Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-10-27
COPPER FIGHT.
Counter Offer to Proposition
of Miners Union.
Heinze, MacGinnis and Others Offer
to Buy the Mines.
Now. Let Us See What the Copper
Kings Will Do.

Butte Mont, Oct. 26.-From the
steps of the county court house in this
city, r. Augustus Heinze. this after
noon, addressed a meeting of the min
ers of Butte, more than $4,000 persons
being in attendance. AS the represent
ative of John MacGinnis, Mr. Heinze
in his speech made counter-proposi-
ton to the offer of the Butte Miners
Union to purchase Mr.. MacGinnis'
stock in the Boston & Montana and
PARROT Mining Companies. and thus
end the litigation with the Amalga-
mated Copper Co. After his address,
Mr.. Heinze had thousands of printed
circulars distributed on the streets of
the city. The circular, which is iden-
teal i'll substance with the oral propo-
sition made by Mr.. Heinze at the mass
meeting. follows in part:
Il am authorized by Mr.. MacGinnis
and Mr.. Lamm to state that they do
not wish to make any money out of
the sale of the stock in the Parrot Co.,
but on the contrary are willing to make
a sacrifice if a sale thereof will result
to the benefit of miners. laborers and
business people of Silver Bow county
and the state of Montana, and l am
authorized by them to make the follow
ing offer. to wit:
That John MacGinnis will sell their
share OF stock in the Boston & Montana
Co., and MacGinnis & Lamm will sell
their shares of stock in the Parrot Co,
provided the judgments and orders now
entered in the case of Forester & Mac
Ginnis against the Boston & Montana
Co, and the costs of the various actions
with reference to this stock and their
rights as stockholders shall forever be
settled; and providing. further, that the
five undivided thirty-sixths of the Nip
per lode claim owned by the Anaconda
Copper Mining Co. or the Amalgamated
Copper Co, shall be sold and conveyed
to me for the price paid therefor by the
Anaconda Copper Mining Co., at the
time it purchased the same and per
cent. interest thereon the date the same
vas purchased: and the Anaconda Cop
per Mining Co. and the Porrot Silver
and Copper Co. shall give be a deed of
conveyance, assuring title to all the
veins and ore bodies contained within
the said Nipper lode claim; and that
the whole controversy with reference
10 Tie Nlpp6f IOue CldliI SIldil forever
be settled, so as to enable me to oper-
ate the Nipper property.
This will put me in a position to give
employment shortly to something like
over 500 men; and provided, further,
that the miners shall obtain an agree
ment. from Mr.. Scallon and H. H.
Rogers that the Amalganated mines
will be kept for the present in contin-
uoUs operation for the next year and
that the present rate of wages which
prevails in the Butte mines and smelt-
ers shall be maintained for a period OF
at least 3 years.
GAS a separate and distinct offer and
outlook to a settlement of the entire
mining controversy, l hereby further
agree to select two men, the Amalga
mated Co. to select two more and these
four to select fifth. which committee
shall have the right to settle all dis
putes and the ownership CT all contrO-
verified ore bodies, and declare the rights
of the respective parties, which decis-
ion shall be final