Arizona republican., 1916-12-03
THE AJO IDEA
 |S TONNAGE
Special to The R epulican)


 AJO, Dec. 2.-Tonnage is the idea in this camp. Down this way you don't boast about a ledge l5 to 30 to 30 feet wide, breaking through the country for miles. Down here you talk ton mage. Tonnage by the millions, too Tonnage so stupifyingly stupendous as to be absolutely beyond belief, until you have learned the camp.
 For instance New Cornelia by drill Ing some $50 holes with diamond points. and checking with 900 feet of test pits, there has been established beyond the suggestion of doubt. in the minds of the engineering world, that Tn this huge mass of copper ores ahso lulely denuded of overburden, there are in excess of 10000. 900 tons of com mercially valuable content. and what Is more to the point, that fact was fully, and conVincingly conveyed to the master minds of T. F. Cole and John p. Ryan. chiefs among copper magnates. and they forthwith laid their money up to a few ten millions. that this information was worth a gamble. And the bet Is about to be paid, for the greatest teaching plant in the world. loco ton daily capacity q part of the scheme Of things. is all but ready for operating, and ore is piled up waiting. lt is a part of an engineers daily grind to figure, and the best talent in that line obtainable, has all agreed. that. where this 4 4O0O ton daily capacity teaching plant to run full tit. without hitch or pebble for twenty-five years. there would still be a mine on New Cornelia ground that would be worth while So II looks though this set of tanks is really only the first unit.
 Then the sulphides will have to be treated hv concentrator. and that means another big lot of building. but the Calumet and Arizona has become so used Go doing big things. the man agement Is apt to show a temperament unless t is moving a mountain. build ing a few hundred odd miles of rail road, or slipping over a few plants of the largest type in the world. The concentrator will come, and it will cause comment
 There is a next door neighbor to New Corneia. called Ajo Consolidated. that is nice little mine, all things considered.
 This property is controlled by James Phillips Jr. of New York, and Messers. G9skcN of Aio. RumOr has it that they refused a bond for SS. 900. . O00 recently. Eight million dollars does not mean much to James Phillips. Jr.. as t does to some of us or the mine would have changed hands right there and then.
 Ajo Consolidated drove 51 holes and claim to have developed ore at the rate of 1000 000 tons per month. so that would cause a sensa tion in most camps Perhaps there is nothing mvstifvirg in their refusal of SS,000.- . 0nO after all
 There are other companies coming into this field for the purpose of develOping. and as advanced prospect ing progress. indications point to a number of added properties that will soon be estimating their holdings in the millions of tons.
 The most recent transaction of i'm portance was the taking over, last Fri day by J. <. Amundsen. of Kingman. for party of northern Arizona oper- ators- of the well known Savers Row - leyThal group that corner on New Cornelia's northwest end. and extend shOuthwesterly across the strike of tho ore, along the easily skirt of the A jo mountains and then across. under a great iron caDDing. 10 and down the west slope Of the first chains of hills. This likely looking lot of claims were located h" Captain George Savers. for more than forty years prOspectOr and mine owner in Arizona. Captain Savers especially selected the two claims known as Mansion House No l and Narsion House No. 2. as the best locations in the field. and is pre- pared to wager reputation, stock in the new company which by the way. will be called. New Cornelia West, and every chaitel he possesses, thay will develop into one of the greatest pro- ducers in the state. People here en- certain respect for the old mans judgement. besides wishing him luck.
 The new town of Ajo will be ready for the company employees within another month. and then will begin the attack by five steam shovels. upon the present site. All the several hund- red homes and dozen stores will be torn down or removed to some other location. and. as time moves apace where now dwell more than one thousand busy Workmen and thel. contented families, there will come a huge glory-hol whence man finally has accepted the uncovered offerings of centuries. of millions upon millions of tons of ore, running into value all most inestimabe