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Show WIDESPREAD WEALTH ! II U. S, REPORTED 1 Banking Resources Increase i i 1000 Per Cent in 16 States I Every Section Prosperous ; WASHINGTON, Jan. 2S. Decen- i tralization of tho country's banking f m resources and widespread distribution m of wealth, indicated by an increaso In ' ft banking resources of 1000 per cent or ' - V more in sixteen states since 1899, was I Kj shown by a comparison of present ; m bank resources with conditions twenty I ! m years ago, issued today by John Skcl- . a ton Williams, comptroller of tho cur- . m rency. ' He The banking power of the country ; twenty years ago was concentrated m mainly in the east, the report said, '1 B and national banks in New England H and eastern states, comprising but 6 , m per cent of the territory of tho United If States, held almost GO pcr cent of the 1 m total resources of all the national W banks in the country. Tho proportion ' of the resources of banks in those states to all others now has fallen to tim 16.7S per cent, although the resources H of the. national banks in those states K have increased 277 per cent or $7,710, B 937.000. .. 9 Every section of the country has mi shared in the tremendous increase In II wealth since 1899 but the report shows I WS that the Pacific coast has experienced ' B tho largest percentage of increase in , H national bank-resources, amounting to , 1310 per cent. National banks In eight W western states tho Dakotns, Nebras- ; Ere! ka. Kansas, Montana, Wyoming, Colo- gg rado and New Mexico have shown an 9 increase of 500 per cent and the re- ( SB sources of the middle west banks in' : aS ci eased 3G3 per cent, IS The south also has shown a huge M increase, 889 per cent. 9 |