Bank of Telluride - Telluride, CO

Bank Information

Episode Type: Suspension → Reopening
Bank Type: state
Start Date: December 2, 1921
Location: Telluride, Colorado (37.937, -107.812)

Metadata

Model: gpt-5-mini
Short Digest: a4b8681f

Response Measures

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Description

Article (Pueblo Chieftain, 1921-12-02) reports the Bank of Telluride will resume paying out gold and silver that was suspended during the war. This refers to wartime specie suspension (government-imposed or wartime practice), not a depositor run. No evidence of a run or failure; therefore classified as a suspension (wartime) with reopening in 1921.

Events (2)

1. December 2, 1921 Reopening

Newspaper Excerpt: The bank of Telluride has announced that it will resume paying out gold and silver, which was suspended during the war, to its customers in payment of checks, and the metal money has already replaced bills.
Source: newspapers

2. * Suspension

Cause: Government Action
Cause Details: Payment of specie (gold and silver) was suspended during World War I (wartime restriction/practice).
Newspaper Excerpt: The bank of Telluride has announced that it will resume paying out gold and silver, which was suspended during the war, to its customers in payment of checks...
Source: newspapers

Newspaper Articles (1)

1. December 2, 1921 Pueblo Chieftain Pueblo, CO

Article from Pueblo Chieftain, December 2, 1921

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Article Text

THE VALLEY. THE STATE, THE WEST Busk-Ivanhoe tunnel has been comFREMONT AUTUMN EXHIBITS pleted. Fremont Corn and Grain show will be held at Smith's hall, Canon City, on S. B. Gamble, who has been a clerk Saturday and promises to be an event at the Colorado Springs postoffice for of unusual interest. The annual meet35 years, retired on a pension at the ing of the Fremont County Farm age of 65. He was given a notable bureau will be held at the same time. banquet by the postoffice force. The show will be under the auspices and patronage of the farm bureau. From Brandon, Kiowa county:-The There will be displays of the different new school house will soon be roofed. varieties of corn grown in this part of A steel flag staff graces the front enColorado, both in low and high altitrance. We are beginning to plan the tudes, wheat. oats. barley. milo, flax, dedication services. beans, squash and threshed seeds of all kinds. Premiums will be given for the The bank of Telluride has announcbest samples of pumpkin seed, cucumed that it will resume paying out gold ber seed, watermelon weed, cantaloupe and silver, which was suspended durseed, alfalfa. seed, etc. ing the war, to its customers in paySOUTHERN NORMAL COLLEGE ment of checks, and the metal money has already replaced bills. The new heating plant is now in operation at the Normal-High school buildings at Gunnison. steam having Bishop John Henry Tihen confirmed been turned into the new high school a class of 150 at impressive services building. The new classrooms are beat the Longmont Catholic church. ing thrown open and students are assisting with the moving of desks and Work on the new gymnasium buildbooks. ing at the Colorado school for the The four main buildings on the camDeaf and Blind has been temporarily pus have been given individual names. discontinued. Thirty-six enthusiastic college freshmen went up on Smelter hill Saturday The Monte Vista telephone employand whitewashed the big "N." after ees entertained the employees from which they enjoyed a picnic lunch. Center. Del Norte, Creede and AlamoThe college basketball team is holdsa at a dinner. ing regular practice preparatory to the annual game with Greeley. Dr. Railroads allow a reduced rate to Johnson is coaching them. while Coach farm people who wish to go to the Krause is busy with the football team. Farmers' convention at Fort Collins "Top O' the World," the new school next week. newspaper, will bring out its first issue early next week. The size of the paper Annual meeting of the state board has been increased to six instead of of realtors will be held January 2 in four pages. Boulder. JOINS A TOUGH FAMILY The Colorado potato crop for 1921 is J. G. Straughn, railway postal clerk now placed at 10,200,000 bushels. on the D. & R. G., of Santa Fc. received a telegram announcing the birth