this is a good deal of ice he should step over to the factory and inspect the storage room now when there is only about 300 tons of ice in it, and he will doubtless conclude that that alone represents considerable frigidity.
 This new building which connects with the old one. covers the former vacant area between the old plant and Washington street on the south. and Fourth street on the west. As the old plant ran clear to the alley. the entire holdings are now under cover. The
 
 street and 100 feet on Washington street, though only part of it is de- voted to storage for ice. The rest is available at present for storing any thing else desirable from a piece of machinery or a wagon down to an ice saw. IL cost but little more to enclose the whole property and if it shall ever be desirable the extra space can be easily turned to the purposes of great CT ice storage or greater machinery equipment. This building is 32 feet high.
 The building Is constructed of brick for the outside walls. In the storage room the wall is lined with inch floor ing and between the lining and the wall there is an area of one foot. filled with volcanic ashes brought from Ash Fork at cost of si per yard. This is considered about the cheapest and best insulation available in these parts. The same ash insulation a foot thick. lies over the storage room and the deposit on the ground is eighteen inches thick. as the greatest tendency toward melt ing is from the earth heat below.
 The storage room is 60x70 feet in size and it Is 9 feet to the ceiling. That is the dimension of the room less an antechamber 2Ox25 feet in size. The purpose of this anterOom is to protect the constant cool temperature of the storage room which is in the neighbor hood of '26 degrees or several degrees below freezing. The ice is run from the freezing tanks into the anteroom by means of an inclined chute and is then slid through a door to a capa- cious elevator which takes it to the top of the pile in the storage room whatever the height may be. In the storage room the ice is piled away like huge bricks standing on edge and the later product can be easily handled over the surface of that placed before.
 The roof of the entire new building is supported by huge trusses and GOV cred with a so-callcd paper roof. though the material is composed of a layer of burlap. a layer of tar. an- other layer of burlap and tar and then an asbestos coating. The building cost approximately s12,0O0 and was built by MT. Warren as foreman rather than as contractor as he hired and fired who ever he wanted to. and made or changed plans as suited himself and Mir. Lount. The construction was not a question of how cheap but how good the work could be done to serve the purpose desired.
 There is thick door between the anteroOm and the storage room. the anteroom being only as much cooler as would naturally follow the occasional opening of the door on the other side. into a weighing room that in turn opens on a platform on Fourth street, where delivery wagons are loaded. This weighing or scale room is also model arrangement. In the center is scale large enough to accommodate wagon load of ice at one filling. It can be weighed and showed out on the platform when the weighing of the next load begins. Beneath this scale ! is a cement floor depressing to the center where a trap connects it with the sewer. In that way all the drip ping or melting water from the ice on the scale is carried away without effort on the part of anybody.
 The structure as completed is per feet in every detail and makes a model nf ovl ;r, alr