Appendix E, 



I. SOME STATISTICS RELATING TO BANKS, FROM THE 



REPORT OF THE COMPTROLLR OF THE 



CURRENCY FOR 1897. 



/. NATIONAL BANKS 



Number of national banks organized since 1863 5,095 



Number voluntarily ceasing business since beginning of tlie 



system 1,125 



Became insolvent 353 



Total passed out of the system 1,478 



Number in operation October 31, 1897 3,617 



Capital stock paid up $637,615,445 



Surplus and undivided profits 334,752,000 



Total capital $972,367,445 



Decrease in No. banks since 1892 192 



Decrease in capital $35,533,620 



No. shareholders, July, 1897 281,225 



No. shareholdei's holding $1,000 or less 169,948 



No. holding $1,000 to $5,000 79,756 



No. holding $5,000 to $30,000 29,541 



No. holding over $30,000 . . . . • 1,980 



Average holding, per stockholder $2,250 



No. women shareholders 101,914 



Value of shares held by women $141,854,200 



National bank-notes extant November, 1897 230,131,005 



" January, 1888 362,651,169 



" " May, 1891 170,419,376 



Profit on national bank circulation, based on deposit of United States four-per- 

 cent bonds, as compiled by the government actuary: — 



October, 1894 ()24 per cent 



1895 702 " " 



1896 1.030 " " 



1897 '.^16 " " 



The above is based up'>n the estimate of six per cent interest received by the 

 banks for currency loaned. 



The account for 1897 is made up as follows: — 



(576) 



