The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-04-24

ny DSiIlloIc 11dWhiuH, oSCut AL Tue v Gil
derbilt Timber. Mining & Southwestern
Railway company, Wirona, Mimi. April
IS, 1908.
NVinona, Mimi, April Is, 1908.
l write you this letter with the most
sincere hope that | may interest you in
proposition which feel cannot but de-
serve your immediate consideration.
Please pardon me in writing you this let
ter in the same language | would use had
L known you and been personal friend
all my life, and the same as | would talk
to you had the pleasure of meet
ing you personally L am not stock
broker or the agent of any fish or air
castle scheme. | am selling stock in the
Vanderbilt Timber. Mining & Southwest
ern Railway company. Ny circular en-
closed explains our proposition sufficient
ly for you to decide for yourself that it
is one that is attractive as a first class
investment. For a poor man nothing
like it has ever been afforded them here
tofore as the rich men are the ones who
have been given the preference in this
class of investments. For instance, how
many poor people hold any stock in any
of the large transportation companies to-
day. When we say to YOU that during
the first four years we will make l06 per
cent annual dividend on the money you
have paid in, we mean we will apply the
100 per cent, $50 thus earned. to the
payment of each share of stock which
YOU have bought We figure on four
| value to be 500 per share and during
this four years we pay you six per cent
dividend on the cash you have invested,
commencing with the fifth year you will
| be paid the full dividends figured at the
same rate of LOG per cent on your origi-
nal investment would make your diyi-
dends amount to $3l per share or $40
on ten shares per value $1,000 These
dividends would be equivalent to 81 per
cent on the par value of your stock.
These dividends, however, are based on
our present earnings while our varied in
dustries are in their infancy, the develop
ment period. For instance, right now
on long leaf yellow pine dressed and
matched flooring our net profit per thou
sand, delivered in Philadelphia, Pa,
amounts to S24.45. Other grades in pro-
portion We now have seven lumber
mills Running which work up our product
| in such manner as will give to our
stockholders the largest margin of profit.
We are constructing our railway with as
much energy as our capital will COM
mand and as soon as completed our road
will have all the business that we can
handle. All our other industries will be
no less profitable. Therefore when we
doubt that these earnings will be greatly
increased in very short time and thus
your stock will. feel positive, be worth
many times its par value. Then you
would thank the day | wrote you this
letter. Remember, this is not get
rich-quick," paper or air castle fabrica
ton proposition. We have the property.
We want to show it to you and offer
to do so at our own expense as per my
circular. You take no risk whatever.
We rely solely upon the best business
judgment whether we have stated the
facts correctly. If we have not the loss,
the expense of your trip, is ours: thus
it costs you nothing to prove for your
self conclusively that our officers are
gentlemen in every sense of the word,
who enjoy the highest social and bust
ness standing in their community and
would not for any amount of money con-
meet their names with anything that
would not stand the most thorough in
vestigation by the most skeptical tand
superstitious people. In conclusion what
lllOlC CouIu L SdN VI tO " DclSudQc you
to consider the full contents of this let
ter. Remember, for anyone who is in
poor circumstances and who. may desire
to purchase only one OF a few shares on
the installment plan, to such the door is
wide open for future happiness by max
ing yourself independent of all want,
misery and perhaps poverty. The writer
is a poor man, and from experience
knows what it is for the wolf to bark at
the door. Do not delay, but write me
today stating just what you want. Yours
sincerely, Delmore Hawkins.
SERVICE HELD VALID.