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  s-l1600.jpg - ANACONDA MINE MATCH SAFE - Rare brass mining match safe; one side features image of mining operation, marked HEINZE SMELTERS. The reverse has a tower, below marked GALLOWS, FRAME AND HOIST, ANACONDA MINE and a floral edge design. Match safe dates to c. 1895 and measures approximately 2 1/2 x 1 1/2 in. [HEINZE SMELTERS - Frederick "Fritz" Augustus Heinze was an American businessman, known as one of the three Copper Kings of Butte, Montana, along with William Andrews Clark and Marcus Daly. Heinze was born in Brooklyn, New York on December 5, 1869, to wealthy parents, Otto Heinze, an immigrant from Germany and Lida Lacey, an immigrant from Ireland. He graduated from Columbia School of Mines, New York, in 1889 and headed west to Colorado and Salt Lake City to pursue his interest in mining. Heinze went to Butte, Montana, in 1889 as a mining engineer for the Boston and Montana Company. In 1894, Heinze's Montana Ore Purchasing Company opened a sophisticated new smelter, allowing Heinze to offer low-priced smelting to small mining companies. Originally, Heinze had to lease mines and secure ore from independent companies in order to keep operating. Later, Heinze was able to locate rich ore bodies and he purchased the Rarus Mine in 1895, which turned out to be one of Butte's premier mining properties. In 1902, Heinze combined his various mining interests into a company called United Copper Company, with capacity to produce 40 million pounds of copper a year. In 1906, after a decade of the mining war, John D Ryan negotiated with Heinze for Heinze to sell his Butte interests to Amalgamated for a reported $12 million. His mining days in Butte, Montana, had come to an end but Heinze had amassed a fortune. In February 1913 the United Copper Company was placed into receivership. In mid 1914, at an acrimonious shareholders meeting, control of the Ohio Copper Company passed from Heinze to William O Allison, president of the company. On November 4, 1914, Heinze suffered a hemorrhage of the stomach caused by cirrhosis of the liver, and died at 44 years of age. ANACONDA MINE - The Anaconda Copper Mine was the largest copper-producing mine in the world from 1892 through 1903. Located in Butte, Montana it transformed this small and poor town into one of the most prosperous cities in the country, often called the Richest Hill on Earth. This small silver mine was bought in 1881 by Marcus Daly from Michael Hickey. Hickey was a prospector and Union Civil War veteran, and named his claim the Anaconda Mine after reading Horace Greeley's Civil War account of how Ulysses S. Grant's forces had surrounded Robert E. Lee's forces "like an anaconda". Daly then developed the Anaconda Mine in partnership with George Hearst, father of William Randolph Hearst, and James Ben Ali Haggin and Lloyd Tevis of San Francisco. Huge deposits of another mineral, copper, were soon discovered. Daly quietly bought up neighboring mines forming a mining company and would eventually own all the mines on Butte Hill. He then built a smelter at Anaconda which he connected to Butte by a railway. From this beginning grew the Anaconda Copper Mining Company, a global mining enterprise featuring the Anaconda and other Butte mines, a smelter at Anaconda, Montana, processing plants in Great Falls, Montana, the American Brass Company, and many other properties, mostly in the United States and Chile. The Anaconda Copper Mining Company was acquired by ARCO in 1977. The Anaconda mine itself was closed in 1947 after producing 94,900 tons of copper. Its location has been consumed by the Berkeley Pit, a vast open-pit mine. In 1977, Anaconda was sold to the Atlantic Richfield Company (ARCO) for $700 million. By 1983 the Berkeley Pit was completely idle and ARCO suspended all operations in Butte.]  
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s-l1600 | ANACONDA MINE MATCH SAFE - Rare brass mining match safe; one side features image of mining operation, marked HEINZE SMELTERS. The reverse has a tower, below marked GALLOWS, FRAME AND HOIST, ANACONDA MINE and a floral edge design. Match safe dates to c. 1895 and measures approximately 2 1/2 x 1 1/2 in. [HEINZE SMELTERS - Frederick "Fritz" Augustus Heinze was an American businessman, known as one of the three Copper Kings of Butte, Montana, along with William Andrews Clark and Marcus Daly. Heinze was born in Brooklyn, New York on December 5, 1869, to wealthy parents, Otto Heinze, an immigrant from Germany and Lida Lacey, an immigrant from Ireland. He graduated from Columbia School of Mines, New York, in 1889 and headed west to Colorado and Salt Lake City to pursue his interest in mining. Heinze went to Butte, Montana, in 1889 as a mining engineer for the Boston and Montana Company. In 1894, Heinze's Montana Ore Purchasing Company opened a sophisticated new smelter, allowing Heinze to offer low-priced smelting to small mining companies. Originally, Heinze had to lease mines and secure ore from independent companies in order to keep operating. Later, Heinze was able to locate rich ore bodies and he purchased the Rarus Mine in 1895, which turned out to be one of Butte's premier mining properties. In 1902, Heinze combined his various mining interests into a company called United Copper Company, with capacity to produce 40 million pounds of copper a year. In 1906, after a decade of the mining war, John D Ryan negotiated with Heinze for Heinze to sell his Butte interests to Amalgamated for a reported $12 million. His mining days in Butte, Montana, had come to an end but Heinze had amassed a fortune. In February 1913 the United Copper Company was placed into receivership. In mid 1914, at an acrimonious shareholders meeting, control of the Ohio Copper Company passed from Heinze to William O Allison, president of the company. On November 4, 1914, Heinze suffered a hemorrhage of the stomach caused by cirrhosis of the liver, and died at 44 years of age. ANACONDA MINE - The Anaconda Copper Mine was the largest copper-producing mine in the world from 1892 through 1903. Located in Butte, Montana it transformed this small and poor town into one of the most prosperous cities in the country, often called the Richest Hill on Earth. This small silver mine was bought in 1881 by Marcus Daly from Michael Hickey. Hickey was a prospector and Union Civil War veteran, and named his claim the Anaconda Mine after reading Horace Greeley's Civil War account of how Ulysses S. Grant's forces had surrounded Robert E. Lee's forces "like an anaconda". Daly then developed the Anaconda Mine in partnership with George Hearst, father of William Randolph Hearst, and James Ben Ali Haggin and Lloyd Tevis of San Francisco. Huge deposits of another mineral, copper, were soon discovered. Daly quietly bought up neighboring mines forming a mining company and would eventually own all the mines on Butte Hill. He then built a smelter at Anaconda which he connected to Butte by a railway. From this beginning grew the Anaconda Copper Mining Company, a global mining enterprise featuring the Anaconda and other Butte mines, a smelter at Anaconda, Montana, processing plants in Great Falls, Montana, the American Brass Company, and many other properties, mostly in the United States and Chile. The Anaconda Copper Mining Company was acquired by ARCO in 1977. The Anaconda mine itself was closed in 1947 after producing 94,900 tons of copper. Its location has been consumed by the Berkeley Pit, a vast open-pit mine. In 1977, Anaconda was sold to the Atlantic Richfield Company (ARCO) for $700 million. By 1983 the Berkeley Pit was completely idle and ARCO suspended all operations in Butte.] Download Original Image
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