The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-10-07
BANKING GROUP
IS PLEASED AT
CROP CONDITION
Report Agricultural Situation
Good in NOrthwest-Return
From Seattle
TRAVEL ABOARD SPECIAL
Group NOncOmmittal on Farm
Relief-Much Impressed
With West
TRAVEL ABOARD SPECIAL

Pleasure over good agricultural
conditions which they said prevailed
through the Northwest and surprise
at the rapid growth Of cities in this
section was expressed by investment
bankers who passed through Bis
marck Thursday night.
The bankers, more than 100 OF
them. were returning from the six
teenth annual convention of the In
vestment Bankers association OF
America, held in Seattle September
25 to 30. They were aboard q Nor
thern Pacific special train.
The party had made special tour
to Alaska following the close of the
Seattle convention. Their itinerary
included an inspection of the Pacific
Paper Mills at Ocean Falls and at
Alert Bay, B. G.
Henry H. Hayes, president of the
association, expressed pleasure that
the agricultural conditions were
good and especially that the corn
crop in Northwest states was COM
ing along in good shape.
May Place Capital On Coast
Studies and surveys made by the
bankers will doubtless lead to plac-
ing Of much capital l., Pacific North
west projects, Harry Rascovar, New
York banker, said.
Tie group was noncommital or
farm relief, explaining that, in their
opinion, most easterners had not q
sufficiently clear idea Of just what
the relief measures would accom-
plish.
Hays w Streat Of New York
chairman Of the ,lew York Trans
portation committee, said that the
bankers were much impressed with
the scenic beauties Of the North
west.
Service given them by the Nor.
thern Pacific railroad was charac.
terized as splendid" by the bank.
ers. Their train consisted ofe IL
cars, 10 of them sleeping cars and
two diners. The group was so ar.
ranged that the people from tn
various cities were on separate cars
Two cars are going to New York,
one to Detroit, one to st. Louis and
TWO TO CnlcagO.
A group Of Indians from the Can.
non Ball .eservation entertained the
bankers at Mandan, where a brief
stop was made.
Many Prominent Men Aboard
Prominent men on the train in
cluded: John p. Baer, Baltimore;
Roger X. Ballard, Chicago; Harry K.
Bemis, Boston; Trowbridge Call
away, New York city; Doland l.
DeGolyer, Chicago; Thomas N. Dy.
sart, st. Louis; John J. English, Chi
cago; Edwin N. Fitch, Jr:. Chicago;
Edgar Friedlander, Cincinnati;
Arthur H. Gilbert, Chicago.
Frank M. Gordon, Chicago; Mrs.
John S. Grier, Boston; w. c. Hanna,
Burlington, Ia; Henry +. Hayes,
New York city; Harry Rascovar,
New York city; M. Robert Herman,
New York city; Pliny Jewell, Bos-
ton; George B. johnson, Jr., Cleve-
land; Aid. !, H. Little, Chicago;
John r. Longmire, st. Louis; George
B. Macomber, New York city; Joseph
j. MacFawn, Detroit; L. H. Pank-
hurst, New York city.
Marshall l.. v. Pask, New York
city; Clayton G. Schray, Chicago;
Henry E. Scott, Erie, Pa; Harry F.
Silk, st. Louis; Kelton f. White, st.
Louis; Harold Wood, St. Paul; Larry
Woodland, Chicago, and Leonard G.
Wyeth, New York city.
Newspapermen aboard the train
included B. Gordon Wasson, finan-
cial feature writer, New York Her
aid Tribune; A. G. Newhall, Chi
cago Daily News, and James 0. Par
sons, New York Herald Tribune.