Harvesting Spring Lake Ice

It is interesting to visit the ice-field and observe how the crop is gathered. There are cutters and polers and packers facing the cold and icy surroundings. It is remarkable the quantity of ice that is packed in a day. In our rounds we visited the Dreyer Spring Lake ice-field. Mr. Dreyer started in the ice business one year ago a poor man, and now, by dint of perseverance and hard push, is rich - rich in ice- owning one of the finest ice-fields of pure crystal ice ever gathered for market. Although he has now on the grounds a large and commodious icehouse, his prospect of an increased trade the coming summer obliges him to add other buildings tor the storage of ice. New and improved machinery for cleaning and hoisting the ice has also been put up.

To give an idea of the enormous quantity of ice that will be put up by Mr. Dreyer to supply the probable demand, we give the following figures: The present buildings holds ten layers of solid ice, each layer contains 2.240 cakes and each cake weighs 225 pounds. Total weight 5,038,000 pounds, or 2,519 tons of ice to cool the parching tongue and to keep fresh and cool the provisions of Ann Arbor people.

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