Show SELLING STOCKS stock selling is fast becoming a veritable science it is growing into a business of itself in which education and experience are most necessary requisites it was at first a vocation in which any convincing talker could make a success for the public was easy and unsophisticated now the situation is changed the country is overloaded with stocks and the public is growing skeptical in the slang vernacular it is getting wise and the bait baat must be made more and more tempting in fact the importance in of stock selling is becoming so great that large selling agencies are in operation throughout the country whose sole purpose is to dispose of stocks in mining and industrial companies compan les these agencies have hundreds of trained men who are educated to the minute in stock selling staffs of engineers who are kept constantly in the field and a business system which is perfection against these large selling companies the individual operator finds a powerful competitor and yet the field is very lucrative for the small operator he more often lands the large investor who cannot be approached pro ached by a selling concern he makes a big sale in one block where the selling company scatters a large am amount aunt of stock among thousands the methods employed in selling stock are numerous and various many persons have an aversion to the installment plan of buying stocks it smacks of the illegitimate but it is not always so many enterprises have been put on a profitable basis by this means but the rank frauds perpetrated have cast a stigma on this method if conducted squarely and if the money thus obtained is used for legitimate purposes it is a proposition pio position which should appeal to many purchasers the man of small means cannot often buy mining stocks when considerable cash outlay is required but bilt by the installment plan is able to acquire hold holdings which may mean independence to him he should be careful of course to select stock in an honest company the chances for him are then lessened as the payments are extended over a period of months and he should within that time know whether he had made a wise investment if he pays pay sall all cash for his stock and later developments prove that he has put his money in a failure it is too late to drawn down even a part of his outlay guaranteed stock is a somewhat new departure in mining securities which is meeting with some favor but which is not as popular as might be expected the usual plan is for some security company to guarantee the purchaser an amount equal to his investment at the end of a certain time to do this the security company takes a certain per cent from the proceeds of stock sales the interest on which at the expiration of the time will have equalled equal led the principal the mining company takes the balance for its uses of mine development in many respects the guaranteed stock scheme is similar to a bond issue and it gives the stock a kind of financial class particularly desired by many investors ve people take out insurance even in times of financial depression they buy clothes they have their pleasure and their recreation t on but at such times they invariably cut down on minin mining gand and stock investments the successful stock seller is a much sought after man these days and he can command almost any price for his Eer services vices |