CLEARING HOUSE

The following table shows the amount of clearings by the associated banks of Chicago for each month during the past six years.

CLEARING HOUSE.

The following shows the amount of clearings by the Clearing House of the Board of Trade of the City of Chicago for each month during the past six years.

NATIONAL BANKS OF CHICAGO.

The condition of the National Banks of Chicago on December 17, 1896, as reported to the Comptroller of the Currency in compliance with the provisions of Sections 5211 and 5213, Revised Statutes of the United States.

(Cents omitted in the items, but included in the totals.)

Atlas.....

700,000

189.031 1.949,363

273.906

228,814 3 1,412,790 $ 1.464.357 $
481,788 1,589,463 1,778,202
287,680, 1.488,647 471.764)

615.990 3

258.0093 330.0008

62,800 $

2.877.148$ 257,510

531.554

201.956

53,000

127,143

3.367.665

163,234

98,066

53.250

9,384

1.960,412

42.620

Bankers

1,000,000

133,405 2,308.871

608,868

477.974 1,224,831 2.553.278 1,277,511
627.964 3,930,345 1.692,000 830.535 6,202,254 1,632,147 1,324,199
500,000
1.000.000 1,189,416 5.778.254 1,541,839 703,370 3,713,384 3,604.272) 1.115,321
2,000,000 573,516 6,727,814 1.292.202 1,288,636 4.925.422 4,675.698 1.588.408
3,000,000 2,247,505 15,526,202 5,667,500 3,838,764 13,823,649 12,758.279
113.833 1.196,819
500,000
161,350 488,822 1.580,555 655,204
129,952 2,692.055 250.386 697.700 2,519.833 744.008
284,377
91.894 1.096,585)
166,472 1.299,732
245,458
392,997 116.588 1,186,831

99.020

54,250

103,930

3,778.109

41.150

205.946

50.000

974,340

7.834.402 45,000

388.308

124,347

327.000

2.235.759
186,055

45.000

§Illinois.

Lincoln

200,000

14.347

Live Stock.

448,169
3,062,798

750,000 1,072,597
1,000,000 1,626,711 5.086,844 1.702.085 1,937.046 4.132.368 4,473,226 1,629,242
2.000.000 1,127.198 7.275,256 1.037.175, 1,787,423 5.052.563 4,648,141 1.845,025
1,000,000 550,104 3,288,574|

Drovers.

†Oakland

250,000

*First (Englewood)

Total.

141,052 922,951
14.126
36,635

383,850
56,020
308,466 10.433
348,428 21.904

534,559 2,104,924 2,538,203 1.104,142 179,570 210,898 1,040,164 837,127 712,715 243,833

50.000

119,281

4,643,127 45,000

114.000

35,425

1.877.292j

32.500

318,130 18.228

81,636

27.500

318,130

22,500

11.958 409.451

103,973

12,500

8.578

409,451

11,250

+32.6% $20,800,000 $11,105,908 $75,341,685 818.046,774 $15,814,953 860,906,127 $49.103,122 $20,340,399 $ 4,604,506 $ 2,258,800 $5,069,828 $ 110,009,249 $ 1,029,365

*Included in Individual Deposits of Fort Dearborn National Bank are U. S. Deposits of $275,223, and in Northwestern National Bank of $295,726. +Not in Central Reserve District and required to keep only 15 per cent.

THE CHICAGO POSTOFFICE.

Postal and Money Order business transacted during the year 1896.

Increase in expenses in 1896, 866,229,35 or 3.07 per cent. Expenses in 1896 were 42.23 per cent. of receipts. Clerk hire, 17.99 per cent. of receipts.

COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF RECEIPTS BY QUARTERS.