Louisiana Democrat [Alexandria , LA], April 4, 1860
We are happy to announce to the citizens of Alexandria, and the public generally that our indefatigably enterprising fellow-citizen, M. R. Ariail, has received his supply of ice for the present season, and is to-day having it stored away. The 375 tons just received, added to the 50 or 60 tons left over from last season’s supply, is more than will supply this market. Judge Ariail has therefore gone up to Natchitoches, to make arrangements to supply our neighbors.
Mr. Ariail requests us to say that the J. D. Perry, Commanded by the good Samaritan Kimball, towed up his Ice boat, and desires us in his name and that of the public to heartily thank the noble Captain for lending his handsome craft to so useful and so difficult a task as towing 375 tons of Ice up Red River’s current.
Any commander who accomplishes it, deserves credit in point of skill, and the gratitude of our people when we take into consideration how few commanders will undertake the task, and what a luxury and necessity it is in the midst of Summer’s heat and Summer’s fevers.
This is the third time Capt. Kimball has thus accommodated this people, and they are not the people to forget favors of that sort.