The San Francisco call., 1907-01-27

leading statesmen. including the Pre-
mier. Laurier, who took sides with
Helnze.
After several Intellectual attempts to
get a charter. from the Government the
Canadian Pacific was forced to buy
Helnze out or permit him to develop
plans which they believed threatened
the supremacy of the company in the
railroad world of Canada. Itwas in the
negotiations for the transfer of the
charter that Heinze's natural talent for
legal work shone resplendent. Despite
the array of eminent counsel employed
by the Canadian Pacific the young
American drove a bargain that has
been thorn in the side of the great
railroad corporation ever since.
When Heinze made over the 6fty
miles of railroad he had built there
was a condition that the subsidiary
grant was to be apportioned according
to a previous agreement, and In turn
the American had an agreement signed
under which he was to get clear title,
on demand, to 100000 acres of valuable
mineral and timber lands. Under this
agreement the land was TO be nom
taxable until such time as Heinze
should take title. IT never occurred to
the Canadian Pacific or to the Co
lumbian Central Railroad Company,
TO him, that Heinze would not at once
claim title despite a provision, which
the American had inserted, which gave
him until 1912 to make the demand
which would render the land taxable.
Heinze has not vet claimed his title,
and in consequence he has for ten
years enjoyed all the privileges per-
tanning TO ownership Of half million
acres OF the most valuable land in the
u 1T z1rr wi 49,
mines, but many sawmills and timber
forests, without ever having paid a
dollar of taxes.
While 1t might appear that this fac
ulty of getting the better of every bar
gain IS too largely developed in Heinze.
IT must not be understood that senti-
merit never enters into any of his deal
ings with his business associates. His
friends tell how he released enormous
holdings in Canada at the request of a
man who would have been ruined 9TH
erwise. And il is related that this same
friend afterward betrayed Heinze to a
rival mining company, even TO the ex-
tent OF showing the maps and plans
prepared while he was in the employ OF
the man who had helped him on to
wealth.
1t was this betrayal that started a
legal battle which is celebrated In the
Z history of mining law. The story of
the fight for the Rarus mine by Bos-
ton company. which had been persuaded
that 1t had a, right to claim title to 1t
because Of a certain physical formation
or the ore vein, has all been written,
and the mining world knows how
Hein5e came out OF the battle with n.y.
ing colors. There Is, however, q bit OF
history that has never been told, and 1t
will serve to show how hopeless a task
1t was for the opponents Of the young
Brooklynite TO match wits with him
Tor anything worth while.
After his return from Canada to pro-
tect his Butte interests Heinze started
out TO get scalps on his own account.
He declared war on the Boston crowd
and began to attack them at every vul-
nerable point. bone of contention
was the old Michael Davitt mine, which,
although its stock cannot now be found
on the lists, was at one time a cele-
prated copper producer. One sixth OF
the Michael Davitt was still unpur-
chased by the Bostonians. They had
apparently forgotten all about court