Word: salvadora
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That was in 1905. Next year the agent of a U. S. firm, reported to be the Guggenheims, appeared with an offer to buy the Salvadora mine, which Simon Patino had acquired from a Portuguese prospector in payment for a grocery bill-a deal which cost the clerk his store job. Patino wanted to sell but his wife did not. "We will go bankrupt with Salvadora," she cried, "or you will be el gran Mirador, the greatest of tin miners." Senor Patino climbed on his mule and went back to his mine...
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