Salt Lake Herald | 1896-01-18 | Page 2 | Will Take Bonds

J WILL TAKE BONDS NEW YORK Jan 17President St John of the Mercantile National bank of New York has issued a circular letter let-ter to customers announcing that tine Mercantile National bank intends to bid for 1000000 of the bonds and offers I of-fers > to receive and tender the bids of customers for 54000000 additional on which the bank will furnish gold in exchange for lawful money for the first 20 per cent and will procure the SO per cent of the remainder at actual < cost by Importation or otherwise but not from the United States treasury the bank to charge its customers one fourth of 1 per cent for the service