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NOTICE. The universal and continued contraction of the money market and the general inability to realize upon assets, have made it necessary for us to suspend business. Depositors will be paid in full. All the morning the bank was visited by depositors, who wished to satisfy themselves that it had actually failed, but they quickly comprehended the situation and quietly went away. The usual crowds of curiosity-loving people, who had no interest in the bank, assembled, but there was nothing out of the ordinary for them to see. Inside of the bank all the officers and clerks were at their posts, and were hard at work upon their books and accounts. The failure of the Pacific Bank has excited no surprise in financial and general business circles, for it had been an open secret for a long time that the bank was weak, and the knowing ones governed themselves accordingly. AN OFFICIAL STATEMENT. R. H. McDonald Jr., Vice-President of the Pacific Bank has made the following statement of the bank's condition and how it came to fail: "The