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Show PROVO HAS OVERSUBSCRIBED THE THIRDJJBERTY LOAN Provo went over the top in the Third j Liberty Loan drive Saturday by oversubscribing over-subscribing her quota. This city was given mere than one-half the total allottment for Utah County, but naver-theless naver-theless she came forward with a net sum over this quota. Utah County's total subscription will reach over $600,000 and her quota was passed several days ago. The Btate of Utah has over-subscribed by a million and a half. Utah's quota was $10,315,000 and reports to date show that G2,:i28 subscribers have taken llljftlO.OOO. The total subscription in the nation is estimated- now at $4,000,000,000 or $1,000,000,000 oversubscribed. The total number of subscribers In the nation na-tion is estimated at 15.000,000. Provo subscribed $270,900. Our apportionment ap-portionment to the Third Liberty loan was $844 more than the quota for the balance of the county. This city was given more than her share in the division, di-vision, but nevertheless our people ' shouldered the burden and said "We will ralst it" and we did it nobly, and j even oversubscribed by several thousand. thou-sand. City Chairman J. W. Robinson states that there are 2045 persons holding bonis in the Third Liberty loan. The Knight Trust Savings bank has had subscribed through their bank the largest amount of bonds for the three iLiberty Loan drives. This amount being $336,900 for three loans. The Farmers A 'Merchants bank secured se-cured the largest number of individual . subscriptions in the last drive, the number being 600. County Chairman A. M. Tbunnan states that Utah County's total subscription sub-scription will total about $600,000. Utah County's quota was fixed at $502,000. Mr. Thurroan is proud of the good work done by the various towns in the. county In oversubscribing their quotas. The latter part of last week Mr. Thurman went to American Fork Canyon and sold nearly $2000 worth of bonds to the Greeks and Italians, which helped very materially to put American Fork over the top. Utah has been officially advised that she was second :n the twelfth federal reserve district and fifth in the United States to oversubscribe her quota. Bingham, the great copper mining camp, subscribed the largest amount for her population. Her quota was fixed at $112,000, and she subscribed over $100,000, or an average of $40 per person. This Includes men, women wom-en and children. The population of Bingham is about 10,000. |
