Ice-making at Long Lake in New Brighton with Hank Bona

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New Brighton Area Historical Society, PO Box 120624, New Brighton, MN 55195 1920

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Peoples Coal and Ice Company worker Hank Bona, working with a scorer to split the ice into blocks before it loads the conveyer. When ice was 10 inches thick, snow was removed with teams of horses and scrapers. First an ice marker cut a groove one-half inch wide and two inches deep. Each block was 20 inches by 32 inches. Then a groove eight to ten inches deep was cut with an ice plow and horse power. After cutting, the blocks were floated to the conveyer by a man riding the block using a pike pole. The chains of the conveyor extended into water three feet.

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United States
Minnesota
Ramsey
New Brighton

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