Show BUSINESSMEN BUSINESS MEN MENS READY FOR FALL Situation S Between Seasons Appears to Be in Health Healthful ful fui Condition COMBINES ARE TARGETS CRUSADE AGAINST HIGH PRICES A BIG FACTOR Local tradesmen are busy getting ready for an early fall and closing out outa a heavy summers business Commer Commercial cial conditions I have ave changed very lit JIl little tle the past ten days the general tone of the remaining healthy and anden encouraging en The calling of a grand Jury to investigate Investigate investigate the tho combinations alleged to ex exist exIst exist in local commercial comm circles for tor the fixing of commodity prices and in to re restraint restraint restraint of trade has been the chief topic of the week end There is a n pre feeling among business men that 0 the time is at hand to put nut a stop to price raising In Salt Lake and vicinity and to call a halt on trade combinations combinations The action Uon of the grand jury Is ls of course only problematical but from all indications a searching probe will wll willbe be conducted Into the tha th reasons fur for the high cost of ot living in Salt Lake and plenty of evidence seems to be at hand proving conclusively that either the wholesalers or the retailers of food foodstuffs foodstuffs stuffs or a combination of the two are I responsible for tor the abnormal level It Vel of food prices The campaign that has for two weeks been conducted against the retail and wholesale butchers and grocers has had hadan hadan hadan an appreciable effect on retail grocery trade customers changing their pur purchasing purchasing chasing places all alt over the city olty in an effort to find grocers advertising them themselves th themselves m selves as independent dealers Banking and Realty The bankers are feeling better than they have hae all aU summer over the local and national condition Conditions have cleared cle red up wonderfully well welt all allOver allover allover Over the country and locally there is lively speculation in mining stocks New York has put considerable 7 per percent percent percent cent paper on the local market the past i week Bank clearings are away ahead of last year The realty malty r market markel is active in small email stuff Residence property is selling at Increased values Little lumber Is coming coaling in at lit present and the brick men are tied up according to contract contractor contractors ors or or Plans have been completed and andare andare are ure published in these col columns columns columns for the Peery building to go up at West Temple and Third South streets and for a hotel on West Vest Third II South street Both buildings will be good substantial affairs and work has I already been started on them The first car of stone for the Newhouse buildings arrived yesterday and it ft is expected the first shipment of steel iteal will reach here Tuesday or Wednesday The stone and steel work will be car carried carn n ried ed up together on the two buildings The Judge building is progressing ing rap rapidly rapidly idly Idl The Wholesale Trade The wholesale dry goods men are preparing for their fan fall and winter business bus business busIness iness and doing little else these lays days The orders for the fall and Abd winter con consumption consumption consumption are coming In and the goods gods are being shipped out all over Oer the in intermountain intermountain intermountain country Print stocks are stilt on the rise Fancy and novelty goods are being brought to the front by bythe bythe bythe the importers and domestic houses The he market is 15 reported comparatively bare of quilts Knit goods are commanding higher prices than heretofore and the continued strikes of in the silk mills seems certain to raise prices in this direction this year The grocery wholesale men have had add haca hada adda a strenuous time the past week with charges harges preferred against them from all quarters of being responsible lot for the high price of food stuffs in Salt Lake Even the officials of ot the Manufacturers Merchants Mer hants association have gone one so far f r as to state that the wholesalers do donot donot o not belong to that organization Uon Through it all the wholesalers have had very little to say though one ad admitted admitted admitted yesterday that the business ss of all the houses has hM been hurt by the rte bythe the campaign Restaurant men me and nd citi citizens lU zens tens are planning to buy goods in the eastern markets and have already done doneso so to a considerable extent This e hurts huts the local houses The machinery men report a very ac active active tive tiVI season The Retailers This la Is between seasons for the ma majority majority majority of the retailers though the gen general general general eral volume of business the vast past two i weeks has been satisfactory Brown Terry Woodruff the Main street mens furnishers have sold out to Fife File Co The change is one of the most important of the season in the retail retailers retailers ers circle as an Brown Terry Wood Woodruff Woodruff Woodruff ruff were well established here They still retain the ownership of the Troy laundry aundry As long as the present ad admirable admirable admirable mirable weather lasts the demand for taU Tall goods will not be very strong though all nn the shops and stores are displaying their fall lines in full tuU The clothiers have some nobby styles in their windows this season are costing about the same as test ost year with several novel effects on dis display display display play up and down Main street The shoe dealers are experiencing a quiet season though the winter trade promises to run away ahead of last winters business Prices have been slightly increased sed along several lines Plain calfskin shoes are the winning whining card this fall apparently patent patent leath leathers leathers leathers ers going to the rear Local dealers arc are carrying 20 per cent less patent leath leathers leathers leathers ers this winter than last Stocks and Bonds Stocks are very quiet on the local market The money market has tight light lightened tightened ened UR up a little and this has had Its expected effect Nearly all the stocks slacks on the list pay dividends the last of IJ this month and the first of ot next and this should have a bracing effect dur during during ing In the next few days The directors of the Utah Independent Telephone company are doing their best 1 to settle on a plan for the reorganization of that company BO so as to embrace the th Idaho Wyoming and Montana companies but to date say they have not succeeded The present holders of ot the stock are be beginning beginning beginning ginning to wonder where they will get getoff getoff getoff off at If Jt their stock is to be retired at 10 cents on the dollar as has hns been stated stat d The rhe coming week should bring develop developments developments developments ments in this matter The latest quotations are as follows Amalgamated Sugar Co pfd pM 9 O Common Beneficial Life Lite Insurance Coi Co Barnes Hames Banking Co Con Wagon Machine Co Ca pfd I Common 1 Commercial National bank 17 ro q Deseret National bank i Deseret Savings bank Davis County bank Farmington First National bank Ogden O den First National bank Murray First National bank Logan Home Homo Fire Insurance Co Heber J Grant Co Lewiston Sugar Co 1200 National bank National Bank of the Republic Ogden Savings bank Provo Commercial Savings bank Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone phone Co Sliver Bros Iron Works Co 1800 State Bank of Utah tah Sugar City Townsite Co IV CO ro State Bank of Brigham City Thatcher Bros Banking Co 1 Sugar Co Ca pfd Common 00 Utah County Light Power Co Utah Banking Co Utah National bank i Utah Savings Trust Co I Western Loan Savings Co 10 00 ZIons Savings Bank Trust Co 23 2000 00 Z C M I J OO Bonds Salt Lake City Railroad Sumpter Valley Railroad Utah County Light Power COIO Co Utah Sugar Co |