Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-10-06
THIS YEARS BANK CLEARISGs THE
GREATEST IN HISTORY.
ALL BUSINESS is BOOMING
>EfENTY-SIX CITIES REPORT aG-
GREGATE OVER $1,000. 100000.
Nine Months of 1880 Beat Entire Pre-
Htous Year and Establish u New
Observation-Disclosures Trade
IN All Lines Is sharp
ly Active.

| NEW YORK. Oct 5.-Bradstreet's will
say next Saturday:
| September bank clearinss' returns CON.
| urn early adyices of th. maintenance. N,
me coGntrys general trade and produc.
| i've INDUSTRY i'll exceedingly large volume
| men II Is recalled that owing 10 holiday
| opSefVances AT leading cities, the number
Oh business days in September was the
silalieSt OF any month except February
the iactS that the aggregate clearingS al
seEenty-SiX cities exceeded S1reo 60 Vyu
Were larger than those of August and
nearly as heavy as those of July, are evil
| dehce' IN absence OF any particular activity
III STOCK or other speculation, of the i'm
tnenSe volume OF business which was done
aS illustrative Of the great advance In bus
mess IN this over preceding years, the nine
months clearinSs' returns are no less sig
hiicah'. Tie total clearings for nine
months this year aggregate a sum great
sr than the entire 1885 total, though there
are three months yet To clause before The.
year Is complete. In this connection the
annual report of Manager Sherer. of the
New York claring house. shows that the
aggregate bank clarngs in the year end
ing with September were the heaviest ever
known, exceeding by nearly S9,00J,0O9,v0 the
| record total of 1881. and this, too in the
face of the fact that now, less than ever
| before, do the New York city bank clear
inGS represent speculative transactions,
and, on the contrary, more accurately rep
resent legitimate business transactions than
at any preceding period.
The aggregate clearings at seventy-six
cities for the month of September were
$.,ol3,s9,,22l, u gain of nearly per cent
war Of c.,
TENDER d year ago and OF q per cent over
1887 while they slightly more than
double those Of September 1924 and nearly
AZ per cent in excess of those of September
ls9e As indicative of the fact that the
expansion in the country : business Is of
particularly even and general character,
II Is further 10 be noted that the gain in
clearings at cities outside OF New York Is
almost identical with the gain at all cities
Gains by groups of cities for September
are more pronounced than Were those for
August, owing mainly. however. to Sep
TENDER. last year, having shown u drop
from the total in August, whereas this
year contrary movement occurred. he
heaviest gain by any group is that made by
the far Western cities, 10 per cent, follow
ed by the New England and Middle states
cities with gains of, respectively, EOS and
go per cent. and at longer distance still
by the Western. Southern and Northwest
ern cities by gains OF, respectively. 81,
80 and a per cent. The smallest gain
of any group, 10 per cent, is reported by
the Southwestern cities. Here again the
evenness of the trade development the
country over Is illustrated by the fact
that five groups of cities show gains within
comparatively narrow range of "a to 81
per cent
AS compared with the nine months re-
turns of 1895 this years returns show a
gain of Il per cent, are y per cent larger
than those of 1897, are Ill per cent heavier
than in 1891 and $50 per cent heavier than
in 1892.