The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-12-12
BIG FIRM
ENTITLED To CONSIDERATION
Assemblies a Splendid Group Of Highly Successful
Business Men, Largely interested / in Mining En-
terpise and Earning Mining Country Support

A matter OF considerable import
ance in stock market and banking
circles and throughout western min
ing sections is the announcement of
the formation of the new stock
brokerage firm of Thompson, Towle
& Co. by reason of the prominence of
the partners in brokerage and min
ing circles.
The new firm will have large cap
ital and will have five Stock Ex-
change seats, two in New York, two
in Boston and one in Chicago repre-
senting an investment of about
100000 in exchange seats alone.
The partners are all ore or less
known throughout the west as we'll
as the east. The firm will comprise
seven members as follows:
William b. Thompson, who has
been prominently identified with the
leading mining successes of the last
six or seven years having been iden-
titled with Utah Copper Co., Nevada
Consolidated Copper Co., Cumber-
land Ely Copper Co., Nipissing, La
Rose, Shannon and Mason Valley
companies. He has been closely
identified with the banking and
brokerage business first as a mem
Der of the firm of c. Shoemaker &
Co., Hayden, Stone & Co. and later
as special partner in Trippe, Themp-
son & Co.
George Napier Towle for ten years
has been a member of the New York
and Boston Stock Exchange house
OF Towle & Fitzgerald, which dis
solves January LIST, which has been
one of the leading Boston houses.
Previous to this he was a member of
the firm of Leland, Towle & Co. He
is one of the governors of the Bos-
ton Stock Exchange and has been
prominent in Boston banking and
financial circles for many years, hav-
ing been a member of the Boston
Stock Exchange since 1889.
j. Edward Thompson was a mem
Der of the firm of Trippe, Thompson
& Co. of New York, which firm dis
solves January LIST. Previous to his
stock exchange connections he was
active in the real estate and min
ing business in Butte, Clifton, Ariz.,
Bisbee. Ariz., and Cananea, Mexico,
and has a wide acquaintance through
out the west.
Joseph N. Lowell was for seventeen
years connected with the New York
and Boston Stock Exchange houses
of Leland, Towle &c Co. and Towle &
Fitzgerald being a partner of the lat
ter firm. Mr.. Lowell has made many
trips to the western mining camps
visiting properties in which his
firms clients were interested and is
well known throughout the west.
Joseph Remick retires January LIST
from the New York and Boston Stock
Exchange house of Schirmer, Chaplin
& Emmons of which firm he has
been a member for three years, pre-
vious to which he was with the
banking house of Kidder, Peabody &
Co. He is an officer or director in
many leading New England corpora
lions among them being Vice-Presi-
dent of the Massachusetts Gas Com
pany, Treasurer and Director Wash
burn Wire Co., Vice-President and
Director of the Ell Paso Electric Rail-
ways Co., Treasurer of the Rockland-
Rockport Lime Co., Director of the
New England Cotton Yarn Co. and
director in a number of other COM
panies, including banks and trust
companies.
VIM. F. Bartholomew was for
seventeen years associated with the
Boston News Bureau, the leading
financial and mining paper of the
east and for the past five years as
editor. For the past ten years he
has made yearly visits to the western
mining centers and is we'll acquaint-
ed with all the leading copper mines
of the west. 1t is planned to have
the new firm of Thompson, Towle &
Co. one of the best informed houses
in the Street."
Frank w. Holmes Of New York
was for years cashier of the State
Savings bank of Butte, but became
associated with VIM. B. Thompson in
New Y~ork-about five years ago.
Lately he has been connected with
Trippe, Thompson & Company.
The new firm will have the present
Offices of Trippe, Thompson & Co.
at rs Broad street, New York,
which are large and well equipped,
80 Congress street, Boston, Mass,
and also an office at 318 Main street,
Springfield, Mass, all connected by
private telegraph wires. 1t will have
correspondents in all the leading
mining centers of the west and will
have several eminent engineers upon
its stan to make reports upon prop
critics and keep the members of the
Arm and it's clients. closely advised
upon the latest mining developments.
The above announcement Is of
particular interest In this district be-
cause of the interest they hold here
and the wide acquaintance in the
camp of w. B. Thompson, ]. e.
Thompson and Mr.. Holmes. The
other gentlemen in the new firm r
also known to people of the camp,
both personally and through the
prominence they have enjoyed in
connection with large financial af-
fairs and mining development and
operations in the west for a number
of years.
The firm of Trippe, Thompson &