The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-11
NATIONAL BANKS
TO NEW RECORDS
S1S,553,O 100000 on Nov. 20
Is S3,033,O00 More Than
Previous Figures
IMMENSE INCREASE
MADE IN DEPOSITS
Institutions in Texas Made the Largest
Gains-State Banks in Maine, I'LL
nois. Michigan, Iowa and Nebraska
Showed No Increases.

WASHINGTON, Jan. ll.-The re-
try in reply to the bank call issued By
the controller of the currency for a
statement of business as of Nov. 20,
1917. show another high record of pros
perity throughout the country. The
total resources of the 1856 national
banks responding to the call are shown
to be SIS SOB 100000. This is greater
than the total resources shown by the
cali for Nov Il, 1916, by S3,O33, 900 goo,
and an increase over the resources
shown by the last previous bank call,
Sept. II. by $2,O09, 100000. The re
sources then shown being the largest
ever reported in the history of Ameri-
can banking.
These resources, states the control
| Ter, exceed by more than $5o0,000,00
the total resources of all state banks
doing commercial business, all pri-
vate banks, and all trust companies IN
the United States as of June 90, 1917
the latest date for which State bank
returns have been eompiled-including
also the total resources at that time of
the twelve federal reserve banks.
Total deposits on Nov. 90. 1917,
amounted to $l4,7ss, 100000 This was
an increase over Nov. II, 1916, of
81 100000 00o, and an increase as com
pared with Sept. II, 1917. of $l,564,
600 900
OF the $l,564, 100000 increase in de
poaits since Sept. II, 1917. $64l 900,
900 was with the national banks Of
, the central reserve cities; $446,000,00t
with the national banks in other re
! serve cities. ana SAT- 100000 with tn,
: country banks.
The only states whose banks SHOWED
no increase between the September an,
November calls were Maine, Illinois
j Michigan, Iowa, and Nebraska.
: The state in which the banks out
= side the reserve cities showed the larg
/. cts increase was Texas, whose incre2s
:, was $50 600 coo. The next largest II
| crease was in Oklahoma. of $4,000
Il 0o0. The country banks in New Yor
Il state INCREASED $i0,0oo,oo0. The neA
J. largest increases were i'll New Jerse
and North Carolina, of SO 100000 eac'
IS followed by Arkansas with 100000
: South Carolina and California with + Is
:, 000, 900 each, and Massachusetts, an
~ Pennsylvania with Sl7.000,000 cac
= Thes. figures indicate that the growi
90 i'll deposits in our national banks
- wide and general, and not confined
any particular section or locality.
Loans and discounts on Nov. 20, l9l
amounted to 50 .535 600, 900. This W
an increase of $l,lS9, 100000 as col
pared with NOV. II the previous We
q and an increase as compared with Sci
y III, 1917, of $3.50, 100000 The propc
y ton Of loans and discounts to total d
roets on Nov. 20, 1917, was only "a.
per cent, as against the proportion
loans and discounts to deposits on Nc
L, 1916, of 66.S3 per cent, and as 60
a. pared with 6S.42 per cent on Sept.
! 1917
10 Cash in vaults and due from ft
i'm eral reserve banks, including items
!. process of collection, on Nov. 90. 10
Ce amounted to $l,759, 0G0, 900 as co
tn pared with 81 ,5O7 100000 on Nov
1916, and as compared with s 500, 90
VI 600 on Sept II, 1917.
m United States bonds and certifiea
Of Indebtedness, including Libel
bonds held by national banks Nov.
1917, amounted to $2,354 ,000,O 900, an
crease as compared with Nov. II, 10
of $l,629, 0O0,000 and an increase
compared with SEPT. II, 1917, of 81, /
600 600. The increase was very lar
ngs Is reported by government short te
M certificates Of Indebtedness, large p
- portion of which have been paid
since Nov. 20. 1917.
Bills PAYABLE and reds:ounts y
20. 1917. amounted to 5000, O0O,0 900,
increase over Nov. Il, 1916, of s.:
It 600. 600 and increase over Sept.
1917, Of 1914. 900 This increase