This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Staples, Moss, coughanour, Pence, Toole, Rogers, Cooper, Leavitt, Wing, Rugg Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5d.2ADI/3409 Message Board Post: Payette Independent Payette, Idaho October 25, 1894 The Idaho Trust Company. Mr. E. T. Staples, who has been spending several weeks at the placer diggings on the middle fork of the Boise river, returned to Payette the first of the week and is now fitting up offices of the Idaho Trust Company in the Payette Valley Bank building. This company was incorporated some time ago, with the following directors: W. A. Coughanour, A. B. Moss, J. J. Toole, Peter Pence, J. J. Rogers, E. T. Staples and W. A. Cooper, of Payette; Hon. S. D. Leavitt, of Eastport, Me., mayor of that city, Hon. Geo. H. Wing, of Ashburn, Me., president of the National Shoe and Leather bank of that city, and Hon. Chas. P. Rugg, of New Bedford, Mass. The officers of the company are: President, W. A. Coughanour, the well known capitalist of Payette; vice-president, E. T. Staples, who formerly resided in eastern Nebraska, where he was engaged in the banking business; secretary, W. A. Cooper, formerly of Brookline, Mass., where he was associated with the R. G. Dun Commercial agency. Mr. Staples informs us that he will now devote his entire attention to the business of the Idaho Trust Company. He is of the opinion that should Payette become the permanent county seat of Canyon county, it would be only a question of a short time when means could be secured with which to build a line of railroad up the Payette valley into the lumber and mining districts. In any event the company expects to succeed in attracting a large amount of capital to this portion of Idaho.