Bisbee daily review., 1919-07-06
COLD STORAGE PLANT KEPT READY MEATS SUFFICIENT TOFEED PARIS.
 LONDON, CHICAGO ANDN YORK
Pipes in Ice Factory Alone Would Reach From Baltimore To Washington and Back; 500 Acres Forest Land Razed To Make Room for Gasoline Tanks; 1O2 Warehouses
 Store Food and Supplies; Load 17OO CarsSOaiIy

ration of beans for two weeks. The remaining 50 warehouses were filled with classified property, everything from clothing to wagons, baking pans to officers lost baggage. In addition to the property stored in the ware houses there was enough more stored in the open (but we'll protected from the weather) to fill 20 warehouses 50 feet wide and 500 feet long. The Quartermaster section also stored an enormous quantity of fuel and forage and great deal of animal-drawn transportation
 Pipes From Washington to Baltimore
 Adjoining the Quartermaster section and forming part of it was one of the largest ice and cold storage plants in the world, which was developed in five months from nothing but possibilities to high state of perfection. The major portion of the construction work was done by $50 men specially selected from the ice-making plants and meat industries of the United States. The plant was equipped with the most modern machinery brought from the United States, and had 2,7OO boiler horsepower and 2,000 engine horsepower. The water supply for condensing the ammonia, as we'll as feeding the boilers, was provided by a pumping station half mile away with a capacity of 5000 gallons a minute. After the ammonia has been con- densed it expands while passing through coils of pipes, which, if laid end to end, would reach from Wash ington to Baltimore and back The expansion of the ammonia cools, not by giving off cold, but by taking up heat. The refrigerating capacity of the machines, if applied to ordinarp cold-Storage cooling, was sufficient to reduce to the freeZing-point the tenn perature in a building one mile long, one-fourth mile wide and ten feet high. The ice-making capacity was 500 tons in 24 hours, or sufficient to supply the city of Philadelphia, allow ing each person one pound of ice per day. Not a pound of ice was ever turned out at this plant, however, for the reason that icing the refrigerator cars was found unnecessary in France, but the 5. O. s. took no chances, and if icing had been necessary the equip ment for an output of 500 tons daily was ready. It would also have pro- vided ice for the use of the hospitals in case of emergency.
 13,ooo,oo0 Pounds Meat in Storage
 The cold-storage building was S69 feet long, 110 feet wide, and had total maximum capacity of $500 tons. or 13,0O0,000 pounds of meat. In the five cold-storage rooms are placed the fresh beef. fresh pork, and the new Homeless Beef" a development of the war which effected a tremendous ton mage space saving in shipment. These rooms are kept cold by the expansion of ammonia in the cooling coils which are overhead. On basis of pound of beef per dap, the total storage capa- city would feed the population of New York, London, Paris and Chicago for one day.
 In this connection it might be men tioned that when the General Interme- diate Storage Depot was inspected by the French and British committees, they objected to the American plan of concentrating such large supply de- pot in such comparatively compact formation, because of the danger of enemy air raids. The four tall smoke stacks of the Ice and Cold Storage plant were mentioned as forming an excellent guide-post and target for German aviators. The feasibility of stump smokestacks was considered, but it was decided that the flame and sparks would issue from stump smoke stacks were equally, if not more, dan gerous than the black silhouettes of the large smokestacks which form a landmark of the Gievres project.
 Clear 500 Acres of Forest Land
 The Gasoline and Oil section had constructed and in operation at the time of the armistice storage facilities for 2,000,000 gallons of gasoline. It occupied 30,000 square feet of ware housing and in the building of the de- pot 500 acres of forest had to be cleared. The fixed storage capacity of the section was calculated upon tho