COASTWISE STEAMSHIP TRAFFIC BETWEEN NEW YORK AND NEW ENGLAND PORTS.

YEARS ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1911, 1910, 1909 AND 1908.

New York's percentage of the whole in 1911 was 52.08.

NOTE. In 1908 the banking power of the world was $45,750,300.000 of which 9.96 per cent. was in the United States.

DISTRIBUTION OF MONEY IN THE UNITED STATES, 1911.

The following are the number and resources of the different classes of banking and co-operative institutions under the supervision of the State Banking Department of New York on December 31, 1911:

TRANSACTIONS OF THE NEW YORK CLEARING HOUSE.

Prepared from statistics furnished by Mr. WILLIAM SHERER, Manager.

THE New York Clearing House has been in operation fifty-eight and a quarter years. Its aggregate transactions during that period ending December 31, 1911, amounted to $2,351,828,059,975.93.

It was organized on the 11th of October, 1853, and at the present time consists of sixty-six members, (banks and trust companies,) and the Assistant Treasurer of the United States at New York.

The aggregate transactions since its organization to January 1, 1912, are as follows.

The average Exchanges a day during the years 1910 and 1911 were as follows:

$8,530,248,570 38

7,296,165,447 00

7,621,600,904 64

6,969,812,493 02

7,958,624,009 86

Statement showing the Clearing House Transactions for each month from January 1, to December 31, 1911, with the Loans, Specie, Legal Tenders, and Deposits, of the Associated Banks, and the Percentage of Specie and Legal Tenders to net Deposits, on the first Saturday in each month.

1911.

January.

February.

March..

April.

May..

Exchanges.

Balances. $399,592,493 90

326,560,880 14

336,740,302 37

330,396,325 14

343,221,797 04

409,205,157 31

Total Transactions for the year ending Dec. 31, 1911,

$96,889,309,730 64

The foregoing figures are for member banks only. Beginning with July, Trust Companies, to the present number of sixteen, began to clear through the Clearing House as members; and including their transactions with those of the banks, the total loans, specie, legal tenders and net deposits of the sixty-six member banks and trust companies in the six months of the year were as follows:

The following are the percentages of balances paid in cash to total clearings during eleven years ending October 1st: