The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-09-12

Virginia City, Montana, will re-
call marvellous lemon tree tend
ed with care for eighteen years
now by Mrs. G., the genial wife
of the Recorder. The blossoms re-
call moonlight and magnOlias, Am
erican beauties and the wedding
march, honeysuckle and the Su
vance River.
The lemon is a strange tree to
botanists-its flowers are of diff
ferent sexes on the same stock. No
pollenizing bee invades the ancient
hall of records. Mrs. G.. deftly
with a feather spreads the pollen
co one or two blossoms at a time.
Thus limiting the production, she
stimulates the fruit of these fav-
ored flowers. Here one lemon
grows larger than a good sized
cantelope.
But no one seeing it has thought
it profitable to raise lemons in
Montana, until perhaps the big
bank mergers were formed last
wear.
Likenesses between the two pro-
.Jects exist:
The lemon spreads the sweetest
.odor ever known. It's fruit is the
;SOurest.
Not Good For Mergers
The climate of Montana does not
seem to suit bank mergers. The
statement of one blossom which
has been favored and pollenized,
the Metals Bank of Butte by COM
pairing its statement now with that
of June 18th, 1929, shows falling
off in size by $1,107, 473.12.
The stock in the merger bank
corporation blossomed sweetly last
year at a price varying from $50
TO $64 a share. The present quo
tation is $26. Suppose in the next
ten months it should fall another
twenty-six dollars the share
Montana winters are hard on lem
on trees. In the smaller towns
the old local officers of banks now
merged are being replaced with
new men, strangers to our con IL
tons. Wheat growers, cattle men
sheep owners, fruit farmers, anc
even dairymen with their quick
turnover, are refused loans or ev.
en- extensions, which their worth
and long dealings with these banks
-entitle them to. Spectators il
stocks of fluctuating vaiue, but
which. are known to these eastern
imported cashiers are accommo
dated with loans almost to the
face value of these stocks.
i. Banks and the Merchants
Montana merchants or lon,
sStanding find their credit wit
THESE newcomers restricted-som
seven feel that Montana money
Through the medium of the merge
bank headquarters in the Twi
'Cities are available to the grea
chain stores which are entering
jour state to drive our local merch
sants from the field which the,
have long enjoyed and wherein
they have decently served the pub
lie, usually with profit to tn
public as well as to themselves.
With the possible purpose o
making a great show of strengt
IN the capital city and. to proven
entrance of any Independent banl
the merger is putting up a ban
building to cost three hundred an
fifty thousand dollars. At Il
same time the price of its stock
falling an the market. The gre
second-class merger (and by IL
way the merger in which the Me
ais Bank and the National Bar
of Montana and the First Nation
al Bank of Great Falls is not tn,
to be as strong financially as Il
one in which the First Nation
of Dillon the Bank owned by Il
Marcus DAILY estate in Anacoud
and the Great Falls National, e.
tefed) is also about to build
large building in Livingston.
Livingston some customers wi
San pay up to the merger ban
"a e going without any noise to /;
old Independent bank. Custome
are the pollenizing bee of bank
. The Mysterious Bankers
The ways of bankers are a my
terry to the less fortunate membe
of the community. We thong
when the State Savings Bank
1907 was building its banner ban
lfuilding that the Rock of Gibralt
vas shifting sand compared
is strength. The building W
finished just in time for the bal
examiner to take charge of I
Business going on inside.
old citizens remember the gre
cut stone building built, but rev
occupied by the old Hauser FIJI
National Bank in Helena. The +,
scelver and his half dozen cler
bad quarters there large enou
for the Chemical National of N,
York.
d Our dear old fellow townsmt
Nhe Yegen Brothers cancelled {
lease on profitable store room
half of their bank building. "a
%ft@ pd1bib1Ou QCWIs EtIuOQcll
their quarters at an expense, I
20 them but to their depositors a
receiver afterwards, of $50, 900.
just before they closed their doc
We, uninitiated understand han
'ers net at all. Two weeks Def,
stla Tegens went down when III,
was silly run on the Metals Ba
which it was amply able to sta
and could have stood paying
lar for dollar until their last
position was paid, Chris Yegen '
going through the crowd outside
the Metals Bank and sayi
pointing to the Bank, ''They
goed boys. If they need a mill
dollars Yegen Brothers will
them have it." And there was
enough money in all three Of
Iegen banks to pay in cash
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