Show THE PASPNK1 T IN TRADE A Marked Improvement All Along the neO ne-O ACTIVITY IN STOCKS EASTERN CREDITORS OF GOLDSMITH GOLD-SMITH CO TO MEET r Progress of the Midwinter Fair Movement The Bureau of Manufactures Manu-factures Preparing for Work T Telephone Building Scliool Bonds Pay Payments General Business Items There has been a marked change for the better in business during the past week and in consequence the merchant mer-chant and man of finance last night wore much shorter faces than have been their wont for the past several months Of course money is just as tight for the ordinary individual but there is ap apparent better feeling in financial circles and loans are being made without some of the usual ironclad iron-clad agreements Local bankers are making loans with caution and ask a higher rate of interest than the agent for eastern money which has been sent out west for investment for the very reason that there is nothing in which the owner can trust it in the east In a number of cases during the week loans were made at 8 per cent on real estate the security being of the best The trouble seems to be that borrowers borrow-ers are too anxious to place additional incumbrances upon property already groaning under its weight of indebtedness Indebt-edness and as a result the lenders are holding off to a considerable extent Customers of Salt Lakes banking institutions in-stitutions have little trouble in securing secur-ing all the money they need when the security is firstclass The local stock market is very inactive in-active and few transfers are being made Holders of stocks are in a great many cases asking fancy prices for their holdings D seret National Natonal has advanced upon the report that the bank would declare a dividend at then the-n xt meeting of the board of directors and the stock is practically out of the market |