Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1908 — TO SPOIL ICE CROP [ARTICLE]

TO SPOIL ICE CROP

Sportsmen Talk of Using Coal Oil and Potash. Minneapolis, Minn., Dee. 4. yachtmen on Lake Calhoun say they are willing to spend a few hundred dollars to keep the ice companies from cutting thousands of dollars’ worth of ice, and incidentally, spoiling winter sport. The ammunition of the ice boaters consists of permanganate of potash and plain kerosene. With this combination one ice yacht can render unsalable all the ice that will form on Lake Calhoun during an entire winter.