A. Goff, cashier and T. R. Morrison, assistant cashier.

The Clinton State bank was organized in 1917, with a capital of $15,000. It has accumulated a small surplus. It has deposits of $86,000 and loans and discounts of $71,000, with a cash and undivided profits account of over $20,000. The present officers are : Noah Mose, president ; Nels S. Larsen. vice president ; R. O. Lyon, cashier ; and K. C. Mathesen, assistant cashier.

The first bank in the southern part of the county was at Lakeside, and was established in 1914, or before war and potash entered into the county development. Primarily it was for the accommodation of cattlemen, but later took care of the finances of the Lakeside Potash business. Its capital was $11,000, and according to recent statements its surplus was $7,000. It had deposits aggregating $155,000 and loans and discounts $136,000, cash and exchange $28,000. The officers are: H. C. Peterson, president ; R. M. Hampton, of Alliance, vice president ; and C. M. Empon. cashier.

The potash bubble was responsible for the establishing of banks at Antioch. War demand for potash made that locality look up in 1917

HISTORY OF WESTERN NEBRASKA

and that year two banks were organized and opened for business in the potash metropolis. According to the figures of a local census the town had two thousand people at one time, but many of them were transients and the closing of potash works, and the burning of the mills has reduced the population until it will hardly qualify as a city of the second class, to which honor it recently aspired. Two large mills have burned and the others are now silent.