How a Banker Constructed His Bank Through the Mail

Sometimes you have to use a little ingenuity to get things done. This was the case in 1916 when William Colthart, the president of a new bank in Vernal, Utah, discovered that the new bricks for his building being produced in Salt Lake City would cost more than four times as much to ship than the bricks cost. But Colthart discovered a new opportunity to significantly cut the cost of building his bank.