The sun., 1896-10-05
MONEY NOW IN THE BANKS.
the DEPOSITS Es7IMATED AT OYER
FIVE BILLIONS.

| Available Gold and Cold Certificates Heit
| by the Banks and Free Gold In the IRE ~
| ury Estimated at Over 9lei, 900, 900
| Depositors Number Over 10000, 900
| WASHINGTON, Oct. 4.-Comptrollcr of tn,
| Currency Eckels Issued a statement Of an In.
vestigation made by him OF the amount Of
money held by the banks OF the county. The
number OF banking houses and trust compaaei
| inquired Of was IL, ,902, and II clearing houses
covering all In the country. Replies were re.
ceived from but 5723 banks and trust COM
panies and 60 clearing house associations. The
information. however, is OF such character as
to enable fair and correct result from all TO be
| approximAted.
or tho 6,723 reports received 3.45s were OF
national banks, l.4D4 State banks. 457 savings
banks, 23O of private banks, and "a of loan and
trust companios Divided by geographical d.
saH Wars a. and the
mont, Mnsssehusetts, Rhode i.snd and 2onnccticSt
S: 5s%s
sSa.Ssfa yIsxpns St est virginia. North
Msss!.sGP Iousisns KsatHSfZ
Ar.nE 0iS 5n6 nGsaa ao
Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, Kansas. and
Rls aaa oG
Sss North ao an,R %yS%%nn Ssr
Arizona, oklahoma, and Indian Territory. Report.
fo!a Sai'sd statessKepor.ins o,7as; not report
The total amount of cash In the 57es insti.
s4I3, s49 It is divided as follows: Gold
coin. Sla4,Q77.oo3; gold certificates s55,4sl
S7.309,073; silver certificates. $40, ,6ba 5a6
Treasury notes 1890, Sl3.l26,0ls; United
States notes, Sl10, ,4Bg.3T5; currency certih-
Sasss ss0''''OOO; national bank notes. '6'
"ot this total cash the s,45s national banks
reporting held S335. 74.6l6 and the 2.285
State, &c, S17,o50. .233. The amount OF gold
coin and gold certificates held by these national
&C.. S34 4Si.731. In this connection IL may be
stated that the total number OF national banks,
es ssG 81 cash Of % Witch anu n
Sl6l. SOB 500"
and gold cert fcates held by reporting banks in
each geographical division is as follows:
ss% ESF1an so and ss sHs:
sds E,snFh ,n s1 c9s amount
sootTern states Total cash, s2o;Sso,oo amount
of wesssn Sca nd sSa
SOD 1 ana son c,rGs,es H snetiga9 .o,ea.
,IotS casn s.! isiS; amount gold and gold
The Comptroller estimates that the available
gold and gold certificates in all the banks in the
grsgates about S4"4. 900.
The returns from the sixty six of the seventy
eight clearing house sociations OF the country
show that on July the to- al cIearngs amounted
to S227 ,935.484: The balances of these total
Clearings settled in cash or cash exchanges was
but Sl0l52. .Sj4. or but little moro than per
cent. Of the whole. These balances were settled
as follows:
Gold. 81. .325.Ol5, gold Clearing House certificates.
S26j.UOO; silver and silver certificates Sl7Sg5O
Inr,i states notes S34sl !e!: currency Sl9l7 loi
sSt.s s5r 5t5 eyShanses IS SSs s9s masassrs s eer
tincatrs S3.yl4 aUi3 collections by creditor from
debtor bank, ss5,aSO; not stated. $2t.i2s Total |
SlD,l 52.s34
The, total number of depos!tors in the ma
tonal banks reporting on July l." says the |
Comptroller. were 2.3l 5.333, with Individual |
deposits aIgreeattng 81 Sl.5s6,0S7.lp3. On July |
IA the total individual deposits Of all the ma |
tionnl banks were Sl.66s.4 sos. and the esti-
mated number OF depositors was 2.435.6o5. |
Tho total number Of deoos;ors in reporting
hanks other than national. were 3. GA. .63o, with
deposits agGregatinE 81 .88s. .352.613.
" In 1894 an investigation showed the num-
ber Of bank dcpositors to be about 5000. 900. |
\ conservative est mate, in view OF the fact |
& at the 1um bcr OF depositors In national banks
shows an increase OF about half million. would |
make tho total number now at between 10000 |
900 and II .0o0. 900. with total deposits aggre-
eating over Eve billions OF dollars"