Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1896 — $21.48 PER CAPITA. [ARTICLE]

$21.48 PER CAPITA.

Circulation of This Country on September 1, 1896. The Treasury Department’s monthly, circulation statement shows, as expected after the big excess of expenditures over receipts and the big decrease in the gold reserve and surplus cash in August, an unusually heavy net increase in the circulation last month. The treasury lost heavily in gold coin and silver certificates In August. The conspicuous changes in the circulation during the month were increases in gold coin circulation of $lB,702.025, and in silver certificates $14,083,223; and on the other hand, increases of $5,445.504 in greenback circulation, $3,145,000 currency certificates, and $2,686,008 in silver treasury notes. The total Circulation of th>- country on Sept. 1 is placed at $1,839,169,634, a per capita, of $21.48, against $1,603,583,028 on Sept. 1 a year ago. The amounts of the various kinds of money in circulation on Sept. 1, 1896, and on Sept. 1 a year ago are shown by the following table; „ Sept. 1, ’9O. Sept. 1. 'GS. Gold coin $ 463.095,969 $ 470,787,653 Standard silver dollars 53,445,881 52,584,843 Subsidiary silver 50,600.467 60,090,158 Gold certificates 38,867,639 49,081,089 S 1 1 ver certificates 345,739,894 323,772,261 Silver treasury notes 91,262,524 109,436,662 Greenbacks and currency certificates 270,359,734 321,091,753 National bank notes 215,798,526 204.738,609 Totals $1,539,169,634 $1,603,583,028 The treasury money and bullion fund last month shows a net decrease amounting to $2,737,711. Gold coin holdings decreased $12,810,170, silver bullion $2,072,018, and it lost $91,344 in subsidiary silver. On the other hand, its store of standard dollars increased $1,203,916, gold bullion $2,623,145, greenbacks $5,445,804, national bank notes $1,881,948. and silver treasury notes $1,084,008. The changes in detail in August in the money and bullion fund are shown by the following table: In tr’sury, In tr’sury, Aug. 1. Sept. 1. Gold coin $119,371,284 $106,561,114 Standard silver dollars 370,852.244 381,056,160 Subsidiary sliver. .. 16,004,145 15,909,801 Sliver treasury notes 34,394,748 35,478,756 Greenbacks 109,270,478 114,716,282 National bunk notes 11,933,422 13,815,370 Gold bullion 30.640,941 33.264,086 Sliver bullion 118,753,758 116,681,740 T0ta155820,221,020 $817,483,309