Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1907-10-30
HEINzE NOT A
BIT TROUBLED
NAN WnO HANDED IT To
ltOGElgs n STILL N
THE GAME.


TO lieht ever since put my hands on
a piece OF copper ore. and I'm used
10 trouble"
Sitting on his desk. munehing a
sandwich and swinging his feet with
the abandon OF a happy school boy,
Fritz Augustus Heinze. central figure
in the spectacular drama in Wall
street. remarked only what the whole
world knows when he said that he
was used to trouble
1t, is eighteen years since the strap
ping youth of 20, his only asset his
education as an engineer in the Co.
lumbia school of mines, started out
West to make his fortune. In that
time he has wrested millions from
the rich copper veins of Montana,
and has spent millions humbling the
Standard Oil group of financiers; he
has plunged into their own game in
Wall street, and perhaps has sat in
it too long for the good of his own
pile of chips; but in all that time the
boyish appearing copper man has
been fighting, always fighting. And
what would the world know of F.
Augustus Heinze were it not for his
fights?
So it was not surprising that he
should answer, when asked if he is
prepared to stay in the fight in Wall
street:
81 am always prepared for
trouble"
Are your intentions to remain in
New York unchanged?"
Il have not the slightest intention
of spending any less time in New
York than usual" was Heinze's even.
toned reply II will probably be here
little longer this trip than I in
tended, but I like New York and do
not mind staying here, because aside
from the development interests in the
west which need my attention,
have no interest greater than to pre-
serve my interests in New York,
which are growing daily, despite
what may seem to be very adverse
circumstances
1t is an unusual mood, or tense
that induces F. Augustus Heinze to
give an interview In the great bat
ties which won him fame as the only
man who ever made Standard Oil
knuckle, Heinze seldom said word
for print. One who did not know
him we'll would have expected to find
him in no mood to talk
!; But that is just where even Henry
H. Rogers underestimated the force
of character of his foe. In the midst
of financial stress HeinZe is as i'm.
perturbable as he was when Rogers
sent, for him and demanded to know
what was his price for surrender
The young copper king remarked
that he came to listen to proposals
ed $250,00O. Heinze simply put or
his hat and started to go. Rogers
! raised to nearly $10,O00,000 before
, the session ended.
With nerve unbroken, with witt
sharpened by his ten years of cease
/, less warfare in Montana, the youn;
! giant, interloper in the game of fin
!, ance, sits unfiinching as he sees hi
!. enemy take the trick of the Mercan
> tile bank To observe his noncha
: lance one would not suspect that h,
/ has even an interest in the game, O.
! that last weeks events were part 0
r an effort to freeze him out for re
7 Ivenge.
!. While the busy clerks and mes
!, sengers dashed back and forth in tn
i Heinze offices at AZ Broadway
!, Heinze himself ate a chicken sand
!, witch and slipped cup of tea as h
! sat at his desk, yawned and com
J. planned that it was such fine da
! for automobiling that one shouldn't
IS spend it in an office. The sandwic
|
! done, Heinze seated himself befor
J, his desk again, lighted a cigar an
k listened.
e. do you think you have bee
Ie 'double-crossed' by some of your fir
]. ancial associates?"
u That is term used in connectio
$, with human endeavor that does nc
5. have the sanction of honorable mel
g if l understand it correctly" Heinz
4. replied, land we are all honorabl
. men down this way
=, = Having expressed his confidence
$, the stability of his New York inves
n ments, Mr. Heinze was asked:
is Then you do not consider yo
have been handed a lemon, as SON
!, of the headlines expressed it?"
No; | would say rather it We
! like ordering some sweets from II
candy shop and on opening the pacl