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Show Disappointed Purchaser Joins Uncle Bim Co. LOS ANGELES, CAL., June 6 Reports published by the Iron County Coun-ty Record, Cedar City, Utah newspaper, news-paper, that the shaft of the Uncle Bim had disclosed caverns filled with lead, zinc, silver and copper ore that ran 39 percent zinc and 18 per cent lead, with high content of copper cop-per and silver, has resulted in W. H; Smith, managing director, finding find-ing a disappointed friend. He is Lorin Hall, vetran mining man who began his career at Goldfield, Nevada, Nev-ada, went to the Klondyke and then to Australia where he was in the gold rush on the Kaloorlie desert. Several years ago Hall trieo. to purchase the Uncle Bim property, then known as the Arrowhead, but he encountered difficulties iu the deal and abandoned the attempt. He lost track of the property until he read in the Iron County Record that the Uncle Bim had struck rich ore while Mr. Smith, Robert A. Brown and other parties interested were at the property. He hunted up Mr Smith in Los Angeles and confirmed the newspaper reports. He congratulated con-gratulated Mr. Smith and told him of his failure to purchase the property. pro-perty. Mr. Smith then suggested that he forget his disappointment and take an interest in the mine. He introduced him to J. D. Henry, formerly for-merly a Minnesota banker, and H. M. Love, who formed a syndicate to ; purchase Uncle Bim stock. Mr. Hall arranged with Henry and 1 Love to join them in the financing of Uncle Bim and the syndicate has received re-ceived additional strength as Mr. Hall is one of the well known Los Angeles mining men with a large and wealthy clientele. He has already al-ready arranged with seven prospective prospec-tive investors to make trips of inspection in-spection to the property as the story of the caverns almost full of soft rich ore has aroused wide interest among mining men. |