Show BUSINESSOFA A WEEK Demand For Summer Goods Below Normal 4 CAUSED BY LATE SEASON 4 BANK CLEARINGS SHOW CONTINUED CON-TINUED INCREASE 1 Nearly Double What They Were For the Corresponding Period of Last YearReal Estate Market Was Dull All Sales Being SmallA Richter Reports a Number of Sales For May 3 General business has been handicaped the past week by two holidays one show day and unfavorable weather Arid yet as a rule business Is reported good In dry goods and clothing the I demand for light summer goods is far below normal in other lines it Is better than last year This holds true the state over Everyone realizes at the same time that but for the very unseasonable un-seasonable weather the volume of business busi-ness would be much greater than it is and creator than It has ever been be fore The fact that it keeps up so well is i a surprise to many The banks report a good business with a strong demand for money and there Is an abundance of cash to be had The clearings yesterday were 36387025 against 19043724 for the corresponding day last year They were 212133641 for the week against 152588361 for the corresponding week last year The clearings have never been so large in the history of the city as they have been thus far this spring There was considerable activity in local dividend paying stocks and a goodly number of shares changed hands People are putting money Into these for a permanent investment which Is a good sign The week has been dull In real estate The deals made were mostly small one All dealers report a strong demand de-mand for small houses Houses to rent of this character are at a premium There are many people coming to the city to become permanent residents and many are buying small homes A Richter reports the following real estate deals for the month of May eSj i i Judge Henderson to Mrs Mary McCauley Mc-Cauley residence on First street for 3600 Fred Lyndberg to Aaron Keyser 10x10 rods corner Third and P streets 3000 3OOOilllam William H Dale to Mrs McMaten I 16te l on S street for 900 James Stephenson to C B Handley I brick house on Second West near Sixth South for 1350 E W Wilson to R E McConaughey and Ed Jenkins 7x10 rods on Third South and Second West for 4000 George McCarroll to Ernest G Rog none the Eight Dairy fruit farm on Eleventh East for 6500 Hoyt Sherman lo Charlotte Red small house on Sixth street near G for 950J J C Thompson to H T Blank 3x10 rods on Sixth South near Fourth East for 1450 Charlotte Butcher to Lydia H Perry building lot on J street near Sixth for 330 John Campbell to G W Snow 4x12 I rods on West Temple between Fifth and Sixth South 2SOO I E Y Sherrard to E L Price brick house on Seventh South between Main and West Temple for 1400 George Coombs to Lloyd Porter 15 rods front on Thirteenth East street near Sixth South for 1500 F Bledsecker to William H Tibbals frame cottase on Second near Q for 2100 This Is a very good showing Other dealers are averse to publishing their sales for fear they might boom prices In that way They have become so accustomed to low prices In the past few years that they abhor the very idea of raising prices |