The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-12-10

OF $lSO,UZ1, I01.Ol, anu from internal rev.
enue $146, 6,S3O,615.66. The receipts from
customs show an increase of 81, 500, 1874 2;
over those from the same source for the
fiscal year ending June 80, 1895
and the receipts from internal
revenue an increase of $35S4, ,537 .91
The value of our imported dntiable mer
chandise during the last fiscal year was
1868, 757 40, and the value of free goods
imported $4G9, ,967, 40, being an increase
Of$6, ,523, ,675 in the value of dutiable goods
and SAL ,231 ,O34 in the value of free goods
over the preceding year. Our imports OF
merchandise, foreign and domestic
amounted in value to $SS2,006,93S, being
an increase over the preceding year OF
$15,O6S, 773. The average ad valorem
duty paid ON dutiable goods imported dur
ing the year was 1904 per cent. and on
free and dutiable goods taken together
2055 per cent. The cost of collecting our
internal revenue was 2,1S per cent, as
against 2.S1 per cent. for the fiscal wear
ending June 30, 1895. The total produc-
ton of distilled spirits. exclusive Of fruit
brandies, was S6,5SS, 7O3 taxable gallons,
being an increase of 6,639, 1OS gallons over
the preceding year. There was also an
increase of 1,443,676 gallons of spirits
produced from fruit as compared with the
preceding year. The number of barrels
of beer produced was 35,S59,2J as
| against 33, $50, 1874 produced in the preced-
ing fiscal year, being an increase OF 2,269,
466 barrels.
The total amount of gold exported dur
ing the last fiscal year was $112, ,409, ,947
and Of silver $6O,541, $40, being an in
crease Of $45,941 ,466 of gold and $13,-
! 246,3S4 of silver over the expectations of
the preceding fiscal year. The imports of
gold were S33, ,525.065 and of silver $685.
| III, 1856, being $2,S59, ,695 less of gold and
| $S,566.O .O07 more of silver than during the
preceding year. The total stock of
metallic money in the United States at
the close of the last fiscal year ended the
Both day of June, 1896, was $1,22S 1896,
OBS, Of which $599, ,597 ,964 was in gold
and $62S, 72S,O71 in silver. On the list
day of November 1896, the total stock Of
money. of all kinds in the country was
2,2S5, ,410, $50 and the amount in circula-
ton, not including that in the treasury
holdings, was 81 ,627 ,O55, ,641, being $22.6
per capita upon an estimated population
Of 71,992,OOO. The production of the
precious metals in the United States dur
y
have been 2.254,76O fine ounces of gold
of the value of SIG, ,61O, 900, and 90, 727 600
ounces of silver, of the commercial value
of $36. 900 and the coinage value of
72,O51 900. The estimated production
of these metals throughout the world dur
ing the same period was 9,6SS,S2 fine
ounces of gold, amounting to $2OO,2S5, 700
in value, and f69, 1S9, ,249 fine ounces of
IL e 49, Il
654 900. and of the coinage value of $21S,
73S, 100 according to our ratio. The coin
age Of these metals in the various coun-
tries of the world during the same cal
endar year amounted to $232, 701 ,43S in
gold and $121 ,995, ,219 in silver. The total
coinage at the mints of the United States
during the fiscal year ending June 30,
1885,. amounted to $71, ,1SS, 1852, of
which $5S,S7S,49O was in gold coins and
$12, 1903, 1882 in standard silver dollar,
subsidiary coins and minor coins.
National Banks.
The number of national banks organ
lied from the time the law authorizing
their creation was passed, up to Get. 81,
was 5,O51, and of this number 3,679 We're
at the date last mentioned in active oper-
alton, having authorized capital stock of
$3.50, OLA, ,S95, held by 2SS,902 sharehold-
ers, and circulating notes amounting to
$21, ,412,62 The total outstanding circu-
lating notes of all national banks Oct.
81, 1896, amounted to $234, 553, ,SO7, in
cluding unredeemed but fully secured
notes of banks insolvent and in process of
liquidation. The increase in national
bank circulation during the year ending
on that day was 21,O99, 400. Oct. 6,
1896, when the condition of national
banks was last reported, the total re-
sources of the 3.619 active institutions
was So. .263, ,6S5, ,313.S3, which included ST.
S93, ,25S, ,S39.31 in loans and discounts and
$362, 165, 1885 in money of all kinds on
hand. OF their liabilities $1.597 SOL
O5S.O3 was due to individual depositors
and sos, ,944, ,019 consisted of Outstand
ing circulating notes.
There were organized during the year
preceding the date last mentioned twen
ty-eight national banks, located in ff-
teen different States, of which twelve
were organized In the Eastern States
Western States with capital of $S75, 900
and ten in the Southern States with Il
capital of ST, 100000. During the year,
however, thirty-seven banks voluntarily
abandoned their franchises under 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
q decrease of thirty-six in the number of
active banks. The number of existing
banks organized under State laws is
5,TOS.
Immigration.
The number of immigrants arriving in
the United States during the fiscal year
was 343, ,267, of whom $40, ,46S were per-
mtited to land and 2,799 were debarred
on various grounds prescribed by law and
returned to the countries whence they
came at the expense of the steamship
companies by which they were brought
in. The increase in immigration over the
preceding year amounted to "a, 731. 1t is
that with. some exceptions the
of the last year were of a
hardy laboring class, accustomed and
able to earn a support for themselves
and it is estimated that the money
brought with them amounted to at least
s., 100000, though it was probably much
in excess of that sum, since only those
having less than $50 are required to dis
close the exact amount, and it is known
that many brought considerable sums of
money to buy land and build homes.
Including all the immigrants arriving
who are over IA years of age, 2663 per |
cent. were illiterate, as against 20.37 per |
cent. of those of that age arriving during |
the preceding year. The number of I'M
migrants over IA years old, the countries |
from which they came and the percentage |!
of illiterates among them were as fol- |
lows: Italy, 81, 7,515 with 54.59 per cent;
Ireland, 37,496. with per cent; Russia, |
80, 1SS, with Al. IA per cent; Austria Hun |
gary and provinces, 5I,O53. with 1892 !
per cent; Germany. 25.334. with 2.96 |
per cent; Sweden, 1881, with 1.16 per |
cent, while from Portugal there came |
., 2,O67, of whom 1859 per cent. were illit-
crate. There arrived from Japan during |
the year only LILO immigrants, and it is |
the opinion of the immigration authori |
ties that the apprehension heretofore ex-
listing to some extent of large immi1ra |
ton from Japan to the United States is |
without any substantial foundation.
The Life-Saving Service.
From the life-saving service it is re-
ported that the number of disasters to |