Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 122, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1909 — C. Kellner Is Building Stone Wall Around His Ice Pond. [ARTICLE]

C. Kellner Is Building Stone Wall Around His Ice Pond.

“Cooney” Kellner, the ice man, is undismayed because he did not gather any ice from his artificial ice pond .last year, and he believes that we will get enough frigid weather within the next few months to allow him to -gather plenty of natural ice for local coflsumption another year. Last.year he made a large pond on the south bank of the river, not far from his ice house but it didn’t tempt the weather man. This year he is putting a: 15 inch 4 foot high wall around the entire pond, and hopes to make the place so inviting that old zero will hang around long enough to give him enough ice to fill his ice houses. The pond is 480 feet long by 350 feet in width, which will make 1660 feet of fifteen inch thick and four feet high wall. The sloping banks will then be dug otjt hfid the rock wall will furnish the banks for the pond. Two windmills pump water from two drilled wells and “Cooney” thinks the ice will be as pure as any artificial ice ever sold. He is moving one of his ice houses to the south bank of the river and is also having a new bridge built across the stream, and when all is completed he will have the best natural ice plant in this section of the state, .