New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-08
THE PASSING THRONG

George Haldorn. one OF the most pronins,. =,
yers Of Butte n speaking Of Montana arraIr. "-
terday the Waldorf a. rs
CAREER OF said. Montana. owing to tba Ia
FRITZ ent contest over the seat 49,
HEINZE. Senate which W. A Cla-k us
holds. is occupying a pron,,..0F
place before the Tublic Just now. and
daily asked this that and the other ~ n
tio1 concerning Montana affairs. but Of =
queries put to me concerning the men Of nv So
there is apparent growing desire for inforrna,ee
as 20 who and what manner OF man Is z. AugassS..
Heinze. who blocks the path toward perfsctl8-s.-s
Heinze differs from Clark and Daily In all esssss
details OF character They were OF the stun -.
Of frontier life and brought civilization a.
peace where wilderness had existed and savsrss
warfare perpetually waged. Through 80
enterprise, pluck and bulldog tenacfty both OF ss
enrich and lay in their debt Montana in go
plishing their object and ambition
brilliant and interesting character as s5rssssA
his great rivals. differs from them in his nstso1
method. they the old To his ala he SUNNI ne a.s
the resources Of modern science and the advansass
of perfect technical education. a son 81 -
Heinze. well known and wealthy New-York ~ ~
G ambs PI nd s5 Hsnze WAS graduated At
close OF his college career he went TO Bu-s
there ever since II but little more than -.
Gated. perfectly poised man OF the world Hss.--.
is extremely good looking one as well and wsss
blance 20 the portraits OF the first Napoleon AZ
settling in Butte Heinze took horizontal measure
OF men and things and bided his time and an -
proper PsyehoIIogical moment ne leased and bousss
The old timers" Mr. HaIdorn continued ga.
not think that the youthful New-Yorker could hoa
his own in the copper mining bust
HIS FIGHT ness with the other copper mar
AGAINST mates who had had more urac
AMALGAMA- teal experience But he fooled
TON. them all He put into his rnf,,,
ventures great engineering talsn.
and carried to his metaIurgical work the Iates,
technical knowledge. When copper was al bed
rock prices and others were hardly able 70 make
money and when boom prices came he bo cn :
mines and expanded his reduction work until ne i
per month. He has bought and developed a7s
owns mines at Butte which valued at so O0e 900
and MS income with present prices for copper ruzr
be more than 10000 a month. This Is the nan
whom the Standard Oil people have counter to
at Butte. They planned amalgamatfOu or all
Buttes copper mines. and they tried freeze OUT
and then $40 OO 900 20 get out and leave the si5 -
them. But Heinze only laughed at their millions
and their power and when they tried to hit ~,
in the courts ne came back at them and routsd
them utterly. The Amalgamated Copper Company
lean to yield to their plans But ali their r1Io,,
and all their efforts likely to prove IA vain
mated Copper Company amounted TO more tan
sl2Q6OOOO, and every day the Standard Oil people
them -
Besides his Montana mines and his great re-
ductiOn works in that State. Heinze owns five hun
dred thousand of mineral lands in British
Columbia and rich mines in Arizona. He was the
first to realize the mineral possibilities OF the
great western province of Canada. and he built
railroads and smelters over there Into the few
years of his Western life have been crowded mar
velOus enterprise. phenomenal good fortune and a
multitude Of extraordinary and stirring events. A
born leader of men. accomplished orator. a man
OF extraordinary tact energy, magnetism and fer
tiity of resource already very rich HeiRZe's des-
tiny may lead to a high place. Loved and idolized
Oy his friends and companions. there is no place
in the gift of the American people which this
young man is not capable of filing and IL at sons
future time he should go TO the Senate from Mon
tana. he will be force in the political life OF
the country