THE DISTRICT OF TRENT, A MODEL CO-OPERATIVE DISTRICT I9 



important uudertakings; the Railway of the Upper Valley of the Xon, and 

 the Industrial Bank, to finance which it largely contributed. The 

 railway has not been a great success ; the Industrial Bank was founded in 

 order to give moral and financial support to industrial undertakings that 

 might give the youth of the country permanent and remunerative em- 

 ployment at home and so serve to check emigration. From what has been 

 said above, however, on the matter of emigration, it does not seem that 

 the Industrial Bank has succeeded in this aim. 



We shall speak in the next section of the support given by the Cath- 

 olic Bank of the Trent District to the Industrial Agricultural Syndicate. 



