Show SP A L RAnE Retailers Ret in Sever Lines Enjoy Prosper Prosperous ous Season FREIGHT SITUATION BETTER RESIDENCE PROPERTY ACTIVE IN REALTY MARKET The spring trade trado Is In fun full In Salt Lake Lak and general business la Is heavier hea ier with the local IO 1 merchants merch than ever ver before betoTe The past week has started things ort off earnest rnest apparently for tor the dry goods men the clothiers and men have baTe experienced big sales and are very optimistic over the outlook for tor the re remaining spring and the sumner summer months The wholesale dry goods merchants are experiencing rather a quiet period due to the high prices 1 of or all lines of ot dry dr goods There seems to be little possibility of ot the prices going lower for some months Old orders are being filled at present and re Te are short on all lines of ging ginghams hams The high prices are prevalent all along the line Une especially so 80 in silks and velvets Freight conditions are improving rapid rapidly ly and goods from the cast long overdue are arriving in n larger quantities than at any time this spring Shoe men are get gettine getting ting tine In their summer stocks and they are selling Belling rapidly The clothiers are experiencing a heavy sale of ot boys clothing and of ot all lines liner of ot summer goods Tan hosiery is proving popular and large sales are being made in this line of ot clothing The Real Estate Men MenNo MenNo No property of any size has moved moed here the tIO past week Plenty of ot residence prop property property erty has changed hands however and at excellent values In spite of the fact that the more valuable commercial properties are not being taken up as rapidly as at atthe atthe the first of ot the year values have been beenIng going Ing up Instead of decreasing as was predicted by the skeptical At least a dozen buyers bu ers have been in the market the past week for business properties and be before tore fore the middle of the coming month it itIs ItIs Is expected several big deals will be dosed closed Samuel Newhouse is expected home borne from Europe early next week with more definite announcements of plans for forthe forthe the hotel he will erect on the former Wal Wa Walker ker corner The residence on this lot Jot is isnow Isnow now being removed preparatory for excavations for tor the hotel Excavating on the Boston block and the Newhouse building on lower Main street Is progressing rap Idly Idl Water W t r has as been struck on the for former former mer property and the engineers are put putting putting ting down d wn test holes believing that the theater water ater can an be b drained Into these holes and pumped out as the tha excavations are put down d for the foundations of the big building The brick work on the Judge building has hM been started and it is under understood stood tood that as soon as the building is above aboveground ground and the first floor constructed a aday aday day and night crew will be worked on the structure Contractors are having a hard time get getting gettins tins ting facing brick The market In Ih this product Is exhausted but dealers are promising early eary relief Several kilns kUns are about market but they have h e eben ben been contracted for There Is plenty of ot the cheaper bricks and they are being used as extensively as possible Scores of houses are at a standstill as far as con construction goes on account of ot the scarcity of ot the pressed presed brick Prices are the same ns nR they een all aU spring though fr offered in some cases by f anxious to get buildings In closed X The rental market mark t Is as not worse than two tW weeks eks ago The influx of pea peo pie who want t homes is unabated and there is scarcely sri a house to be had any anyplace anyplace place in the city as the dealers have scoured every street In their efforts to house clients Rents as predicted are be being beIng ing advanced but it is probable that they will resume their normal norm l eve Hardware and Lumber Hardware men are jubilant over the amount of business they have handled during the past month as ns it was greater by half haJ than the business s for last ApriL Lumber receipts are lighter than ever before as the Pacific has put another embargo on northwestern lumber The few days during which the embargo was lifted was sufficient to congest the road with lumber shipments Shingles are practically out of the local market The Tho banks report no change in their business Clearings are running higher than for corresponding days daS last year rear and the general genera tone of ot the situation is good Stocks Stoc s and Bonds A number of transfers have taken place among the sugars during the past week at better prices than were named a week ago As a general thing however the theother theother other stocks are inactive The following are the latest quota quotations r Amalgamated Sugar Co pfd 00 Common 00 Beneficial Life Insurance Co Barnes BarneR Banking Co CO COCon Con Wagon Machine Co pfd CO Common CO ro Commercial National Bank 00 Deseret National Bank 97 91 00 Deseret Savings Bank f 3 DC 00 Davis Co Bank 10 00 First National Bank Ogden 00 X First National Bank Murray OC First National bank Logan Oi 00 Home Fire Insurance Co liS 00 Idaho Sugar Co S 75 Sugar Co 11 National Bank of the Republic 00 Ogden Savings Bank Oc Provo Com COID Savings Bank 00 IJ Rocky Mt It Ben Bell Telephone Co 85 00 Silver Bros Iron Works Yorks Co 00 State Bank of ot Utah 00 Sugar City Townsite Co 00 Thatcher hatcher Bros Banking Bankin Co 00 Utah Sugar Co pfd Utah Sugar Co common ii Utah County Light Power Co 1 05 Utah Ird Ind Telephone Co 33 35 Utah National Bank 00 lO Utah Savings Trust Co Off ct Western Vestern Idaho Sugar Co 9 90 Western Loan Savings Co 00 Zions Savings Bank Trust Co m 00 Z C M I 0 00 BONDS Salt Lake City railroad do second mortgage Sumpter Valley VaHey Railroad Utah County Light Power Co 5 Utah Sugar Co J |