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Show : MIXED REPORTS. i ' Good and evil reports concerning the conditions in the United States come j to hand every day, but improvement i j is constantly noted. The January in- , ; come of the government fell some $S,- 1 ' 000,000 short of the expenditures, but I : the administration can easily remedy the situation by curtailing expenses. There are hundreds of thousands of men and l' women out of employment in the coun- i try and the cost of living is steadily J : increasing. Wheat is slowly climbing I , in the direction of the $2 per bushel ;i mark, flour is constantly advancing in ; price, while the loaves are shrinking in 1 j size and being sold for more money. : These are evil reports. . - With the coming of spring, now hap- . I ! pily close at hand, labor will be much , better employed than during the winter i mouths. There is every indication that opportunities for obtaining employment ' ! will be much better, in fact, than at , j any time during the last eighteen ; i months. Orders for all kinds of food ' ' and manufactured products continue to ! I pour in from Europe and they will na- I i turally increase as long as the war i !ast3. St. iouip, by the way, seems to , bo doing remarkably well in getting ' these rush orders. The latest order is for 2000 field cooking ranges, at a cost i ( of $1,000. "00 for the Trench government govern-ment . r I Leading citizens of Salt Lake return- ; ; iog from the east say there is really t no end to such orders. Undoubtedly ! without them vie should be in a dos-: dos-: perato situation, but both the good and 1 the bad features are due to the war tu a considerable extent and the good has finally triumphed. In addition to the gradual revival of business the financial fi-nancial situation has continued to improve im-prove UDtil we have reached a point , where money is "easy" in Wall street, the first place to feel the pinch when "hard times" descend upon us. The optimists have the better of the pessimists pes-simists at present, writing. |