Show AMERICANS GET H POliSH H Anaconda Copper and Acquire Control Control Con Con- of Von Giesche Zinc BRESLAU Germany May Mo 23 22 AP The AP-The The Anaconda Copper Mining Min Mm- lUning ing lag company and andi AV A. A J Harriman Co bankers both American concerns concerns concerns con con- cerns have control of pf the Polish holdings of oC George Von Giesche's heirs The negotiations negotiation lon which have been beon going on since last II NoY November were satisfactorily concluded con con- eluded today I The firm was waa founded by George Georgs Von who ViLi in 1704 obtained an exclusive concession cone from Leopold Leo Leo- gold rold I of Austria for mining zinc In Silesia The shares in the conc concern con eon c cern rn have been handed down from generation to generation and emperors emperors emperors em em- kings and statesmen have o tried In vain aln to acquire the control which now goes to the Americans George Von Giesche's sons left lert no heirs and his huge fortune fell into IntI the hands of three daughters Until 1829 none but their direct descendants owned shares After that more distant relatives were occasIonally occasionally occasionally occa occa- permitted to acquire minor interests but outsiders were barred for a long time Not ot until quite re recently recently recently re- re was wa tho the former German crown prince permitted to become a shareholder The exclusive zinc mining concession con con- cession centon in Sil Silesia sla failed of renewal In 1802 but the concern by br branching branching branch branch- ing into other ir industries was abl able to keep up its fabulous profits No exact estimate of oC the company's compans value was wall made mad until 1913 when for tor taxation purposes the Von valued their possessions at marks It the highest vaTu valuation of ot any undertaking in German Germany Ger Get man many not excepting the Krupps Kruppa 1 |