Show nuns MERCHANTS REAP GOLDEN I I Trade During Conference Ex Exceeds Exceeds Exceeds I That of Like Pe Pc Period Period nod Last Year EXTENDS TO ALL LINES VISITORS PURCHASE BETTER GOODS AND MORE OF EM Salt Lake merchants experienced the largest trade during conference days last week and Monday of this week in inthe inthe inthe the history of yearly Mormon Monnon confer conferences conferences here lOre lOres This s was the statement made yester yesterday day by the managers of the majority of local loca retail firms The gain in iii trade during the conference just closed over previous conferences was estimated at from front 10 to 33 83 13 per cent by the mer met merchants merchants chants Every business from fr m notions to farm implements received the bene benefit benefit fit of ot the conference week trade From the reports of merchants merchant yesterday the conference visitors purchased a greater variety of articles than ever before of ofa ofa ofa a better grade and more Of them George T Odell of the tile Consolidated Wagon Machine company declared yesterday that more visitors went through the establishment of his com corn company I pany pan than over ever before during confer conference conference I ence week and that more purchases were lere made madd than ever before There I were more mor people In town than I J have I seen Scott at a yearly conference since com coot coming I ing to Salt Lake said Mr Odell Merchants Are Happy Managers of the th various department stores were enthusiastic in their com corn comments ments mens on last weeks business Our business was fully 33 13 per cent heavier ier ler Monday than on oil the tho Monday donday folio follo folioIng ing last years conference and the bui bm i iness ness nesa of the conference week itself waa wa wavery very much heavier this year than last said J H manager of Walker Walkr Brothers store yesterday Henry W Walker Valker manager of Keith OBrien store reports that the business transacted by that concern was very much heavier than during preceding yearly early conferences J H 11 Brown of Brown Terry Woodruff declared d that more furnish furnishings furnishings ings and better furnishings were w re bought this year ear than last by the tile con fereno visitors J T W V Gray says the firm of Gray Brothers clothiers experienced d a fair Increase in business this year over last bust year during conference week Manager Henry Wallace Vallace of Auer Auerbach Auerbach bach Company reports a very satis satisfactory sa factory factor business for that firm espe especially emily in dress goods jackets and suit suits The business of the tile week he says was larger larSer than that done donI during the semi semiannual annual conference last fall Assistant Manager Parsons of the thc Z C M 11 I J reports an increase for that store declaring that their sales were very cry heavy preceding the thO conference Half a dozen other business men ro re report r port like conditions and the merchants of the city generally are well satisfied |