Salt Lake Telegram | 1921-08-07 | Page 21 | Walter Fitch after World Shaft Record

WALTER NALTER FITCH AfTER MR I WORLD MORL SHAfT RECORD EOR Reports from Crom Eureka Eurek state that Walter Walte- aUe Fitch Jr will 1111 again make a IL record as 1111 tho the worlds world's swiftest shaft builder On the Water Lily claim of the Chief Con Con- where ix a three compartment shaft I H is being sunk to reach on nn oro ore body developed de do- I v by diamond drilling Fitch In ten tenda da days ha has hall averaged a almost fourteen feet a aday day clay or 1366 1365 5 feet teet Tho record for thirty ono days davi V was 8 feet fett or or ten feet feel a I Ida da day I The Tha new shaft hatt where tho the work Is b being done I Iii ii adjacent to the property ot of the North Standard In tho latter mine a u drift drUt I 1 Is 1 being Dent sent northward The objective of this drift on the tho 1100 foot level Is II to get under a lar largo large o Iron blowout blowout blow blow- out to tho the north of ot the collar ot or the working shaft Tho The drift i Is no now about feet north of tho shaft and anti tho the expectation Is III to get under the Iron deposit within the tho next thirty or forty day days This 1 U probably feet ahead It will do depend pend largely on just what angle anle of dip the limestone bed takes tokes in that block of ot ground At present It appears appear to bo be pitching nay away from the faco taco at 60 SO to lo 70 degrees