Mascotte tunnel earning Heinze around $200–300 per day. Heinze's departure The Steven's Copper Handbook, 1911, said of Heinze: The United Copper company is operated as a blind pool by F Augustus Heinze, who has shown himself utterly rapacious, unscrupulous and conscienceless in his mining and financial operations. About one-third of the common stock is held in Holland, and the unfortunate Dutch investors were endeavoring June, 1911, to obtain some explicit information regarding the company's affairs ... the United Copper Company can be considered only as an exceptionally daring piece of stock jobbery. In February 1913 the United Copper Company was placed into receivership so its assets (including Ohio Copper) could be unwound. 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. Payments due had not been met and Heinze claimed that his ongoing legal costs were the reason. Following Heinze's departure, the Bingham Central Railway Company (Mascotte tunnel) was rolled into the new Ohio Copper Company and the combined company was named the Ohio Copper Mining Company of Utah, which operated until 1951. The properties of Ohio Copper are now part of the massive Bingham Canyon Mine. Family and death On August 31, 1910, Heinze was married to the actress Bernice Golden Henderson. Their son, F. Augustus Heinze Jr., was born December 6, 1911. They divorced in 1912, but were reconciled at Bernice's death bed in 1913. In November 1914, Heinze suffered a hemorrhage of the stomach caused by cirrhosis of the liver, and died at 44 years of age. Heinze did not leave a will. His estate was battled over by two women who both claimed to be legally married to him, but it was left to his two-year-old son Fritz Augustus Jr. who was adopted by Heinze's sister, Mrs. Lida Fleitmann. The Philadelphia Inquirer wrote: "Heinze's fight may have been worthwhile. He may have accomplished substantive good for Montana, but his early death in comparative poverty illustrates how devious are the ways of the speculator and how dangerous is the game." Some of the residents of Butte, Montana, thought about building a statue in his honour but it never happened. References Further reading Among McNelis' sources was a 72-page collection of correspondence she had with Otto Heinze between 1943 and 1947. External links Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis – F. Augustus Heinze