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...virtually exhausted. Meanwhile the demand for tin constantly increases, thus leaving the tin producer in the pleasant position of meeting an increasing demand with a diminishing supply. Chief tin companies are Anglo-Oriental Malaya, Ltd., British company working a majority of the Malayan and Nigerian mines; and the Patino Mines and Enterprise, Consolidated, organized by Bolivia's Simon Patino. Most of the Dutch mines are government controlled...
Down the gangplank walked Simon Y. Patino, Bolivian Minister to Spain, a man worth ten times ten million good U. S. dollars. This short, broad man with a pug-dog face was accompanied by two sons, Rene and Onlino, two secretaries, two valets, one manager, one physician and 50 pieces of luggage. To the immigration men he handed a diplomatic passport...
...Simon Patino started life 59 years ago. Aged 28 (when he was an insignificant storekeeper), he raised the enormous fortune of $18,000 to buy a tin mine. Since then, he has become richer and richer and still richer. He dislikes discomfort, and-as he has money with which to buy comfort-he keeps no fewer than 13 châteaux in various parts of the world-Nice, Biarritz, London, Paris, et cetera...