Loading the Northern Pacific Railroad refrigeration cars with Cocolalla Lake ice.
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Workers of the Cocolalla Ice & Fuel Company are loading the 100 to 200 pound cakes of ice on the Northern Pacific Railroad refrigerator cars. The ice house would hold between 15 to 20 of these cars at one time. Photo donated by Dale Eich and courtesy of the Bonner County Historical Museum.
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Ice Harvest on Cocolalla Lake: Cocolalla Lake Blue Ice
Cocolalla Lake was once an ice farm producing 200 pound blocks of ice that were in high demand by the Northern Pacific Railroad.