Illinois Valley news., May 08, 1941, Page 13, Image 13

THURSDAY, MAY a, 1*41
ILLINOIS VALLEY NEWS
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PHIL SAWYER NOW HAS ONE OF THE MOST
MODERN ICE PLANTS
Let’s All Join ...
In Making the Illinois Valley
an outstanding dairying center.
NATURE HAS DONE HER PART!
Phil Sawyer has developed one of the keenest ice plants in Southern Ore­
gon and or.e that would do credit to a city with thousands of population.
He has now added cold storage boxes, and they are becoming very popular.
Phil delivers ice all year around, but makes trips daily in the hot summer
months.
The Illinois Valley Ice Company
has made a number of improvements
during the past year. Heretofore
the plant had been devoted exclus­
ively to the manufacture of ice. This
year, howere, the company increased
its scope of service to the community
by the addition of 57 frozen food
lockers.
Each of these lockers has a capac­
ity of 7 cubic feet. They will hold
about 350 pounds of foodstuffs. The
locker room is kept at zero degrees
Fahrenheit, which is cold enough to
freeze the product rapidly, thereby
preventing the loss of flavor.
In the installation of this lacker
storage
unit, new
refrigeration
machinery of the finest type avail­
able was used throughout. The plant
is fully automatic and maintains a
constant low temperature which is
essential for the "proper storage of
any food product.
The ice making department has
been enlarged and complete’y re­
modeled. In the past the plant’s out­
put of the valley. To meet the
growing demand for ice the output
has been increased from 100.0 pounds
every day to 2000 pounds every 24
hours.
The firm looks forward to being
able to serve the entire valley, and
is equipped to give as good service
as one would get in a city.
The management extends a cor­
dial invitation to all residents of the
valley, whether they use ice or not,
to drop in and inspect this modern
plant and learn first hand how the
valley’s ice supply is made.
Mining Activities
The valley, however, is one of those
few places in the world where iridium
is found. The Atlas Dredging com­
pany at Holland, on the Leonard
property, has shipped and sold many
ounces of the metal since the advent
of their dredge operation there. The
crude unrefined product bringing a
price’of $214.50 an ounce.
The Easterley property, under the
ftianagement of C. R. Stout, is
also producing sizeable amounts of
the metal. There is much unprospect­
ed territory in the valley from the
standpoint of iridium.
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prove of commercial value. The lease
is held by Art Drews of this com­
munity and his associates.
Considerable cross cutting and
drifting is being done 4.0 block out
a sizeable body of ore before the
milling and reducing machinery is
put in for mercury recovery. The
prospect is showing up nice quantities
of good ore and some leases of ex­
tremely rich cinnabar. The Illinois
valley is pulling for the company to
get a nice plant into operation at an
early date.
RARE METAL PRODUCED
IN THE ILLINOIS VALLEY
Among the rarest of rare metals
is iridium. Along with the abnormal
increase in aeroplane manufacture
has come an insistent cry for more
and still more iridium. This quick in­
crease in consumption of the metal
shot the normal peace-time price of
$125 an ounce up to $275 in the space
of a few months.
One of the chief reasons for this
sharp rise was the fact that the sup­
ply from Russia was stopped by that
country. The normal import of the
metal from Russia is some 70,000
ounces a year. It dropped to 5 ounces
in the past year. Another reason for
the rise is that iridium, even in plat-
iniferous deposits (in which it oc­
curs) there are few that have an
iridium content.
IT’S WHERE YOU
FIND IT
There is still plenty of this kind
of nuggets in this m'ining section, but
you have to find them.
Del Norte Milk
Products Company
Smith River
California