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


of congress relating to federal courts
and the Lord knows what not-came
to look like nothing so much as a
plate of spaghetti.
Only one thing vas certain
through all that bitter war-Heinze
would not be licked. When the
miners of the district rose en- masse
against him, and in support of Am
algamated, Heinze met them face to
face, and after talking to them for
90 minutes from the steps of the
Butte court house, won them over to
his side. When the Underground
Warfare'-physical figh ing in lower
workings, fighting with steel, dyna-
mite and water-began between the
miners employed by the opposing in
t~erests, Heinze was in shaft, drift and
crosscut directing his men until the
situation became SO weighted with
menace to human life that an agree
ment for amicable mining became a
necessity. When the Amalgamated
crowd played one legal trump, HeniZe
played a higher card, took the lead
and quickly exhausted his opponents
hand. When proeess-servers at
tempted to serve him with legal C
ments while he stood by the grave
open to receive his mothers body,
Heinze's hand went to his gun
pocket, and he told that process
server that the movement of a finger
would cost him his life.
When the fight was at the hottest,
the Amalgamated crowd got control
of two New York banks to which
- iii sn1abTA1 HE
loans were called. He agreed to re-
duce them at the rate of $4,000
daily. A quarter of a million had
been paid off in this manner when
Heinze concluded that he must either
sell out or pay off those loans and
drop negotiations for good and all.
He called on a friend to lend him
$3.50 900. The friend promised.
Heinze went to H. H. Rogers Office
that was when Amalgamated was Of
fering s6,50O,00O and Heinze was
asking So, 500, 600.
I'm going back west" said Mr..
Heinze to the Standard Oil magnate,
I'VE can't come to an agreement"
when are you leaving?" asked
Rogers.
1T is now Friday; I'm leaving
Monday evening"" replied Heinze.
THAT being the case" began
Rogers by way of calling what he
thought was a bluff, drop in and see
me next Tuesday afternoon at
2 o'clock"
That was September 6, 1901.
As Heinze stepped out of Rogers
office. the news of the assassination
fof President Mckinley flashed over
the wires.
Disturbed as was the situation, the
friend came through the next day
with that quarter of a million; the
loans were paid, and I.einze went
back TO the mines, leaving Amalga-
mated to accumulate that 81, 1000, 900
penalty for delay.
A little later Heinze went TO Eu-
rope for a protracted visit. Then
was the time, during his absence,
when Amalgamated would surely get
him. 1t didn't. Heinze's l%ieuenants
were able to carry on affairs success
fully, so well had they been trained;
and it was this-the proof of the
strength of the organization the man
had called into being,-which finally
brought Amalgamated to its knees in
settlement.
The last Heinze ight-his battle to
clear himself of criminal charges
brought in the federal courts resulted
in as clean a victory as did his fight
against Amalgamated. It's very
!, recent history, needing no %re-telling.
There is no gainsaving the fact
: that in this struggle, the United
States district attorney vas utterly
surprised at the tremendous assets the
United Copper Co., owned. as the
books in his possession apparently do
not show the ownership of these
properties by the United. This was
the natural result of the system
which had to be employed in the
fight between the United Copper Co.,
or Mr.. Heinze, and the Amalgamated
Copper Co. During that fight, en-
ployees on each side were constantly
selling information, and as a result,
every means was taken to keep any
but the most trusted and confidential
associates of Mr.. Heinze from know
ing anything about the affairs of the
United Copper Co.
Mr.. Heinze from the beginning of
the fight with the Amalgamated ma
~turally realized that a settlement,
would be the inevitable result, and
that he would have to sell out. He
also realized that in that settlement
there would be no actual appraisal of
properties, but that 1t would be a
question of how little he would take,
and how much the other side would
give. Mr.. Rogers in making the
settlement, always believed he was
eliminating forever any Heinze in
~terests in the mining situation. and
this was another n of the reasons
which made il necessary for the Uni
ted Copper Co, to acquire other hold
ings through fictitious names and
through dummies, as no settlement
would ever have been reached had
the Amalgamated Copper people
known of the other holdings of the
United.
There's the man in silbOuptte-