The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-12
WITH GREATEST FLOOD OF GOLD IN HISTORY, BANKS OF COUNTRY
 :, BREAK ALL PROSPERITY RECORDS

f Washington. Ott. 12.-The analysis of lthe reports received from the national banks of the United States under the last bank call for the state of business lon SepA shows that in deposits and resources tho banks of the, United IOtates have again broken all records and have a greater financial strength than any banking system in the world. John Skelton Williams, the Controller fof Currency, said: ,8
 f "ThA reports of the condition of the national banks of the United States at the call of May 1, 19f6, showed that these banks had on that date the larg- lest deposits and the largest resources lever shown in the history of the sys- !tem
 "The preliminary figures just com- Ipleted for the 55 Reserve cities of the country and from the country banks of several states indicate that our na- tional banks on Sept. ], 1s1g, have again broken all previous records in fthe matter of deposits and resources. "An analysis of the reports of the )Hfty-fiye Reserve and Central Reserve koities reveals the effect of the Federal Reserve act in distributing more wide- ny the money of the country and in preventing its consolidation and con- geston in a few centres.
 These preliminary figures Cell us that, as compared with May l, the deposits on Sept. 12 in several great centres shows a material reduction, while in nearly every other Reserve tcity throughout the country, and con- lspicuously in country banks, there has Fbeen a largo increase in deposits. ! shnW hat the o11xr 1citdes in which there was a decline of las much as 31.000.o0o in deposits were New York city, with a reduction of lI3222.0oo, 1000, Boston $36 100000, Philadelphia $1s,000 900, St. Louis ss.- 4b0o,0o0. Minneapolis $3.000,O00, and St. Paul $2,500,00O.
 'The reserve cities where an in crease in deposits of $2,000,OoO or more were shown for Sept 12 as compared with the call of May 1, 1916, were San Francisco $35,500,O00, Kan aas City. Mo-. $23,70O,00, Pittsburgh 21,00O,000. Cleveland $18,00O,OOO, Omaha $14 .500,000. Houston $s,00o,- 900, Chicago s7,3OO,000 Indianapolis and Columbus $7,00O 900 each, Den yer $S,500.0O0, Los Angeles $6,5OO, ,000, Milwaukee $5,700,0OO, Cincinnati Richmond and Wichita $5,0oO, ,o0o each, Detroit $2.S00.0OO Seattle and Lincoln $2.70O,000 each, Atlanta, Washington and Oklahoma City $2,- 100000. Those showing increases in deposits ranging between $1,0O0, 900 and $2 100000 were Fort Worth, Bir- mingham, Waco, Kansas City, Kan, and Portland.
 Tn each of the other/reserve cit-
 ies' not shown in this list the changes
 in deposits. whether increases or de-
 creases. amounted to les than s1,-
 000.0 .00o.
 "The withdrawal or transfer of de- ,poAits from New York. Boston, Phila-
 delphia and St. Louis has in no way
 fnterfercd with the healthy growth
 and business activity of those cities,
 and money Is still being loaned in
 them on terms quite as favorable, if
 not more favorable, than ever known
 before.
 " The unprecedented accumulation
 of funds and banking credits in the
 other cities and towns throughout the ieouatry, and especially in the coun-