Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1910-10-12
Cold Storage Completed

,he electric elevator and few
en;sb;no touches being all that is
necessary.
The structure is three stories
N height and will have capacity
ofmore than 5000 barrels of apples.
which will be the principal source
of revenue during the winter
months.
The walls. 10 inches in thick
moss are made up of two thick
nesses of lumber, then pulverized
cork then cork board, then ceiling.
Between the two outer sheets of
hmber is a lining of heavy paper.
The building is thus air-tight and
sound-proof. il being almost inn
rossible 10 hear the noise of pass
mo trains on the Norfolk & Western
tracks only few feet distant from
the building.
The first floor. which has three
foot concrete floor, concrete walls
and ceiling, all over the cork lining.
will be used in the spring and early
summer (after the apple crop has
been sold and removed for the
storing of ice for use in icing cars
for the big Swift Company whose
natronage has been an immense
item during the past summer and
PROMISES to be even greater next
year.
The company will thus have a
storage capacity for over 400 tons
Of ice on which to start the season.
and. with the plant producing
approximately ten tons daily, will
give large volume of ice for the
Swift trade and other local busi-
ness.
Theequipmento of the cold storage
plant has been done. by the Frick
Company. one of the foremost
makers of ice and refrigerating
machinery.
The electric elevator will be in
stalled by the Otis Elevator Com
psnv. who are famous for their
machinery of that class.
The elevator will have speed
and carrying capacity which will
permit of the loading of carload
Of apples in less than thirty min
utes.
The cement and concrete work
on the plant has been done by
Royston & Brockdorff, the new
local firm.
The wood work and construction
of the plant has been done by
John II. Shackleford, the we'll
known local builder, and General
Manager Lewis speaks in the
highest terms of the work in
every detail.
There is no plant in this entire
section of the country which can
compare in up-to-date equipment
or size with the plant just COM
peted here, and it speaks in
high terms of the business ability
and hustle of of our local business
men.
n few years ago, when Mr.. w.
/. Lewis first projected the erec-
ton of an ice plant here, he did
not secure much encouragement
from the local men who had money
to invest. Some of those who
originally agreed to go into the
company were induced to drop
out by the adverse comment
and statements to the effect that
there was not enough ice business
here to take the output. At that
time the idea was to construct a
hve-ton plant.
But MIR. Lewis kept plugging"
along. He had the right idea and
al
The courage of his convictions. In
talking with the COURIER man,
alter many disappointments, he
said;
10 secure the aid and co-opera-
uon of even the poorest of our
business men, i propose to make
The par value of the company's
stock only $50. If we cannot get
Ihe stock subscribed by men of
large means, it will be subscribed
oy mon of small means and even
men who work on salary. Fail
ure thus far has determined me to
go ahead, for the Investigations l
nave made have convinced me
'hat we can sell every pound of five
TONS of ice each day"
Finally the necessary stock was
subscribed and plans were drawn,
which were afterward increased in
size 10 In..LI al IL