Bisbee daily review., 1917-10-17
TEN WORKING DAYS LEFT IN ACTIVE DRIVE FUR b|C LOAN
Treasury Department State ment Very Pessimistic Re garding the Response to Ap- peals Throughout the Na- ton.
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 16.-With If working days gone and only ten more to come, Liberty bond sales were, be- heved by treasury officials tonight to have just touched the S1,0O0, 900. 900 mark, a result which has led them to wonder if the $5.OOO. 100000 hoped for could be attained in the final days of the campaign.
 Committees in almost every part of the country still wire encouragingly that they can make their maximum totals" says a treasury department statement. Possibly they can. but either they are concealing their ac- tual sales-which is not believed to be the case-or there must be a most unexpected squirt in the offering.
 Lack of Confidence.
 Certainly there is little about the sales thus far to warrant great con fidence that the S500O, O00.0O mark will be reached"
 Official figures, representing actual sales, reported tonight to the treas ury department at the close of busi- ness yesterday places the total at S52s, ,320,S50, or little more than half the s1.00O. .0O0,OOo believed to hav{ been subscribed. These figures do not include the result O. a two-day canvass made by 6O,0O0 workers in the Minneapolis district, and place the amounts in other districts far be- low the sums reported unofficially. The totals follow: Boston, $6S. .300,- GOO; New York, BOT, 7,7O7 ,Oo0: Philadel- pbia, $19,441, 800; Cleveland, S2,090,- coo; Richmond, SPA ,659, 600; Atlanta, S7,405, 700; Chicago. $56,145,000; St Louis, S4,351, 800: Kansas City, s2,025,- OCO; Dallas, s4,55O,3OO; San Francisco, $31 554,950; Minneapolis. no report.
 Not Encouraging.
 Granting the most reasonable all lowance for unreported sales" the treasury's statement continues the situation is not encouraging. Every day since the beginning of the drive, October l, the daily quota necessary to achieving the desired total of s5,0OO. 100000 by October 27, the last day of the sale, has grown larger ability, the enormous figures of $400.- 000.O00 At the outset of the sale, a daily average of slightly less than S210000,00O would have made the mavi,,aup1 fotal nOsSihlp
 Discrepancies Seen.
 "The greatest discrepancies between the official and latest unofficial re- ports occur in the New York; Boston, Cleveland, Philadelphia and Kansas City districts Late reports from New York and Boston today show their totals to be s413,OOO,O00 and above $50 100000, respectively. Cleveland has more than S75,O0O.OOO; Philadel- phia more than $50 ,000, ,00O. and while no figures for the entire Kansas City district are available. 1t is known that Omaha alone has subscribed about s10,OOO,0OO.
 Brightest Spot.
 ''The brightest spot in the campaign today appeared to be in the northwest ern states of Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota and Montana, where the sales forces began work for the first time yesterday Orders will be soon in effect in all those states for the removal of the state funds from banks not giving their hearty cooper ation to the sale, it was officially re- ported tonight Indications, however, that enforcement of this order will be unnecessary, as the banks are rally ing. along with the rest of the people, to unqualified support of the loan.
 Sales in Army.
 Army sales continued to increase tonight until the boys in khaki had bought more than s25.OOO,00 in bonds. "Competition in southern camps for top honors is particularly keen. Speak CTS throughout the country are using the example of the soldiers, who were willing to sacrifice both their lives and their dollars for the cause.
 Tt is confidently predicted by per sons in close touch with the army subscription situation that the total
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