Show MONEY TALKS High Rank Bank Taken in the Financial World as Shown by the thel J rr l j l i rJ 4 Cl Clea ai PASSES MANY LARGE CITIES SPECIAL L BARGAIN B A SALES S LE TH THE E FEATURE IN I N TRADE Salt Lake City took higher rank as asa asa a 8 financial center among the cities of the country during the past week than ever before This is shown by the rec record record record ord of the clearing house Bradstreets report of the clearings of the country are published Friday evening ng For the thew w week ek ending on that day the clearings of the Salt Lake City banks were 7 This means moans clearings of con considerably considerably more than a million a day The increase over the corresponding week of 1905 was per cent It Is not easy to realize just what this means unless the matter Is given consideration No other city of ot twice the population had such heavy clear clearings clearings clearings ings No other city in the country with the exception of Mansfield 0 O and Sioux Falls S D small places showed such s 1 a per e t g of increase In clearings The increase for forthe the whole country outside of New York was but per p r cent It will be necessary to look even far farther farther farther ther to get the significance of ot what Is going on in to l Salt Lake City in a finan financial financial cial dal way Tn rn the matter m of clearings this city passed such hustling cities as Denver Seattle Seat tIe Portland Washing Washington ton D C Toledo Atlanta Fort Worth Tacoma Spokane Hartford St Paul Memphis and other cities In J that class This city ranked twenty J second among all the cities of If the thet t 1 States in this particular The figures for the week we which closed last night compared with the figures for the corresponding week of 1905 are as fol follows follows lows 1906 1905 1903 Jan JanJan 8 S 39 74 Jan JanJan 9 44 77 Jan JanJan 10 03 93 Jan JanJan 11 72 39 Jan JanJan 12 37 30 Jan 13 24 39 Totals un 19 52 Special Sales the Rule Clearance sales were the rule in jn all the large mercantile establishments of the city during the week Dry goods clothing boots and shoes took the lead leadIn leadin leadin In the matter of special sales and large quantities of merchandise were moved as the result of the slaughter of prices Because of the special sales local trade was abnormal throughout the week The volume of business was satisfactory satisfactory satisfactory tory collections in all lines were good and the outlook for the immediate fu future future future ture gives great encouragement The tone in real estate was good al although although although though few transfers of large dimen dimensions dimensions dimensions were recorded All dealers report good prospects for the spring and un unusual unusual unusual usual activity is predicted for this line Une of business The business of the past week was confined largely to 10 local in investors investors investors Building operations showed little change from the previous week Work was prosecuted ros on the building In course of erection and considerable new work was outlined for the spring Prices of Stocks Are Firm There was little change in the local commercial stock market Transfers were confined to sugar stocks and bonds Prices remained firm Quota Quotations Quotations Quotations on the popular stocks are given I below Amalgamated d Sugar Co pfd 00 Common ISO 00 Beneficial Life insurance 00 Consolidated W M Mo pfd 00 Common Deseret National bank Deseret Savings bank 00 Idaho Sugar 11 U 30 Home Homo T Fire ire Insurance company 00 Ou Commercial C National bank 00 1 Lewiston Sugar company comp 13 1326 25 1 Lehi Com Savings bank 00 j t F First st National bank Ogden SO 00 First National bank banle Logan ISO 00 Provo Commercial Savings 58 59 Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone 93 iQ 50 0 Ogden Savings bank 00 National Bank of Republic 00 Sanpete Sevier Sugar Co 10 1000 00 State Bank of Utah 00 Sugar City Townsite 1 2 50 60 I Thatcher Bros Banking Co 1250 50 O Utah National Bank 00 Utah Sugar Co pfd 10 Oi 05 Utah Sugar Co com corn 2 70 vestern estern Idaho Sugar Co 1035 10 3 Z C M 11 L 00 ZIons Savings Trust Co C 50 BONDS Church bonds 00 S L C Ry By 1st mortgage 00 S L S Ry mortgage 00 Sumpter Oo iJ |