Hanford’s Bank Closes Doors
Consolidation of banking institutions reflects the changing economic landscape of the mid-Columbia river region.
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As a result of a meeting of the owners of the two institutions held in this city last Saturday evening, the Amon-Janke company will suspend banking operations at Hanford and will turn their deposits over to the First Bank of White Bluffs. This action is the outcome of negotiations which have been pending for some time and was taken because the bankers did not deem that business justified the maintenance of two banking institutions in the up-river country. The consolidation will give that section one strong bank with deposits of more than $40,000. J. B. Harvey, Jr., cashier of the Hanford bank, will continue to conduct an office in Hanford until the outstandings can be called in and the company’s business closed up.
“The bankers did not deem that business justified the maintenance of two banking institutions in the up-river country.”
Long before the Hanford Site became a secret nuclear production center, it was a modest agricultural river town. This bank consolidation marks the early volatility of life in these now-vanished communities that were eventually dismantled for the Manhattan Project.
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