Arizona republican., 1922-05-17

results are as anticipated extensive
reduction works will then be put in
place. MIR. DoalS and one son We're at
the Gandolfo during the early part of
last week. Captain Doak crossed the
plains with Major Russell in 1857.
On the outbreak of the Civil war he
returned to Missouri and raised a
company for the government service
but being unablt TO obtain arms for
them he offered his services to the
First Nebraska and was accepted He
served with that regiment during the
war.
Notes BY Tom ChiIds of Ajo
1t was in tie seventeenth century
that a Papago Indian brought word
to Mexico of rich gold and native
copper. General Salazar sent one of
his soldiers with the Indian in quest
of the metal. The Papago took the
soldier to a point on the Aio Con-
solidated, now known as the shaft
on the Southern claim where native
copper was found on the surface.
Asked where the gold was. the In
dian said one would not have to so
far to find it.
The soldier returned to Mexico. but
was sent back with the Papago with
vi uctS LO Ainu the SOlu. j. nb IIldldIl
took him again to the Southern shaft
to the native copper, and being once
more asked where the gold was, re-
piled as before. that it was not far
away. The gold was never found.
The next date OF which there is
any report was some time before
1852, when a smelter known as the
Alama was erected at what is now the
ranch OF w. G. Miller, % miles from
Ajo. This was blower smelter made
from bellows burnt from charcoal.
At Intervals Mexicans worked on
the Southern until the formation of a
company by Peter Brady, Grant Curry
Frank Cleimer and others, who were
the first Americans to operate in this
district.
A little later an English company
was formed by c. p. Boyer He went
to Germany to learn how to build
What was known as Freiburg smell
ter, and on his return did build a
smelter of that pattern about 200
yards south of where the Ajo Consol-
idated office now stands. 1t was made
of adobes, was like an oven and had
a smokestack about % feet high. 1t
was a roasting process. the roasted
ore running SO per cent This smell
ter was not a success. So the walls
We're torn down and with that ma
terial the Ajo Consolidated office was
built.
After the war the property was
shut down and soon thereafter Dan
Noonan, now of ella Bend, formed
a company. or rather started it, for
the smelter was never completed
This was about the year 1872
The camp was idle until 1884 when
Thomas Childs, father of Tom Childs
of Ajo, took hold OF the Consolidated
and shipped ore taken from seven
patented claims off and on for a pc
ried of IA years. He also located
some of The claims now held by the
New Cornelia Copper company ad-
joining. The ore ran 25 to 81 percent
copper. with but little silver, and was
shipped to Selby. Ell Paso and to the
Copper Queen later.
Again Lay Idle
In 1898. tie claims were bonded by
Childs to C. c. Beam, who worked
them and shipped ore for two years.
1t then lay idle until Childs again
took it over and shipped for three
months.
Z. y. Lee in 1902 or 1908 bonded
the Consolidated for $4,000 He
shipped ore and did much work, but
the deal fell through.
1t was then that the c. & A. took
an option on the property from
Childs and let it expire; and on its
expiration. the Gaskill brothers took
it over and bought it, the price said
to be $175 600 and remained the own