Show W WALTER ALTER FITCH RETIRES FROM MANAGEMENT 1 i Remains President 1 but 1111 butSon as nit Son Soil r Takes fakes S Active Charge A statement made on New Years Year's I da day and which will doubtless be of or considerable interest to shareholders of the mine is to the effect that Walter Walter Wal Wal- I ter Fitch Sr h has s retired as general manager of the Chief Chic Cons Mining company and that his son eon Cecil Fitch has succeeded him says tho the Eureka Reporter In giving g out this piece of ot news neW Mr 11 Fitch stated that he will continuo continue to toj act as president of the company but but that for some years past ho has been leaving a good portion of the mana- mana gerial dulies to his son Ron who Is splendidly splendidly qualified through carl early training and long years rears of active service to as assume assume as- as sume the additional responsibilities Mr Pitch Fitch Is only too pleased to pass tho the work of oC managing the tho big bin mining I enterprise along to younger shoulders Cecil Fitch has been beon with the Chief Chiet Cons company compan p ever since Its organization organization b by his father In fact ho came west and was connected with tho the property property prop prop- crt erty when it was known as the LittleChief LittleChief Little LillIe Chief Chier which was before beCore the holdings I of at the latter company compan were taken over over i I and made the tho foundation for the pr property prop prop- p-I p crt erty when it was l known as the Little LittleChief LittleChief LittleChief Chief which was before beCore the hol holdings of tho the latter company compan were taken over o and made mado the foundation for tor the tho present present present pres pres- ent corporation He has followed the growth and development of the property prop prop- erty through h every stage of ot Its existence existence existence exist exist- ence has assisted his father In acquiring acquiring ing InS new territory which In acreage makes snakes the original holdings look small and unimportant has supervised operations operations operations oper oper- of ot all nH kinds during tho the time necessary to translate the property p from an uncertain prospect to one of ot tho the most wonderful bonanzas In tho the western country countr p and ancI It is but natural for him to be advanced ad to the tho higher position of or manager For a year car or two ho he has been acting as assistant manager in addition addition to being being- S New n Superintendent Along Alon with the news that Cecil Fitch has been made manager manag-er o of the comes cones tho the statement that J. J Fred Johnson Johnson Johnson John John- son will succeed him as superintendent Mr Johnson has hag been connected with the mine In various capacities for about abouL ten years ears and since his return from France France where he was a lieutenant lieutenant lieutenant lieuten lieuten- ant In the tho engineering branch of tho the service he lie has been acting as assistant assistant assist assist- ant superintendent When tho the history of at Tintic is written written writ- writ ten ton it will not be complete completo unless It contains a chapter or two devoted to tho the mining operations o of Walter Filch Fitch Sr to whom the district owes a greater great great- er debt than to any other man He has accomplishes a wonderful piece meco of mining development resulting in the discovery discover of at new ore deposits but ho hohas hohas 1 has done something more than make malee I Imone mone money for tor himself and his shareholders ers ers he he has has' elevated the tho mining busIness business business busi busI- ness of oC Tintie Tintic and in a measure that of oC the whole state to a higher and more plane Ho has done something which no other mining man mann mann n n Utah ever thought of doln doing ho has lived on the job not because ho was afraid to trust matters In other h hands j but that he might mig v ha-v have o o a bettor better un un- of or local conditions and the liberal policies adopted by his company company company com com- pany have had much to do with giving I Tintic an unbroken en record for peace and prosperity when there has been I so much unrest in other mining districts districts districts dis dis- of tho the west |