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Show m com if! IS EXPECTED m "Xing" Patten Going to Get Back Into Game on tlie Bull Side. By T.casod AVlre to The Tribune. GinCAGO, April 16. Within the next fortnight America will sec another sensational cotton war as tho result of a bull campaign led by James K. Patten. Pat-ten. Mr. Patten docs not deny that he is going into the market harder than ho ever has before. Before tho maturity of May options wheat bulls control, the strong .bear clique operating in the Now Yorkjit will tender from 1200.000 to 2r50,000 bales on contracts lo the Patten-Brown-ITaync-Sc-ales buil ring, known as the (Big Four." The general impression at this time is that, so far as the bull campaign itself it-self is concerned, Patten personally will be called upon to supply the bulk of the funds needed to pay for the cotton cot-ton tho bears will deliver. Jlis ability to do ho is not doubted. Patten's fortune is now estimated at $25,000,000. -Recently, in New York, a reporter remarked that he must have lost a lot of inonej' -J" his operations. The speculator lookedfthe reporter over very carefully and then replied: ''Son, you would think more of losing los-ing a dime than I do of a million." |