Show walter fitch pa jr back after trip to the east la im walter fitch jr mine contractor has returned to eureka after an ex tended business trip in the east mrs pitch accompanied him and spent a few weeks visiting with her relatives at new york city mr pitch fitch first went into one of th the e mining districts of pennsylvania tor for a consultation with mining men who have offered him a very large contract and later visited new york and various other cities on the at lantic alantic coast he Is yet undecided regarding the contract in pennsylvania which tools took him east tor for the reason that the job calls for the use of about a hundred trained miners and right at this time good men are rather hard to find there Is a feeling among financial men of the east that the war will not last many more months and it ff this should prove to be the case mr fitch will doubtless doubt lessun un dermake this big pennsylvania job as men will be more plentiful just as soon as there is even a slight change in the government a s war program mr fitch states that the influenza is taking a heavy toll in many of the large cities ot of the country the dis ease no doubt being in a more severe form than here in the west new york was wag about the only place where things were going along in the usual fashion everything being closed up tight in such cities as washington philadelphia and Cleve cleveland tand |