The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-02-08
MEET ALL CITY's DEMANDS
Engineers Are Now at Work on Plans
for Big Plant and it Will Probably be
Built During the Coming Summer
on West Side of the City.

The Independent Ice Company is
considering plans for the installation
of an ice plant in Kenosha. Not the
ordinary artificial ice plant similar
to those established in many cities Of
the country with view of furnishing
a limited supply Of ice for the home
town consumption, but a great modern
refrigeration plant which will not only
offer an opportunity for the manufact-
ure of all the ice that is needed to cool
Kenosha's refrigerators and Kenosha s
drinks, but which also goes long ways
towards meeting the demand for a real
refrigerator store house in the city.
Plans for the new plant have been
under consideration for some time and
William +. Fisher and Malcolm d. Farr,
the officials of the local company, have
visited several plants in larger cities
in an effort to discover just what is
wanted for Kenosha. The proposition
is declared to be one of the biggest
propositions ever taken up in the city
and it is possible that the plans
will be carried out before the end
of the coming summer.
"We have been considering the
building of a modern refrigeration
plant for Kenosha for some time, :"
said Mr.. Fisher when he was seen to-
day. cit is a mighty hard thing TO
find out just what Kenosha needs
along this line and how the plan can
be worked out from an economic and
hygienic standpoint. We have been
out visiting plants of this nature and
we are convinced that with proper
handling of the plant and proper
handling of the marketing of the pro-
duct that such a plant would prove
practical in Kenosha. We have been
in the ice business in Kenosha for
some time and we believe that we are
at least partially able to judge as to
the conditions surrounding the output,
length of selling season and the out
put. Our experience in the business
should give us some ability to judge
of the dividend paying possibilities of
such a plant and we are not as yet
ready to take the proposition to other
people in Kenosha for investment.
We don Il want to go into the plan or
ask our friends to go into it until we
have made the investigation necessary
to be convinced that it will be pay
ing venture without demanding a tri-
butte in higher prices for the people.
We feel that it is possible that the re
suit of our Investigations will show
that ice made in a modern refrigera-
tion plant can be sold to the people
Of Kenosha just as cheaply as it can
be sold when taken from the lakes.
Kenosha has an excellent supply of
ice, at any rate it should have such a.
supply, but the greatest point in de-
string an ice plant is the fact that it
would make us independent of the
selling agencies in other companies.
With a plant such as we plan to build
Kenosha would have her own supply
of ice. She would not be dependent
on rail condition or on the demand of
ice in other cities. The output of the
plant that we would suggest-and it
would have capacity Of ten thousand
tons a, year-would be for Kenosha.
Of course we are aware of the fact
that lot Of money has been lost in
the so-called artificial ice plants, but
with the knowledge we have gained
Of the demand and of marketing con-
ditions we just naturally believe that
we would be able to work out the
problem in a manner that would be
mutually beneficial to the large num-
Der of patrons Of the company and to
the company. We are going to make
some more definite announcements of
our plans Just as soon as the engineers
have completed them. We feel that at
that time we will be able to make the
project one that will appeal to our. own
people. Of course it will be distinc-
lively a Kenosha institution and the
suggestion that it might serve both
Racine and Kenosha is not in any way