Salt Lake Telegram | 1918-10-16 | Page 1 | Half-Way Post in Loan is Passed

iranw iiilhiis PASSED Four More Days in Which to Make Up Six Billion Bil-lion Total. y Associated Presa. i WASHINGTON, Oct. U With four 1 more days to go the nation today paaaed the $3,000 000,000 halfway post In the fourth Liberty loan race toward to-ward $6.00 0,000. 000 beforp Saturday night. - "The first really encouraging reports began to arrive today," aaid the official offi-cial announcement. "These reports carried ample evidence that the country coun-try realised the serious business It had ahead during the remainder of this , wek to niHke the fourth Liberty ban j a success." j RENEWED INTEREST. These optimistic reports wre not suooorled bV definite fie u res. show in a I la sudden swelling of th Kiherty loan' total; Karly murning reports were ' Iwrely sufficient to pusn aggregate subscriptions above the three-billion-dollar mark, but officiate ad id the results re-sults of renewed Interest In the loan : following President Wilson's answer to Germany would be reflected In official figure later. UTAH HAS SO PER CENT. Th Kan Pranrleco district now has a total of $:30.130.000 from 1.090.1SZ subacritera Oregon has 7 per cent of its quota: Idaho, 15 per cent; Waari-ington, Waari-ington, 71 per rent; Arixona, CI; t'lnh, l : sou t hern ( 'aljfornla, M : northern California, 49. and NevtMhrrfTT By United Press. NEW YORK. Oct. lt-An overnight gain nf l0l.0t.&$ in sutscript1ons to the fourth Liberty loan waa announced an-nounced today by the Liberty loan romm it tee of the New York reserve district. The total now Is f Hi 7.&S.f.0, ByUeited Press. MILWAl'KKH. ict. 1. Milwaukee has oversubecribed its Liberty loan quota of IXz aM.Soa by $04 0SA according ac-cording to fianree given out by the oampaiaat committee today.