Show FINANCE AND MINING Trade as Reviewed by a Prominent Promin-ent Retailer LEAD DECLINES FIVE GENTS A Fall In SugarAnd Now the Ice Trust News from Many Mines Ore and Bullion Output The business of the week just passed was interrupted to some extent by the election of ndaybut now that political matters no longer absorb the attention of our citizens to the exclusion of nearly everything else it is fair to presume that trade has resumed the even tenor of its i way and will remain in that condition until the struggle for the control of the municipality commences Speaking yesterday of the business outlook out-look past experience and hope for the future a well known retail dealer on Main street said Never since I have been in i business in Salt Lake have I seen trade so good and money so plentiful I know I thero are those who will disagree with me but I am simply stating facts Asked to 1 what he attributed his big trade he said Because of the rapid increase of population popula-tion I tell you people are coming in here much faster than many of us imagine Why only a few years agoindeed I was going to say a Jew months but I will qualify that son I was personally acquainted with rsrly very customer thaat entered my renow I do not know one inn hundred I have succeeded in keeping my old trade and capturing considerable Gf that of the new comers Aud indeed what reason is there why tjrade should not be good t The building now gong on and which has been going on lor months past is unprecedented in the history of the territory and there seems to be no reason to anticipate a decline One block of buildings does not approach completion com-pletion ere some old shanty is torn dovn I to make room for another and the constant advertisement for laborers and mechanics tells its own story In common with other cities who are affected af-fected by the free Mexican lead the cham bor of commerce have adopted resolution protesting against its admission and they will be forwarded to the department at Washington |