Show BUSINESS OUTLOOK A Little Quiet Bat Everybody Every-body Satisfied HONDAYSBEAL ESTATE DEALS Inquiries from Abroad About Excursions Excur-sions The Option Bulneh The Cistern SchemeEtc The quiet which reigned yesterday in business ciroles generally was taken by many to indicate that if it was not a calm before a storm there must have been a good deal of work going on on the side Thos > real estate men who were not at their offices were reported out showing properties and judging from the number so reported there area are-a great many looking around for desirable de-sirable sites to purchase One thing is certain and that is that numerous inquiries in-quiries arc baing received by mail from capitalists in the east One firm exhibited ex-hibited ten such letters to a HERALD man yesterday another had opened half a dozen and eight or nine was the number received by still another during the past week Other gentlemen in the realty business said that they were confident of an awakening in a few days which would prove lasting Very few transactions were to be recorded re-corded as the result of yesterdays work but the usual number being consummated consum-mated was heard of It id a general complaint among real estate dealers that the option business of a few weeks ago hurt trade very materially It Wit a fact that parties desiring to sell listed their property at a cTtuii figure minus the orokera commission and the realty was offered by the agent at 25 and 50 per cent advance Such proceedings scared off the bum fide investors and injured the business accordingly ABOUT EXCURSIoNS The idea of bringing a grand excur sion from the east to this city during tie comrninp summer is not dead or even sleeping The committee from the Chamber of Commerce in whose hand the matter was placed are giving it very careful consideration and while is liKely that they will recommend a I much broader and more comprehensive comprehen-sive plan than was at first suggested it is certain that the idea will be put through It is COI ceded that if the mineral resources and attractions of this Territory were made known to the people of the east and brongbt prominently to their notce thousanns of visitors would be I brought here Bat in orer to do this some advertising must be done and in order to properly advertise some money must ba raised and tue committee com-mittee are endeavoring to hit upon tue very best plan for accomplishing tbis I The majority of our business men have i already subscribed to the fund being raised by the Chamber for advertising purposes showing that thev appreciate to some extent at least the benefits to be derived from such a plan and there is but little doubt that an additional sum can be raised if the plan to be adopted by the committee should require re-quire it The real estate men can undoubtedly un-doubtedly be relied upon for a good round sum and it was stated yesterday yester-day that the Walker Brother had expressed ex-pressed a willigness to head the list with a subscription of 1000 I am willing to subscribe to such a fund remarked a wellknown busIness man yesterday and shall consider it a very good investment We will get it all back again and more too NOTES THE retail merchandise houses did a fair Mondays business and several of them reported good sales SHILEY GBOSHELL COOK disposed of fifteen lots ia Muecatine Place to parties in Clarke Nebraska IT is given as a fact that considerable money in small sums is changing hands the rate being 1 and 10 POSTMASTER BABRATT has received several offers of lots on which to erect the government building Some of the propositions are unique and liberal THE large rocks being dumped for foundation of the AuerbaohScott building are inscribed with the name of the quarry they are from TnistI Rock Company MARKS de CASADAY closed two sales yesterday in each caso the proper transferred being a full corner lot in the Twentieth Ward the parchaseis bting residents here RENTS are tumbing the reductions averaging from 10 to 15 per cent and assuming more satisfactory proportions propor-tions and yet the demand for empty houses cannot be supplied THATCHEB BLAIR Co are earnestly at work and are handling considerable city and country property Among the latter they have a large tract of farming land comprising nearly lGOO crea between be-tween Logan and Bear River ONE of the amusing blackboard announcements an-nouncements adorning the fronts of real estate agencies is one telling tue passerby that the proprietors have a fine piece of land in the northeastern quarter of the city which is suitable for residences or a private graveyard ONE of the rumors on the street yesterday had it that the city was contemplating con-templating placing a huge pump in the Jordan River which was to turnish water for irrigating and the canal water after building a set of settling tanks was to be used exclusively for household purposes THE cistern scheme for those on the north bench is till being agitated by interested parties who argue that people up there will soon be paying lOc and 15c a barrel for water and by spending 25 to 50 they can have a supply for three months and the water will be pure If properly built and cemented the small reserVOIrs would be safe and could be so arranged as to hold sufficient water for irrigating as well as for culinary purposes IN connection with the railrod mater ma-ter published in THE SUNDAY HERALD Mr Moritz of the Salt Lake Brewint Company remarked yesterday hat their business is such that the narrow gauge service is not ample enough They have a certain amount 01 tru e with the Utah Central and a certain amount with the D R G and that carried on with the firstnamed road necessitates double handling when shipments and returns are made from and to their establishment What the company wants now is a third rail so that they can carryon their shiprioct with bjth gauged roads aausfabtorily |