Show FINANCE AND MINING Lead Takes Another Lively Upward Up-ward Shoot I REVELING IN A SUGAR FAMINE EucourL ill News From the Carbon Mining DistrictOre and linllion Output News From Jinny Mines The huirir famine predicted in these columns two weeks ago is here and there has been some lively rustling among dealers deal-ers during the week in order to obtain enough to satisfy the demands of their retail trade In many cases merchants arc limiting their customers to 50 cents worth each while nearly all refuse to go beyond the dollar limit The result is considerable strategy on the part of the housewife who is laying in her stock of preserves for use during the coming winter win-ter In some cases under the writers notice the entire family has been dispatched dis-patched to different stores in order to obtain ob-tain the necessary To the query put one Main street merchant yesterday Hows the sugar market the reply came back Dont mention it weve got none I have boon around this morning trying to borrow or buy enough to tide me over today to-day as I expect a shipment on Monday but have met with very poor su ccess To tell you the truth I would rather have sugar than money this morning and I daresay dare-say that man other dealers are in the same fix When do we look for a bigger supply f Ask the wind It knows as much about it as we do What is sugar worth today then It is quoted at S1025 but it is worth all you can get for it Eastern East-ern advices are to the effect that the stocks in the United States and Cuba are down to 1COOOO tons against 250000 a year ago and 320000 two years ago while the stock of raw material in the four ports of the United Kingdom exhibits a deficiency closely approaching 100000 tons as compared com-pared with that of last year and estimated at 1K000 is decidedly less than onehalf that in 1S G when the total quantity held was i2i000 tons In the principal depots of the continent France Germany Aus tria Holland and Belgium also important leficits are shown the entire stock at command com-mand there barely equaling 500000 tons against 59fi000 tons in 1SSG Outside of the famine there is but little of excitement in business circles There has been a steady and even trade in nearly every line and the volume of business transacted by our merchants yesterday was somewhat in advance of that of the same day of the previous week A friend of the writers was recently in this city looking for a location He had made a tour of the coast and had almost made up his mind to settle in Seattle when the lire broke out and drove him away Reaching Salt Lake he determined to locate lo-cate here providing he could buy into an already established business He ranged the city over for a week and finally came with the following story I have been unable to find anybody who wants to sell and iu this Salt Lake differs from any city on the coast In all the other places I have visited I had plenty of chances to buy into established houses but if I go into business busi-ness here it must be on my own hook This of itself is a sufficient guarantee to me that your business men have faith in the future and are content to await the time when their hopes will be realized The railway news given by THE HEIALI during the week has caused no end of satisfaction sat-isfaction and even the scribes of suburban owns have been compelled to admit re iu tantly of course that THE HEKALDV pointers heretofore published came from j au authoritative source The new Commercial National of Salt Lake is now running in the usual course at JU 11 E First South Their business announcement an-nouncement appears in Tun HERALD columns today |