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Show kJ!w- -t-" 'yC erf Doing Successful Job Staff of Chief Consolidated Mining Co. (with mascots). President C. A. Fitch, Sr 2nd from left, back row. CHIEF CONSOLIDATED SPURS NEW ACTIVITY IN OLD TINTIC AREA The Chief Consolidated, with properties at Eureka, Utah, ii now one the most active companies in the Tintic mining district located some 100 miles southwest of Salt Lake City. This district haa long been one of Utah's major metal producers. Although it was discovered in the early sixties, extensive development did not begin until nearly a decade later. Principal product of the area has been silver and for many years it was one of the nution s leading sources of the white metal. With a total production approximating $250,000,000, roughly half is attributed attrib-uted to ailver. Here the Tintic Standard, once referred to as a "goat pasture," was dicovered in 1916 after one of the most colorful prospecting campaigns in the history his-tory of Utah mining. Tintic Standard Stand-ard became one of the district's big producers. It has only been in comparatively recent years that Chief Consolidated Consoli-dated became active. Reopened during dur-ing World War II, the old Chief No. 1 mine was rehabilitated and placed in production. Ore runs were extended below the old workings and further openings have been projected at depth. The underground under-ground hauling system was electrified electri-fied and other improvements in keeping with modem operations were made. The Chief also reopened iU Plu-tus Plu-tus property, once one of the main producers of the area. In addition, the company carried out an exploratory explor-atory program which included the sinking of a 600-foot shaft together with 2000 feet of lateral drifts on the Evans group of claims, aimed at proving a parallel ore channel. In the southern end of the Tintic district, Chief Consolldated's Apex Standard property was leased to the Newmont Mining Company which, after considerable preliminary prelimi-nary work, began developing on a large scale. For the past nine years the Chief has operated under an incentive wage system introduced by Cecil Fitch, Sr., company president. With about 05 per cent of the underground under-ground force participating, there are separate plans, or contracts, now in effect, covering all types of work. The system aims at highly standardized tasks, generous rewards, re-wards, flexibility and unrestricted earnings. The basic wage is guaranteed guar-anteed and bonuses are paid for extra work or extra production. For example, a bonus of 70c per mine car is paid over and above the number of cars allotted for certain workings. Thus if a stopo with a base of seven mine cart per manshift man-shift produces twelve cars, the bonus is S3.50 in excess of the contract con-tract base of $10 or $13.b0 per manshift. Footage plans are baaed on working conditions and cover all drifting, raising and shaft sinking. Daft crews consist of two men. Hoisting operations also come under un-der this system. The management reports that the incentive plan has fostered job morale mor-ale and a lively spirit of pride in workmanship. That increased earnings earn-ings have averaged between 40 and ,100 per rent above the basic wage. High labor-management cooperation coopera-tion is also claimed for the system under which, they add. "a good man simply can't be kept down." These and other activities contribute con-tribute many benefits to the Tintic district and the State of Utah and Sromise continuing expansion as evelopmcnt programs progress. |
