The San Francisco call., 1907-01-27

facetous over TOOLS and tnelr money
and prophesied that the young man
from Brooklyn would be travelling east
before the year was out.
Makes His Strike
While Heinze was building his re-
duction works he was negotiating with
James Murray one of the oldest mine
owners of Butte, for the lease OF Muir
rays mine They came to terms, and
by the time the smelter was ready for
business the young man had taken out
a large quantity Of ore for treatment
under his new process. Under the
agreement with Murray the lessee was
to give him q certain percentage of the
ore taken from the mine, but this per-
centage varied according to the grade
Of ore treated. Murray had assumed
that the new company would strive to
get out only the highest grade, on
which he would realize the highest per-
centage. Contrary to expectations.
Heinze seemed satisfied with an In
ferior grade OF ore. as his new methods
OF reduction brought a profit as large
as was usually obtained from ore OF a
SUPERIOR grade.
On the day the smelling operations
wer~to begin. Murray brought suit for
annulment of the contract and OBJ
tanned an injunction which shut down
the nine. lepflNe0 OIL MS source OIL
ore supply for his smelter, Heinze, it
was believed, would be unable to carry
out his copper contracts and would be
obliged to shut down, and, with no
funds to nght Murray in the courts,
the old miner was thought to be in a
fair way to soon own the whole works.
1t was here that the young engineers
study Of the conditions in Butte dur
ing the year he lived in the log cabin
his al "a 1noEAd afpa
that had been worked by two or three
companies and had been abandoned ag
worthless. This investment was the
cause of much merriment among the
old timers who were friends of Muir
ray. Heinze smiled in his quiet way
and said: Wait a while"
Within thirty days he was digging
out OF the supposed worthless mine.
Soon the smelling works had to be
enlarged, and with the money taken
out of the old mine. .Heinze defended
the suit brought by Murray and won.
Three years later Heinze was able to
purchase for $500. 900 mine which has
since developed into a property val
ued at s1o,000.0oo.
Having emerged from ell his hnan-
cial dificulties, the young engineer
sought new fields for his genius for
organization. He believed Canada
offered a wider scope for development
plans than even his beloved Montana,
and IL was in Canada that he made his
first big coup.
Leaving his Butte affairs in the
hands of persons in whom he believed
he could place perfect confidence,
Heinze made a tour of a section of
British Columbia and found what he
expected-vast tracts of valuable min
eral and timber land. He obtained q
charter for a railroad which carried
with ii land grant tof 10000 acres for
every mile OF road built. He had built
fifty miles Of railroad and had erected
a smelter when the Canadian. Pacific
Railroad Company woke up to the fact
that this young man from Brooklyn
was poaching upon what they consid-
cred We're their preserves. The great
Canadian corporation applied for a
charter TO parallel Heinzee road. but
in the short time that the American
had lived in the Dominion he had won
the friendship and admiration OF its