Date:  Tue, 3 Oct 1995 02:24:27 CDT

From:  "Donald M. Lance" <ENGDL[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MIZZOU1.MISSOURI.EDU>

Subject: Re: icebox and upstate



At least in Texas, when electrical power plants were built they also

had banks of tubs in which ice was made in part of the building. Not

many of them are still operating. The Southern Ice Company in Texarkana

(Texas side) operates out of the old power plant building, but does not

use the old tubs, nor is electricity generated there. I suspect that

such practices were common throughout the country, and that cutting

blocks of ice out of ponds and rivers was pretty well gone by the

1920s.   DMLance