Cochise review., 1900-11-03
A MINING DISTRICT
Progress of the Ajo District
 in Sonora.
Many Mines Being DevelOped--A Splendid Future for
 This Region,

A. J. Shortwell was in from the Aio mining district this week and gave Star reporter the following interview:
 The valuable portion of the Ajo dis trict is tract of land about one by four miles in extent, with a trend from N. E. and s. w., and is one vast copper bearing proposition. It was fully ex- amined and reported upon this past summer by prof. Lake, formerly of the Colorado school of mines, who pro- nounced 1t one of the finest prospects he ever examined, and prophesied that it would one day be great producer.
 The various holdings are described as follows: N. E. border A. J. David son has or 10 claims and adjoining him Col. Bean is located on the old Spanish workings.
 Just west of Col. Beau, is the territory of the Cornelia Copper company who have 100 acres. x ',,
 North of this is the center of the old crater is the Shotrwsll claims, compris- ing 200 acres, @' Just west of these claims are number of properties be- longing to Shortwsll, Laffeaty and Richardson, these claims are under de- veloptnsnt.
 The St. Louis Copper company have two claims on the northwest border of the basin. These people own q small experimental mill of 30 tons per day ca pacits They have madA fourteen shipments of concentrates with grati- flying results.
 One very pleasing feature of all tho ores in the district is the absence of deletsrious base material, as zirc, lead, arsenic and antimony. They have been pronounced by the Fl Paso shelter people the purest copper ores received at their works.
 Col. Beans workings have yielded excellent results, running as high as SO per cent in carload lots and in addi- tion vast quantities of concentrating ores running from 10 per cent up are in eight.
 A Los Angeles company have secured territory south of Col. Bean and are now sinking a 6O0.foot shaft as fast as men and money can put 1t down.
 The Cornelea Copper company, cor. poration of St. Louis and Arkansas people, are exploiting on an extensive scale. They have shaft machinery on hand to put down l,00o.foot shalt. They are after ore and water, and have down 300 feet of three compartment sharft securely timbersd from top to bottom, and all the way from top to bottom they are in ore and 70 feet of 1t passes through one continuous body of high grade milling ore, and work is being pushed as fast as modern air drills. can cut the rock and giant powder blow it out.
 A 100-ton mill is 8 possibility of the near future by these people. Other possibilities of the future are exten. sive snlargsments by the St. Louis peo- pie, and two new companies are being initiated on large scale.
 Everything points to the future inn portsnce of this district, as we'll as the Gunsight and adjoining districts, and as the country is as level as floor from the s. P. to the camps, regular railroad grade, 1t is not impossiblethat a road will be run inside of I2 months. The grade is but about 1000 feet in 50 miles.
 Three years ago one white man was monarch of all he surveyed in that country, Thos. Childs being the only inhabitant of all that vast country be- tween the s. P. R. R. and the Mexican line. Now there are 100 men in inc Ajo district alone,
 During the past two years Mir. Shot, well has been quietly, developing water and he is now ready to go to work and do something, and is building a good substantial concrete house for office and living.
 Harris, the tailor, only charges $2 to clean a suit of clothes, Tombstone