The Washington herald., 1907-05-12
GREAT AMERICAN
COPPER ROMANCES
BY DEXTER MARSHALL
BY DEXTER MARSHALL.


could invest their surplus millions when
they got IN the way.
The Tumuituous Heinze.
F. Augustus Heinze, long the mos,
actively disturbing factor in the copper
world, first appeared in Montana, a
/ tenderf0ot fresh from school, in 1883, ten
years before Amalgamated was organized.
/ Heinze was born in Brooklyn OF German
! descent, and although then only twenty,
1 had studied mineralogy and mining engi-
i neering at the Columbia School Of Mines,
and thought he knew few things about
his business. He began as an inside"
engineer for the Boston and Montana
! Copper Company at s. a day, and worked
with all the determination and energy
he could muster ten or twelve hours
every day. Evenings he cut something
of a social dash, and was one Of the few
In Butte with nerve enough TO wear even
Ing clothes at dinner.
This gave him a certain prominence
IN the camp. Before long he became a
marked figure for something else. Little
by little It was found out that he knew
more about copper IN general and the
Lutte Atla-iNa IA N-itAtENlGA AAidN llbSL OF
them, and those who had laughed at
him for tenderfoot had to sit up and
take notice. They would have taken
closer notice had they understood how
minutely he had studied the mines, how
patiently he had explored mile after mile
of galleries, how many specimens Of ore
he had examined with his own hands,
how carefully he had gone into every de-
tail and why.
After two years in Butte Heinze sud
denly left the place. returned to New
York. scraped together what money he
could and went TO Germany. there to con-
tiuue his studies. Two years later he
reappeared in Butte accompanied by his
brother Arthur, a shrewed lawyer. and
about $4,000. the proceeds of a legacy
left by his grandmother.
This was in. 1898 or 1884 With his
brother ana the money he became a
great tce-cUuer in Montana. The two
HeinZcs studied the mineral land laws as
closely as Augustus had ever studied
mines and minerals Whenever Arthur
discovered what he considered legal
flaw in the title Of a nine, it was at
tackled. Presently Hcinze had the whole
Montana copper region stirred as # had
never been stirred before. with the en-
tire money world looking on. interested
in spite of itself. by the size of the
stakes.
II was the lawsuits which eusued he
tween HeinZe and the mining companies
taken over by the Amalgamated that
formed the hasis of the fierce fight be-
tween Heinze and II. II. Rogers. When,
as the chief spirit of the Amaigamated.
Rogers bought the mines involved he
lccessaEily bought the Heinze quarrels
and suits along with them. The two men
never had the slightest personal differ
ences until, in the nature of things. they
just had 70 quarrel over titles.
These various suits were In progress
when Lawson. of Boston. butted in. The
passage at arms between the three-I.aw- /
son, Rogers, and Heinze-and one Ad-
dicks. whose speciality has been gas not I
copper-as well as occasional attempts at 4
reconciliation, long made mostly by Law 4
son. were undoubtedly highly picturesque 1
sven without the glamour shed upon them
by Lawson's remarkable pen. AS re- 4
lated in his "Frenzied Finance" they
gave the reading public an altogether new
notion of some things.
W. A. Clark's several campaigns for a /
United States Senatorship from Montana 1
and MS final success are a part of the /
string of copper romances. and so are
most Of the bitter political fights in that
State, and likewise the tremendous graft
charges and the marvellous list Of crimes.
some only charged and others actually
committed, for the red metals sake.
Great COpper Awakening.
o.
copper doings as those Of Clark and DAILY.
IF Heinze and Lawson has been brought
10 close. Al all events, the copper
world has apparently begun TO settle
iown to a more or less regular routine
# production and sale and stock specula-
ion, somewhat as the petroleum world
adjusted itself subsequent to the forma-
ion Of the Standard Oil Company, after
ears of unheavals which sometimes Gre
tied dozens of fortunes in a day. only to
lesroy them in as brief a time.
The Rogers-Heinze feud. which in
'olved the Boston and Montana and the
Butte and Boston properties. was ended
learly two years ago, and no other copper
rouble approaching it in seriousness. has
prung up since.
To-day in each Of the three great red
METAL districts Of the United States-tbe
superior region, Montana. and Arizona
'ew Mexieo-copper mining is now run
ing along almost as smoothly as the
mining of iron. though. of course. subject
o greater disturbances from stock fiuc- ,
uations and new discoveries, since .ex-
ioration parties are constantly at work ]
q ali the three main regions Of present
reduction and others beside
The most noteworthy exploring expedI-
on organized in late years was sent 10
rizona from the Superior district in 1898
ne divers, George Z. Tenor, w. E.
oley, James Gayley. Thomas F. Cole. /
nd others now heavily interested in iron g
inning, and the United States Steel Cor
oration ID. H. Clemens, Thomas Morrf- /
1n, Charles Briggs. James and Thomas q
-oatsoR, Charles d'Autremont. Chester J.
COngdon Charles A. Duncan. JoseDb
!. Cotton and John D. Ryan, managing
rector OF the Amalgamated. but origi- 3
ally Calumet and Hecla man, were all
teTested. I
The result was the discovery and devel- I
oment of the Calumet and Arizona. now
eVeath IN production among the worlds =
PIPER thlhes, at BlsDees AriZ. The Calu-
et and Arizona property Is close TO the
opper Queen, sixth in point of produc- !,
on (64570,S74 pounds avoirdupois i'm 1901
hich has been doing business Just as 7 7
ng as the Anaconda, but whose owners
lied 10 develop their neighborhOod.
The exploring party of 1898 did not fail
ileep after making their big strike in a
rlZona. but transferred their energies {
once 10 Montana, in the vicinity of
ute. There they went at the little old f
1eeulator mine and adjacent properties =,
ith all the energy imaginable. Before =
ng they were turning ON two or threa =