Horse teams scraping snow from the ice field on Cocolalla Lake in the early 1900's,
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Scraping snow from the ice field on Cocolalla Lake for the Cocolalla Ice and fuel company. The teams of horses would scrape the ice several times a day to assure the quality of the “blue ice” (ice with little or no snow on the surface). Photo donated by Dale Eich. Courtesy of the Bonner County Historical Museum.
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Ice Harvest on Cocolalla Lake
Ice Harvesting on Cocolalla Lake
Driving past Cocolalla Lake in North Idaho during the winter, the traveler will see several fishermen huddled over a hole in the ice fishing. There is no indication that this popular lake was once a famous ice…