In its February issue it printed the announcement of a concern called the Klondike and Cuba Ice Towing and Anti-Yellow Fever Company, supposed to be engaged in towing icebergs and collecting the gold dust believed to be in them as they melted. The Mining and Industrial Reporter (Denver) has a little joke. June 8, 1898: Printers Ink, an advertising rag, contains an announcement of an iceberg towing related hoax out of Colorado. The ice was used for refrigerating purposes in the breweries and was generally substituted for artificial ice." Apparently, the business continued until about the turn of the century. Sometimes the icebergs were supplied with sails to utilize the prevailing winds. A Chilean researcher said, "The icebergs were towed by ships of the conventional type. ![]() Mid 1800s: According to the Encyclopedia of Antartica, small icebergs were towed from southern Chile up to Valparaiso as part of the brewery supply chain. It was perhaps the first time that an iceberg had the honor conferred upon it of towing a British ship, although we know that the direct contrary was once in contemplation, of towing the icebergs by British ships to the tropics, for the purpose of diffusing their refrigerating power on the countries situated between them. A British expedition in the Arctic got stuck on an iceberg, which proceeded to get blown around the ocean. ![]() 1835: It's not just ships that tow icebergs, but the opposite can happen, too.
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