Show S M EN ARE SA Conditions in j Local Trade Circles Cir Circles Cirdes cles des Are Declared red Satis Satisfactory Satisfactory I factory to Merchants BEI G RESUMED J 4 ADV NCE 1 1 MAKES FI Ft FISi NANCI OPTIMISTIC M Si k I Business s conditions during the lost up to the tho expectations of or the mer mor ll been boon easy cas and anti there thor hoc hia h been plenty lent in the local banks to inset all demands The rho record price iO by silver 08 USIA cents per por ounce w Is the highest t quotation In a num of or years has 1 caused eau ed a feeling of ot un to prevail in business clr cir cirIo Io It If this Uil Ih high h gh mark marlc is maintained thoy a erl unusual p will pro pre prevail vail V n tP o bank clearings for tor the week show how howai aft ai increase of more titan than a n half haIr million de d liars r those thoNe of ot the first week in S lout Int year ear This Is IB taken as us an Indication to of th this tJUI improvement in general business b conditions over those existing ont one year ago So Merchants in nearly all aU lines have hae been beena beenU a U busy o us oa they the bad had expected to be The Th I close of ot the tho sonson Is at hand ha d and f 7 it is a little early 00 for the fall taU trade to b gin n This has haa hI lit a fi t p L 1 or of the dry goods goode merchants and Brick More Plentiful The brick market is I a little easier as asmore asmore more brick are being furnished td local con contractors tractors As AJ A a consequence the building bunding are busy and the tho payrolls of the contractors ate are growing Many lan new now homos homes art re being bIng fu furnished 1 The sales of ot the fur ru ah ak a largely on the Install Installment mont moat plan Good payments are uro being made on the th of or the denIs dealt and the thee contracts e are usually for larger monthly tr nt than were exacted last year J men are arc satisfied as the thc new now mining districts being opened to the tho local trade by the railroads aro am ar Increasing their business here The opet oC o 0 n canning and pickling season OKsOn on has baa given 1 n ad clod impetus to tho the g of oC tle green creen grocer and fruit dealer This Pius 1118 trade will largely largel increase during tho th coming week as the season Benson will vill be in full tull swing awing within the next few t days day 4 Pa A cut has Iia been made in the prices of or wholesale flour Jour Retailers are arc getting High Patent at 1 instead of 52 U which price they paid pid a It week ago ngo The Tho cut has hot extended to the retail market in which this grade e still at t giving the n profit of or 55 cents per hun dred weight Coal COlli del dez lers ers report a threatened short shortage age ae of or coal as the cars that should be T used for Cor transporting coal conI to the market aro are tied up in the sugar augar beet fields It is Ia J feared that this shortage hortage may inflict a n general tuck lek of o fuel on the tho city unless something Is done dono at once to remedy the condition Consumers are arc advised to get Set ia iQ their winter supply of fuel tuel at once to avoid avota trouble when the rush begins at the of or cold weather |