Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1894 — Natural Gas for Making Ice. [ARTICLE]

Natural Gas for Making Ice.

An ordinary gas well, furnishing 1,5X),0C0 cubic feet per day, with a suitable refrigerating apparatus, is capable of making fifty-one tons of ice at an expense not to exceed 50 epnts per ton; and then, by conducting it to furnaces or rolling mills, glass works, brick, lime, or pottery kilns, it will produce the same amount of heat as if it was delivered directly from the well. It will not be long before the natural gas fields will furnish all the ice we need for our comfort through the hot season as it does now fuel through the cold season.