Bangor: its points of interest and its representative business men . at timeincluding only the comparatively small amount shipped by a couple of companies to southernports and a little to supply the local demand, but the short season of 1879-80 in New York andother States caused not only regular operators, but many speculators, to hurry to Maine to secure 24 BANGOR AND ITS POINTS OF INTEREST. a supply, and the Penobscot and other Maine rivers, not to mention many ponds, were swoopeddown npon with as much eagerness as if the sparkling ice they yielded was as precious as the gemsit outshone. A g
Bangor: its points of interest and its representative business men . at timeincluding only the comparatively small amount shipped by a couple of companies to southernports and a little to supply the local demand, but the short season of 1879-80 in New York andother States caused not only regular operators, but many speculators, to hurry to Maine to secure 24 BANGOR AND ITS POINTS OF INTEREST. a supply, and the Penobscot and other Maine rivers, not to mention many ponds, were swoopeddown npon with as much eagerness as if the sparkling ice they yielded was as precious as the gemsit outshone. A great deal of money was made and not a little was lost, but those who did theactual work of cutting, etc., made a good thing out of it at all events. In years when an amplesupply of good ice is general throughout the ice States the prices, of course, rule low, but expe-rience shows that there is almost sure to be a shortage at intervals not exceeding five or six years,and the excellent rates obtained at those times go far to level up the business to a paying basis,. Broadway, From Corner State Street. especially as the cost of harvesting, storing and shipping ice in the vicinity of Bangor comparesvery favorably with that experienced at other points. The average cost of harvesting and housingPenobscot ice ranges from 15 to 20 cents per ton, and no other part of the river can compare withthat in the vicinity of Bangor as regards advantages for carrying on the industry on the most ex-tensive scale. In spite of the fact that many capacious ice houses are located in this region, therestill remains almost boundless opportunities, for there are literally miles of available and valuableshore privileges in and below the city, the depth of water being sufficient to enable the largest ves-sels to load directly from the houses. The many large mills in this vicinity are capable of furnish-ing a practically unlimited amount of sawdust at an almost nominal cost, including the expense oftranspo
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