F. Augustus Heinze was one of the three "Copper Kings". His company was called the Boston and Montana Company. The other two were William Andrews Clark and Marcus Daly. The three Copper Kings of Butte, Montana made millions of dollars through Buttes rich mineral deposits. ... William Andrews Clark was born January 8th, 1839 in Connellsville, Pennsylvania. ... Marcus Daly (December 5, 1841 - November 12, 1900), was an Irish-born American businessman known as the Copper King. He emigrated from Ireland to the United States at the age of fifteen, arriving in New York City. ...
F. Augustus Heinze was born in 1869 in Brooklyn, New York, United States. He went to Butte, Montana in 1889 as a mining engineer. Heinze was a brilliant man and bought judges to support his cause. He was known to have over thirty judges on his staff at one point in time. He died young from tuberculosis. 1869 is a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... A map highlighting Brooklyn and the rest of New York City. ... State nickname: The Empire State Official languages English Capital Albany Largest city New York City Governor George Pataki (R) Senators Charles Schumer (D) Hillary Clinton (D) Area - Total - % water Ranked 27th 141,205 km² 13. ... Butte, Montana Butte is a city that is located in Silver Bow County, Montana and is the county seat. ... Mining Engineering is an umbrella field that involves many of the other engineering disciplines as applied to extracting and processing minerals from a naturally occurring environment. ... Tuberculosis is an infection with the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which most commonly affects the lungs (pulmonary TB) but can also affect the central nervous system (meningitis), lymphatic system, circulatory system (miliary TB), genitourinary system, bones and joints. ...
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Heinze had to pay a royalty only on ore that was above a certain grade, and he was careful to mix in enough poor-grade ore with the better to stay just below that level.
Heinze bought it, using a company he impudently called the Copper Trust, and promptly claimed that it contained the apexes of the great veins of ore in the adjoining Anaconda, St. Lawrence, and Neversweat mines, belonging to the Amalgamated.
Heinze, in a brilliant speech from the Butte courthouse steps, convinced an initially hostile crowd of ten thousand miners that it was all the trust’s fault, not his, but the governor, faced with the very real threat of statewide starvation, called a special session and the legislature passed the law.
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