Show BUSINESS FAIR FOR FORTHE THE WEEK J Dry Goods Trade Shows a Marked Improvement Over last Year COUNTRY BUYERS WAITING GENERAL IMPULSE EXPECTED DURING CONFERENCE WEEK Business conditions for the week Just ended in Salt L ke have been fair i without anything of a 8 startling nature It looked at the opening of ot the week I as though there would be something I dOing in the grain feed and flour trade II but the upward tendency ncy dwindled to normal normd conditions by Wednesday The outlook for the coming week is uncertain uncertain tain thin though it is possible that some something thing may ma be done in the seed markets Groceries meats and fruits were Yere steady yet there was one desirable ac tie accession cession and that was the appearance of ot spring lamb The clothing trade has been quiet with but little doing out in ht hl uy uj goods trade the condition is satisfactory satisfactory satisfactory tory and the local managers say that there Is ie a a marked improvement over oyer last year ear at this time The hardware trade is brisk owing to the favorable weather conditions I Farmers are arc buying liberally and there is every indication that agricultural I Interests will have a decided derided boom I In banking circles the week might well have haye been called featureless though money was easy and general business was steady and good General Trade Satisfactory R G Dun Co report the Jobbing as being quiet especially the local trade They account for this on the ground that at this time of the year yearb buyers b ers from the country postpone their purchases until conference week that thatIs thatIs Is the first week in April At that time I it Is ie expected exp the majority of the coun country country I try tr merchants will wili w ll take advantage of the liberal passenger rates offered by bythe bythe bythe the railroads to come to Salt Lake to attend the conference and at the same time tune to make the necessary purchases to restock their stores At the present I time collections are slow but money Is i plentiful and to obtain on good securities Nearly all nil the industrials are ale firm and quotations are about bout the same as they were a week ago as fol lows Jons Amalgamated Sugar Co pfd pd ss 93 SO Amalgamated Sugar Co com coin 65 00 Barnes Barms Banking Bunkin Co Ka 10 00 I ICon Con Wagon Machine Co pfd 50 Con Wagon Machine Co com corn 79 00 I Deseret National bank 00 Deseret s bank 00 Davis County Count bank 00 First National bank Ogden 00 First 1 National bank Murray 00 Fremont remont County Sugar Co ll ii 50 I Home Fire Insurance I Co 50 SO Idaho Sugar Co 1150 ii so Lewiston Co u 1300 iii 12 00 Laid Lehi Commercial JK Savings bank 00 National Bank of the Republic 00 Ogden Oden Savings bank Provo Commercial Savings bank 00 Rocky Mountain Bell Tel Co 1000 00 W 00 State Bank Dank of ot h iss 00 Sugar City Townsite Co 00 The Utah Sugar Co pfd pM 10 27 The Utah Sugar Co com cots c GOO 00 Thatcher Bros Banking Co Logan 00 Utah l tah National nal bank 16 j 00 Zions Savings Bank Bunk Trust Co 61 00 X Z C M si I 1 00 BONDS Mormon church Salt Lake City railroad 10 Sumpter Valley Valle railroad County Count Light Power Co |