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Show COUNTRY SOUND l FINANCIALLY B A more DOpefUl view of the financial BB and business situation Is now taken BB by financiers and business men of Chicago, according to Bradatreet's, , the strain showing that conditions are j: t fundamentally sound. ' There has been drastic liquidation BB in stocks and bonds," says a financial B writer, "many wealthy individuals and BBB big corporations having been forced to BBB sell gilt edged securities and Liberty BBB bonds with which to pay income taxes. BBB There appears to be a scarcity of ready money all over the west, even p the big Chicago banks finding It dlf- ; flcult to accommodate d. :. ..r.ils other than from urgent bornwirs who n ed Hj it for legitimate use. There is no Hj money to be hud for uprculnthc pin poses. There la evidence of further Hi liquidation In commodities after the flj turn of the year, aa leading bankers BbBJ see it, merchants having considerable Hj high priced merchandise which has Hl not been sold and cannot be, although BBB I offered at greatly reduced prices, ft If is a case where prices cut no figure " J Here in Ogden price cutting has S boen under way some time and bar- ' gains are beginning to be offered. It H' Is so throughout (he country' Every BbBj concent with .-in eye to hf. future Is I- clearing its shelves of goods, knowing that the future price lev will bo much below the range of the past tvn years. |