Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1912-08-16
WHO IS THIS MAN HER?
Well, Here Are Some Things He Has Done in
Law, Business and Mining.

A. A. Heer. candidate for the
Democratic nomination for Justice
of the Supreme Court and for
whom TIE attorneys of Nevada have
expressed a preference by a vote
of nor than two to one as against
TIE combined strength of the other
two candidates. is a member of the
first of Mack, Green, Brown G.
Heer. of Reno than which no firm
in the state has a higher standing
either with the bar or the public.
He is a native of Missouri, was
educated at the University of
.Notre Dame. Indiana, graduating
in the law at the early age of
eighteen. This attracted consider
able attention in that state at that
time. owing to the efforts of the
University and the governor to find
some way around the requirement
Ufthe law that applicants for adj
mission to the bar be not less than
twenty-one years of age. Being
unable to accomplish this Mr.. Heer
spent the years until his majority
in study and teaching at the
University.
Upon being admitted. he took
charge of the credit and collection
departments of a large implement
manufacturing institution in Indiana
This work, requiring that he re.
present his client in the courts of
many states was the occasion for
another unusual record. Within a
comparatively shor. time he was
admitted to practice in fifteen diff
erent states certainly a valuable
experience for a young lawyer.
After a few years of this purely
commercial practice, Mr.. heer
went to ChicaK an engaged there
in general practice. in that field
of strenuous endeavor where ability
is a necessary condition to success,
aid the fttest only survive he
established a large and lucrative
law business. Years of effort hav-
ing won for him success there.
Fate stepped into his life and
brought him to Nevada. One day
a friend, who had been prospecting
among the golden opportunities
of the great west, came into Mr..
Hers office, told him of the great
fortunes that had been made at
Tonopah about the new camp of
Goldfeld that then babe fair to
eclipse its neighbor, and stated that
he had secured a lease on one of
tire earliest and most promising
locations in that camp. Incident
ally he remarked that he was broke
and that the purpose of his visit
was not to disseminate information.
but to ask for assistance both pro-
fessional and financial. MIR Heer
came through on both require
ments: incorporated the company
and advanced money for. prelimi-
nary expenses. He did more. il
was largely through his efforts
that the company was financed.
The lease was afterwards known
to the world as the Little
Florence that for months pro.
duced thousands of dollars worth
of high-grade daily. So much
wealth naturally aroused the cupid.
ity of some of those interested
friction was engendered among the
stockholders. and litigation wa:
threatened. The eastern directors
who had become such at the solicit
tation of Mr.. Heer, requested him
to go to Nevada to straighten out
the tangle and protect theii
interests. He demurrod declarins
that he could not afford to leave
his private bushes for so long {
time.
They urged that his practic,
could be cared for by others anC
held together, but insisted that h,
could personally safeguard the
holdings of those whom he hat