The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1900-02-17

and peace where a wilderness had ex-
listed and savage warfare was perpet-
ually waged. Through their enterprise,
pluck and. bulldog tenacity both of
these men were able to attain power
and wealth and to enrich and lay in
their debt Montana in accomplishing
their object and ambition.
Fritz Heinze, while fully az pictur-
. esque brilliant and interesting a char
acter as either of his great rivals. dit
fers from them in his methods as he
does in his age. He represents the new
method they the old. To his aid he
summons all the resources of modern
science and the advantages of a perfect
teacbnical education A son of Otto
! Heinze. a. well k~own and wealthy New
York merchant, Fritz HeinZe was
graduated at Columbia and finished in
Germany. At the close of his college
career. he went to Butte to look about.
Recognizing the vast possibilities the
future held for that region he has re-
NAMED there ever since 1t was but
little more than ten years ago that he
first came there. A well educated, per
fectly poised man of the world, Henze
is an extremely good looking one as
well. and when he first came to Butte
he bore a marked resemblance to the
portraits OF the first Napoleon. After
settling in Butte, Heinze took a hori-
zontal measure of men and things and
bided his time, and at the proper psy-
GEOLOGICAL moment he leased and
bought mines and built a smelter
plant
The old timers" Mr.. Haldorn con-
tinued. did not think that the youthful
New Yorker could hold his own in the
copper ming business with the other
roc
practical experience. But he fooled
them all. He put into his mining ven
lures great engineering talent and car
ried to his metalluTgical work the latest
technical knowledge When copper was
at bed rock prices and others We're
hardly able to make ends meet working
their mines HeinZe was making money,
and when boom prices came he bought
mines and expanded his reduction work
until he is now in a position to produce
100000 pounds of copper month. He
has bought and developed and owns
mines in Butte which are valued at $780,,
OOO. 900. and his income with present
prices for copper must be more than
$500, 900 a month. This is the man whom
the Standard Oil people have run coun-
ter to at Butte. They planned an anil
gamation of all Butte's copper mines,
and they tried a freeze out game with
Heinze They first offered him s., 000,-
600 and then S10000,000 to get out and
leave the field to them. But Heinz
only laughed at their millions and their
power, and when they tried to hit him
in the courts he came back at them and
routed them utterly. The Amalgamated
Copper company is spending millions to
compel this young American to yield to
their plans. But all their millions and
all their efforts are likely to prove in
vain. Heinze's actions for damages
against the Amalgamated Copper COM
pany amounted to more than $12,000.000.
and every day the Standard Oil people
prolong the fight is only piling on the
agony for them.
Besides his Montana mines and his
great reduction works in that state,
Heinze owns 100000 acres of mineral
land in British Columbia and rich mines
in Arizona. He was the first to realize
the vast mineral possibilities of the
great western province of Canada, and
he built railroads and smelters over
there. Into the few years of his west
ern life have been crowded marvellous
phenomenal good fortune
and a multitude of extraordinary and
stirring events. A born leader of men,
an accomplished orator, a man of eX-
tact, energy, magnetism
and fertility of resource, already very
rich, Hejnze's destiny may lead to
high place. Loved and idolized by his
friends and companions, there is no
place in the gift of the American peo-
pie which this young man is not capa-
bic of filing, and if at some future time
he should go to the senate from Mon
tana he will be a new force in the po-
Iitical life of the country