Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-08-06
BANK STATISTICS.
Some National Bank Figures That
Will Interest financiers.
ABSTRACT OF ATREAsURY REPORT

Showing Resources, Loans, Discounts, De-
posits and Circulation from 1864 to 1896
Also the Fer Capita OF Banking Funds
Tariff Bills-Negro Laborer Gets Into
Trouble by Trying to Steal Silver.
Washington, Aug. 6.-The abstract Of
reports of condition Of national banks
on May IA is accompanied by a diagram
prepared Jointly by the comptroller Of
OF statistics. The diagram displays
graphically the growth and changes in
the principal items Of resources of ma
tional banks from 1864 to 1896 inclusive.
In October, 1864. the capital of sos banks
amounted to $3.50, SEQ, 900: a year later
the number of banks had increased to
1913 ard the capital to $393, 200, 600. The
capital gradually increased to s504 ,S00,-
600 ON Oct. 1. 1875, the highest point
reached until 1883, when it amounted
to $500, 100000. The increase thereafter
was gradual until 1892, when the high
est point was reached, namely, s6s6, 600,-
600. In the fall of 1896 the amount had
declined to s64S, 100000.
Record of Loans. Discounts and Deposits.
Leans and discounts reached their
maximum between 1864 and 1850. In
1919 the amount was 1854, 100000; in 1880
that amount was exceeded by S56 20O,-
600: with one exception from that date
to 1892 there was a rapid increase and
the highest point ever reached was in
October. 1892. namely, s2,171 geo, eco. In
1893 there was a drop to S1,S43, 600 O0O
but a recovery in 1885 to $2059, 400, 900.
In the fall OF 1896 there was a decline to
81, Ss3, 800, GOO. The deposits have fiuct-
uated TO about the same extent as loans
and discounts, the maximum being in
1882, when they amounted to s1,119, 3O0,-
600. In the following year deposits de-
clined to s1,465. 100000 and reacted the
following year to 1.742. 100. 900.
Statistics of Circulation.
The circulation outstanding in 1866
reached 1926. 00O, 600 ard the highest point
was reached in 1873. the amount being
S341, 100000. The minimum amount out
standing is shown to have been s122.-
eco, GOO in October, 1890. At the close of
the report Of year 1886 the amount had
risen to s2o9,sOO, 600. The average per
capita of banking funds of all national
banks in the United States in 1896 is
shown to be s37.14, varying from a min
imum of S7.72 in Arkansas to a maxi
mum Of S120.59 in Massachusetts,. The
diagram showsthe average in each state.
The diagram also shows by states ara
geographical divisions the capital, de-
posts and loans of all national banks,
and in addition an illustration of the
changes in the vasious classes of paper
money in circulation from 1864 to 1896.
The chart is being sent to all national
banks and leading newspapers.
More Comparison of the Tariff.
Washington, Aug. 5-The completed
| comparison of the tariff bill prepared
by Charles II. Evans, the tariff expert,
was made public yesterday. The fol-
lowing are some OF the comparisons, in
addition to those given last week: The
average ad valorem duty Of the fax,
| hemp and jute schedule is lower in the
new law than in the Wilson law; that
| while the present law is 45.1S per cent
| The average ad valorem of the pulp,
paper and book schedule under the pres
| ent law is 30.36 per cent: under the
Wilson law, 32,1s per cent. The average
| ad valorem of the sundry schedule I'M
| der the Dingley law is 1886 per cent.
under the Wilson law it was 24.79 pei
cent. The toal value of articles trans
| ferred from the free list to the dutiable
list is placed at SOL ,96s, 941. Only two
| articles were transferred from the duti-
| able to the free list. These were cocoa.
nuts in the shell and sheep dips.