Show BUSINESS WAS JAS WASSO SO T DULL BULL Temporary Decrease in Bank Clearings Due to Specula Speculation Sp cula tion Last Year REAL ESTATE IS QUIET SEASONABLE DULLNESS AF AFFECTS AFFECTS AFFECTS ALL LINES OF TRADE I The rhe principal feature of the week in business was the decline for tor the first two days In the bank clearings as com corn compared compared pared with the same dates last year This is only to be accounted for by the fact that last year at these th se dates there was a considerable amount of mining speculation sp coupled with some large transfers that may have swollen the amounts of the clearings On the whole the week has been a good one for the time of year There was the seasonable dullness as was to be expected but business was rather better than the same period last year yar Money is fairly plentiful the stringency of last week having passed over oyer Rates are easy end nd deposits arc steadily increasing Credits are reported good and collections collections easy In I n Real Estate It has been n a dull duB week in real es estate estate estate tate circles There are some deals pending but the number numbe closed was small The real estate men are arc all preparing for a big biff fall fan business and if indications are right there will be some something something something thing doing in dirt sales before winter The only transaction of importance during the week was the tho selection of a site on Third West Vest street for the new plant of the Salt Lake Public Service company Tho The general demand seems I still to be for small houses and dealers have no trouble getting rid of all this kind of property they have to offer Some Rome of the deals pending involve out outside outside outside side money which buying may have some som effect on the market Grocery Trades Retail grocery dealers report a poor week but still say that they are satis satisfied satisfied fied fled with business as compared with a year ear ago There is a it good steady trade but the warm weather and the fact that hat many nany people are away from home with the seasonable inactivity has made things quiet The retail dealers are making great preparations for their an annual annual annual nual outing at Lagoon This will not be he a Salt Lake affair but will be at attended I tended ended by dealers and their friends from all ull over the state Reports received this week of a good TOP crop of at tomatoes have somewhat re relieved the uncertainty among the job jobbers jobbers Jobbers bers concerning ng canned tomatoes The wholesale grocery business was never better Travelers are coming comin In with reports of or good crops and good times all aU allover allover over the state as the neighbor neighboring ing in states parts of which Salt SaIt Lake jobbers now consider their territory There is more buying than ever before and collections are reported easy In fact it seems to be a prosperous time with the country trader Dry Goods Good Active Wholesale dry goods men are busy This Is la the tho time of year when they are selling for the fall fan trade and 2nd they are doing mora this year than ever before A leading cading wholesaler said yesterday that the small country stores are taking t more goods and of a better quality than in any former season What is good goodenough goodenough goodenough enough for the city cit girl is now none too good for her country cousin The country department stores have been forced to carry the best class las of ot goods goodsn n report a demand for such Goods are coming in from the eastern houses In better shape than formerly The rhe eastern men have been compelled to recognize that the west is Js their best customer and are making greater ef to please than in former years y There are some changes notably in hi Jute products tO duo ts which will be much higher Woolens are arc somewhat scarce Bearce but the scarcity is not expected to continue Haberdashery Prices Cut The slaughtering of of mens goods about town continues and it looks as If tf the dealers denIers were determined to get rid of their summer stocks at any price All of or the stores have their sales which appear to have been well wen patronized Pall Fall clothes are just coming in but are not being pushed Browns and blacks blanks appear to be b the leaders A good fall faU trade is looked for by most merchants who have been buying accordingly 4 Leather Deather Trades Word has been received d of another advance in the price of shoes All Ail lines lints of ot leather goods are high at present and the prospect of a n further advance is not pleasant Dealers report a very er dull week It is now betwixt Imd be between between between tween seasons so BO that there is ittle doing Drugs Are Selling Utah druggists say that business jg is better this year than it ever was The wholesalers are doing some pushing into territory that was r before supplied from here There has been bei 1 an unusual amount of buying of M r light H arti articles des cles les known as aa druggists sundries s The he drug house traveling men carry cam much more In the way of ot notions than they the formerly did and have haYe been doing a abig abig abig big business in these lines Jines in the mining camps amps where before they sold little or nothing Building Looking Up The situation in the building trades Is much better belter The brick manufacturers manufacturers manufacturers are beginning to catch up v ith the demand and there is a prospect that building operations may go on ont this his t fall taU unhampered Then again I there is fA a R likelihood hat liat the trust may maybe maybe maybe be compelled to lower the price of ot lumber all of which makes the outlook t more hopeful ho The hardware business has lIas suffered somewhat from the cessa cessation cessation tion of ot building operations but this also is picking up It has ha been peen stated that wih with fair conditions there will willbe willbe be more building in Salt Lake this fall al than ever before in its Is history The he demand lemand for tor small smal houses cannot be supplied There are but few tew houses in inthe Inthe inthe the city untenanted It I Is stated that thata a local firm will wi soon begin the erection of or a large number of this class of ot houses for tor rent Commission lo Houses The Te wholesale fruit houses have been doing a 8 rushing business A glance at atthe atthe atthe the crates of all al kinds piled pied at the depots for tor shipment to o the outside towns will soon convince one of t this wU Fresh tows fruit of a a good quality is now Quie quite as BS readily obtainable in most of the mining camps as in Salt Lake With Improved facilities of shipment the Salt Lake houses are extending their business into districts di where any kind of fruit was a novelty a few years ago Now most moat parts part ef of e Nevada are supplied from rota here The Utah hen has been jeen een scarce this year The state cannot begin to supply the home demand for fowls though spring chickens have been fairly plentiful plent ful fui ful Most of the fowls now used are from Kansas There Is a move movement movement ment menton on foot to endeavor to Induce the Utah farmer to raise more poultry and keep this money at home Hay and grain dealers are receiving reports of a bountiful crop cr p and have been beon reducing prices to some extent Local Stocks Idaho sugar to the extent e tent of or f some thou thousands thousands thousands sands ot of shares wason was on the market this week and sold readily at 8 There were also some transactions in Consolidated Wagon Machine company compan at 19 and A block of shares of Utah Light Power stock was sold by John JohnC C Cutler jr at 1 a n share Latest quo quotations quotations are Amalgamated Sugar Co preferred 50 5 O Common 1750 Beneficial Life Lie Insurance Co 9 9 0 00 Barnes Banking Co Kaysville Ka 00 0 Con W r M 11 i Co preferred 1925 25 Common 10 5 50 Commercial National bank ISO 10 l 00 0 Deseret National bank mo 24 00 Deseret Sayings bank 4 0 00 Davis County bank Farmington 12 00 0 First National bank Ogden 31 0 00 I First Firt National bank Murray lurra 1300 00 First National bank Logan 00 Home Fire Fir Insurance Co 1710 00 Lewiston Sugar sugar Co Ce 1120 1 11 20 Lahi Lehi Commercial Savings bank 00 National Bank of the Republic 15 00 0 Ogden Savings SavIn s bank 2250 Provo Commercial Savings bank 15 00 R M lf Bell Bel Telephone Co t Si 0 00 State Bank of Utah 2 0 00 Sugar City Townsite Townsie Co 53 00 The Utah Sugar Co preferred 95 9 50 Common 2 20 The Idaho Sugar Co 8 a ii Thatcher Bros Banking Co Logan 13 00 0 Utah County Light Power Co 1 I 00 0 Utah National bank 15 0 00 Utah Savings Trust Co T 00 Westen Idaho Sugar Co 92 9 25 ZIons Savings Saving Bank Trust Co Z C M iI 1 I 1 2 0 BONDS Church 1 Salt Sal Lake City R R Do po second mortgage Il Sumpter Valley Valey R R R Utah County Count Light Power Utah Sugar Co |