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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[Al'RIL 



1903. 



Recording Thermometers 



$1,200 a 

 Year for Life 



Secured by Small Monthly Payments. 



Crude rubber is to-day worth twice as much 

 years ago Everybody knows thai 1 pound of rubb< 

 than a bushel oi wheat. Its uses arc constantly an ' 



ed from yeai to j eai , Every industr ineh_ ol 



p for it, foi "in' h nothing 



else will answer, h is as indispensable to oui modern ctviliza- 



ivheal 01 coal or cotton. Vet its producti son the 



same primitive and uncertain basts that it was on the d ij whi is 

 eat first ni.nU- rubbei a commercial possibility 

 The world's present inadequate supply of crude rubber is 

 gathered by lapping wild rubbei ti e scattered hei e and 



. the jungles ol American tropics. The iguorantand im- 

 provident natives who ire engaged In this pursuit invariably 

 '* tap to death " the trees m I, because of the climate, 



by white supervision. Because they have to penetrate farther 

 and farther into the jungle each year, at an added outlay ol time 

 and money, and iu the supply of the wild trees, in answi r 



to the incessantly increasing demand, is rapidly vanishing, the 

 price of crude rubber has doubled iu the tast.decade. 



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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. 



We have 6175 acres of theJinest rubber land in the 

 world and with the finest climate. < >n this land we 

 are changing the production of crude rubber from 

 the primitive and destructive method now employ- 

 ed by the natives to the most scientific and eco- 

 nomic plan known to modern forestry. 



An acre of rubber trees brought into bearing on 

 our land will produce a net income of Irom $200 to 

 faoo a year for more years than you can possibly 

 live. These figures are not paper estimates and 

 thev are not ours. They are based on results now 

 actually obtained in scientific rubber culture 

 and they art proven by the most reliable sources 

 of information in the World :— the Government 

 reports of the United States and Great Britain. 



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You cannot name any article of world wide use 

 whose production has undergone so radical a devel- 

 opment as we are now engaged in without vastly 

 enriching those interested in the change. 



The remarkable opportunity is now open for securing shares in 

 this great enterprise, each share representing an undivided inter- 

 est equivalent to an acre of land in our orchard, 

 r There is no large cash down payment, as the purchaser pays 

 for the land ir. modest monthly instalments running over the de- 

 \ elopment period. 



Kvery possible safeguard surrounds this^investment. You are 

 fully protected against loss in case of lapse of payment or 1:1 case 

 of death, and you are granted a suspension of payments for nine- 

 ty days at any time you wish. Furthermore, we agree to loan you 

 money on your shares. 



If we cati prove to you that five shares in this investment, paid 

 for in small monthlv instalments, will bring vou an average return 

 ol rWENTY-FIVE PER CENT. ON YOUR MONEY DURING 

 THE PERIOD OF PAYMENT, and then bring you 

 MONTH FOR MORE THAN A LIFKTIME, we could not keep 

 you out. Send us $20 as the first monthly payment to secure five 

 shares; J40 for ten shares; $100 for twenty-five 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 compe- 

 tent y tor future years, when perhaps you will not be able to earn it. 

 We already have hundreds of shareholders scattered through 

 forty states, who have investigated and invested. Our literature 

 explains our plan lully and concisely, and proves every statement, 

 It will be sent to you immediately, on request. 



Mutual Rubber Production Co. 



91 Milk Street, BOSTON, MASS. 



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Vulcanizers. 



Hade with extensions to go through wall 

 of vulcanizer and register without the 

 opening of door. 



rianufactured exclusively by 



HELIOS=UPTON CO., 



PEABODY, MASSACHUSETTS. 



Mention the India Rubber World when vou write. 



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Coffee L 



UBBER AND WOFFEE LANDS. 



T^HE Mexican Land and Colonization Company owns 

 several hundred thousand acres of land suitable for 

 Rubber and Coffee in the State of Chiapas, Mexico. The 

 majority of the coffee plantations in Soconusco now pro- 

 ducing largely were originally purchased from this Company 

 also La Zacualpa and other rubber plantations. 

 For further particulars apply to 



0. H. HARRISON, 



Spreckels Annex, 713 Harket Street, SAN FRANCISCO. 



Mexican Lands. 



TO individual purchasers or plantation companies I will sell at 

 rock bottom prices Rubber and Tropical Plantation lands in 

 the states of Vera Cruz, Oaxaca, Tabasco, and Chiapas, in tracts 

 to suit, from 1,000 to 1,000,000 acres. All statements as to title and 

 value guaranteed. 



I have 1,000 000 acres of heavily timbered rubber lands that I can 

 subdivide if desired, in the heart of the Rubber, Mahogany, Cedar, 

 and Tropical Woods country on the largest river in Mexico, with a 

 magnificent saw milling and manufacturing site. It is proposed to 

 cut off the timber, — taking care of the Rubber trees now growing and 

 planting new ones, that will in a few years make a magnificent rubber 

 forest at practically no cost. Address — 



J. J. FITZGERRELL, la. San Francisco, No. 7. Mexico City, Mexico, or 

 M. M. FITZGERRELL, 810 Olive Street, St. Louis, Missouri. 



Mention The India Rubber World when you write. 



