MONEY AND CREDIT — MONEY, WEIGHTS, ETC. 800
Letters Post-cards. Other packages
Total
Internal
millions
1,308
42S
1,598
3,334
International
Dispatched
Received
Transit
millions 102
t>
lis
millions
95
6
•'>7
millions 129 2
68
226
I.jS
109
The total length of the telegraphic lines in 1911 was 114,394 miles, Avith 433,302 miles of wire. There were 21,396 telegraph offices, of which 17,619 belonged to the State, and the remainder to railway companies and private persons. In 1911 there were despatched 65,518,497 telegrams, of which 51,005,166 were internal, 9,649,649 international, 1,892,682 in transit, and 2,971,000 were official.
In 1911 there were in France 9,423 urban telephone systems with 30,030 miles of line and 603,366 miles of wire; nnmber of conversations in 191], 296,209,491. There were 16,789 inter-nrban circuits with 64,517 miles of line, and 326, 407 Smiles of wire; conversations in 1911,34,948,877. In 1911 the gross telephone receipts were 50,434,582 francs.
Money and Credit.
The nominal value of the French money coined in France during 1909, 1910 and 1911, was : -
Year
1909 lOlO 1911
Gold
Silver
Bronze
Total
Francs
Fran
cs
Francs
Francs
200,727,050
17,874,342
743,262
219,344,654
138,684,110
20,066
,618
606,737
159,357,465
12S,7S0,230
6.206
,751
1,709,600
136,652,581
The statistics of private banking are too unsatisfactory to be given.
The ordinary savings-lmnks numbered 550 (with 1,837 branch offices) on December^31, 1912 ; the^number of depositors was (in 1911-12) 8,532,412, to the value of 157,898,457^., thus giving an average of 197^. for each account. The National savings-banks, on December 31, 1911, held deposits and interest amounting to 1,704,094,437 francs due to 5,970,839 depositors, or on the average 285 '58 francs to each depositor.
The Bank of France, founded in 1806, has the monopoly of emitting bank notes.
The situation of the bank on December 21, 1910, was : —
Cash: Millions of francs
Gold 3,213-4
Silver : . 811-6
4, 0-25 -0
Portfolio 1,202-7
Advances ... 680-2
Notes in circulation ... . . 5,2-25-7
Accounts current , , S49-0
