Show i BANK SANK CLEARINGS i 1 SHOW INCREASE f FOR JULY 1919 P f i t i Twelfth Federal Reserve District Report Indicates Prosperity g Salt SaIL Lal Lakes Lake's es e's bank clearings for July t 1919 showed an an- Increase over June 1919 of ot 35 33 Pcr per cent In n the thc official and agricultural review Issued yesterday b by the tho Twelfth Federal Reserve Re Re- conditions In Business pCr serve cr 0 district of or the thc west arc announced as asvery alt II ll parts very try good a no general Increase o of 9 98 S Sper per cent In bank clearings being re reported re- re ported 1 Despite tho the fact that tho the west was producing at f fever vcr heat In Jul July 1915 1913 the bank hank reports of la last t month Indicate Indi cato atc an Increase o of 2352 per cen cent t It Is la shown Drouth JIlt Dish and Idaho Utah and southern Idaho were the hardest hit sections In tho district during during dur dur- ing the thc last drouth The district consists consists consists con con- of or Arizona California Idaho Neada Nevada Novada Ne No- vada ada Ore Oregon on Utah and Washington A hea heavy crop of hay Is being cut In Oregon and and a Vcr very lI light ht one In Utah the bulletin said Further cuttings s In parts of Califor Califor- California nia Idaho and Utah will he seriously curt curtailed b by a L shortage of ot Irrigation water nan Ranges cs have been materially Improved cd In Arizona Utah and parts of or J Nevada c h hy by summer Mummer rains Live e stock throughout hout the tho district Is reported In good to excellent condition th the market is fairly active hc under a lower range e of prices and the banks ar are arc reported to be able to extend the necessary credit to prevent the forcing of or stock on the market Fl Figures ures are lIot not yet et available a for this years year's car clip of ot wool woot but incomplete reports Indi Indi- Indicate Indicate cate sate a yield slightly In excess of or 1 1918 18 F Ap Apple lc Crop i Shows Shon how Decrease The apple e crop of or Utah In bushels is estimated ted to bo be 20 per cent less In I 1919 1919 than It was In 1915 On the thc other hand hand the poach peach cro crop In bushels will willbe willbe willbe be about 20 O per cent greater this year car Tho The reports show a total crop I of or apples In bushels for or 1918 InS of this this this' year the crop is not expected to toc exceed c bu bushels hels Peaches for last ast year totaled bushels while J this year car tho the crop will exceed S 11 I bushels In addition there will be a pear lear crop this year ear estimated at i bushels In other parts of at tho the district the i crops are arc reported to be in excellent shape w S 1 The Thc California grape crop is shown to be bc particularly heavy this year Jf Demand for or Lumber Building Building- permits for the tho nineteen Jar large c cities of ot the district during Jul July ir amounted to the report i shows unusual building activity being j I l reported everywhere The total peri permits per per- i mats mits issued for July represent an Increase Increase int In- In t crease of or 89 per pcr cent over June Juno 1919 J and md an increase e of 1136 per cent over July 1918 fl co J F. F 1 The great drawback to a big build build- I I CAPITAL SOCIETY lY nI BEAUTY r r TO ZO WrE WED TED D s jp j Jj I 4 v Kf f YS f a uY l n. n C Y I rIc Y Y rh x v v vs s S f fv y Ac SJ v Sj i X V W W t 4 SS Sr i i w AxX A- A OT r i Miss bliss J Jeanotte eanette Cowan Miss Jeanette Cowan daughter of 11 Mrs Irs John K Ii Shields wife of or Senator Shields oC or Tennessee has announced that her marriage to Col Clement Heth will take place in September Miss Cowan was a debutante ute in iii Washington society a few years ears cars ago and since that time ahe alie has divided di her time tune between her home in Tennessee and the capital Ing InS boom is still the unsettled condition condition condition condi condi- tion o of the lumber m market of or the Pacific Pacific Pacific Pa Pa- northwest On the thc subject the thc bulletin says There is a a. pressing demand for lumber and mills arc are working under heavily Increased costs o of production Prices have Increased d from fromI 4 I to 6 G per thousand nd In Washington an and Oregon an average o of mills shows a production during the four weeks ended August 2 of oC feet as against a normal production of ot feet Yard stocks already vcr very low low have been further urther depleted by shipments above actual production of or feet feet- On August 2 th there reo was a balance of or unshipped rail orders of cars and of unshipped cargo orders of or feet feeL e |