Show i P r 1 q ent Now Is Steady I By Ira C. C Tichenor summary sumI iry r of conditions in the Twelfth federal reserve rl I distri district 1 of which Utah is a part and which was published in inT T Tuesdays Tuesday's Telegram fully confirms by facts and figures the statements made on various occasions within the past two or three months s that the Western section ot of the tho country count Is s keeping g paco wI with h the the thet th thUi Ui t z r sections of ot the United States If It I not actually leading In the return to I n normalcy nalcy i The statement recently j was wa pas made by a ft well WU wel known know economist that the j 1 improvement in ii general business conditions in the East had been much 1 rge greater er than generally had been supposed Evidently this also aso has been the o In the and coast sections and probably this is true tre of ot entire country 4 M fl n t the e. e summary n ary alluded to to and which bears bears the name of of- Johh Perrin PerIn reserve agent for the Twelfth federal reserve district dIstrIct it I Is declared that retail iet l' l tr trade de continues continues' to io exceed ed in volume that of or a year ago while the Increase Increase cr ae In the the who wholesale trade wh which ch b began an io to be apparent last lat October t onU u s. s i 1 Re Reference has been made many times Ures during the he past six months orto or rc to th the improving financial situation in the West Yest as a indicated by kep reports p ts made by the Twelfth district federal reserve reserve bank ot of of- ofSan San Francisco fj that end this thIs' improvement is i continuing in a steady manner manner is proven by figures given in the summary alluded to Notice also has been taken of or the he Immense amount of ot construction I operations under way in the various cities cItes in this district dIstrct As indicated byte by bythe I te the he permits peris issued in January Januar of ot this year yea the building work showed a gain of t pe per cent over that of ot the tho opening month of 1921 s W Included in the evidences of ot increasing general activity ty are the reports of pf of the resumption of ot operations in the mining camps and the continued ri Improvement In the lumber industry increases being registered in production shipments and ad orders received as a compared d with wih last December and and a also so as as compared with wih January of or 1921 ij i- i Taken ake a as a a. a whole the prevailing conditions in this section are most gratifying and the outlook exceedingly bright |