Show Brief Business Bits West Temple street from First South to South Temple is attracting the attention of investors Rock work has been commenced on the wholesale dry goods establishment of Spencer Clawson Architect Carroll has commenced work on a new academy building atKaysville which is to cost S000 The Utah commission is looking around for the cheapest place to buy the furnish ngs for the new Industrial home A good showing has already been made on the brick work of the addition to the I Main street establishment of Sells Burton Bur-ton tonThe The excavation for the new Lyons building build-ing on Second South street next to the I Central block will be completed in a few I days A wealthy undertaking firm of Davenport Daven-port Ia have a representative in the city who is looking up data with a view of making mak-ing a location A force of men yesterday commenced work on First South street breaking ground for the double track of the new electric street railway The Jennings mansion on South Temple of which Carroll is the architect is now ready for the interior work The elegant dwelling attracts universal attention Thomas W Jennings has just sold to eastern parties the strip of ground adjoining adjoin-ing THE HEISVID on the north The price including right of way and certain rear privileges was 10000 Workmen yesterday commenced to teardown tear-down the rear wall of Wells Fargo Cos bank in order to proceed with the big improvements im-provements now being inaugurated Masons Ma-sons are now at work on the foundation of the new structure Dallas Hedges advertise for sale the buildings on the old Salt Lake house site which have to removed to make place for the Progress block of six stories with all modern improvements to be erected by the enterprising Aucrbaciis during the coming summer The old rookeries must be removed re-moved by June 1st B Y Hampton is erecting a beautiful residence on the corner of G and Fourth and immediately across the street Old Man Sabine is putting up another large structure struc-ture On F street between Fourth and Fifth Walter Reynolds is erecting a fine residence which will improve that street considerably On the corner of F and Sixth Robert Knight is erecting a mammoth mam-moth store and residence and on the corner of E and Fourth Mr Schofield has just completed a very handsome home These residences are all in the Twentieth ward and within three blocks of each other They arc all of solid brick and are but a few of the many now iu course of construction construc-tion in that vicinity i The failure of the oatmeal trust illustrates illus-trates the manner in which trusts kill themselves I was allowed to die after I the men engaged in it had made a snug 1 sum of money The trust was formed in 1SS7 Twenty of the largest mills in the country combined to control the market The price was raised half a cent a pound The increase was so small that no protest was made against it but it amounted to SI 1 a barrel on an annual output of about uuuuu Barrels After a thne other millers > te thought there was profit enough in oatmeal to warrant the necessary investment The first few were absorbed in the trust jut the time came when there were more I mills in the market than the trust could handle without loss Then the combine I dissolved but it did not part with any considerable con-siderable portion of the profits There does not seem to be much of a warning in this experience against the forming of combinations to raise the price of food I a combine does not want the earth entire en-tire it stands a good chance to get a large ortion of it I |