The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1912-04-17
ICE MAKING
INCREASES
North Yakima Plants Have a Ca
pacity of Hundred and Twenty
Five Tons Daily
MORE THAN TWICE THE
MAXIMUM HOME NEED
Storage and Refrigeration Have
Increased Here to a Remark
able Degree the Past Few
Seasons and Is Growing

one of the most marked develop
few years has been in it's ice making
capacity and the growth in the ex-
tent of the refrigeration and cold
storage capacity of the various plants
here. Between the plants of the Ar
tiicial ice company. the Perry stor-
age. the brewery, the Pacific Fruit
~ Produce Company. Wheeler Car
michael. the Yakima Meat Company
and the Benoit and the Yakima Gro
Gerry company there is provided hero
a very large area of cold storage. re-
frigcration space. ice making possibil-
tiles and allied facilities With the
changes now In progress at the Perry
plant, which will increase the ice
making capacity there from twelve To
twenty-five tons daily. the capacity of
the city. all plants considered. runs
mp to l25 tons per day and the peak
load, so far as the city itself is con-
cerned, is not more than sixty tons
at the outside
Demands of the Railroads
With such fruit supply as is prom
tsed this season there il no knowing
what demands the railways will make
and IN addition there Is a rapidly
growing field throughout the valley
for the sale of ice. With the posi-.
bility of buying Ice here the same
care is not exercised in putting up
natural ice that was used a few Years
ago and this season 1t has been re-
ported from Eilensburg, Gle Elum,
Roslyn and other cities to the west as
well as the east that the harvest of
natural ice was very small Some ice
was cut for the railroads but not
much for home consumption The
fact remains nevertheless that the
storage capacity of the warehouse.
cold storage and otherwise. is not
sufficient for the demands which the
crop will make and it viii be the wise,
man who will construct IN season a
root cellar or some such facility in
which he will be able to hold his crop
until proper shipping season.
Yakima Grocery Company
Norman Gay. representing the VII
ter Manufacturing company Of Mil
waukee, wis, is here installing for
the Yakima Grocery company a three
ton refrigeratiug plant which VIII
give the grocery people a three ear
capacity for storage and will in addi-
ton furnish refrigera ton for tho
Wiley city meat company. the storage
rooms OF which viii be connected
with those of the grocery company
In addition the meat company is in
Ct
frigeration coils in which its meats
viii be displayed The Grocery com
pauy Will have two refrigeration rooms
and this viii enable 1t to hold over
in good condition or to carry for n
proper season "A quantity Of stuff.
fruits aud otherwise. which would Of
necessity he lost or marketed at an
undue time.
ammonia Expert Here
Recently The Herald called atten-
ton to additional construction at the
plant of the Carmichael Creamery
which viii provide additional refrlg
Grafton space there Taking it all In
all the development along the lines
of ice making storage and refrigera-
tion, though really Just commenced
here. have been marked.
; h. fainter, of Seattle. represent
ing the Pacific Ammonia and Chemi-
cal company, was I'm the city Monday
inspecting the Perry and Grocery
Company plants, and Investigating the
recent ammonia tank explosion at the
Pacific Fruit COS warehouse 1t is
altogether probable that the broken
tank will be sent to the manufacture
ers for an expert opinion, as it is one
case I'm ten thousand.