Mohave County miner., 1916-12-16
AJO IS CAMP
 OF ASSURED
 PERMANENCY
Especial to Daily Miner)

uerJaklng or bringing up 10 perfect
 condition of modern working efficiency
 a huge mass of copper ore deposit,
 lying far out in utter desert waste
 and isolation, has engaged the big
 brains of Calumet & Arizona engin-
 eers for the past two years, and now,
 as the immense teaching plant at Ajo,
 hears readiness for ore treatment,
 attention of the most skilled and ex-
 perienced field and laboratory men of
 the mining profession is halted, to
 view this result of courage, deter
 imitation and purpose.
 For a great many years, smaller
 minds have come into this field, look
 ed in amazement upon astonishing
 heaps of leached ores exposed in mil
 lions of tons, and have departed, won
 dering, dreaming, but never with un-
 derstanding. At last Messrs. Ryan
 and Cole were induced, to make inves-
 tigations, and, grasping the giant
 possibilities presented, decided to set
 their engineers to the task of making
 determinations. This vast horde of
 low grade ore offered such immense
 wealth in return for it's treatment that
 the study was begun. A testing plant
 of several tons capacity was built on
 the ground, and for more than a year, tons and tons were treated with more
 or less success, until finally the exact
 solution was formulated.
 Drills were brought in and boring commenced. An enormous well, some thing like 600 feet deep and a com partment and a half wide was dug, six or eight miles to the northeast. If this was to be a profitable mining camp where the product could be proftably handled, there must be rail facilities reaching to the outside world, and so, a railroad of standard gauge was built to connect with the Southern Pacific at Gila Bend, 43 miles northeast.
 E1AAu LlACh CellliC LAAC NuCoIAOAlg MlACIG shall the man who helps in this scheme of things, with his hands and by the sweat of his brow, be housed? There is nothing quite so scarce on the desert at Ajo, as material for building and in the whole country about there is not a tree of dimensions much greater than the oldtime school tea cher used to keep under the lid of his desk, for purposes of forcible educa- tional, so there was no use looking about there for saw mills. Right | there the railroad recently built proved to have been a most happy | bit of foresightedness; for it was dis covered that away down in Fl Paso, tile blocks were manufactured that | would make ideal homes for the labor CT who would toll at New Cornelia's | building. A small matter of train load or two of these piles was placed, | and the constructing of a modern town was launched away out there among the Papagoes and cacti. Fifteen, 20, 30 of these houses were quickly un- derway, then another 30, and another 100 and now they are not countable in a days walk. That's the way the Calumet & Arizona are building at their New Cornelia.
 They did not stop at the homes for the men. They are building a great store and bank home that would look mighty ornamental in a lot of big towns that calls themselves cities. And they have a plaza, with flowers and a fountain that plays throughout the circle of hours. You see, when the shaft was sunk for the well six miles away, a lot of people were convinced that there might of course be a water supply furnished to the people who had to live there, but they were ready to bet that the supply would be more pr less eurtailed, and those people do not like yet, to admit that they were 90 far wrong in their guess as to have overlooked this fountain, playing all lay and all night, right in the midst ,f one of the driest countries known o white man. But it's there.
 All this campaign of upbuilding vas brought about because those en- yineers who had been given the task # making determinations, had order . d drills, and the drills went to work c md proved that there were 43,00O,- 100 tons of carbonates, and none out idO of the management knows how 2 many tons of sulphides, but the car V ,onates alone, treated at the rate of 1000 tons per day, in the teaching liant, will keep the camp busy for 25 f ears, and men could not live in tents or 25 years, and groceries don't stand he sun for a lot of years, and bank