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Show I5CBEASE OF VALUES. THE early months of tho present year have witnessed a rapid increase of values extending over the greater portion of the United Slate-. We have had abundant local illustration of what has taken placo in respect to real estate. True, "booms" of the sort we have been having here have occurred only in spots, but they have served to stimulate the. values of real property over great areas sur-rounJing sur-rounJing them. In some States, such as Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, Colorado, etc, the rise In real estate has been general. Kxtcnslve districts in many parts of tbe South are experiencing financial finan-cial revivals produced by an influx of northern 6r foreign capital, and the development ol manufacturing interests and latent natural resources. re-sources. There is marked activity activ-ity in railroad building, nnd new field are being penetrated, thus greatly eHhancing values and producing produc-ing business animation in regions hitherto regarded as wildernesses. In addition to these local causes of Increased values, the entire West aad South are feeling, to a marked dfgree, the effects of the efforts tliat -a. being made in Congress to pass lgisIation favorable to silver. The price of that metal has advanced npidly, and farm products have mown a strong tendency In the time direction, n. CI. Dun & Co's A-eckly circular dated April 2i states (hat Wall Street was assured that 51 millions of bullion notes yearly would be added to the nation's circulating cir-culating medium, wliicb, it was expected, ex-pected, would lift all prices. Duilnir ;.the week wheat had advanced 2j cents per bushel, oats 3 cents, and corn, pork, etcv, had experienced similar upward changes. Business is reported good pretty much nil over tbe country except in tbe-region of floods In the lower Mississippi Valley. The stock market mar-ket of Ke w York has been strongly stimulated by exictli g conditions. Exports of grain continue large notwithstanding not-withstanding the advance in prices, and men whose vocation Is to make money are meeting with success as a general thing., But wheu such Ixjtluets activity exists tho concentration concen-tration of wealth is more rapid than when the wheels of commerce move less rapidly. Their present velocity, veloc-ity, therefore, means that the rich are getting richer, nnd that if the poor are not becoming poorer, the gulf between tbem and tbe rich is broadening. Financial forces have their part to pi.y In tbe great events the world is to witness in the next few-years, few-years, and they, In common with the ther agencies destined to cooperate co-operate In bringing to pass those events, seem to be gnatly accelerated in their operations of late. |