The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-10-05

| WASHINGTON, Oct. 4-Comptroller OF
the Currency Eckels has issued a. state
ment Of an investigation made by him
OF the amount of money held by the
banks Of the country
The number of banking houses and
trust companies inquired of were - es2
and seventy-seven clearing houses
covering all in the country. Replies were
received from only 5,723 banks and trust
companies and sixty-six clearing housa
ASSOCIATIONS The information, however
is OF such character as to enable 2. fair.
dnu correct result from ali to be approxi-
aioeeu' VI the o,fZS reports received,
5'9fS were of national banks / 4g4 state
banks. 457 saving banks, go OF private
banks and 81 Of loan and trust com
panies' Divided by geographical divi-.
1 n1III1I,. tne number reporting and the
HuIioeF not reporting were as follows.
New England States: Maine. Neu-
hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts
IN Island and Connecticut. Reporting.
Eastern States: New York. New
jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware Marv-
land and District of Columbia. Reportine-
I,Zl5; not reporting, S62
Southern States: Virginia. West vir-
gina. Carolina. South Carolina, Georgia
Elorlda, Alabama, Mississippi Louisiana
Iexas, Arkansas, Kentucky and Tennes-
see. reporting, SIS; not reporting 2 377
Western States: Missouri. Ohio In
diana, Illinois. Mich.gan' W i.sos IN
Iowa. Minnesota, Kansas, and Nebraska''
f'gTporIngs 24S4; not reporting. 1882.
racine states and Territories: Nevada
oregon, Colorado, Utah, Idaho. Nom
lana, Wyoming, New Mexico North
Dakota. South Dakota, Washington.
tory. Reporting, SEQ, not reporting N.
os dotaI reporting, 5,12S; not reporting, T.
The total amount of cash in the 5.722
-,~ti inc q ~
is divided as follows:
God coin. 1874, 077 .0e3; gold certificates.
s?'.fSl '538: silver dollars, $S254,612; frac-
uonal silver. 1885,, 073: silver certificates
S3g $50; treasury notes, 1890. sl3' 12S ms.
Y. ). notes, $40 Ass, 375: currency GER
tficates, $20,S5S,0O0 national bank notes.
w !s0.s54 OF this total cash, the S.45S
national banks reporting held $685. 174sf6
and the 1926 state, ETC., ST. $50 233
The amount of gold coin and gold GER
tifcates held by these national banks
vas W. So Slo0' glS64 by these state etc, s34-
4S4l3f: In this connection IT NAV be
Stated tnat the total number Of national
banks, viz: 1853, held on July a. the date
OF the last official call 1851, 65S 49, cash, of
which amount there was in gold coin and
gold certificates S161, 1858. $50
Inc total cash and the part thereof OF
gold and gold certificates held by report-
ing banks In each geographical division
Total Amount
cash. of gold
and gold
certif-
New England states.s a5.ss9.272 5 Is. 46a. 7ss
eastern states........ 2l3, 129, $50 $3.50, 1873
Southern states. 29,0S6,610 e,55S1S3
Western states. 08,540,645 Sc 40 427
Pacific states and
Territories .......... 25.s3f7s2 19,so5.SsO
Totals ,124S49 s1s9. 55s 341
The returns from the Sc of the n clear
ing house associations of the country.
show that on July 10. the total clearing
amounted to S27,935, 464.
The balances Of these total ciearings
settled in cash or cash exchanges was but
s19. 49, 1874. or but little more than s per
cent. of the whole. These balances were
as follows: Cod, 81, 325, 325, OILS; gold clear
ing house certificates, s265. coo: silver and
silver certificates, S175.950. L. S. notes.
50, 651,7 61, currency. $1,0lT 1G1; currency
certificates. $0,785,O00; national bank notes.
3l,746; exchanges, S3,0SS. 800: managers
certificates, S3,sA,9o4; cole stions by
creditor from debtor banks SS5g30: nor
stated. S2z,12S; total. s19.152, S34
The total number of depoSitors in the
national banks on July J. were 2.27s. SS33
with individual deposits Of all the national
banks were 81, 668, 413, sos, and the estin,ated
number Of depositors 2,435.G25. TIE total
number Of deDositors in not reporting
banks. other than national banks. was g.
Gil $50, with deposits aggregating 81 $685.
352, 673. In 1894. an Investigation showed
the number of bank depositors to be
about 100000. A conservative estimate.
il view of the fact that the number of
deDostors in national banks shows an in
crease Of about half a million. would
make the total number now at between
ten and eleven millions with total de-
posts aggregating over i've billions OF
dollars