The daily sentinel., 1910-09-07
THE BIGGEST GOLD
STRIKE ON RECORD

Not in a gold mine, but in a rub
her plantation.
The Selangor Rubber Plantation
Company, Ltd, paid 2S71a per cent
last year in dividends, and is looking
to pay even more this year.
The beauty OF a rubber investment
is that it Increases in value year by
year. because the tree from which
the rubber is obtained increases its
yield year by year
The rubber is obtained by cutting
the bark OF the tree, taking care not
to ring-bark it, and allowing the
lateX Cor milk to run from the in
cision into receptacles placed to re-
ceive it.
The lateN is not the sap of the
tree, but is found within the bark
in veins similar to milk veins in a
COW. 1t is a liquid very much like
cream in color and thickness until
the watery part has been evaporated
by smoking, when it becomes much
darker and acquires great amount
OF elasticity; hence, its name, Cas-
tilloa elastiCa.
The conditions necessary to the
successful cultivation of rubber are
good depth of rich soil, heavy rain
fall and tropical heat; consequently
you find all the plantations in the
vicinity of the equator. Add to these
good management and you have "A
possession better than the best gold
mine ever discovered
Plantations being in the tropics
make the cost of labor very little: in
fact, in Mexico the poems are paid
about IS cents gold week and are
able to live well on this amount.
The United States-MeXico Rubber
Plantation Company owns 5000 acres
of the best rubber land in the pro-
vince of Chiapas in Mexico, where
the rainfall is over 1876 inches per
annum and the soil is extremely rich
and deep. The plantation is under
the management of W. j. Robinson,
who has been connected with the
rubber industry for many years in
Mexico and is considered one of the
greatest authorities on the subject in
the country.
Tile plantation is very favorably
situated. being on the banks of a
naviGable river There is a canal
from the river running into the plan
tation for miles, which enables us
to deliver our crops from the fields
right onto our boats.
The cost of growing, tapping, man
aging and shipping to market does
not exceed . cents per pound of rub
ber produced, and the selling price
on the market is considerably over
50 per pound.
We have an average OF 800 trees
to the acre, so you can figure for
yourself what a large profit we and
other rubber plantations are making
and are going to make
Think this matter over we'll We
are making you an offer such as you
have never had made before and may
never have made again. We are of
fering you acre-shares. each share
backed by one acre of planted rubber
land, in our company at $3.50 per
acre, and it is simple sum in arith-
metic to find out what prcft for you
this represents
Rubber has come to stay ard has
so worked itself into our lines that,
II II We're taken away from us. il
would be an awful catastrophe
The demand for rubber is increas-
ing rapidly, and the visible supply is
not nearly large enough to meet this
demand and we may look for fur
ther increase in the price very short
ly.
C. II. Hawksworth is the agent of
the United States-MeNico Rubber
Plantation Company and is to be
found at the LaHarpe, Apply to him
for any further information you may
require.