Show JEWANCE AND MINING IJ r rheActivity nt1keJ1a1Mt Ii 111 r > So tte1Maii et t h I i 1 j 1 r t NEWS FROM MAAY MINEd Ore and Bullion Output Tho Bu toes of the Week Lead Still Buoyant Buoy-ant General 7 fI I J > A t The liveliest business places in the city now are the rta estate offices There is not one agent but who does not complain of being rushed to death with business and several of them who have heretofore been conducting their business alone have come to theconcltr I 0 sion that a partner is an absolute necessity neces-sity I have said one agent yesterday yester-day engagements ahead for at leas thr e days and must neglect my office work to attend to them There was a tim i said another 1 i when we were compelled to hunt for a buyer now the buyer calls upon us Several new firms baveiopened offices 1 during the week and those who have heretofore been operating in a quiet and losteatatious manner have flung tueir banners to the breeze and are coming out in all the glory of gold letters let-ters and attractive signs Some of the dealers deprecate the publishing of the real estate transactions made from day to day as tending to inflate prices and make property Harder to get at Others poohpooh Idea and poitit to the columns devoted daily by the journals of the Eastarn and Western boom cities to th t real estate transactions There nre those who already see premonitions of fie boom and wise and farseeing citizens will put nothing the way to prevent its approach Business during < tbe week may safely be said to have been fair only i yesterday yester-day was not remarkable for any particular par-ticular rush although a good business was done especially among the retail merchants Wholesale merchantsre port thffusual dullness prevailing at ths season of the year and collections are not coming in in a manner at all satisfactory satis-factory The fetive drummer with his lint of spring and summer goods is already al-ready on the road and reports received from some of them show that the country merchants are laying in larger stocs than usual evidently anticipating anticipat-ing a good seasons trade < l Lead still remains at asatisfactory figure being quoted yesterday in New York 490 per hundred pounds in Salt Lake 52 per ton Silver96 in New York 93 in Salt Lake The local stock market is still depressed de-pressed and the Ourbqtone Exchange seems to have 1 st its grip The organization of the Last Chance Mining Company bytheowners of Bannock Ban-nock stock would seem to indicatea revival re-vival of work at Era The principal parties to the transaction however are very reticent and say they prefer to remain silent until the ai tides of association asso-ciation are filed which will probably done tomorrow Last quotation ot Utah Southern general gen-eral mortsagebOntts New YijrkOij Utah SouthernExtensiori 91 Oregon Short Line 102 Denver Rio Grande 1st 7s 120 Isr consol 77i D Sn R G WM 1st 6s72 1st con assented j97 ThatSalt Lake isjinoijhe only place where business is rather quiet is evidenced evi-denced by the latest advice from New York received by R G Dun Co They say that business throughout the rountry is i quiet even for thi > season Fairly active jobbing trade is reported at several points when wholesale ousi n bs is distinctly dull and a prevailing feajpre seems to be indisposition to tak qiJantltles in yiew ofthe unusual uncertainties in many markets caused byBtrikes by speculation and by legislative legis-lative deliberations At Chicago spec jtion has been dull and in legitimate trade though there is some improvement improve-ment jof lae leas is dqimc than last vear Hard times mdrouth regIons throughout the West fleet purchases but in other sections there is a gain At8t Louis prompt payment on past purchases and continuing large distribution distri-bution are noticed i at Louisville values are softer without improvement in volume at southern points trade is quiet and at Philadelphia a slight improvement im-provement in distribution is observed I Jollections are fairy satisfactory at nearly all points and money generally in fair supply though ratherclose at Denver and Cleveland The Lehigh and Reading strikes grow more effective and are stopping many manufacturing establishments Though actual deliveries of anthracite are larger than for the same weeks last year Operators and retailers vie with each other in putting UD prices Poverty Pov-erty of miners causes serious apprehension appre-hension among traders who remembr that their losses after the strike of 1875 were three fourths of their accounts The Iron Association reports 6417148 tons of pig made last year a gain of 13 per cent but unsold stocks increased S4913 tons It is noteworthy that southern production was only 6 percent per-cent over that of 1866 But for activity in ship bridge and car building the trade would be less hopeful In wool the little improvement recently re-cently eeen has vanished and the market mar-ket favors buyers again The stocks at Boston were over 6000000 pounds larger than last January but at New York rather smaller while Philadelphia stocks are refused The demand for woollen goods is moderate but more frequent inquiry gives hope and the range of prices is on the whole but little below those of last year Cottons are in strong demand and many makes advance in prices In the leather trade hopes of improvement are still disappointed disap-pointed but the boot and sboa trade is better than usual for the season A better demand for rubber goods is reported re-ported aud more prospect that the Trust will nally get formed Nearly all the speculative markets have been weak Stocks weaken in spite of large reparted railway earnings and advance an of 10 per cent in East hound i rail rates The Reading strike and reported liquidation of a pool ont on-t f aockhave cau6edysoine decline and in other stocks thelabAfacedfany public demand is felt The average price is 160 per share lower l tJUPlt a Week lago Wheat Ka3ldec1itfi < PiK cents corn l > cent and lard a shade sugar is weaker and coffee while a great slump in oil has punished those who had faith in the power of curtailed production to control the price The general level of pricfs of all commodities commodi-ties is now about 50 emits on 100 lower thin January Mt f k f > Yet the Treasury bv depositing 300000 more wiTh banks has contrived to take only 200000 from circulation during the week It is significant that paruent in silver ceriih ates at customhouse cus-tomhouse rue to 1334 per cent of the total Money is returning to the New York banks in large volume from the interior and foreign trade accounts iu dicate th it I t the withdrawal foreign capital in Decemberprpbably did not exceed 000000 Exports of the principal prin-cipal produces were only 51000000 against 68 030090 in 1SS6 and for three weeks of January New York exports are 88 per cent below las year Exchanges Ex-changes outride of New Yorksail exceed ex-ceed those of last year by about 11 percent per-cent but they reflect rather the heavy business of last fall than current transactions trans-actions The business failures occuring throughout the country during the last seven days as report d to R G Dun Co the Mercantile Agency number for the United States 276 and lor Canada 38 or n total of 314 as compared com-pared with a total of 263 last week and 279 the week previous to the last For the corresponding weekof last year the figures were 301 made up of 176 in the United States and 25 in Canadathe United Statesfigures being identical with those ot this pres nt weak It |