, 1877-02-18

THE BANKS OF cALifoRs1A.
compilation giving in detail the principal items
! Of the 100 incorporated banks Of California IL
published by the Sun Francisco Bhlefia Of thc 10th
! init. 1t includes savings as well rs commercial
hanke, and is the first statement OF the kind yet
made in regard to the California banks. The total
banking capital of the State-includtns that Of ten
private banks in san Francisco NOT included in the
Bntet9ns tablets S53, 0o: GOO. and the total de-
posfts are $751; o0O, 800. There in the interior
| Of the state number of private banks not in
cluded IN the above figures. Adding their capital
| and that OF local insurance companies, building
societies. and the like gives total banking capi-
tai in the State OF about $500, 003, 900. Tie
amount Of money in the State, in gold coin, gold
notes. and silver, Is not more than So, 900, 600.
/ TIE BUSINESS BAROMETER.
For three successive weeks Clearing House
transactions at ten chief cities hare exceeded those
Of the corresponding weeks last year, notwith-
standing fall Of prices which, with transactions
in quantities equal to those OF last year, would
have caused a decline OF per cent in values, The
week ending Feb. 10 was the best Of the year thus
Tar, tho assrcatc increase in transactions being SO
per cent. Moreover, improvement appears at every
city except Philadelphia and St. Louis, where
operations at this season last year unusually
large, exceeding those Of 1875. and at Chicago,
where the decline is not explained, unless by tho
most remarkable apparent increase is at
Milwaukee. The Clearing. House transactions
hitherto have not represented the largest part Of
the gram business there, but the return for tho
week ending Feb. 10 exceeds half the exchanges
for the entire month OF February in 1875
or 1875. The remarkable gafn at
Milwaukee may be due In part to COM
parison with estimated instead Of actual trans
actions for the second week in February last year,
but, after al possible allowance that score, tho
improvement is surprising. At Louisville the
Clearing House system had been in operation less
than month last year. The gain At New Orleans,
however, indicates decided improvement in the
cotton business, and the Baltimore return reflects
the great gain made by th1t city tn grain traffic.
New York ranks next, with very encouraging
improvement, and Boston c1carings indicate In
creased activity in New ENGLAND manufactures
We suspect that Chicago Is suffering from tho
graspIng demands of elevators and the wild dreams
OF spectators. But on the whole the returns aro
very encouraging They warrant the hope that the
lons-expected revival Of business has actually
menced.-JAe Public, Feb. Il.
THE LONDON SILVER MARKET.
The London Times Of Jan. 80 saYs: *'The silver
market continues to show the stagnation
which has been its characteristic for the past three
or four days. There is both sn entire ubsence Of
demand for India and also OF business OF any kind,
while 1t is impossible to give any quotation for
bars. The last price at which any amount changed
hands SD, but, any transactions to be en-
tered into, something considerably below that rate
would, 1t il thonght have to be accepted
GOLD AND GREESBACKs.
Gold Was 105l G10,a1 in grcenoacks.
Greenbacks were 95G943;c on the dollar in
gold.