Show biography wy of walter fitch sr 4 the following article sy regarding walter fitch president of the chief consolidated alining company appeared in a re cent issue of the engineering yaw and mining journal of new ay york city 17 being from Js the pen of bif george J young the west ern editor of that publication wa A keen 7 logical mind close 9 and a knowledge jaw of coffay men 4 and affairs wylfa if coupled v with rf fy initiative constitute cons titue another recipe g for success walter fitch did not have a college education nevertheless he has made a success in the things he 1 has at afy aseff tempted unlike some self made if awa men he Is eager to concede the value of college training and has put his s sons through that excellent acif jy tion the michigan diw college ff of mines 1 in educating young 7 afa ff engineers a he V be alieves K that contact fea with bright minds Is essential he says a man s idaj not possessed of an engineering edu w cation Is unable yas y to overrate ff its val 07 ile W walter fitch was born in lon 7 fajr don aad had the usual education in I 1 the english private schools he 58 first ww went to work in a lawyer s office and then 7 gravitated into the printers and stationers business 0 at the h age 1 of twenty he became dissatisfied with the outlook that presented it 4 self to him and decided iby to go to am i ff vw erica ay iy he went ff to michigan and grubbed around W in mines to secure a start he accepted w any employment v f 0 that offered at the end of V five w years he was w superintendent of two mines aisy and subsequently went way from ca 37 position to position as of fas opportunity if feE safes for advancement offered itself in all he spent thirty years in the michl 7 gan mines and as a a greult reached a 07 high place in a mining region where there were many good men at about the time he ff was thinking nsf of retiring 7 he went to ria utah he became inter 7 fo ested in the gintic tintic district and made a general study of mining conditions there securing the afe services abw of jas n jany finley aff who as jkr mr ditc h said 70 knew wy more w about 26 limestone mines 7 fe than he jaff did ziff he faw made dyff good ay use of a a that engineers knowledge 07 with fin fy afis lays aff help he visualized ixil ay the geological aa conditions and formed definite opinions 2 as to the affy continuity of the W prevailing I 1 nes and zones of miner w aliz atlon noting that the trend of these crossed some ground upon faw which a mine known as bof the little chief was operating with gocr sue cess aw he interested fasy himself ff in this efy mine at the time aff the shaft of the 7 mine was feet in depth and a large amount of work had been done west a of a north south line through the shaft g despite twelve beark work and forty three assessments the mine had failed to find fea profit zif able ore in quantity east of the shaft no underground work had wt been done and mr fitch 7 reasoned that here was an excellent gamble half of the work had been done with f out ier there was jay only one i other place to go in spite of sz mr fitch pointing out to the owners 7 of the mine the conclusions of his stu v dies they were yas not enthusiastic nor did they at the 1 time make any effort to follow fes them y up they finally ask ed marq fitch ay iy to go in with them and test out his conclusions ier moved by the dominating motive of securing oho 2 an opportunity i for his sons who seemy Sf were completing emy their mining 1 aduca tion mr fitch w ji decided w to JK go into ff the project the general plan to vj roughly ff sketched out in the begin ning was followed aff anticipation be came a fact the shaft A was f sunk from to 1400 feet ff while sink ing a crosscut waw was driven vw at yrsa 1000 feat and st penetrated the ore zone WV at this point no ore was vy discovered 7 but the ff mineralized zone was deft nite the aff JW level fw yielded noth a ing on ff the auf level drifting 5 was W started zyol upon jaff the ore zone off and day aff by day the samples VW gave no enczur 0 argement vey when or one day 27 a return of 1700 ounces of silver per ton was received vf ow A rich f ore body ilmi had been discovered this was in 1908 and mince then a Aw ahafi number afi of ore bodies have been jaff found hayw up to the 7 end of 1919 the amount of development i a to ff feet in 1909 AI the production agy as was 75 vw ounces of sit ver ounces w of gold and pounds of lead from a total of ff 1325 sw tons in 1919 7 the production ff was 7 yav 2 ounces of w silver ounces 7 awi aai of gold aw 5 a of lead i sa and ay 15 pounds of copper from S 63 esy tons z av of ore walter fitch ft had faith 7 in his deductions the mine which w he was so fortunate in discovering Is now being operated by his sons af mr fitch believes f in concentration ashy and 1 effort he and his sons have settled in aw utah w and E are deisting deio ting themselves ts to chief 22 consolidated |