New Ulm Ice Company

Has Completed Annual Cutting–Quality Is

Excellent.

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BETWEEN 6,000 AND 7,000 TONS ARE CUT THIS YEAR

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Besides This Local

Concern Shipped Ice to Number of Neighboring Communities.

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The work of putting up ice for the coming season by the New Ulm Ice Co. is completed. Elmer Haeberle, manager of the local concern, informs the Journal that the ice is of excellent quality. The harvest on the Minnesota river commenced right after the New Year and was completed several days ago.

The work of putting up ice comes just at a time, when there is a scarcity of employment in New Ulm and thereby gives work to a number of men, who were not busy. About twenty men and fourteen teams were used in the annual harvest.

The cold weather in December made it possible to start the harvest earlier this year than the inception during the majority of seasons. The cold kept up during January month and there was no cessation of activity until the local ice houses were filled and out-of-city orders taken care of.

Cool Summer.

The past summer was one of the coolest on record, and the consumption of ice was cut down materially in this locality. However, the fall was salubrious and ice was used by many until winter set in early in December.

The New Ulm Ice company filled the ice houses located across the street from the New Ulm Greenhouses and near the Eagle mill.

Between 6,000 and

7,000 Tons.

The total of the harvest this year was between 6,000 and 7,000 tons. A quantity was shipped to nearby cities and villages, including Sleepy Eye, Morgan, Evan, Lafayette, La Salle, Hanska, Essig and Gibbon. It is estimated that from 750 to 1,000 tons were shipped to various points.

The ice was from eighteen to twenty inches in thickness and required considerable shaving to eliminate the snowice, which was caused by snow melting upon the top of the ice, prior to the cutting season. Specially constructed machinery is employed for removing the snowice.

The ice is cut with a circular saw some twenty-eight inches in diameter. The saw is propelled by a gasoline engine and is capable of doing the work of four or five teams. It is not unusual for it to cut 75 feet per minute. This machine, together with an ice planer, which lessens the work of removing the snow from the top of the congealed water, assists greatly in diminishing the work of the ice harvest at the river.

Brown County Journal,

February 6, 1925

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