Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-12-09

6,639,lOS gallons over the preceding year.
mere was also an increase OF !, 443,676 gal
Ions of spirits produced from fruit as
compared with the preceding year. The
1883, ESQ, as against SO, 784 produced
IN the preceding fiscal year, being an in
crease of 2,269,466 barrels.
The Gold Exports.
The total amount of gold exported dur
ing the last fiscal year was $112, 400 ,947
and of silver sec, SAL, $40, being an increase
of $45,941, 466 of gold and S13246,3 1884 of
silver over the expectations of the preced-
ing fiscal year. The imports of gold were
$53, 525O65 and Of silver $28,777 1876, being
SI859,695 less Of gold and $8,5660O7 more
OF silver than during the preceding year.
Inc total stock of metallic money in the
united States at the close Of the last fls-
cal year. ending on the Goth day of June,
1896, was SLIPS, 326, 035, of which $780,
591,964 was in gold and 1928, 728,071 in
silver.
On the first day Of November, 1896, the
total stock Of money of all kinds in the
country was $2,285, 410,590, and the
amount in circulation, not including that
IN the treasury holdings, was $1,627, O55,-
OIL, being $22.63 per capita upon an esti-
mated population of II ,902,0 900.
Inc production Of the precious metals
IN the United States, during the calendar
year 1895, is estimated to have been
Z,254,760 fine ounces of gold Of the value
OF $780, 900 and SIS, 727, 600 fine ounces of
silver OF the commercial value Of $685.
100000 and the coinage value of $72, 051,-
o0O The estimated production of these
metals throughout the world during the
same period was 9,688,821 fine ounces of
gold, amounting to 5000, 285, 700 in value,
and LIS, 1S9,249 fine ounces of silver Of
the commercial value Of $110, 654, 600 and
OF the coinage value of $218, 738, 100 &C
cording to our ratio. The coinage Of those
metals in the various countries of the
world during the same calendar year
amounted to 1892, 701, 43S in gold and s121,-
996,219 in silver.
The total coinage at the minis of the
United States during the fiscal year ended
June 80, 1896, amounted to ST., 1873, 1882,
Of which $5S,S78, AGO was in gold coin and
S12,309, 1882 in standard silver dollars,
subsidiary coins and minor coins.
The National Banks.
The number Of national banks organ
lied from the time the law authorizing
their creating was passed up to Oct 81,
1896, was 5,051, and of this number 3,317
were at the date last mentioned in active
operation, having authorized capital stock
of $3.50, Oh, 1895 held by 28S,902 shareholders
and circulating notes amounting to SILL
Az, $40
The total outstanding circulating notes
Of all national banks on the 31st day Of
October, 1896, amounted to $234 $50, S07, in
Guiding unredeemed, but fully secured
notes of banks insolvent and in process of
liquidation. The increase of national bank
circulation during the year ending on that
day was $21, 099, 429; on Oct. 6, 1896 when
the condition of national banks was last
reported, the total resources Of the 1860
active institutions was So, 263, 685, 313 SO,
which included 1888 ,263, 1881 in loans
and discounts and 1862, 165, 733 80 in money
of all kinds on hand. Of their liabilities
81, 597 ,891, 058.03 was due to individual de-
positors and 5000 ,944, 019 consisted of out
standing circulating notes.
There were organized during the year
preceding the date last mentioned twenty
eight national banks, located in fifteen
states, Of which twelve were organized in
the Eastern states with a capital of ST.
100000 six in the Western states with a
capital Of 1915, 900, and ten in the South
ern states with copital of 81, 100, 900. Dur
ing the year, however, thirty-seven banks
voluntarily abandoned their franchise I'M
der the national law and in the case of
twenty-seven others it was found necessary
to appoint receivers, therefore, as COM
pared with the year preceding, there was
a decrease of thirty-six in the number Of
active banks. The number of existing
banks organized under state laws is 5,578.