The failure of many northwestern banks in recent years has proved a political as well as a business factor of great interest and importance. In the last 3½ years, 512 banks have been closed in four northwestern states, as follows: Minnesota, 73; Montana, 122; North Dakota, 194; South Dakota, 123. Of these, 59 were national and 453 state banks. These failures occurred out of a total of 2,675 state and 691 national banks, or 3,366 altogether.
Throughout these states there were more banks per capita in 1921 than anywhere else in the countrya result...
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