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Show , 'j BUSINESS OF ALL KINDS. 1 Since tho llrst of this year over one i million dollnrs lias changed hands in real estate transactions in Salt Lako 1 1 City, whllo tho other towns In tho state have done well In proportion. ,i Over a half million dollars' Avorth or now buildings are now in course of . i construction. Tho real estate trans- I fors last week amounted to $100,000, and it wasn't a very lively week, cither; not nearly so good as tho six days previous. From now on, it is expected ex-pected there will bo a material increase, in-crease, because several largo transac-1 transac-1 Hons nro in embryo, and will bo com R A plotcd very soon. Besides this, tho l city is on tho eve of an era of pros- lt, porlty never known before In its his- lU I tory. Wo aro not looking for a "boom," 1 If with its inflated prices; nor do wo i ' want it; what wo anticipate is a steady ;1 growth in population and in wealth. i The bank clearings last week lacked t ?18,000 of being three millions of dol- M 1 lars. nn increase over tho samo week H' k in 1904 of ?294,G4G.C5. Tho clearings $ havo been increasing over since tho HffS" ilrst of tho year. During tho week M provlous, tho clearings were four M 4 , millions. Tho clearings for the year 1H 'M will amount to nearly ?200,000,000. M Utah Is rich In gold, silver, lead and MM W. coper. Figures compiled show that bo Hcl tween 1877 and 1900, tho production Hl1 of gold was ?21,9C3,72:i. Of silver, $137 714,293.33: Of lead, ?39.043.880.7. L Of copper, ?G,180,C10.44. Slnco 1900, tho production of gold has increased, BWff.fr silver has Increased and copper and IMjP load have Increased, so that wo bo MffiLf Hove wo aro safo in saying that the iSM'M total of $205,000,000 up to 1900 may bo WLl stated at $250,000,000, an enormous IHf IVvl sum. H M & & wLWt fiQ Iii ngrlcult'uro Utah ranks high, n oven if sho is an "arid" state. The MB p bushels of barley raised in one year, 1899, reported by tho census bureau, was 252,140, which was valued at ?121,820. Utah was 24th in tho list of barley-producing states in tho matter of acreage. By way of comparison, wo will state that Utah had 8,044 acres and raised 252,140 bushels, while Pennsylvania with 9,583 acres In barley bar-ley produced 224,218 bushels. As to corn and buckwheat, farmers here have as yet not tried tho latter, and the former docs not do as well as in tho east, although in the southern part of tho state conditions aro favorable. Oats, however, nro a part of the long suit and wo grow $1,500,000 worth on 43,000 acres of land. This is equivalent equiva-lent to $34.50 per acre all around, and when we consider that tho average is made up of dry farms as well as irrigated, irri-gated, wo can conclude that oats aro a mighty good crop for tho Utah man to handle, because there Is always a mar ket for oats. Our wheat crop for the samo year was valued at ?l 575 004 Utah wheat Is tho finest in the world" and ha3 taken ilrst prize wherever exhibited. ex-hibited. See report of World's Fni-commlsslon Fni-commlsslon at Chicago. Cache count', T " : to I the wheat producer, In which the cereal ce-real grows host, produced 888.G20 bushels of the total of 3,413,470. The hay crop of this state Is also a good one, and for the year quoted was ?3,-802,820.00, ?3,-802,820.00, an average value of ?11.9U per aero. '!! Here are a few figures taken from government reports, showing the amount of stuff wo sold In tho year 1809, and since that time business has Increased over 25 per cent In this lino. Wo disposed of 170,834 cases of tomatoes, toma-toes, which medical journals doclaro the finest and best canned In all the world. Wo disposed of 10,500 bushels of sweet corn, 14,500 bushels of carrots, car-rots, 12,000 bushels of edible beets, 1,483,570 bushels of potatoes, and 8,000 bushels of sweet potatoes, 20,000 bushels bush-els of parsnips, 13,000 bunches of radishes; rad-ishes; 255,000 bushels of tomatoes; 20,000 bushels of cucumbers; 700,000 watermelons, 51G.500 muskmelons, ' W 100,000 pounds of rhubarb, ono mill ion heads of cabbage, 25,000 heads of cauliflower, 55,000 bunches of asparagus aspara-gus and 40,000 bunches of celery. Other "garden sass" not mentioned under un-der these heads was classified as having hav-ing been sold for ?410,531. It IE Statistics on fruit sales aro so unreliable un-reliable and so out of proportion to what they are now, that wo refrain from publishing them. J3ut, apples, pears, plums, peaches, grapes, currants, cur-rants, apricot's, nectarines, and in tho south, figs, grow in profusion and aro "7 marketed. English walnuts and al monds flourish In tho southern counties. coun-ties. In short, wo have tho temperate zone In the north and tho semi-tropical In tho south. Dixie farmers grow cotton the same as their brothers In the states south of Mason and Dixon's line. But that this Is a great agricultural agricul-tural and fruit state no ono will deny. Cattlo, horses and sheep thrivo here. Tho forage crop Is lucern, which yields three crops per year on irrigated irri-gated soil and two on "dry" farms. The wool clip this year was i;500,000 pounds, and tho prlco ranged from 15 to 22 cents per pound. Utah sheep aro in great demand in the east as feeders, while Utah cattlo aro hardy and command good figures. It Is a good stato to como to. It is now, and as a result lands aro much cheaper than elsewhere in older communities. com-munities. Subduing tho soil Is easy, consisting of uprooting tho sage brush and getting water on tho land. There aro no bouldors, no "nlggorheads," no hidden rocks for plowpolnts to catch; all Is easy. It Is tho eldorado of tho agriculturist, tho natural homo of tho farmer, and tho stockman; tho elyslum of tho miner; tho land of promlso to the manufacturer. Markets Mar-kets aro good, and money Is plentiful. Como and see us. |