. City of Houston . WILLIAM D. CLEVELAND & BLOCK, HOUSTON. HOUSTON AS A FINANCIAL INE banks furnishthe sinews of tradefor Houston. Fiveof these have na-tional charters, onehas a State charter,and three are pri-vate five national banks are the FirstNational, the Commercial National, theSouth Texas National, the Planters andMechanics National, and the HoustonNational. The one with a State charteris the Houston Land and Trust three private banks are those ofT. W. House, W. T. Cummings, andSweeney, Coombs & Fredericks. The First National is the oldestbank of the

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. City of Houston . WILLIAM D. CLEVELAND & BLOCK, HOUSTON. HOUSTON AS A FINANCIAL INE banks furnishthe sinews of tradefor Houston. Fiveof these have na-tional charters, onehas a State charter,and three are pri-vate five national banks are the FirstNational, the Commercial National, theSouth Texas National, the Planters andMechanics National, and the HoustonNational. The one with a State charteris the Houston Land and Trust three private banks are those ofT. W. House, W. T. Cummings, andSweeney, Coombs & Fredericks. The First National is the oldestbank of the city. It was organized in1865. It is also the largest in point ofbusiness. The Commercial National wasestablished five years ago; the HoustonNational, two years ago, and the otherthree, in 1890. These five national banks had, at thebeginning of the current year, an aggre-gate capital and surplus of $1,642, aggregate deposits, at the sametime, were $2,592,067; their loans anddiscounts, $2,670,684; their cash items,$1,145,438, and their total resources, $4,5°5>477- The grand

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