Mohave County miner., 1916-12-02


 About two years ago the attention
 of c. & A. was finally called to the
 great copper hills, absolutely nude ot
 overburden, which stand high anc
 mighty upon an acreage of leve
 ground, also free of foreign interfer. ence, and the big task was begun. Surface sampling was done and then drills brought in. More than 35C holes were eaten into by the diamond pointed cores and for year this meth cd of investigation employed the time of large crew of workers. When the "cores" had been fully checked and re- checked, test pits were dug, 900 feet in all, and from each pit a100-pound sample assayed. These were checked against the drill samples, and here oc- cured the most wonderful result of sampling that has perhaps ever marked a similar experiment; 2400 feet of drill holes, selected for this test, and the 900 feet of test pits tallied within 5-1OOO per cent, a check almost impossible in two assays of the same sample.
 The result of this sampling by drill and test pit established beyond ques- tion in the minds of the best engineer ing talent that the profession affords that there are present on the ground now known as New Corneia not less than 40,000,000 tons of carbonates, and sufficient sulphides were encountered in the drilling, so it is said, to place the reserve of that class of ore into many millions of tons more.
 Meanwhile a testing plant for deter mining teaching solutions that would most efficiently treat the carbonates was built on the ground, and after an experimentation with hundreds of tons, the proper formula was arrived at. Then began the real work of the day.
 A 4000-ton teaching plant, the larg- est in the world (for remember big things are in line with c. & A. ideas) was planned and is now nearly com pleted. A suggestion of how things are being done here is offered by just one item employed in the building of this plant. For the sealing of the tanks in which the ore will be treated nearly $9OO,OOO was expended for lead alone. Other materials were provided along the same generous lines.
 A standard gauge railroad 43 miles in length was built from Gila Bend to the scene of all this building, but be- fore that was done a monster well 600 feet deep and compartment and a half wide was dug to assure the camp of sufficient water, for the desert is pretty dry about Ajo. The power plant was built near the well, and now Ajo has electric lights by the thou sands and has water for all domestic l purposes and for fire protection, and there is a beautiful plaza with a foun- tain and flowers. That is going some l for the comfort and pleasure of it's | employees by a company that has not even begun mining seriously yet. And | that's not half.
 The most model mining town that | the world has yet viewed is being made out there in the desert. Tile block houses, beautiful in design, com fortable in arrangement and imposing in appearance, are built and building by the hundreds to house the men who will help develop this great property, SO that the laborer who may prove himself worthy his hire may come here into what was only recently a wild, | sun dried desert, peopled by Papagoes and occasional burros, and enjoy con veniences afforded in no other mining | camp of 10 times the age of Ajo.
 The c. & A. does things, and on a huge scale, but it is not too busy while l doing giants work to look after the welfare of the men upon whom it will depend, in return for a goodly compen- sation, to do their share of the general scheme.