Life — February 12, 1903 — page 21: what you’re looking at

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$1,200 A YEAR FOR LIFE Secured by Small Monthly Payments There is nothing speculative about crude rubber. It can be sold every day in the year, in every market in the world and at a stable price that has been steadily advancing for many years. For a quarter of a century the world’s supply of crude rubber has always been spoken for months before it has reached a civilized market. It can be gathered every day in the year irrespective of Weather or season. The ignorant and improvident natives who gather it to-day almost invariably ‘tap to death” the tree that brings them their golden harvest, and in the virgin jungle no white man can live to guide and oversee them. Hence, the price has doubled in ten years, and the question of the world’s supply of rubber for the future becomes of vast moment. We are changing the production of Crude Rubber from the primitive and destruc- tive method heretofore employed to the most scientific and economic plan known to modern forestry. No industry ever underwent so radical a development as we are now engaged in without making immensely wealthy those who accomplished the change. Here is a safe, conservative, and permanent investment in an industry new enough to be immensely profitable; yet old enough to have lost all element of risk. We have 6 175 acres of land in the state of Chiapas, the most fertile soil in Mexico. and we are developing this land into a commercial rubber orchard under the most successful conditions and plans known to scientine forestry. We are selling shares in this plantation, each representing an undivided interest equivalent to an acre of land. Each acre as soon as it is sold is cleared and planted to 600 rubber trees ; 400 of these are tapped to death before maturity, leaving at the end of the development period 200 trees, the normal number per acre for permanent yield. The advantage of this method is that by beginning the tapping thus early dividends begin also in the same year. Any onc can own such shares, or acres. by paying for them in small monthly instalments. Supposing you buy only five. You pay $20 a month for 12 months, then $10.a inenth for a limited period. until you have paid the full price of the shares in the present series—$276 cach ; but during the period of these payments you wi!l have received dividends amounting to $210 per share ; hence the actual cost of your shares, or acres, is only $66 cach, and you own real estate then worth at least $2,500, and from the maturity period onward, as long as you live, your five acres. or shares, will yield you a yearly income of $1,200 This is a most conservative estimate (based on Government reports of the United States and Great Britain, the most reliable sources of informa- tion in the world) for 200 trees per acre, and figuring them as yielding each only two pounds of crude rubber per year. a total of 400 pounds at 60 cents net per pound. Of course, if you buy 10 shares your income would be $2,400 year!y, or better still, 25 shares will yield $6,000 a year. Five Acres, or Shares, in our Rubber Orchard planted to 1,000 Rubber trees will at maturity yield you a suro and certain income of $100 a month for more years than you can possibly live. Your dividends average 25 per cent. during the period of small monthly payments. Every possible safeguard surrounds this investment. The State Street Trust Company of Boston holds the title to our prop- erty in Mexico as Trustee. We agree to deposit with them the money paid in for shares, and we file with them sworn statements as to the development of the property. This Company also acts as Registrar of our stock. We agree to place with the Trust Company a cash forfeit to be held as security to the shareholders that we will fulhl every detail of our contract. You are fully protected against loss in case of lapse of payment, or in case of death, and you are granted a suspension of payments for ninety days at any time you wish. Furthermore, we agree to loan you money on your shares. . RUBBER! Indispensable as wheat or cotton, or coal. American manufacturers alone consume annually sixty million pounds of crude rubber, worth at least forty million dollars. Yet the supply falls short of the demand. The immediate completion of the Pacific cable would consume the entire available supply of rubber in the United States to-day. If we can prove to you that five shares in this investment, paid for in small monthly instalments, will bring you an average return of TWENTY-FIVE PER CENT, ON YOUR MONEY DURING THE PERIOD OF PAYMENT, and will then bring you $100 a MONTH FOR MORE THAN A LIFETIME, we could not keep you out, Send us $20 as the first monthly payment to secure 6 shares — $40 for 10 shares — $100 for 25 shares ($4 per share for as many shares as you wish to secure). ‘This opens the door for yourself, not to wealth, but to what is far better, a competency for future years, when perhaps you will not be able to carn it. We already have hundreds of shareholders scattered through 40 states, who have investigated and invested, Our literature explains our plan fully and concisely, and proves every statement, It will be sent to you immediately, on request. ( MUTUAL RUBBER PRODUCTION Co. 87 MILK STREET, BOSTON, MASS. comicbooks.com