Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1913-02-26
SHOWS GRANT COUNTY
TO Be A MONEY CENTER
Our Bank Resources Exceed
Eight Millions of Dollars
Remarkable and Surprising Financial
Growth Has Been Attained During
the Past Twenty Years.

wealth that has taken place in Grant
county during the past twenty years.
Real estate has doubled and trebled
in value, farms have been improved at
a remarkable rate and the villages
and cities within its borders have had
snch a substantial growth in wealth
and importance that Ole can hardly
realize the changes that are constant
ly taking place
Twenty years ago there were only
seven banking Institutions in the
county. Two of them were the
Meyer Showalter State Bank and the
Grant County Bank of this city. the
resources of which were about one
hundred thousand dollars each, and
they were considered exceptionally
strong banks for those days. The
others in the county were the Wood
house & BARLEY private bank of
Bloomington the Geo. W. Eastman
private bank, of Platteville; the
Pipkin private bank of Boscobel j, the
Wilson private bank of Fennimore,
and the F. T. Stevens private bank of
Montfort. Their total resources were
doubtless not to exceed five hundred
thousand dollars.
Today we have twenty seven banks
IN the county, and their com bined
resources, as shown in the sworn and
published reports at the close of
banking hours on the 4th day Of
February 1913 were IN EXCESS OF
EIGHT MILLIONS OF DOLLARS.
The amount today would be still many
thousands greater than that.
This is most remarkable showing
for what is looked upon as a strictly
agricultural community, the popula
tion of which is but little larger than
it was twenty years ago, so that it
makes the increase of wealth PER
CAPITA all the more striking 1t
may also be added as a point worthy
twenty seven banks showed a most
substantial increase of deposits and
other resources over the report of Nov.
"a, 1919, about two months earlier.
The total resources of all the banks
in the county, on the date mentioned
Feb. 4, 1918 were as follows:
Union State Bank Lancaster. .S989. 218 50
State Bank OF PlatteYille. -. 821 1923
State Bank Of Fennimore. $50. 93,818.25
WOOdhouse BARLEY Bank of
Bloomington. 49,. -. as, 49,. 20
First National Bank of Platteville. 643, $40 40
First National Bans OF Lancaster. 413,6 51 40
State Bank of BOsCobel 49,. 49,. :. 315, 21.39
Pipkin State Bank of BOScObel 300 249. %
First National Bank Of Cuba City. 259 988.10
Green. - 24 ,414O7
Potosi State Bank of POtosi. 229, 025. 48
Livingston State Bank of Llvings-
Glen M Haven State Bank OF Glen S'O'~'0''
First National Bank of Fennimore. ~
Citizens State Bank of Monttort. 2O2 49,. AZ
CaSSville State Bank of CasSville. 1911 .929. rs
Cuba City State Bank of Cuba City. US 672 10
MusCoda State Bank of MuSCada... l55, OBJ. 55
Peoples State Bank of Lancaster l54 265 II
Farmers and Merchants Bank of
Badger State Bank of Cassviile... 145, is5 70
Bloomington State Bank of Bloom
Montfort State Bank OF Montfort... i3O,657 "a
Mt. Hope State Bank of Mt. Hope. sc 1O7 40
Bagley State Bank of Bagley..., -. 6l,65494
Patch Grove State Bank of Patch.
Fennimore Bank of Fennimore.. 45.8O96 60
Iotal... .............. So, OBJ O93.39
These particulars were ascertained
as the outgrowth of a conversation
which took place between W. j.
Brennan, chairman of the county
board of supervisors, and a number of
representatives of banks and bond