| Show TRADE OPENS BRISKLY Christmas Buying Begins Early and Shopkeepers Are Gratified Gratified fied fled With Prospects REAL ESTATE IS MOVING GENERAL TONE OF MARKET OP TO STANDARD Local merchants report Christmas t d of the week excellent and the de dej j nd zid for money Is s greater than during he previous pf week Dank Bunk clearings clearing with 1 I 1 exception of ot one day have haTe been con ahead of tho th corresponding pe e eod od ad of ot last year and the tho aggregate vol volme volme volme me of business transacted Is estimated In excess of ot the same week of ot last ear Transactions on the floor of the cal stock exchange were large on a healthy market While there some disposition toward selling as a leans of ot providing Christmas money mone ils us Is It If anything less than usual and ando 10 o prospects for tor the future were perhaps ever better Mining In all nfl Its branches Is In a highly condition and moro more money Is 15 ladIng its way Into Investments of this than ever before In the history f t the city In this tills line too the outlook I 3 excellent Real Rea Estate Still Active The week has been a busy one In real state estate circles and some valuable pieces of or property have hae changed hands While a week ago the preference seemed to lie with property In the southern part of ot the city this week tho the demand domand has been gen general general gens eral s aI all allover over the city Applications for cottages and four tour and houses are still coming earning in at a n good rate ana ano an there Is an nn excellent market for tor property of this character Rentals of or houses or 01 ora ora a similar character are also In Lu good de do demand demand mand notwithstanding the number of o houses housed being finished and put on the market by b contractors and builders Ten Tenements Tenements Tenements and apartment houses are still eagerly sought ought after arter but the demand is not as heavy as It was a few weeks ago Building Trades Busy Building operations continue In various parts part of the town with unabated activity but the greater part of ot this Is confined to interior and finishing work The brick market Is now in fair shape and nd the dealers are congratulating themselves that In all probability they the will be b able to fill all back orders by the tho end of or the ear and commence the new with a 8 clean The congested condition of ot the railroads still sUII Interferes seriously with some lines of or building as lumber of all Kinds Is 15 by no means plentiful although the market is rather easier than tIan formerly Building hardware is In good demand and dealers In this line look forward to closing a a year ear which will break all rec records records records in point of sales Locks hinges T ire re nails and screws are selling in normous quantities and ad the demand Mows but little sign of decreasing Win Winter ter er building Is perhaps more active than 1 luring bring any year In the history Wholesalers Working Hard hol report the busiest Christ Christies ies ns in a number of years The rhe activity s not riot confined to any anyone one line but em raus all aU lines of business represented i tIll fir ti city ity dt Orders continue to come in rom ull 11 over oer the IntermountaIn country tan tab Nevada Sea a and Idaho in particular lam lany of If these are received from the theand and most inaccessible hamlets thi country The impassable lotion of the roads and winter weather e rully raly seemingly are without the cht t effect e fe t Wholesale grocers are with wita their orders out but outworking 0 working night and day da to catch up rl iri i l good prospects of or doing so before the then theor I n 03 of or the holidays ays In the dry dr goods jobbers is are preparing their spring s and report with only odds and ads ds of winter stocks on hand There Thereto to C been no material changes in prices d a while there is considerable delay at nv ms s i L L i getting goods from the east cast if r re rEe is no very serious shortage In any nc ne Commission Market Good Commission dealers from all reports r ports are the season of or their lives JIves The is well stocked and people are vying ying with a freedom and disregard of rl rs s seldom or never equalled Call Calt fruits of all kinds are plentiful at prices root vegetables of all are abundant and Idaho and Ore Oreon OreOn Oreon on apples and other fruit are coming in int int I t X a rate which disposes of all question f r anything approaching a shortage for ome time to come Coast fish and shell ish sh hae have been rather scarce at times due dueI I I o 0 I poor transportation facilities facUlties and torms on the coast but the market is well supplied at t present with but little Indication of a 8 shortage between now I and the first of the year ear earIn In Retail Lines i The Th demand for tor winter sporting goods of all nfl kind bT h heH p th hp ff of o the past week or ten days das Skates in par particular particular particular are In good demand with the sup supply supply supply ply on hand hardly able to keep pace with It The weeks business In stoves and winter goods generally has been very ery large toys of all kinds selling in enor enormous enormous enormous quantities The boot and shoe trade is excellent and steady tead notwithstanding notwithstanding standing the prevailing high prices Clo do Clothiers Clothiers thiers also report a good week weck the de demand demand mand for tor readymade read made clothing being a feature of or the sales Everything from shirts to overcoats seems to be included In the buying Smoking jackets and bath bathrobes bathrobes bathrobes robes are in good demand some especially attractive patterns being shown In the higher priced goods Canes and umbrellas also contributed not a little to the weeks tote total i Utah Stocks and Bonds The market for Industrial and other stocks and bonds of the state is strong with but few sales in anticipation of the coming dividends of January and tho th close of December Prices are high and may be expected to go higher The sugar season has bas been an excellent one which has added to the confidence already re reposed reposed reposed posed In all sugar stocks A meeting of the board of directors of Walker Valker Bros Dros bank was held Friday and the surplus or ordered ordered ordered dered increased from to This action leaves the undivided profits of the concern at Following are the latest industrial stock quotations Amalgamated Sugar au ar Co pfd 50 Common liO 00 Beneficial Life Insurance Co 38 S CO Ci t i Barnes Banking Co 10 00 09 Consolidated W tV V M 1 Co preferred uS 00 Common 00 Commercial National bank 10 00 10 Deseret ret National bank 29 00 Deseret Savings bank roo 00 Davis County Bank Dank Farmington 00 First National bank Ogden 0 Qu ViI First National bank Murray ISO 10 00 10 First National bank Logan 09 Home Fire Insurance Co 00 Sugar Co 11 50 0 National Bank of the Republic 10 00 Ogden Savings Bank Ban t 00 Provo Com Corn Savings Bank 00 Rocky Mt lIt Bell Dell Telephone Co S 00 State Bank Dank of Utah Utah 2 OO Sugar Segar City Co ISO I 08 06 Utah Sugar Co preferred 5 85 Common 2 C Idaho Sugar Co 8 S 55 00 Thatcher Bros Co Logan 17 00 Utah County Count Light Power Co 1 I 10 03 Utah National bank 00 I Utah Savings Trust Co 00 I Utah Banking Co Lehl 00 I Western Idaho Sugar Co 9 95 53 Western Loan Savings Co 1000 00 Zions Savings Bank flank Trust Co eo 10 00 0 I IZ Z C M 11 1 O Bonds Salt Lake City CIt Railroad Salt Lake Lale City R R d Sumpter Valley R R H Utah Llah County Count Light T Power Co Utah Sugar Co |
