Talk:Ajo, Arizona

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The article states "Ajo (pronounced ah-ho) is the Spanish word for garlic." The name "Ajo" is a concatenation of the original "Ajoita" which the mine town was named: Little Garlic. The diminuative was dropped around the year 1938.

By 1940 the mine was using five 525 horsepower water pumps in their massive well, pumping out 102 degree Fahrenheit water 690 feet out of the ground. The average water volume pumped was 4,800,000 gallons per day. The mine pit was 465 feet deep.

--Desertphile 00:53, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

Among geologists, they claim that the name is based on the fact that arsenic trioxide has a smell very similar to that of garlic. I have a B.S. in Geology, but am not a practicing geologist. I simply heard this repeated multiple times by various professors on field trips. If anyone knows more, I encourage them to speak. Autkm (talk) 04:03, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

The fisrt paragraph of the History section has the word "aple". Is that a word or a typo? --Danjam47 (talk) 00:16, 29 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Removed, thanks Vsmith (talk) 00:38, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

Ajo's architecture
I added a photo of the town plaza, which reminded me that we should add a section on architecture & town planning at Ajo. I've seen writeups of same inprint, probably info online as well. Cheers, Pete Tillman (talk) 15:52, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

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