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Show CAEEER OF "FRITZ" HEINZE. (New York Tribune.) 1 George Haldorn, one of the. most prominetn lawyers of Butte, in speaking speak-ing of Montana affairs yesterday at the Waldorf-Astoria, said: "Montana, owing ow-ing to the present contest over the seat in" the senate which W. A. Clark now holds, is occupying a prominent place befoie the public just now, and I am daily asked this, that and the other question concerning Montana affairs, but f the queries p.ut to me concerning concern-ing the men of my state there is apparent appar-ent a growing desire for information as to who and what manner of man is F. Augustus Heinze, who blocks the path toward perfecting the amalgamation of Montana's copper interests. Heinze differs from Clark "and Daly in all essential es-sential details of character. They were of the stuff that hardly pioneers are made of. They faced the dangers of frontier life and brought civilization I and peace where a wilderness had ex-1 ex-1 isted and savage warfare was perpet-i perpet-i ually waged. Through their enterprise, pluck and. bulldog tenacity . , both of these men were able to, attain power and wealth and to enrich and lay in their debt Montana in accomplishing ; their object and ambition. ! " 'Fritz' Heinze, while fully, as pictur-. pictur-. esque, brilliant and interesting a char-' char-' acter as either of his great rivals, differs dif-fers from them in his methods as he does in hin age. He represents the new method, they the old. To his aid he summons all the resources of modern j science and the advantages of a perfect teachnical education. A son of Otto I Heinze, a well k own and wealthy New I York merchant, 'P'ritz' Heinze was graduated at Columbia and finished in Germany. At the close of his college career hVwent to Butte to look about, i Recognizing the vast possibilities the ! future held for that region he has remained re-mained there ever siince. It was but ! little more than ten years ago that he i fircr came there. A well educated, per fectly poised man of the world, Heinze is an extremely good looking one as U'ell, and when he lirst canie to Butte he bore a marked resemblance to the j portraits of the first Napoleon. After i settling in Butte, Heinze took a. hori-! hori-! zontal measure of men and things and I bided his time, and at the proper psychological psy-chological moment he leased and bought mines and built a smelter plant." i "The old timers," Mr. Haldorn con-tinued. con-tinued. "did not think that the youthful j New Yorker could hold hia own in the ; copper minig business with the other copper magnates, who had had more ! practical experience. But he fooled I them all. He put into his mining ventures ven-tures great engineering talent and car-: car-: ried to his metallurgical work the latest ; technical knowledge. When copper was at bed rock, prices and others were hardly able to make ends meet working their mines Heinze was making money, and: when boom prices came he bought mines and expanded his reduction work until he is now in a position to produce 4.000,000 pounds of copper a month. He has bought and developed and owns mines in Butte which are valued at $30,-000.000, $30,-000.000, and his income with present prices for copper must be more than. $300,000 a month. This is the man whom the Standard Oil people have run counter coun-ter to at Butte. They planned an aml-gnmation aml-gnmation of all Butte's copper mines, and they tried a 'freeze out' game with Heinze. They first offered him $5,000,-000 $5,000,-000 and then $10,000,000 to get out and leave the field to them. But Hein; only laughed at their millions and their i pow er, and when they tried to hit him in the courts he came back at them and routed them utterly. The Amalgamated Copper company is spending millions to compel this young American to yield to their plans. But all their millions and all their efforts are likely to prove in j vain. Heinze's actions for damages j against the Amalgamated Copper com-' com-' pany amounted to more than $12,000,000. ! and every day the Standard Oil people j prolong the fight is only piling on the i agony for them. "Besides his Montana mines and his ' great reduction works in that state, j Heinze owns 500,000 acres of mineral i land in British Columbia and rich mines I in Arizona. He was the first to realize j the vast mineral possibilities of the j great western province of Canada, and j he built railroads and smelters over there. Into the few years of his west-: west-: ern life have been crowded marvelous i enterprise, phenomenal good fortune j and a multitude of extraordinary and I stirring events. A born leader of men, I an accomplished orator, a man of ex-I ex-I traordinary tact, energy, magnetism j and fertility of resource, already very ; rich, Heinze's destiny may lead to a high place. Loved and idolized by his ! friends and companions, there is no I place in the gift of the American peo- i pie which this young man is not capa-, capa-, ble of filling,' and if at some future tiriie ! he should go to the senate from Mon- . tana he will be a new force in the po-j po-j litical life of the country." |