Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1911-03-23

Plans Perfected py Coi. =. r MuieT
by Which Payette is to Have Ar
tIficial Ice and Cold Storage Plant
in Operation by July First-site Sc
cured.
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+ BY July first this year Pay +
4. ette win have installed and in +
$ operation an artificial ice and +
+ cold storage plant. The ice !
+ plant win have capacity of ten +
< tons per day and the storage =
= plant will have a capacity of +
:. one hundred cars of fruit. Col. +
- C. F. Muller president of the +
<: Snake River Irrigation Company +
+ who has built the big power +
= plant on the Snake river that is +
: this spring watering seven hund- +
! red acres of land on Dead OK =
= Flat is president of the Com +
+ pany, George Straub, Viee-Presi- =
= dent and Manager and C. R. +
= Vaudeville is secretary-treasur- +
= er. +
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III TUESDAY OF this week w. A. Cough
amour disposed of his lot just across
! he railroad tracks where the Chin
ese laundry now stands to Col. C.
:. Muller. George Straub and c. R.
Ilslandeville. The gentlemen pur-
chasing the lot have organized the
2ayette Cold Storage Company and
win at once begin the erection of
! building to be used as a cold stor-
age plant and also to be fitted with
The latest approved machinery for
khe manufacture of artificial ice. The
.ot purchased taken with the lots now
owned by Mr.. Straub and upon
which his coal office now stands,
gives to the company strip of
round in the shape OF a triangle
6S feet long on one side, $50 on an
cher and "A feet across one end.
Col Muller who is president of
he new company is president of
he Snake River Irrigation Company
md came to Payette over year
ago and began the building of the
lig power plant across the Snake
lver which is now practically COM
IIeted and which viii water seven
hundred acres of land on Dead
Jx Flat this spring. In speaking Of
he intentions of the new company
cl Muller said, Il believe that a
cliable and adequate cold storage
liant connected with a plant to man.
ifacture artificial ice will be a big
hing for the fruit grower in Pay
tie Valley AS yet our plans are
Incomplete as owing to the peculiar
ihape of our building site we shall
ave to send the ground plan TO
Chicago and have the concern furn-
shing the machinery give US sugges-
ions as to arrangement. We shall
,owever make an effort late as it
3 to get the building up, the ma
.hinery installed and be making ice
If marketable quality by July first
his year. There are a great many
hings enter into the manufacture of
ce in a fuelless country that have
o be provided for but if we can Sc
,ure the proper water supply, and
We have every confidence that we
an, by using what is known as the
level system we can use electric
lower and manufacture sanitary
marketable ice at the same price
hat the natural product is sold.
have undertaken to go through with
he installing of this plant and while
the season is late can now see no
reason why we cannot be manufact-
lring ice by the time / have stated.
The building we shall erect will
be either of brick, stone or cement
t will cover the entire ground space
with full basement underneath and
win be one story high, but will 3e
30 built that the second and third
stories can be added should the cs
pacity of the plant need to be In
'reased. In fact the entire plant
viii be built with a view to enlarge
ment With the space we shall have
o start with we feel that we can
install a ten ton a day ice plan
aud have sufficient room to store
from one hundred TO one hundred
and twenty-five cars of fruit.
We are investigating the ice
plants at Boise. Nampa and Weiser
and also have man at La Grande
investigating that plant and have
been figuring for some time with a
Chicago firm for the necessary ma
ehinery. We shall also go to Hood
River and investigate the new $50
900 cooling plant recently installed
by the fruit growers of that sec
ton. Our plant win be along the
latest improved plans and we shsn
attempt nothing in the way of arti-