Show BUSINESS MEN LOOK FORWARD Trade Dull at Present But Future Prospects Are Bright Blight WATCH RAILWAYS CLOSELY REAL ESTATE OUTLOOK CONSID Y HOPEFUL An Aft air of ot o expectancy the theoal oal business district Trade Is Ia quiet queL The week Just closed ss u as not radically different from many weeks that preceded ed it IL The rh tone was decidedly sluggish and yet back k of that Is IK a It feeling that cau e 8 m men n in all alt lines of trade to look forward f to great things before the end endo endot o ot of the season now flow Th Tb The feeling of buoyancy in spite pile of the facts presented every eel day pointing in the opposite direction Is If li based large largely largey ly IJ y on the hope hOle of important railroad de before the close of the pres present present ent year er The final completion of the theRan San Ran Pedro and the opening to take place May lay Ma 1 is already having its effect etTe t especially in real estate lines the as assurance urance that the Western Pacific is to bf bl built at once is still more Inure significant the near approach of ot the Moffat line from the east the connection of this city ity with the principal points to the north and south by means of or ben electric lines the interurban lines projected to ramify the southern part of cr f the county count the projected smelter and mill at the point of the mountain and the extensive irrigation work planned by the general government all these are factors in causing the iti zens to forget present pre ent troubles in look looking looking ing lug forward to the great things thing prom promised promIsed promIsed for tor the immediate future All on a Cash Basis Business in general was quiet throughout the th week There Thre Th re was a to total total total tal absence of o the factor of or specula speculation tion all the business that was trans trims transacted acted eted R may DULY be said to have been trans traus transacted acted a ted on a strictly cash ca h basis Collections were slow and a d there was a glut in inthe inthe inthe the money market Never in the his history history history tory of Salt Lake was there more money noney ready for investment nor never were ere th the terms more reasonable but butth the th security must be above suspicion The transfer of ot the Wells Fargo Co bank to Walker Talker Brothers Brother and the change of or cashiers at the Commercial National were ere the principal business events of or the week The closing pf Wells Fargo Co 0 aroused the inter interest interest est of or all ail over oer the inter intermountain mountain country There were not many man large real es estate estate tate deals placed upon the records but It Is generally understood that several valuable pieces peces of inside property were tied up mostly m by capitalists from out outRide outside side Ride the city The raid of the invest investors Investor ors or from Lo Angeles was as especially significant Former Mayor Thompson md the men associated a with him in 1 business secured a fine piece of prop property erty on West Yest Second South street for per r front foot Farmers report everything looking well on the farms farmR The outlook for ir irrigation irrigation Irrigation water for the summer is i fair fairand and aid a It good tOOd crop of grains rains fruits and vegetables IB Is looked for Local Commercial Stocks Commercial i stocks were flat during durin the week There were er no nu sales of im importance and anti prices changed but little from roni the quotations quotation of or the preceding week weeL WE ek Here are the latest figures gures Amalgamated A Sugar Co pfd 00 Common 1 00 XI Con nn ii W ft A M Co pfd pM 1 0 00 common 78 is S W ee WI I Tf ser O National bank 5 51 I ret pret Savin Sain bank W 00 National hank bank Ogden Osden Od 4 00 First Firt National bank Murray 00 Tremont County Sugar Co 12 ow ro Fire Insurance a Co to o 1 W Miho Sugar Co CoI 12 tit 1 I L Sugar Co 1270 1 74 National Bank of the Republic n IK 15 00 o olden Savings bank benk Iff to 90 SO Rocky Mt It Bell Dell Tel Co SI St 1110 W 50 State Bank of Utah 1500 1 lO e 00 eu Sus Sugar u r t City CHy tte Co 00 Th Sugar Co pfd 10 89 00 81 Common E ET T tan National bank 17 ro 50 Zions Savings Bank A Tr Co US 15 00 k Y C M f I 1 1 SIK eo BONDS hurch lOI alt Lake City Railroad 1 ter Valley Railroad HIS tan tah County Light A a Power Co C Mft |