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Wood Island, Kodiak. Alaska.
about fifteen feet by the dam. the
water flame was laid and the saw
mill with one circalar saw built, to
suw 1 tiinht i for the wharf, two ice
houses of 5,000 tons each were plant
ed not far from the whurf, a stable
for ten horses lar^e and roomy, and
then a liridi'e across the lower lake
to the upper one and on it was laid
a track for the ice to slide down to
tile ice houses and the horses to haul
the ice up into them.
The ice track was laid on .one side
of the wharf also, that is for to load
the vessels that did come after ice
in summer time to bring it down to
San Francisco to the Company with
whom the Russian Company made
a contract to furnish so many tons
ot ice every year. I be price of Ke
down in San Francisco at that time
was twelve and a half cents a pound,
in those days no one dreamed about
the artificial ice oh no!
The blacksmith shop was put up,
the soup house was also made,
where fish soup was mad* for the
workmen and delt out at noon, on
Sundays they had salt beef soup, also
rum was given them a drink at noon
and evening, then there was a good
size two story house made for men
that came on tne island to work. So
the ice industry was kept on until
the Alaska was transfered to the
Uuitsd States
The American ice company which
had the dealing in that business with
Russians, bought the property at
Wood Island, and made several new
additional structures, such as: One
more ice house, the store which yet
stands at present time near the lake,
one more two story dwelling house
for the men and families who were
coming lo wood rsiauu lor worn aim
every laxly was accepted and even
more were generally needed, in win
tei time when the ice was getting
thick enough to take in, people were
called from Uziukey, Kodiak and
Kagle- harbor and then you should
see a crowed of couple hundred men
working on ice on upper lake, some
carrying snow to the bunks, some
shoveling in heaps, others marking,
planning, plowing and some tired of
such fun playing hide and seek a
mong the snow heaps till they were