White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1910-08-28

Amalgamated Copper paid +.
Augusts Heinze, or the United Cop
per Co.,-it amounted to the same
thing-$10,50O.00 900 in order to put
an end to the legal warfare over cop
per mining in Butte. Amalgamated
started out with a willingness to pay
$4,000, OO0-a willingness born after
Heinze had whipped it, and its whole
splendid organization to a stand-still.
When Amalgamated was willing TO
pay $500 900, Heinze was willing
to accept $500. 600. The addition
al s4,0O0,000 which Amalgamated
finally paid, and the extra 81, 100000
which Heinze finally got represented
on the side a penalty and on the
other a reward; a penalty for obstin-
acy. a reward for tenacity and-the
courage t 0 fight and fight hard.
The negotiations for this settle
ment were protracted. They were
carried on personally between II. II.
Rogers, president of ~Amalgamated
Copper, and Mr.. Heinze. They were
finally disposed of a little more than
six years ago. Mr.. Heinze tells the
story of how they proceeded in this
fashion:
Il used to go into Mr.. Rogers Office
nearly every morning. I'd say. Good
morning. and then I'd feel Mr..
Rogers pulse. Next I'd remark, You
are not quite weak enough yet; I'll
come back tomorrow That would
about end negotiations for the day;
and matters progressed in about this
manner until the first surrender
came, and the deal was closed
The story may not be literally true
Mr.. Heinze seldom lets go by
tongue all he knows, as every foe he
has ever encountered learned sooner
or later-but 1t is a good one; and it
indexes the character of the comman-
ding generals in the greatest war cop
per circles have ever known. OF Mr..
Heinze, it is truly typical. He is pre-
Aseiy the sort of man who could do
a thing like that-makes sport while
fighting hard against an enemy he
knew to be worthy of the best arrow
in his culver.
When the Butte battler, as he has
been aptly termed, was a student in
the Columbia College School of Mines
from which, at 10 years of age, he
graduated in 1889 with his degree as
mining engineer, he attended the
summer camp of the school. Among
the instructors was one, somewhat of
a wrestler and pugilist, who made 1T
a rule to Knockout" in boxing bouts
every student in the camp. He went
right down the line, hanging student
pelts to his belt with unfailing regu-
lartity the first season Henize was In
the school. He got everybody but
young HeinZe, who would not fight,
and who thereby incurred the deris-
ion of his class. At the camp the
pext summer, the Instructor bull
dozed and ridiculed Heinze until
finally the latter consented to put on
the gloves for a match. The bout
lasted a fraction of a round; Heinze
knocked that instructors block off
without taking time to warm up. All
through the winter, between hat
first and second summer camps he
had been taking boxing lessons of an
ex-pugilist with full intention to
or later get that obnoxious
instructor. When the moment for
the fray arrived, he went to the
scratch a trained boxer, backed by a
physique that put him in the heavy
weight class. and having in his crani-
UNI a faculty for generalship which
has remained with him to stamp him
as a genius.
These two stories show the name
of man F. Augustus Heinze is-and
that is the real purpose of this series.
For dry biographical data there is
scant room. The side-lights best
bring into relief the lights and
shadows of character. Only a word
of biography. F. Augustus Heinze