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Show A Gold Glnt. Omaha, 22 There is an oppressive glut of goid in this city and bankers complain that they cannot get rid of it, people preferring currency and bringing it back as noon as tbey can pendent iu CLiic-u of the Omaha National bank haa relused to pay ex-pressago ex-pressago on balances and it threatens to be an expensive article. Tho testimony testi-mony on this po:nt ia unanimous. One reason uf lb a over supply is that gold comes iu rapidly from the west, mainly from Sau Francisco. The Union Pacific ptid cfl its employes from Omaha to Ogden lnt mouth, which usually takes $250,000 and they also dUbureed among their help in this city last month over $100,000 in gold. The Omaha National being the depository of the Union Pacific receives daily from $10,000 to $20,-000 $20,-000 in gold from the west. It is a fact that the Omaha bnka of which there are lour, are now paying the exchange as between themselves in gold, a thing never dreamed of before. |