Risky Investment Ad From F N Clark

AN OPEN LETTER TO MEN and WOMEN Who Are Willing to Risk $350 TO MAKE $10,000 OR MORE

I AM PUBLISHING this advertisement with the sole purpose of getting in contact with men and women who would welcome and appreciate the opportunity to participate in a high-grade speculative development where the investment of only $350 has an excellent chance of making anywhere from $10,000 to $50,000 or more.

I realize that sounds ridiculous and impossible—but believe me it is not. If you have $350 or more that you can afford to risk on such an opportunity, feel free to send in the coupon below and make me prove this to you. I believe it is a chance of a life-time. The only reason I am inviting you to join me is because I am not able financially to handle all of it myself. I have already gone behind it to the limit of my financial resources and expect to stage a real financial comeback as a result in a few months' time—or even sooner. There is nothing mysterious about this project. It is just a sound business undertaking through which if we win, we will win big. Stated briefly, it is as follows: Leading geologists have located a most promising new structure in the Permian Basin in Pecos County, Texas—said to be the largest oil producing county in the world. The total production from new wells brought in during the first six months of 1934 in this county was over 738,000 barrels per day—more than the total new production of any three other states including California. I have secured a short option on the leases on all the available acreage that can be had on this new structure and around the test well now drilling; and I am placing these leases among my friends as fast as I can. But because of the time limit in the option plus the fact that the minute oil comes in my option automatically expires, I am making this public offering. The present price is $35 per acre and leases are available in ten-acre blocks. The price is subject to change or withdrawal without notice. The question may come into your mind—if this is so good why offer it to the public? Well, by the time you answer this advertisement it may not be available to the public. If general conditions were normal, you would never have heard of it because I would have quietly organized a syndicate among my friends and buy it all. But it is difficult right now to raise the required amount of money among a few to handle a deal of this size. Of course, you understand that a lot of money cannot be made quickly in any business without taking a certain risk and this proposition involves such a risk; but after my close personal investigation, I am so thoroughly convinced that this is going to be a great new oil field that I have gotten behind it myself to the limit of my resources. So if you have $350 or $3500 and this appeals to you, let me suggest that you act on it while you have a chance. Treat this like you would any high-class, sensible proposition. Get all the facts. I will gladly send them to you on request below. Investigate them—and then if you want ten or one hundred acres, say so. If not, no harm will be done. But do it right away. Things like this do not last.

THIS COUPON IS FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE

But because of the time limit in the option plus the fact that the minute oil comes in my option automatically expires, I am making this public offering.