Arizona republican., 1917-04-08
The Aio District

The Alo District
 AJO, Ariz, April Some time dur ing next week this cooper district will make an interestingly vivid red mark on the pages of copper statistics Nor will it be surprising if it makes a rip pie in copper share markets Indeed if it were not for the unsettled state Of affairs nationally. if things were going normally in the markets and the copper shares selling for what they are really worth. very much more than 2 riple would be expected, and doubt less realized.
 The district will nevertheless make it's impress next week. by reason of the fact that unless there should be deiays which are not now in prospect. the steam shovel pit of New Corneiia Copper company and it's great new carbonate ore treatment plant will go into service. Before the end of next week they are expected to be turning out copper
 Recently there has been very re- markable progress made with the work of bringing construction and all other steps preliminary to production to completion. The enthusiasm of the management communicated itself to the men. and from top to bottom of the working organization everybody has been bending fullest effort to bring ing the job to completion. They all want to see the wheels going round It will be a great day for every man on the job when this result is wit messed, and it will also be great day for the state industrially, for the suc- cess of this plant means much in the matter of bringing a very large area of new country under the eyes and into the money interest of investors
 The steam shovel pit is ready to be- gin the delivery of five thousand tons of carbonates a day to the crushing plants, and these are now practically ready to handle the tonnage to the recovery vats. The latter are very close to readiness to take the crushed ore. When they do start off it will be close to top capacity, and then they will gain little right along until they are working to and very likely above rated capacity.
 The coming of New Cornelia into production means among other things that Arizona's copper output will be in creased 36,000, 900 or more pounds the year. The confident belief of many people is that the more" will be very speedily realized New Cornelia man. agement has a long record in that re spect and a brilliant one-of achieving more always than expected of it. The trait has become more or less of a habit. It is well illustrated in the fact that the reduction plant will get into operation next week. In doing so, the original promises to shareholders and the public will be bettered by nearly three months, for it was said when they started in on the construction that it would probably be July 1, 1917, before copper would be produced. When that announcement was made everybody considered that those gov ing it out were allowing altogether too short a time, and in some market quarters it was even intimated that there was a purpose in promising the completion of the plants in less time than the work could possibly be car- ried out. Nevertheless, and notwith- standing exceptional difficulties which came up to cause delays in bringing the plant to completion, they are fin ishing far ahead of the promised date
 That there were unexpected difficult ties to be contended with, some of which could not possibly be foreseen, everybody who has been in the market the last couple of years for structural materials and machinery, full we'll knows. War demands took the right of way. Strikes and curtailed output in