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Show INDUSTRY HEADS ! ARE D1HECT0RS ! OF LARGE BANK National Bonk of Commerce1 Has Many Leading Utah Men on Directorate. ARE UPBUILDERS FOR INTERMOUNTAIN WEST; President Is E. P. Eliison of Layton; C. H. Barton Is Managing Vice Pres. Having as officers and directors .1 number of the most prominent men of Utah and Idaho, men who are dl-j rectlng great Industrial, mercantile and financial affairs of the weal the National Bank of Commerce Is cm ofJ th solid, nulHlantla Institutions ofl gden. Since the organization of thlfl hank during the past year, It has been constantly developing and at the open-! lng of the year had resources of ap-l proximately three and a half million I dollars. Men who form the directorate of. I the bunk have the reputation of up-t up-t builders. They have made themselves tell In Other lines than banking, as (well as in financial Irclen. Their names are linked with Industries that : are of greatest Importance to the In- termoiintain states. Thej are known (for their keen Judgment, for their business ability, for Industrial energy-land energy-land foresight, all factors that are of1 I importance in tho upbuilding of an) ' j great Institution. Heading the hank Is n. P. Ellison! las president Mr. Bllleon Is head of I both the Ellison Ranching campen) and the Ia ton Sugar company, being) prominently Identified with Other i large business enterprises of tho west j (Charles H. Barton, managing vice president, is one of the mont promin-l nt bankers of th. west and Is presl-l denl of the Utah State Bankers' a.so-I a.so-I elation. His Identification with vur- ( Continued on I'nge Three. ) 'INDUSTRY HEADS ARE - DIRECTORS OF BANKS ! I j (Continued I rom Payo Two.) I. 11" publb- enterprises, including the Ogden Livestock show, has Oroughtl him Into much prominence a one of I 1 be builders of the cltv. J. W. Abbott. I (general manager of the George A. Lowe company. Is one "f the vice-presidents vice-presidents of the bank. P. T. Wright, general manager of the Wright .v Sons, tn is one 01 the vice-presidents and the othSi is Bars Richardson, president ami general 1 manager of the gden Wholesale ro-j leery Co. J. H. Riley is cashier and-F. and-F. J. Vicks, assistant cashier. ther directors of the bank ,ie lames Brennan, general manager ofj the igd- n Packing Provision Co.i Joseph M. FJarkr. general manager) of the Sperry Flour company : L N. , fierce, 'father" of the canning Indus-1 try iii Ciah and president of the Utah; 1 Water Storage association; P. A. Dlx. 1 agriculturalist ; Dr. E. M. fjonroy, physician phy-sician and surgeon II 1". Wood, vice! 1 president of the Wood Livestock coin- Ipany; Dr J D Hanlmg, eje. ear. nose, and throat specialist; Preston a Blair, I retired farmer and wool grower J 11. 1 'Pi Last president of Last tV- Thomas I department store, and president of the, Ogden Whole-ale Drug Co The bank Is a member of the f.-d- eral reserve system. Capital stock of' the hank is $250,000 with over $87,000 las surplus and undivided profits. The, deposits are nearly tWO million dollars at the present time. I Confidence in the future of g,iri as an Industrial Center is notlcablel among the men connected with thlil bank They foresee for Ogden much, growth, particularly along Industrial lines. As the bank directorate has representatives of the sugar, canning,' flour, livestock, meat packing, wool' growing and jobbing Industries, as. well as general farming and profes-' sional lines., it Is in touch With ever) important phase of development In northern Utah nn |