West Publishing Company is a long time law book publisher that was
headquartered in Minneapolis/St Paul MN. Probably got in via GN stock
holdings.
Bill Uffelman
----- Original Message -----
From: "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@a...>
To: <BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, December 08, 2002 1:20 PM
Subject: Re: [BRHSlist] Pop Quiz
> Okay, who is/was West Publishing and what is the significance of their
> holdings? First National I assume was a holder either through their
> Equipment Trust business or for individual investor trust accounts....
> Charlie
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <bradslaney@w...>
> To: <BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Sunday, December 08, 2002 10:19 AM
> Subject: Re: [BRHSlist] Pop Quiz
>
>
> > I rode the SP&S 700 trip in October and had the opportunity to talk with
> Bob
> > Downing about the corporate entities forming BN. One of the benefits
was
> > learning the ownership of the CB&Q stock not owned by GN and NP. This
is
> > the breakdown:
> >
> > 1/3 First National Bank of Chicago
> >
> > 1/3 West Publishing
> >
> > 1/3 Publicly held (Small 5, 10 and 20 share lots for the most part).
> >
> > The West Publishing holding was surprising to me. There might be a
story
> > there.
> >
> > I also learned from Bob that it was relatively easy to obtain CB&Q stock
> > even though it was not listed on any exchange. The brokers in Chicago
> made
> > a small market among themselves, so if you wanted 5 or 10 shares, it was
> not
> > too difficult obtain.
> >
> > BRAD
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