Show THE RESERVE FUND from st Ant anthony bony fremont Fremon fc county idaho cornea comes the following J request reque ai si to the editor will you please state in your paper to settle a dispute whether or not there has has been at any time during the thirty years over everoe otie billion dollars surplus or reserve lund in the united states tre treasury A READER rho ibe united states treasury never has had bad a billion dollars surplus or re serve at any one oae time nor ban baa it ever reached one third of that amount on july 1 1894 the entire amount of gold in lue country was waa estimated at a little over one fifth being in ID tue treasury there may have been a fluctuation over that amount in the entire country at one time but only to a slight extent la in july 1895 the total money circulation of the nation wa corn COM posed as follow folio wt gold and gold certificates 00 41 silver dollars and bert afi cates 00 legal tender notes 00 treasury Trea aury notes of 1890 00 0 national Na Lional bank notes 00 subsidiary silver 00 currency certificates 0 00 total 6 00 this thia includes the treasury reserve and shows how impossible it would be to have the amount stated staled at the resumption period june 1878 there was gold in the treasury f abib bin was gradually increase in d until in september 1888 the reserve in the treasury amounted to the abe highest figures ever tou obed ened t time there haje been a de cre crease aee in october 1890 the total stock fell below in may 1898 1893 0 below 1 and in june u no these figure egure a relate to SO the treasury reserve not to any surplus revenue the latter however never having come insight in light of the billion mark |