Arizona republican., 1916-05-05
THRONC OF PHOEN|C|ANS HAVE
 EYES OPENED ON AJO EXCURSION
Place Where Copper is Ly- ing Around in Mountains
 Visited by Phoenix Busi- ness Men, Who Are Edu- . cated to an Extreme

Tired, dirty, almost ready to collapse, oyer two hundred Phoenix business mer and women returned from the ex- cursion to Ajo last night It was one of the greatest trips ever planned and carried out by a body of Phoenicians.
 Everything that could be done to uIalle the eXcursionists happy was there A band was carried, and at each station @ concert was given, much to the edification ard amusement of the natives
 That every member of the party was not only surprised but amazed at the size and completeness of the proposi- ton at Ajo or Cornelia. was an estab- lished fact It fairly took everyone off their feet.
 Entirely apart from the gigantic financial returns to be had from the Ajo copper group, Captain Jack Green way, -tEe manager, who was on the ground to show the visitors the works. is planning to make Ajo, as it wilt . ultimately Le called. city beautiful. i Before a group of Phoenix busi- ness men. including Dr, Bennett, Dr. Norton. Roy Goodrich, l.. G. Hughes, Dwight B. Heard, J. B. Montgomery and others Captain Greenway ex- plained :he theme that runs through ;he great enterprise.
 | Everything is in the planning" he said. Now that we are actually work inr we feel that the troubles are over | hn nT ,,In this blg man of affairs, and he fairly radiated facts and information.
 Two immense hills of copper ore are to be attacked with five-ton steam shovels. The heads of the hills are tt be shct off with black powder, and the ore lifted down the face of the elf into cars. A standard gauge doubl. track system aDout two miles long vii carry the ore, bOulders and all to tn, crusher. This is built on the breal If hill. so that no operation will re
 Qure lifting of masses of ore. Tw' huge crushers. capable of pulverizini
 rocks fifty inches cubic dimensions win make the second attack On the ore
 Fellow these two will be eight smalle . ones The ore will finally find it's wa
 
 jo the 10000-ton storage vats. i
 grains, none over one-quarter inch i
 1is meter
 These vats will contain supplies fo
 two days for tine teaching plant. whic Gill be the largest in the world. Th
 fact there is carbonate ore enough fC , eight years work makes it possible { V build these plants. In twelve vat a eighty eight feet square. the grain oi Q will Le placed. covered with sulphur : aci7. ard left to mix. The acid wi n dissolve the copper out of the roc
 and the "liuuor" will be drawn of n From this point it is carried to Il I separ3tors. where sFeets of pure col s per will be hung fin the solution. Elet Q t~ic current will be passed into u e copper sheets. and. by electrolysis. u - cooper from the liquor will be depo l tied in the copper sheets.
 This method gives the purest DO e sible copper. Tn fact the copper aIreao = taken out as samples by this metht n heE heen found the best in the worl r Every provision has been made f . q complete plant Captain Greenwi : explained that 1t would not be nece
 sary to add any units to the plant.
 ii is now conceived. it is an immen
 thing. capable of supplying the equi
 ment for every bit of work in sight
 possible to lie. developed on this - of pfapcrts.
 : The captain explained that { o Calumet S Arizona company is [ Q parert company of the New Cornel $ .The. orlgiiiad appropriation for co e etrnction work was s4.200, ,000-a figu E entirely 100 large for any mere new ! papor nan toe grash Just to give
 .dea of the big scale upon which ever | tLing is built. he pointed to some TO < of dull gray metal. lying carelessly Il the sun near the railroad trac T. Lead and antimony alloy" he sa 'y Meant 10 line the teaching vats, so in acid will not attack the sides It V ie cost s750.000 to buy enough of | 1t alloy to line our vats.'
 he - One municipality will serve the mi e. mill and plant. It is to be called A " fir2lly. and il will be the most co 1. pletely planned advance city in le world. At the present time. the co $ 9any is constructing the band st; i nd cement walks, the cement ditc = which will irrigate the lawn and pa