The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-10-05
SOME INTERESTING FIGURES TAB
ULATED BY COMPTROLLER
ECKELs.
WEST AND SOUTH BOARDING.
RANKS IN THESE SECTIONS HAVING
FAR MORE THAN THEIR PRO-
PORTION.
TOTAL OF NEARL HALF BILLION
In ali Banks and in the Treasury
mt the Present Time-Some
Comparisons.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 4.-Comptroller
statement giving the results Of an in
vestigation made by him of the amount
of all kinds of money held by the
banking institutions of the country on
July /. The number of banking houses
and trust companies inquired Of were
1882, and Of seventy-seven clearing
houses, covering all Of such institu-
tons in every state and territory and
the District of Columbia. Reports
were received from 5,723 banks and
trust companies and sixty-six clearing
house associations. The information,
although incomplete, is, the comptroller
says, of such a character as to enable
fair and correct result from all to
received, 3,45S were Of national banks:
1,494 state banks; 457 savings banks;
$50 of private banks, and eighty-four
Of loan and trust companies. The to-
tai amount of cash in the 5,723 insti-
tutions reporting was SAB, 24,S49. 1t Is
divided as follows:
Gold coin, $134,07 ,003; gold certificates
$55. 4S1, S38; silver dollars $S254 612: frac iona
500; treasury notes QS9e), s13, 126. obs; United
States notes, Sic, 1863, 375 currency certificates
$2Os5S,OoO; national bank notes, $23, 795, 1876.
Of this total cash the 3,458 national
banks reporting hold s33s.14,616, and
the 2,265 state, ETC., ST., $50. 233. The
amount of gold coin and gold certifl-
Gates held by these national banks
was $165. ,6O4. and by the state, ETC.,
$34, 484,7 1877. In this connection If NAV
be stated that the total number of ma
tional banks, viz, 1858. held on July
Il, the date of the last official cali,
1851, 65S, 485 cash, OF which amount there
was In gold coin and gold certificates
part thereof Of gold and gold certifi-
Gates held by reporting banks Is as fol-
lows. geographically:
New England states, total cash, $35. $50 272:
amount of gold and gold certificates SIS
40S 76s. Eastern states, total cash, s21S, 129,-
6S0 1873. Southern States, total cash, SIS. 0S6,-
60l amount of gold and gold certificates. So
659 l85. Western states, total cash, s109, 5S4,
645; amount Of gold and gold certifcates
s56 0.427. Pacific states and territories. total
cash, $751; 1852; amount of gold and gold GER
tlhcates. $40, 605, $50. Totals-Total cash, SAB
LA S4s total amount OF gold and gold certif-
Gates, S9.558,541.
of these geographical districts shows
that the 1923 reporting banks in the
New England states held but $780,
GIL more total than the GIG reporting
banks In the Southern states; the 1.216
banks in the Eastern states $1O3. 544.-
924 more total cash and 1872, 1863, 7O6 more
OF gold and gold certificates than the
2,434 banks in the Western states
From the reports received and other
information Of the table, the comp
troller finds that the total gold and
gold certificate holdings of the banks
of the country on July 1 was 1862, 1893. =
3S7. Including the free gold In the
treasury at the time, he finds that the
available gold and gold certificates
in the banks and the free gold in the
treasury on or about July was
$404, A, 40 The returns from the six
ty-six of the seventy eight clearing
house associations Of the country show
that on July 1 the total clearings
amounted to 1927, 1886, 464. The balances
Of these total clearings settled in cash
or cash exchanges was but $19,152, 1874,
or but little more than per cent of
the whole. OF the balances settled
81 OILS were in gold; $265, 900 in gold
clearing house certificates. $3,451, ISL
In United States notes and the re-
mainder in other forms of money and
commercial exchange.