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Show WHY IT FAILED. The First National simply sacrificed sacri-ficed itself to tide over a stringent period, says the Provo Enquirer. Its business was good, so far as may be judged by the figures on its bonks, but collections these days I were quite impossible to make, j Coupled with this was a general j fear in the hearts of the people : that their money is not safe unless thev have it in some old stocking, slowed away at home, where they can see it everyday. Such a feeling feel-ing is quite natural in panicy timen like the present, but it is a sub'idal poliey neVerl heleh'S. If i the money people are hoarding up 1 these davs in this city alone was j in circulation, times would not be 1 so dull. |