Show I RETAIL TRADE IS ISI AT HIGH MARK I Influx of Conference Visitors Brings Rush of Busi Business Business Business ness FREIGHT SITUATION IS BAD BUILDING CONTRACTORS WOR WORe WORRIED WORRIED RIED ABOUT MATERIALS The Thc shopping of or conference visitors made the week e k which closed last night the thc heaviest of the spring season for practically practically every merchant in the city The rhe anticipated heavy buying had its effect on the jobbers and wholesalers earlier in m inthe the week The immense sales of the re retailers retailers retailers have been the feature of the last few days in the local market In building circles cir however there I Is n trouble Contractors say they the can not get brick and lumbermen mill men and the house owners are worried One mill pro proprietor proprietor proprietor said yesterday esterday that half a dozen good sized residences in the better resi residence residence dence portion of the city for which he has the contract for all mill work are un uncompleted uncompleted completed because of the inability of the contractors to secure brick The men say they are doing all they can and that before the month is passed plenty plent of brick will be on the market The local lumber men are having difficulty in securing securIng securing ing shingles and on all the west coast lum lumber her ber premiums are tIe being paid puid by consumers ers who are anxious to get bel building op 01 operations operations under way a Freight Tied Up The freight situation is bad both west of Salt Lake and between Salt Lake and Chicago Shoe S Of men raen are impatiently wait waiting waiting waiting ing their spring orders from the cast These orders are delayed some place be between between between tween Salt Lake and Chicago and trac tracers tracers tracers ers sent after aft r them have hac been returned with the notation that freight congestion is responsible for the delay Clothiers and dry dI goods men are af at affected affected to some extent by b the transportation tion Uon difficulties but not as much as shoe shoeI I men lumber dealers eale and machinery men I Automobile dealers are arc waiting for Jor cars ordered w ks ago The railroad men promise nothing though It is hoped the tho th coming week will see the situation cleared up UI to some extent The settlement of the threatened train tram mens strike has given ghen local and inter intermountain Intermountain intermountain mountain country countI merchants an nn easier feeling over accepting heavy hea orders from western trade Real Estate Active The best deal of the week in m real es ee estate estate tate was the purchase of a acre tract of property between Twelfth and Thir Thirteenth Thirteenth Thirteenth South streets on the east bench known as ss the Crismon property by the Mormon church for S The fhe church of officials officials intend to sell self the ground at cost c st to young oung married couples of the church and it is believed an extensive exten lve plan is under way way to build up the tract and in incorporate Incorporate incorporate corporate it within the city lim s There is every indication that the bi bl big T tract of or property between Tenth ard and Twelfth South streets the Jordan river and East street will not come conic into the city v w trouble The prop property property erty ert holders of the t e district t are divided on the question and a meeting me has been called for next Friday night at the Com Cern Commercial mercial mercia club to settle the matter If the district comes in it will mean fully full people added to the population of or Salt Lake Work is progressing rapidly on the ex excavations for fog fo the Newhouse buildings and foundations have been completed for the Judge building D H II Peery Pe lj has decided to spend S ThAO Q on a building for his Third ThirdS Southland S South and West Temple street corner and yesterday he purchased 1760 worth of property pro pert on the north side of Third South between West est Temple and First West Yest feet west of his corner property from Smoot and Eyer Eer tIe lIe will probably put puta a store building on the property There is a good strong inquiry on residence property and considerable has changed hands at good values the past we wets t it There is still sUII a great scarcity of houses and rents are being advanced as houses change hands Banks and Trade Deposits are increasing and with a good demand for money rooney there is little change chang In jn rates from lest last week Clearings ran behind the fere part of or the week but out the past few days das they the picked up until they the were ere ahead of corresponding days for lest last April banking institution Institution institution tion at Garfield opened for business Mon Monday Monday on onda day da and the town is delighted Garfield has needed a bank for some time and there is ev e ry Indication that the new institution will be loyally supported Local furniture men are very busy and prospects are good for a big year ear In this business Store Stere and office fixtures are in great demand The class of furniture being handled by local dealers is higher high r ron on an aJl average this year than it ever has been The hardware trade keeps up and the th outlook is good for the remainder of the tle month in particular Sales in summer goods refrigerators paints palts bicycles and articles s are arc getting larger dally daily dall The first indication of or the fall faU mar markets markets in the east is that of a 7 to 10 per percent percent cent raise in dry goods of or all kinds The spring lines of woolens and worsted dress goods have been practically closed out at atthe atthe atthe the local establishments Stocks and Transactions in Idaho S gar stocks have hav been the only dals d als of or the week wc k In the commercial comm stock market On the whole the market has been quiet the ma majority majority of the stocks being quoted cx ex divi dividend dividend The annual meeting of the stock holders of or the Z C M I was held last week and th the sales collections and net earnings of that concern were shown to o have hae been greater during the past year than In any an year 1 since the establishment of the institution Following are the latest quotations Amalgamated Sugar Co pfd 00 Common 1 00 10 Beneficial Life Insurance Co 00 Barnes Banking Co Kaysville HO 00 rA Con Wagon Machine Machine Co pfd 00 Common x TO 00 Commercial National Bank flank IS 00 I U Deseret National Bank 00 Deseret Savings Bank 6 Cd Davis Co Bank Farmington ton I 00 OO 0 First National Bank Ogden O ZO First National Bank Murray 1600 00 First National bank Logan 00 Home Fire FIT In Insurance ura ce Co 1760 Idaho Suga Co 8 S W SO Lewiston Sugar Co 1125 National Bank of the Republic lo 00 Ogden Savings Bank Wi 00 Provo Com Corn Savings Bank 15 1 0 J Rocky art Mt Bell BeIl Telephone Co 83 Si 00 Silver Sliver Bros Iron Works Yorks Co 00 State Bank of Utah 00 Sugar City Cit Townsite Co ISO 00 Utah Sugar Co pfd 9 SO J 1 Common Thatcher Bros Banking Co 00 Utah County Light LI ht Power Co 1 03 Utah Ind Telephone Co 35 S Utah National Na onal Bank flank 15 IS 00 Utah Savings Trust Co 00 Western Vestern Idano Sugar Co 9 Western Loan Co 1060 00 Zion Zions s Savings Bank CO 18 00 O OZ Z C M I 20 00 A BONDS BO DS Salt Lake City railroad 4 do second mortgage Sumpter Valley Railroad Utah County Count Light Utah Sugar Co do 1 |