Life — October 15, 1903 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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COPYRIGHT FOR GREAT AIN BY JAMES HENDERSON ae UNDER THE ACT OF t801. $1,200 A YEAR FOR LIFE Secured by Small Monthly Payments No industry in the world offers the same opportunity for tremendous profit as the scientific production of crude rubber. No investment in the world to-day offers so large profits with the same surety as docs the Mutual Rubber Production Co., and in no other way can you provide an absolutely sure and certain income for future years so easily and with so little present sacrifice as by a smail monthly investment in this new development in the world’s progress. Fifty years ago, when Goodyear first made india rubber a commercial possibility, crude rubber was gathered from the wild rubber trees that were scattered here and there throuzh the tropics and semi-tropics. No attempt was made to preserve these trees for annual tappings, as the supply scemed then quite inexhaustible. The semi-tropics were naturally first stripped, and now these wild rubber trees are confined to the most inaccessible jungles of South America. The natives, with characteristic improvidence, still persist in “ tapping to death” these invaluable trees, and the climate is such that no white man can live there for even a bricf period to guide and restrain them. poe We are changing the production of Crude Rubber from the primitive and destructive 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. 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 uccessful conditions and plans known to scientific forestry. We are selling shares in this plantation, each share representing sivalent to an acre of land. cre, aS soon as it is sold, is cleared and planted to 6oo 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. advantage of this method is that by beginning the tapping thus early, dividends begin also in the same year. Any on ch shares, or acres, by paying for them in small monthly installments, Supposing you buy only five. You pay $20 a month for 12 months, then $1s a month for 12 months, then $10.a month fora 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 will have received dividends amounting to $210 per share ; hence the actual cost of your shares, or acres, is each, and from the maturity period onwards, longer than you can live, your five actes, or shares, will yield you or your heirs a yearly income of 0," This is a most conservative estimate (based on Government reports of the United States and Great Britain, the most reliable sources of information 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 4co pounds, at Gocents net per pound, Of course, if you buy 10 shares, your income would be $2,400 yearly, or, better shares will yield $6,000 per year. Five Acres, or Shares, in our Rubber Orchard planted to 1,000 trees will at maturity yield you a sure and certain income of $100 a month for more years than you can possibly live. Your divi- dends average 25 per cent. during the period of small monthly payments. Every possible safeguard surrounds this investment. The State Street Trust Company of Roston holds the title to our property 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, You are fully protected against loss in case of a 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. Crude Rubberis to-day worth twice as much as it was a few years ago, and for twenty-five years the supply has not equalled the demand. Every industry, every branch of science is daily finding new uses for which it is adapted. You cannot im- agine a substitute for it. There is nothing speculative about Crude Rubber. It can be gathered every day in the year irrespective of weather or season. 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. We can prove to you that five shares in thi TWENTY-FIVE PER CENT. ON YOUR MONEY DURING THE PERIOD OF PAYMENT, and will then bring you $1022 MONTH FOR MORE THAN A LIFETIME, Send us $20 as the first monthly payment to secure 5 shares—$4o 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 what is far better, a competency for future years, when perhaps you will not be able to earn it. We already have hundreds of Shareholders scattered through 4o 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