The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1914-11-12
AUGUST HE|NzE IN
MINING HISTORY
COPPER KINGS RECORD IN MON
TANA FULL OF SURPRISES
--owNED STEWART.

in,no men. Mr.. Heinze was one of
40 few mining men who would bold
l., venture into new districts of prom
icing mineral development. Old DIS
.u,ots also attracted him, since he
aooa into the Occur d'Alenes only a
sa,r wars ago, and developed the
stewart mine from prospect to
dividend payer, when older mining
NON in the district had no faith In the
property. Mr.. Heinze was well known
n wallace, and had he lived would no
do,,bt have become identified with
-, ,oore mine development in this
great district.
In Montana's History.
Nv, Helen Fitzgerald Sanders
"u,story of Montana" tells or MT
ua,nze's operations in Montana IN
part as follows:
.In 1889 Heinze graduated from the
eoboo, Of Mines Of Columbia univer-
s,tv and procured employment win
the BOSTON & Montana Consolidated
Co,ner and Silver Mining company,
which owned valuable and extensive
,,,nes in Butte. Possessed of teen
meal education he soon acquired d
wide knowledge of the copper deposits
~ the Butte camp with their intricate
and bewildering system OF veins mat
enabled him under the prevailing MN
to- 1ows to launch an attack on MS
erstwhile employer and Its aliiea com
nanies that became a thorn in their
side.
"prior to the time that Heinze threw
down the gauntlet and began his at
tacks. the courts of Silver Bow county
had been singularly free from iitisd :
tion involving the ore bodies I'll 'he
Butte hill, considering the seoioglca'
formation that was conductive 10 dis
n,tas owing to the innumerable rlch
veins which rendered it easy u claim
ownership of ores under the apex me
orv This law became a poWerIul
vaanon in Heinze's hands. upon TINS
local doctrine rested the rule OF ex-
ira lateral rights. Possessed OF tfe
anex of a vein. locator OF mining
claim was entitled, with certain ex-
centions, to follow the vein IN us
downward course, although 1t might
donart outside of the side lines OF MS
claim. With this doctrine preVallihs
and with the stakes amounting TO un-
told millions it was inevitable tna'
with antagonism existing among tnoSs
onerat;ng on. the Butte hill, inJunctlohs
charges and counter charges OF ore
stealing of all the involved compilca
+,ons Of one law suit following upof
and growing out of another ana o1he'
law suits were bound to produce
condition that would involve the con
testants In political warfare ana III
wade the courts.
His First Company.
"ueinze had acquired the Raru'
Quartz lode claim for $4Oo,Ooo' one y
his mining engineers obtained EN-
n,ovment with the companies that la'
or were controlled by the Amaigama'
ed Copper company as holding CUM
pany, which acquired large amounts =
the stock of the subsidiary cohcei, =,
and thus virtually controlled theH "i
Information reached him that the Dos
ton company claimed the apex Vi -.
por,s which II true, rendered Uni
claim valueless Unable TO sell ou'
them he began his onslaught that iast
ed four years and was not tcr'iiih".1
until his interests were bought NY III
onponents which, having organize
the Coalition Mining company, pul
chased his properties in the ou.'
Damn in 1904. The organization Oh III
Amalgamated Copper company III io'
which. by ownership OF stoch' oo-,
trolled as subsidiary the Anacoho
Copper company the Trenton MINI
and Development company ana u
Rutte q Boston Consolidated MIMI
companv was adroitly employed
He,nze as a means Of furtherlng IL
own ands The coming of this gres
corporation was the signal TOT u
most enormous mining litigation IN
country has ever seen. Heinze IN u
gulse of the laborers champion ai
the uncapitulating enemy OF trust
waged war upon the Amalgamate
Factionism divided individuals ai
politics.
BATTLES were fought between the
to control the legislatures OF MOI
tana, and to win political campalsl
but red hot political struggles pecan
secondary to the innumerabie les
contests in the courts of Silver 81
county.
As an Engineer.
'Heinze was keen mining man
German antecedents and rich come
tions abroad In his capacity of
pert or engineer, he became lntii
ately acquainted with the propertl
OF the Boston & Montana, their ue'
ations in consequence of the right
way bestowed upon the owner Oh
apex of a vein, and he also possess
himself of the informa tion as TO exi'
ing flaws, weaknesses and certain .
of leftover land hedged in among
boundary lines of claims, throu
oversight or mistake. About TINS III
it Is said a relative bequeatneu