Bisbee daily review., 1921-02-20
FIST BIRTHDAY Is CELEBRATED
 BY LOCAL BANK
History Of Institution Is Solid Record Of Gain.
 And Dependability

The twenty-firSt birthday of the Bank of Bisbee was quietly celebrat- ed in that local, pioneer. financial in, stitution yesterday,
 On the nineteenth day Of February 1900, five business men of the Warren District opened what is now one of the best known and strongest banks in the entire southwest. Twenty-one years later finds the same bank S d position so firmly intrenched in the business community of city, county and state that even it's founders ac- knowledge wonder at the progress it has attained.
 Before the organization of the Bank of Bisbee the banking business Of the Warren District and of all this part of the state of Arizona was carried on through the mails and express with banks in California. principally in San Francisco. The old Copper Queen store. m addition. handled some business of banking nature. The increasing importance of the camp as a mining center; the fact that more and more business was centerinS here from al parts of Co chise county ana from the northern part of the state of Sonora convinced the organizers of the institution that there was ample room for bank.
 Organized for a capital of SS0.0O0 'the same amount has been held ever since. The original directors included W. H, Brophy, J, :. Douglas, Ben Williams. M, ]. Cunningham and J. R, AnSiuS. BrOphy k still a director and president of the bank; and is eNJen- Sively interested in various other banking institutions of the state and southwest. ]. S Douglas SS another director who started with the bank and is still one oI its pillars oj sup port BrOphy is now a director in the First Natioanl Bank or Los Angeles, has heavy interests in Phoenix iInan- ciSl institutions and, in company with Douglas and Los Angeles capitalists, entered the northern Arizona field with the Arizona Central Bank at Flagstaff. Douglas has extensive min ing interests in addition to those he holds in numerous banking inStiu- lions. Ben Williams. who WAS one of the old time mining men of the War ren District moved ,v, oOUSucnA -O<-ti- fOrnia some years ago and nSs since been living there. He retired from the SO1TJ ot directors some years ago. CunninSham is still director and is the managing Vice-pT--GeRt Of the bank today. His interests have bGcSG- enIs. U.til they include practically the entire state Oi Arizona in many lines OI activity. AnSluS, ono or the oriSi- nal directors, and in whose building the bank first opened its doors 10 the public, died some years ago.
 In the original location the bank remained a matter Of three years. Al that time the present site was partly a small park and hose house for the then fire department. Both prop critics were secured and some years later the present bank building was constructed.
 indicative of the growth of the in StiJuJion il might be cited that the deposits oI the bank at the end of its first years business approXimated S3eO, 900. Today they are in the ne.ghborhood of $S,O00.O0O. The sur plus. moreover. iS five times larger than the capital of tine bank. An inn mcnse banking business has been handled by the Bank Of BiSbee in itS twenty-one years of existence. When il was founded il was the only bank in CoChise county. lt drew business from the entire subdivision and pack trains, carrying currency and NeNi- can silver frequently had the local bank as their destination, from which point the money was transferred by draft. Today the bank iS known tbrnuwbout inc SDufhNypSt aS mo Of the leading financial institutions or the country.
 The personnel of the bank today in cludcs W. H. Brophy, director and president: J. $. Douglas, vice-prcSi- dent and director: NJ. J. Cunningham. vice-preSident anr managing director; l.. F.. Ellinwood, and :. r. Apple white. directors. C. $. Thompson. is the cashier and J. F. Connolly is the assistant cashier.