Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1896-12-14

1889 ,108 gallons over the preceding year.
There was also an increase of 1, 44S, 676 gall
Ions of spirits produced from fruit, as
compared with the preceding year The
number of barrels of beer produced was
35, 859, $50, as against S3,5S9,7S4 produced
in the preceding fiscal year, being an IN
crease of 1885, 66 barrels -
The Gold Exports.
The total amount of gold exported dur
ing the last fiscal year was $112, 4O9, 941
and of silver $50, 541, $40, being an increase
of $45, GAL, 466 of gold and $13,246,SS4 OF
silver over the expectations of the preced-
ing fiscal year. The imports of gold were
$33, ,065 and of silver $28, 777,186, being
$2,859, 695 less of gold and $S,566,007 more
of silver than during the preceding year.
The total stock of metallic money in the
United States at the close of the last ifs
cal year. ending on the 30th day of June,
1896, was Slips, $685. 95, of which $685.
597,964 was in gold and $62S, 72S,O7l in
silver.
On the first day of November, 1896, the
total stock of money of all kinds in the
country was $2,2S5, 410,59O, and the
amount in circulation, not including that
641, being $22.63 per capita upon an estl-
mated population of II, 902, 900.
The production of the precious metals
in the United States during the calendar
year 1895, is estimated to have been
1884, $50 fine ounces of gold of the value
Of 1850 900 and 55, 727, 900 fine ounces of
silver of the commercial value Of $685.
AS, 900 and the coinage value of STOOL
900. The estimated production of these
metals throughout the world during the
same period was 9,688,82t fine ounces of
gold, amounting to 200,285,7 700 in value,
and 169, 189,249 fine ounces Of silver of
the commercial value of $110,654,00 and
Of f1n 0nir EyolJ1 Of o.
cording to our ratio The coinage of those
metals in the various countries of the
world during the same calendar year
amounted to 1882, 701, 43S in gold and $121,-
1862 in silver.
The total coinage at the minis of the
United States during the fiscal year ended
June 30, 1896, amounted to 81, 188, 1882,
of which $5S, 878, 400 was in gold coin and
$12, 1909, 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,
1885, was 5,051 and of this number 3,317
were at the date last mentioned in active
operation, having authorized capital stock
of $650,014,895 held by 288,902 shareholders
and circulating notes amounting to SILL,
412, $50.
uC LOId1 OUTSTANDING Circulating uOLGS
of all national banks on the 31st day OF
October, 1885, amounted to 1924, 553, 807, 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 1909
active institutions was $3,263 $50, 1883,
which included $1,S93, 263, 83931 in loans
and discounts and 1852, 165 1913 .85 in money
of all kinds on hand. Of their liabilities
81, 597 1891, O58.03 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 capital of ST.
100000, six in the Western states with a
capital of $875,00O, 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.