Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1902 — WILL MINE ICE [ARTICLE]

WILL MINE ICE

A Company in Arizona to Prosccnte a Queer Industry. Elaborate plans are being laid to put into operation nenr Flagstaff. Ariz., the most unique industry in the World. It Is the purpose of certain parties to utilize the ice caves which are found in abundance thereabouts. In these are almost inexhaustible quantities of the cooling product and it is the belief of tho parties engaged in the enterprise that the stuff can be marketed ut prices which will create a great demand for It. E. R. Dutton, a young man from New York, is at the head of the enterprise. It is the purpose of himself and his companions to supply not only scores of small stations, towns and lumber camps in the viciuity, but to provide a supply for the railroads of northern Arizona and New Mexico, even into California, as in the vast regions of what was once the northern part of tile great American desert ice factories have not yet bee„ introduced. Dutton made his way into the best known of these caves last summer. It is at the head of Clark's valley, seventeen miles southwest of Flagstaff. The cold in this cavern is intonse--not less than 60 degrees drop iu temperature being encountered iu the course of perhaps twenty minutes after one enters the cave. Tons upon tons of ice are stored here. Leading from this are passages into other caves, which are almost solidly walled with ice.