Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-12-07

the preceding fiscel year, being nn In.
creaes OF =, 28g. 448 barrels.
The total amount of gold exported
during the Last fiscal year was Sll2,-
400, 947 and Of silver S605Al ,G5U, bong
an Increase Of 1894, AGO ~ gol d anu
fl3,2f6, 1884 OF SILVER over the exporla-
lions OF the preceding BscHl wear.
The imports nj pold were S83 $50 065
and Of silver s2s, 717,1s8, being s., $40.
sos less OF gold and IS, $685. COZ more OF
silver than during the pIeueding
year.
The total stock OF metallic money in
the United States ut the cioee Of the
last fiscal year ended on TN" s0Ih dng
OF June, 1896. was ~ 22S 1876 OBS
OF which 50g,597.964 was IN
gold ana s02s, 72s,O7l 10 silver.
On the first day OF November, 1896. the
total stock Of money OF al KINDS III the
country was s2,2s5, sl0, 500, ami tie
nmOu IN circulation, not including
that IN the treasury holdings, was
81 1877, 055. 6il, beinl s22.6S per capits
upon IN estlmaieu Ululation OF
IL ,902, 900.
1he production OF the precious metals
In the United states during the calen.
Gar year 1895 Is estimated to have been
2,253100 hne ounces OF gold, OF the
value OF SAC. 10000, anu 55,727,OOO
fine ounces Of snvrr, OF the commercial
value ofs Sd, All, 900, and the coinage
value oil S72, COL 900. The estimated
production OF these metals throughout
tnc world curing the same period was
9,isS, 81 nm ounces OF gold, amount
iug 10 5000, 2S5, 700 IN value, and 1884,
ls9.94, fine ounces OF silver, OF the
comm rciai value Of Sll0,B54 600 ana
OF the coinage value Of s2lS, 73s, 100
according to our ratio.
The coinage OF these metals In the
various countries OF the world during
The SIM calendar year amounted
10 S182,7Ol, iSS In gold, and
1921 1896, 30 la silver. This total
coinage at the mints of the
| United States during the fiscal year
ended June 80. 1896, amounted 10
s72, 1888, 48S 81, u which $685. SIS, 400
was IL gold coin and minor coins.
The number OF national banks organ.
| lied from the time the law auth orlzing
their creation was passed, up to
October 81, 1896, was 5,05l, AID Of this
number 1878 were NJ The date last
mentioned In active operation. having
authorized capital stock OF $3.50, oil 4, S95,
held by 2sS, 902 shareholders, anu
circulating notes amounting 10 s21,-
| 4l2,620. The total outstanding circu'
Iatiug notes OF all national banks on
the 3lst dpy OF October, 1856, amount
ed TO 1894, So, S07 including unre
deemed cut iuily secured notes o.
| banks insOlvent anu in process o.
| huuidation. The incIease In DationA
hank circulation during the year end
ing on that cay was S2l ,O99, 429. Or
October q, 1896, when the cOnuitiUn o
national banks was last repgrteJ, tbi
total resources Of the 1873 ective In
situations wac So, s63 6s5. 3l3 So, which
included 81 1913, 265 500 81 In loAne ant
discounts and $50, l65, 1885 In none,
Of all kints or lhuu. VI their llablli
ties 81, $50, sol ,05S.t3 was due 10 inai
viduai uepLsiiOrt and sos, 9a9,Ols con
slsteu OF outstanding circulating notes
There wsre organizsi during the
year preceding the uste last meptione'
twenty. eight national banks, locete'
4 tn fifteen states, Of which twelve wer
organized IN the Eastern states witt
"a capital OF 81, $50, 900, six in the West
eIn states, with a capital OF $50, eco
and ten in the Southern states with Q
capital OF 81, 10000. During the year
however, thirty banks voluntarily
abandoned their franchises under the
national law, land in the case of twenty
seven others 1t was found necessary Il
appoint receivers. Therefore, as com
pared with the yea preceding, theri
was 8 decrease OF thIrty.six in tn,
number OF active banks. The pumbel
OF existing banks as orgaDizec uldei
state laws is 5.7OS.