The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1894-12-08

s03. 260.5s There was a decrease of s15,-
952, 674. sc in the ordinary expenses of the
government as compared with the fiscal
year of 1898. There was collected from
customs S1S1 ,8ls, $50 81 and from internal
revenue STAT, 16S, 1870. The balance of
income for the year, amounting to $685.
S15,517.97, was derived from the sales of
lands and other sources.
The value of our total dutiable inn
ports amounted to $275, 199, 0S6 being
STAG, G57, 625 less than during the preced-
ing year. and the importations free Of
duty amounted to S379, 795, $50, being $64,-
748,675 less than during the preceding
year. The receipts from customs was
$73, $50, 4S6 II less, and from internal rev.
enue $13, 1886, 539.97 less than 1898. The
total tax collected from distilled spirits
was $S5 259, 250.25, on manufactured to-
bacco $S,617, S9S.62 and on fermented Ii
quors $31, Ala, 71S.04 Our exports of mer-
chandise, domestic and foreign, amount
ed, during the year, to 1892, 140.572 being
an increase over the preceding year of
$44, 495, 1873.
The total amount of gold exported
during the fiscal year was SIC, ,061, as
against sos, $50, 444 during the fiscal year
of 1893. The amount imported was $72,-
449, 119, as against $21, 174,3S1 during the
previous fiscal year of 1898. The inn
ports of silver We're $13,286.522 and the
exports were $50, 451 265.
SUGAR BOUNTIES.
The total bounty paid upon the pro
duction of sugar in the United States
for the fiscal year was $12. 100, POSSE, be-
ing an increase of 50, 725, 07S OF over the
payments made during the preceding
year. The amount of bounty paid from
July l. 1894, to August 2S 1894, the time
when further payments ceased by oper-
alton of the law, was $685., 1854. The
total expense incurred in the paymento of
the bounty upon sugar during the fiscal
year was $40, 14OS5.
1t is estimated that upon the basis of
our present revenue laws the receipts
of the government during the present
fiscal year ending June 30, 1895, will be
1924, 427, 1884 and its expenditures $444,-
427,74644, resulting in a deficit of $780,
100000 >
MONEY ON HAND.
On the 1st day of November, 1894, the
total stock of money of all kinds in the
country was 1920 773, SS8, as against 81
204, 651, 900 on the 1st of November, 1898,
and the money of all kinds in circula-
ton not included in the treasury hold
ings was 81, 672, 099, 422 or $24.73 per capita
upon an estimated popula ton of 6S,-
S87, 900. At the same time there was held
in the treasury gold bullion amounting
to $44,615, So and silver bullion which
was purchased at a cost of 1927, 779, 9SS.
The purchase of silver bullion under
the act Of July IA, 1890, ceased on the 1st
day of November 1898, and up to that
time there had been purchased during
the fiscal year 1917 658.7S fine ounces
at a cost of IS, us, 521. 80, an average cost
of $0.7913 per fine ounce. The total
amount of silver purchased from the
time that law took effect until the re-
peal of it's purchasing clause, on the
date last mentioned, was 168, 674, $50. SO
fine ounces, for which was paid $685.
9S1,00225, the average price per fine
ounce being $O9244
The total amount Of standard silver
DOLLARS coined at the minis of the Unit
ed States. since the passage of the act
of February %, 1879, is $421, 766, 4OS, of
which $378, 1855, 1893 were coined under the
provisions of that act; $3S, 521, 143 under
the provisions of the act of July A.
1890, and $5,07S, 472 under the act provid-
ing for the coinage of trade dollar bull
lion.
The coinage of all metals of our minis
during the last fiscal year consisted of
SO, 4S5, 220 pieces, valued at $106, PIG, 1906
of which there We're sos, 474 800. so in gold
coin, $3.50 in standard silver dollars,
$6,024, 140.90 in subsidiary silver coin and
$716,91926 in minor coin.
During the calendar year 1898, thepro-
duction of precious metals in the United
States was estimated at 1898 fine
ounces of gold of the commercial and
coinage value of s 35 1856, 900 and $4,000, 900
fine ounces of silver bullion ore of the
market value of SAG, S00,000 and of the
coinage value of $77 OOO 1t is esti-
mated that on the 1st day of July, 1894,
the stock of metallic money in the
United States, consisting of coins and
bullion, amounted to $1,251, 64O,9 of
which 1927 ,013 POI was gold and 1924, 347,-
757 was silver.
NATIONAL BANKS.
Fifty national banks were organized
during the year ending October 81, 1894,
with a capital of IS, 2S5, 900, and 70, with
a capital Of $40, AIS, 900, went into volun-
tary liquidation. Twenty-one banks,
with a capital of $2,77O,OOO, were placed
in the hands Of receivers. The total
number az national banks in existence
on the 31st day Of October last was
1856, being 40 less than on the S1st day
of October, 1898. The capital stock paid
in was 1872 gu ,S65, being SO. ,491 less
than at the same time in the previous
year, and the surplus fund and undi-
vided profits. less expenses and taxes
paid, amounted to 1884, 1874 OS210, which