A total of 7500 safe deposit boxes were holsted out of the basement of the Mississippi Valley Trust Company yesterday and moved to the Mercantile Commerce Bank & Trust Company, Eighth and Locust streets, where the new Mercantile Trust Company, a merger of the two banks, will open Tuesday. Armed police and bank guards surround one load of the boxes just after a portable crane had hoisted them from the Mississippi Valley basement through a hole cut in the sidewalk on Broadway at Olive street.
One million dollars in cash and about $2,000,000 in bonds were moved under heavy guard early yesterday from the Mississippi Valley Trust Company to the Mercantile-Commerce Bank & Trust Company. The picture shows sacks of coins being carried from an armored money truck to the Eighth Street entrance of Mercantile-Commerce. The two banks have consolidated as the Mercantile Trust Company, which will
Moving Day started yesterday for the Mississippi Valley Trust Company, which is being consolidated with the Mercantile-Commerce Bank and Trust Company to form the Mercantile Trust Company.
