Show I ADJUSTED THE LOSS Insurance AVill Now lie Paid oil the I Hot Springs Hotel Ahove Ogden An adjustment of the fire loss sustained I sus-tained by the Utah Hot Springs hotel above Ogden has Just been effected and 1 payment will early be made by tho losing insurance companies The settlement set-tlement was effected by Hugh Anderson Ander-son who represented several of the companies and a number of specials and the amount of the damage agreed upon was 1222 The fire which occasioned occa-sioned this loss threatened to wipe tho entire group of buildings at the resort from the face of tho earth but was controlled in the nick of time As it I was it carried away part of the main hotel structure i General Situation Unchanged j Locally there has been no change in I the general insurance situation and the I same old undesirable conditions of insecurity I in-security still exist Cuts below the 5S per cent mark are common and it is i I very evident that there will be no early settlement 01 the differences which I have wrecked Insurance companies for the past seven months At one time it I seemed as though the home offices would take some radical action for the purpose of effecting a change but to dato nothing has come from that quarter quar-ter and the agents are still industriously industrious-ly crsraged in cutting one anothers throats It is said however that there I i < some sort of a move being made with the view of adjusting maters but just I how successful it will be is for the future fu-ture alone to say Fire Losses For July In its issue of August 6th the Journal I of Commerce and Commercial Bulletin gives the following statement of the lire losses in tho United States and Canada for the month of July and the previous six months The fire loss of United States and Canada for tho month of July as compiled I com-piled from our daily records shows a total loss of 9083000 The following table gives comparisons by months 1593 lH 1S5 January S19S4r 1 F6SO 1UII February JlO l37ttJ 1111 < 11 March 1IG350 H71IJ I2aJ April HG69O 150OCt 1l3lb1o May 0427100 lOi7SOO 771l350 Tune 63H95 83 92lKJ Tub 21870 1637o 0O Total S98101SOO I779202CO 735S2fiOO July 1S94 was an abnormally serious ser-ious month as regards fire loss and as the same month in this year Is responsible re-sponsible for only a moderate aggregate aggre-gate the year 1S9 > stands so far lighter J I than the corresponding year in 1S94 because j I be-cause of this difference I |