Bisbee daily review., 1908-12-23
AJO PRODUCES AFTER YEARS
 OF IDlEhESS
After Being Dormant For More Than Half a Century lnteIli- gent Development Has Beer Started.
CSpecial to Reysew.1


 TUCSON, Dec. 22.-Tne Ajo ccun- try is once more to the front. The old Ajo mine, about 120 miles south west Of this city. is among the earli- est worked properties in Arizona. At the time that Crabbe and his ill-fated fiIibustering companions were on then way to death a, Caborea. they went into Sonora by way of the Ajo. At that time P. R. Brady, Colonel C. D.. Poston and few others were at the mine taking out ore and shipping it to Swansea, Wales, for reduction. Scarcely anything less than the pure metal could stand this transportation and pay. In the first place all sup plies had to be brought in from San Francisco by way of San Diego and were excessively dear, the cost Of transportation being 25 and 90 cents per pound. The ore was shipped to Wales by way of GUaymas, which ne- cessitated bull team wagon naul or over 300 miles and at a prohibition rate.
 Crabbe sought to induce the men at the mine to join him on his crack brsined venture, but the cool. exper- enced aead of Mir Brady was not to be misled by any ailurement Sonora had to offer. He had hazarded his life on a thousand chances in Texas, in Mexico and in the soutbwesteTn territores and he preferred to take chances of gong broke at the Aio rather than face discontinue ana death ill the ranks of the filibusters. He stated to the writer of this aTti- cle that he endeavored to dssuade Crabbe from entering Sonora. but all to no purpose, and he went on to his death. With Crabbe and his mis- guided men out of the way the Alexi- cans attacked the Ajo under the pre- tense that 1t was in Mexican territory but they were not long in discovering their mistake and taking their dead and wounded with them. they made good time to the south
 But the ASo. under the then con ditions, did not pay. The ore was rich. but transportation charges swal- lowed more than the returns and re Iuctantly the mine had to be aban- doned. Since that time several ef- forts have been made to work it, but supplies effectualIy placed the bar IlSTS deEiLhL EuGGSSSs At lilSL iSflA attempt after it's early abandoumeaI was made by man named ? T.. Bowling. Tn his published prospectus he showed bolts of the pure red metal standing from the top of the silaft to the bottom of his illustrations with the understanding that they kept ge- | ng down. He was a good taIker, bu he failed to induce capital in ais di- rection. He later died in Casa GraHde a worn out and disappointed man. Colonel c. c. Bean, ex-congressman from Arizona, was the next man to put money into the ground. His ef. forts were honestly made, but in the end ne was compelled, largely by fail
 ing health, to abandon all hoise of
 doing anything with it. Bean was a i true Arizonan and worked always for
 the good of his country. His death in New York was the closing chapter of a long and useful career.
 The Ajo property has always been lcoHsidered good and in the course
 of human events no good property
 can always lie idle, be it situated
 where it may, and now the Ajo Cop per company. under the superintend