Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1913-04-11

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amount set forth above, which repre-.
sents but fifty per cent of the steam
vessels. and does not figure anything
for their Ofttimes valuable cargoes,
it would pay a dividend of 1000 per
cent per annum on our capitalization.
In other words, If a man owned ten
shares of the capital of this company
he would receive yearly, as dividend
on that stock, 5000. Its a mighty
good investment that pays dividend
Of 20 per cent, and IL ten shares of
this stock would pay an annual di.
vidend of 5000, or $50 each, the shares
themselves would be worth easily
nve times twenty or 500 each. This
sounds actually fabulous, Think of
ten shares Of stock Of q par value of
$1,OO each. being worth $1,000 and
! paying yearly dividend Of 5000!
Go back over these figures and see
that we have made no mistake. Look
up the records and see that we have
the right number of vessels lost.
Check US up and notice that we have
placed the value Of the vessels at about
so per cent of their actual value.
Notice that We have not figured on
valuable cargoes at all-in many
cases worth more than the vessels
themselves. Notice that we have not
counted sailing vessels at all. Notice
that the year 1911 is only an average
year for marine losses; 1910 and
1912 both. exceed it for vessels lost.
Some Facts
Heretofore We have mentioned only
J the losses in merchant marine, which
occur every year. Besides these
there are thousands-literally thous-
ands--of valuable wrecks In the sea
as definitely located as the Portland
post office. Many of these carried,
as a cargo, gold and silver specie at
valuation of millions of dollars. A
few of the best known are the steam.
err Golden Gate" near Manzanilla,
Mexico, sunk with 100000 in gold
and other valuable cargo; the c. P.
R. steamer islander" in less than
1870 feet Of water off Juneau, Alaska.
with great fortune OF gold specie /;
the ship Central America" of the
coast of Havana with 100000 in
gold and precious gems: the pew
able" in. 200 feet OF water in Lake
Huron with cargo Of copper valued
at half million; the Spanish flagship
San Pedro" in Cumana Bay. Vene.
zuela with gold and silver specie
worth $2,0OO.OOO; the steamer LEX
ington" in Long Island Sound with
100000 in specie. All of these
wrecks and hundreds more are def
initely located-most of them have
been seen by divers. In the Euro
pean waters the bottom of the sea
Is literally strewn with valuable
wrecks, the accumulations of hun
dreds of years. At least ten of the
galleons of the Spanish Armada are
definitely located and await means
of recovering them. These vessels
are fairly built of gold and studded
| with precious gems. In many cases
they had gold cannons and the off,
GERS staterooms were lined with
sheets of gold. Another Spanish gal
leon carrying '$S5, OO0, 900 in gold was
sunk off Lizard Point on the Cornish
Coast as late as 1884 Even in our
own country in Massachusetts Bay
the wrecked vessels are so numer-
GUS that they lie across each other
several tiers deep. And, we can read
lily believe it when we see statistics
showing how many vessels sink each
year, and think of the years that this
loss has been going on.
How the Opportunity Comes to You
We who are already members of
! this corporation have urged our i'm.
mediate friends and relatives to buy
shares and come in with US. We
have done this because we have made
an exhaustive investigation of every.
thing pertaining to the bell and are
absolutely convinced of it's practical
bility. For the person who will not
listen to reason, and says. 1T can't
| work or some one would have thought
of 1t BEFORE" we have no time to
waste. The person who cannot study
thing out and rely on his or her
own best judgment will never get
very far in anything. Precedent is
upset every day, in some line. And
as time goes on you will see that we
have certainly created a revolution
in the art of diving. We are living
in an age when all things are posi-
ble-in an age when men make more
money in single day than they did
in lifetime in bygone days. In
your own lifetime you have seen more
wonderful things accomplished by in
vention than have been accomplished
in centuries before. With this evil
dence before you can you possibly
think that a means would never be
/ devised to recover these millions?
The bell is being demonstrated at
2O7 Sotuh G street and cordial in
vitation has been extended to every
one to come in and see 1t work
Their stock is now selling at $3.50
4 share.