1229. Canon Savings Bank (Cañon City, CO)

Bank Information

Episode Type
Suspension → Closure
Bank Type
savings bank
Start Date
August 7, 1905
Location
Cañon City, Colorado (38.442, -105.221)

Metadata

Model
gpt-5-mini
Short Digest
3297a4b7

Response Measures

None

Description

The Canon Savings Bank voluntarily closed its doors in early August 1905 and went into liquidation/assignee control. No run is described in the articles. The bank was liquidated and an assignee/committee wound up affairs with dividends paid to creditors, so this is a suspension followed by permanent closure/receivership.

Events (3)

1. August 7, 1905 Receivership
Newspaper Excerpt
At a meeting of the board of directors later in the day Lafe Combe was made assignee, and at once took charge of matters; for the benefit of the creditors ... two statements will be filed with the clerk of the district court which will show the precise condition of the bank at the time of its failure. (Aug. 1905 report references.)
Source
newspapers
2. August 7, 1905 Suspension
Cause
Bank Specific Adverse Info
Cause Details
Bank insolvent/insufficient assets to meet liabilities; board closed bank and placed it in assignee control.
Newspaper Excerpt
Realizing that it would be impossible to continue business without serious loss to depositors... closed the doors of the Canon Savings bank last Monday morning pending a liquidation of its affairs.
Source
newspapers
3. June 21, 1906 Other
Newspaper Excerpt
On petition of the creditors of the defunct Canon City Savings Bank, which suspended operations here last August... Judge M. S. Bailey ... appointed a committee ... to take charge of the business of the late institution in place of the assignee and wind up its affairs. ... Mr. Combs made a remarkably good showing for the creditors, paying off two dividends of ten per cent. each ... the indebtedness of the bank at the present time is approximately $22,000, and that the visible assets are nearly sufficient for its cancellation.
Source
newspapers

Newspaper Articles (2)

Article from Cañon City Record, August 10, 1905

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Article Text

Canon Savings Bank Closes Its Doors Realizing that it would be impossible dateFmentionedEthel Ibalance's sheet to continue business without serious shows the following items: Capital, loss to depositors and patrons the offi$25,000; undivided profits, $81.79; incers of the Canon Savings bank last terest, $45.48; bills payable. $8,100; due Monday morning closed the doors of depositors, $40,724.74; due banks, $5,617.48. Total $74,569.49. the institution pending a liquidation of its affairs. It will be seen from these figures that At a meeting of the board of directmatters are not in as good shape as ors later in the day Lafe Combe was they might be, and that the assignee made assignee, and at once took charge will have no easy task in bringing orof matters;for the benefit of the credder out of the chaos in which he finds itors, most of whom are Canon City the bank's affairs. people. Many small depositers were caught The exact status of things at the by the failure, more so, perhaps, than bank has not been made public and is usually the case with banks of its only an approximate statement of its class, due to the fact that it was a condition can be given at this time, savings institution and that its patrons but it infunderstood that the assets are were, for the most part, people who sufficient to pay off the greater part of had saved a little money out of slender incomes. the indebtedness, which is in the neighborhood of $50,000. Tomorrow two statements will be Except on the part of depositore and made out and filed with the clerk of others directly interested in the finanthe district court which will show the Bial welfare of the bank, but little exprecise condition of the bank at the citement was caused by the failure and time of its failure. One of these stateno business interest will be seriously ments will be made out by the late handicapped by its suspension. cashier for the stockholders, and the So far as can be ascertained at this other will be compiled by the assignee time there is no occasion for undue for the creditors. alarm on the part of the creditors, alThe Canon Savings bank was organthough, as has already been announced, ized in February, 1902, with W. H. Mcthe tangle which has brought about Clure as president, A. C. Dickinson the bank's downfall will require severvice president and H. 8. Lee cashier. al weeks to straighten out. The directors are: W. H. McClure, The assets consist of outstanding W. W. Story and A. C. Dickinson, all promissory notes, believed to be amply of this city, and Mr. Joseph Ruse. of secured on Fremont county ranch and Victor. orchard lands, stocks and bonds, overWas In Poor Health for Years drafts of customers, cash and cash Ira W. Kelley, of Mansfield, Pa. items and bank furniture and fixtures. writes: "I was in poor health for The last report of the condition of the two years, suffering from kidney and bank, as taken from the general ledger, bladder trouble, and spent consider. which was made August 3, 1905, was as able of money consulting physicians follows: Bills receivable, $49,976.51; without obtaining any marked benestocks. bonds and tax titles, $5,184.61; fit, but was cured by Foley's Kidney furniture and fixtures, $1,946.85; diviCure, and I desire to add my testidends, $3,750; overdrafts, $6,871.75; mony that it may be the cause of reinterest paid depositors, $2,754.32; exstoring the health of others. Refuse penses, $1,095.88; cash and cash items, substitutes. Palace Drug Store. $3,489.57. Total resources, $74,569.49. Under the head of liabilities on the RARV BORN ON BRIDGE


Article from Cañon City Record, June 21, 1906

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On petition of the creditors of the defunct Canon City Savings Bank, which suspended operations here last August with the sum of $49,800 due depositors, Judge M. S. Bailey of the district court last Monday appointed a committee consisting of County Treasurer C. J. Frederickson, Lafe Combs and W. H. McClure to take charge of the business of the late institution in place of the assignee and wind up its affairs. The request of the creditors to have a committee appointed to manage the business of the bank did not arise from any dissatisfaction with the conduct of its affairs by the assignee, but was for the purpose of permitting a more expeditious settlement of its accounts. As assignee Mr. Combs made a remarkably good showing for the creditors, paying off two dividends of ten per cent. each, which he re: lized from assets that were vague and shadowy at the time the bank went into liquidation. Mr. Combs filed his final report as assignee with the court last Tuesday, which shows that the indebtedness of the bank at the present time is approximately $22,000, and that the visible assets are nearly sufficient for its cancellation. The business of McClure & Co., which was intimately connected with that of the savings bank, has been settled through the initiative of W. H. McClure, and that fact will redound to the benefit of the bank's creditors. Mr. McClure has turned over to the estate of the late J. J. Cone all of the property belonging to McClure & Co., in return for which the heirs have agreed to pay all of the debts of the late firm. The value of the property conveyed to the Cone estate is estimated at $52,000. and consists of lands, water stocks, notes, etc. It is stated by Mr. McClure that the committee will be able to pay the bank's creditors dollar for dollar and will have something like $15,000 left for distribution among the stockholders. One-third the amount due the depositors will be paid off, according to Mr. McClure, within the next thirty days.