ROME AND FLOWEES 



885 



$1,200 a Year for Life 



Secured by Small Monthly Payments 



Crude rubber is worth today twice as much as it was ten years ago, and for a quarter of a century the world's 

 supply has always been spoken for months before it has reached a civilized market. Every industry, every branch 

 of science daily finds some new purpose for ritbber, for which absolutely no other product will answer. It is as indis- 

 pensable to our modern civilization as wheat— or cotton— or coal. Yet its production is still at the mercy of the 

 ignorant and improvident natives of the tropical American jungles, who invariably "tap to death" the wild rubber 

 trees, unrestrained, because of the climate, by white supervision. 



There is nothing speculative about Crude Rubber. It can be gath= 

 ered every day in the year, irrespective of weather or seasoHo 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. 



In the State of Chiapas, Mexico, we have 6,175 acres of the finest rubber land in all the world, and with the finest 

 climate. On this land we are changing the production of crude rubber from the primitive and destructive method 

 now employed by the natives, to the most scientific and economic plan known to modern forestry, and under Anglo- 

 Saxon supervision. You cannot name any article of world*wide use whose production has undergone so radical a 

 development as we are now engaged in without vastlj' enriching those who have accomplished the change. An acre 

 of 200 rubber trees brou'zht into bearing on our land will produce a net income of from $200 to $300 a year for more 

 than a lifetime. 'V^ e plant 600 trees to the acre and "tap to death" 400 of them before maturity, leaving 200 trees, 

 the normal number fur permanent yield. The advantage of this method ia that by beginning the tappings thus 

 early, dividends begin also in the same year. 



The remarkable opportunity is now open for securing shares in this great enterprise, each share representing an 

 undivided interest equivalent to an acre of land in our orchard. There is no large cash down payment, as the purchaser 

 pays for his shares in modest monthly installments running over the development period. Supposing you buy only 

 five shares, or acres ; you pay $20 a month for 12 months, then $10 a month for a limited period until you have paid 

 the full price of the shares— $276 each ; but meantime you will have received dividends amounting to $210 per share ; 

 hence, the actual net cost of your shares, or acres, will be $66 each, and from the maturity period onward, longer 

 than you can live, they will yield you or your heirs a yearly income of $1,200. This conservative estimate is based 

 upon Government reports of the United States and Great Britain, and is for 200 trees per acre, figured as yielding 

 each only two pounds of crude rubber per year— 400 pounds at sixty cents net. Of course, if you buy ten shares, 

 your income will be $2,400 yearly, or, better still, twenty-five shares will yield $6,000 a year. 



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. 



Every possible safeguard surrounds this investment. The State Street Trust Company of Boston holds the title to 

 our property in Mexico as trustee. ^Ve agree to deposit witli them the money paid in lor shares, and we file with them 

 sworn statements us to the developnient of the property. This company also acts as registrar of our stock. You are 

 lullv protected frum loss in case ofdeatli and liberailN' protected in case of lapse of payments, and we grant yon a sus- 

 pension of I'ayments for ninety days at any time you may wish. Furthermore we agree to loan you money on your shares. 



If we canprove to you that five shares in this investment, paid for in small monthly installments, will bring you an 

 average ret am of twenty -five per cent, on your money during the period of payments, and will then bring you 

 $100 a month for more than a lifetime, we could not keep you out. Send us at once $20 as the first monthly pay- 

 ment to secure five shares— $40 for ten shares — flOO for twenty-five shares ($4 per share for as many shares as you wish 

 to secured This opens the door for yourself, not to wealth but to what is far better, a competency for future years, 

 when perhaps vou 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 fully and concisely, and proves every 

 statement, ll will be sent to you immediately, on request. 



Our shares are selling above par right now. The price has advanced 

 twice within the last few months, and when the few shares that remain 

 in the present series are all sold the price will again be raised. We 

 cannot promise to give you any further warning of the advance. 



Mutual Rubber Production Company 



103 Miik Street, Boston, Mass. 



