Mohave County miner., 1916-12-02
MILLIONS IF TONS
 ORE IN AJO GROUP
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 AJO, Dec. 2.-When you talk to l; man in this camp about your prospec or mine, he does not ask you whether you have a defined ledge running through the property; he does not in quire whether intrusive dilles come il and "feed the main fssure," he nevel even thinks to question as to whether there is an outcrop $50 to 100 fec wide, that can be seen breaking through the country for miles," The man that you talk to down here asks you: "How many million tons you got in sight?" And if you haven't at least 2O,OOO,0O0 you don't do business ir Ajo.
 They tell story of a stranger who had been pecking around among the outlying hills for a week or two, who one day came running into town and began relating about a big thing he had found. He estimated that it was about the largest thing that had ever composed itself into copper deposit. His description was interesting, until he finally asserted, in burst of en- thusiasm, that he was ready to gam ble his chances in the hereafter that there were at least 100000 tons in sight.
 At this point the crowd of old tim CTS who had listened politely began to move off, and the surprised newcomer demanded to know what was the trou- ble, when old Ocotillo ePte calmly sized him up and volunteered: "Stran- ger, that little old pile of yours might be all right for an assay, but you'd better go back and look for the ore body"
 That's the way they talk about a few hundred thousand tons of ore at Ajo. And the reason!
 We'll, there's Ne wCornelia with 43,- 100000 tons of carbonate ore in sight, and the Maker alone knows how many millions and millions of tons of sul- phides hidden just under this magnif- cent >capping of values. Ajo Consoli- dated, an immediate neighbor on the south and east, with another 4O,O00,- 900 or 50,O00,000 proven tons, and oth- CT properties west and south with mil lions and millions of tons in evidence, and outside and beyond this wonder ful zone of disseminated ores there is claimed field 30 miles in length, just actually teeming with huge copper showings, anyone of which would make a great district all alone.
 The engineering world is watching development at Ajo as it has never ob- served another field. Nature piled up ore in such stupendous masses here, it is necessary that giant methods be em- ployed to take advantage of her offer ings, and giant methods are a regu- lar diet for the Calumet and Arizona management. \
 It must be understood that Ajo is one of the oldest camps in the United States, and in the early days when men of venturesome turn made busi- ness of scouting around looking for trouble, some of them tiring of the quiet life of being potshots for rowing Indians around the vicinity of Tucson, used to come over to the Ajo noun tains, say few complimentary noth- ings to tepee full of savages and the dance was on. The excuse that the white man had for the disturbance was that he wanted the big copper and sil- yer deposits. The redman didn't need any excuse. He just sort of liked fighting as an occupation, and so it was as easy to start something along the Gila those days as it is for a Democrat to be neutral in favor of the allies.
 There was a lot of ore shipped from the Ajos in the '70s by way of burro to the Pacific and thence to Swansea, Wales, for treatment, but slumping prices and discoveries of copper in many places nearer transportation caused the field to be practically aban- doned save by few old prospectors, ->-----------