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Show THE COUNTRY'S MONEY. Pcuplu wonder on reading tlu woekly financial reports emanating f;om Wall street and other money marts in the country why, raonev being quoted so plentiful and the rat. of interest so low in these places, times arc so dull and money so scarct Tu the West? Thero are goal anc sufficient reasons for this. True, thorc is a large fund of coin and cur-ency cur-ency in the country the precisi amount it would take some labor U. eompuLo but as a general thing it i.-hetd i.-hetd for investment by the owners, and they are shy and cautious iu let (i: it go from their hands, excepting ..a the best of securities. A great drat of money h:is gone tlu htat few yeais into railroad bonds am: stmilai- securities, which have not thu.-I'ar thu.-I'ar proveil remunerative, and mdee: many of them are attended witl-a.'lual witl-a.'lual loss to tho capitalists. Is it any wonder then that other persons, being hi possession oi luuds, hesitatt in placing them in speculative ven ture?, or, iuleei, that they refuse to loan except upon giit cxlgo paper o: the best collaterals, and even ther. nurc'.y on call? We see it stated that thero are over tureo huudreU miihons of Americai-rai'.'.vay Americai-rai'.'.vay tuds which have been protected pro-tected fcr nou.-payment of the in teres: due thereon.. And it is further sak: that in many, perhaps most, instances instan-ces the bond-holders will be compelled compell-ed to take the roads and operate them in order . to realise anything trom them; thus it will be seen that tin ultimate result is bad management o: t'ao roads, as well as a great mam other circumstance?. Of these thm hundred millions invested in bond.-which bond.-which have failed to pay interest, tlu greatest proportion is held by American Ameri-can capitalists, tiu balance by Ejg-liihanJ Ejg-liihanJ t'.:rnu:i. Tne result of al tris is that the failure to pay intere.-i h.vs d.-atrx-yeil the eraht of tiie ro-uij.j: depreciated their stovk, annihilated af krge portion of the cash ci; itai 0:j the iinxstors, an I thus consequently chcckwl railroad buiUing in tiu Vi.iteJ Sutes, and thereby dricxl ii uuuiy ot the 'sources of speculation hcietoforo so numerous. It will b( Rome time before cor.tidenco is full rcttcrcvl, and in the meantime, a--apiul:sts arc shy of railroad seeuri ties, their attention will prvbably U-turned U-turned to ct'.icr :n vestments. It is t be hoped that some ot them will dv-ole dv-ole a little attention to the iuvesti gatien of wir I tah mines, as wel. as some railroad schemes Ueri which we think odor iudnceiueuts tv these wishing to make some paying investments in Western schemes. |