The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-03-20

PRICES TO GO SOARING
Only Seven Thousand Tons Out in Ke-
nosha County BY One Company Whose
Normal Harvest was 10000 Tons
Ice to Be Better But Higher.

! For the first time in its history, the
| city of Tenosha, situated within forty
miles of the largest ice cutting regions
of the county, is going to have artificial
ice for its home consumption, as NAL
colin Farr, president of the Independent
Ice Company, is in Chicago today max
ing arrangements to secure possession
Of large ice making plant. He is to
be associated in the venture by Of
fcials of the Haegle Ice Company,
which has large houses on several of
the lakes of Kenosha county and which
in other years has supplied large
amount of the Kenosha supply of
lake ice.
| Mr.. Farr declared that he expected
that the deal for the purchase Of the
ice plant would be closed up today and
that by closing up assurance could be
given that Kenosha would have norm
al supply Of ice during the coming sum
mer season This ice VIII all besnas9e
in Chicago and shipped by rail to Ke-
nosha. It is probable that the price
of ice for the coming summer months
will be the highest price ever paid by
Kenosha people.
II Wouldn It venture a guess at what
the price of the ice will be for the sum
mer,o declared Mr. Farr when seen be-
fore leaving for Chicago. "It is i'm
possible for US to announce any price
until we can make certain Of just how
much it is going to G = to secure this
| ic making plant and operate it, The ice
will be of unusually fine quality and if
Kenosha has to pay higher prices | feel
certain that Kenosha will have better
ice than was ever supplied to the ice
boxes before. -
| Other ice companies serving the peo-
| pie of the city have made no announce
ment as to just where they will secure
their supplies for the summer. Any
hope which may have been entertained
that old man winter might relent and
yield the usual supply of ice from the
lakes of the county has gone glimmer-
| ing and Il i declared that practically
none of the ice sold in Kenosha for do
nestle use will be lake ice. Some ice
may be shipped in from the northern
part Of Wisconsin, but it'll added
freight rates or account of long dis
lance shipments this ice is going to be
expensive to the co sumner.
eff you are interested in knowing
something about the ice shortage this
year, said President Farr, Sit is not
secret that the Haegle company has
cut less than seven thousand tons of
ice in the county during the present
winter and most of this ice is of very
poor quality and it would be unfit for
domestic use. The normal harvest of
this company at the Kenosha county
houses would be in excess of one humid
red and twenty thousand tons. It takes
thirteen thousand tons of ice to meet
the normal domestic consumption Of Ke-
nosha for a season and of course it is
not possible that this supply could be
| secured from Kenosha county ice
houses. Nearly all of the houses in
the county are empty and for the most
part the big companies made no eff
fort to fill them. =
It is probable that the supply Of
ice demanded for Kenosha will be re
duced slightly by The fact that many
or all Of the saloons viii go out Of bust
ness the first. Of next July. It is, how
ever, expected that if the city does not
issue new licenses to the saloons that
| they viii be used for cold drink par
Tors and that they win demand a con-
siderable amount Of ice even though
the amount may not be as great as
in former years.
1t is just possible that before the
plans for the Independent Company and
the Haegle Company are worked out
that a new artificial ice plant will be
erected in Kenosha, but it was admitted
that the plan of the company was to
purchase a plant in Chicago ready
for operation and it was expected
that the deal for such a plant would
be closed today