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drill for oil and share profits with the lot holders. $, Certain fellows send you a free Jease of alleged oil land, on condition that you merely “boost” their section, The only expense to you will be the fee for recording the lease. The fee, however, covers the county clerk's charges and jeaves a margin of profit to the leasers, and if their dupes are many they get quite a pot of money, 5. Holders of stock are informed that » prepared to buy a con- t high shares capitalists trolling interest in their company figures and are offered additiona at the original price, so that they may realize a handsome profit. But the promoter is the only one who profits, for the capitalists unaccountably back out of the arrangement. A New York man recently had several hundred shares im- posed upon him in this way, but he raised such a storm over it that he got his money back. Few of the dupes are ever so fortunate, THe E cases show how it behooves the investing public to consider Texas oil schemes (as well as similar schemes in other States) warily until convincing proof is given that a company or syndic is honestly and ably conducted, is making legitimate profits and is in a position safely to pay dividends. ‘There are such companies and such syndicates, but they are comparatively few. The aggregate sum which oil swindlers extract from. the pockets of the masses would serve to develop a host of useful and helpful enter- pris It is always to be remembered that reputable financial houses have nothing to do with fraudulent promotions such as have been outlined, No stocks of any kind—oil or other—should be bought except through brokers in good standing who can be depended upon for square dealing. Answers to Inquiries Mecnastesnon waking a good re f vou go into th r you will set always happen s business and safe Attayric Cry, N. J: ‘The Thomas Cusack C upies a field which should be filled with opportunit der favorable sit should have a big ns to be bet! 1 your shares than $30. There is apparently no market nd it might be hard to get better than the fered you. P., Sovrmistr <quoted at 50 ¢ has no par val planni . but you had better play F ox, Le Tz Carlisle nts bid, and $1 asked. stock The preferred stock, par 825, bid, 87 asked. Sweets Company is highly speculative and a non-dividend Pierce Oil common is a long pull. The company n its preferred and although it a future, its stocks h not to buy Co. common of Ame not becx jo be not © project, but the public for the shares. Steel & Tube Co n excellent purchase such as you inqui preferred, U an Petro ally wrong with t t begun to be cent. preferred. is Among the best are Bethlehem Steel 8 per ce Rubber 8 per ered, Mex preferred, Bethlehe Swelting & Refining Steel 7 per cent. preferred, American 7 per cent. preferred, American Woolen 7 per cent. common, Sinclair 8 per cent. pre- ferred, and Mack Truck 7 per. cent. first preferred. B., Bostox, Mas The Twin State Gas & Electric Co, is not 0} st of corporations, but it pays dividends and its 7 per cent. prior li looks like a fairly good busin M., Foxp pu Lac, Wis count st of the Rhine perce with { ds could hardly Certainly not axana, Mict.: The C. R. Wilson Body Co. dividend on preferred m good return on aid. ‘The Remington Arms 63 c, but their net return is less than that of Wilson Body Co. preferred. New Berono, Mass.: I don’t think except themsely d their confidential advi know how much Henry Ford and John D. Rockefeller are worth. It is said that Mr. Ford's current income is lerger thin Mr. Rockefeller’s, But how their s not been made known. Mr, sums. If he had retained them he ly be far richer to-day than Henry Ford, be so in spite of his donations, Kax.: Building & Loan Associations, ly managed, are excellent insti anybody s really. which ha stock market, too man: The You might ntile agency. Light & Heat Corp. ler from’ the Durant Corporation ble profit for Z,, Venoiane, Nei a large ought to be in that consi . & H B., Srenuive, ut: Optimistic s nts had indi- cated that the Willys-Overland corporation was sharing proved business reported by other concerns in the industry. The Willys-Overland report for the first six months of th pwever, has just come out and makes a rather di: | showing. There was a net loss from operation of over $160,000 a otal loss after di counts and expenses of more than 81,000,000. |The profit and loss defi $5,000,000. to over 815,000,000, Judging from. th Willys-Overland still has a hard battle before its more speculative than ever and a longer 8 ANGELES, Cat. Southern ( on an 8 per cent. dividend b tractive purchase, The Trenton (Mo. Co.'s 8 per cent. notes are gu Electric Corp., but neither coi and the notes are only a fairly good buy M., CLevetann, O. M ma Coy dividend p: Ti never disbursed 1 Even if it resumes dividends at that rate, better return by t profits on’ the sting in Miami Copper, selling for less than $80 and ying 82. New Yous, Oct. 14, 1922. w York, publish which gives the spread timely, plica presents ament. The pi ial s of its kind, It will sent to business men for three months without char Apply to J. S. Bache & Co, members New York Stock Exchange, 42 Broadway, New York. 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