| Show Q MERCHANTS HAVE HAVEA A LIVELY Y WEEK Two Big and Real Estate Day Bring in Hundreds 4 of Out of Town Buy rs LUMBER PRICES GO UP MIDSUMMER SALES ARE ON AT ATALL ATALL ALL THE STORES Local merchants wilt welcome more get acquainted weeks The one which closed last night proved a big success from almost every viewpoint and the volume ot of wholesale and retail trade here has ha been the largest of the summer A big excursion from the Tintic die dis district dietrict and Intermediate points early In the week Real Estate day Thursday and an excursion tram from Butte Mont and other points yesterday bringing over a hun hundred hundred dred business men and their families to town Is the partial record for tor the week It has been a shopping week first and last and the amount of business handled by the retail stores has been the feature of the week Practically every big store In town has advertised a special sale for forthe forthe the past few days and altogether arec a rec record ord volume of at trade has been recorded The wholesale and jobbers fared near neary nearly ly y as well for the majorIty or of U the e houses had notified their country trade that during the week they would allow special cial discounts on aU all bills ot of goods or ordered ordered dered Banks anks and Real Estate The banking situation Is unchanged Thera Is plenty of money apparently and clearings maintain the tho mark set the past I two months ankers are feeling more secure on crop reports than they hey have for tor some time and rates rate are unchanged The real estate men have been too busy getting the celebration of their day nt at Saltair off ott their hands to handle any thing very ery large In The event was a sUccess and will net the association tion approximately 2000 for tor their cam campaign campaign of advertisinG the city and main maintaining taming their association work locally The market however Is active with In Values are holding strong Res j ld nce property has changed hands dur durkI kI Ing the week In a very vary active manner F Small business properties are picking up under Influence of an Increased Inquiry along this line Rental agents are having havinga a hard time finding locations corn com commercial mercial renters and there Is every cation allon that rents will go higher It If an any thing this fall on the smaller class of Stores In the downtown district Building Activity Contractors are taking eel every advantage of the present run of good weather and work all over oer town Is being rushed as rapidly as possible Th There re is a scarcity of labor skilled and unskilled but not sufficient as yet to cripple operations to any extent The big jobs are moving along remarkably well Thompson Starret expect the first shipment of steel for tor the Newhouse building and Boston block to arrive here the latter part of this month and b by that time the they will be berend rend ready to set It up The work ot of put putting putting ting In the concrete foundation piers Is progressing satisfactorily and the retain retaining retainIng ing walls of the Newhouse building are nearly nearh completed The They are of rein reinforced reinforced forced concrete The steel work on the Judge building Is completed to the sec eec second and ond floor The Interior finishing of the Itah th Savings Trust new building Is now being done The present Oregon Short Line depot Is being moved n t block north from Its Present loca location location tion and work will soon be started on excavations for the new station Word rord reached here yesterday from one of the high officials of the Denver Rio Grande road at Denver DUver that plans for forthe the new station of that line here are areno arenow no now rapid rapidly completion the thai Inal plans having been enlarged York Work Workmen men are now putting In six tracks on the site of the new station t tO handle ma trial The feature of the week with Ith the lum lumbermen bermen hRs has been the report coming om In from the Chlea Chicago o office of General Traffic Manager Stubbs Stubbe of the Harriman lines that on September or October 1 freight rates on lumber throughout hout tho country countr are to be Increased tram from 5 to 10 per cent This means higher prices for lumber to the consumer and with the building now going on here and amI with what Is un der way for fall this Is an Important matter Lumber Is coming In very free freely freely ly at present but dealers declare they will have hae a serious car lar shortage to con contend contend tend with this fall and winter Other Operations The street treet railway Is rushing work on track relaying operations about town and especially In the downtown Portion of the city Trouble Is being experienced In several places b by heat bulging the rails that are unprotected by ballast or pavement The street ear ar company compan Is s crippled In many parts of the city through lack of men York Work Is soon to tobe tobe be started d on putting In the grand union layout ot of curves cunes and tracks In Intersection intersection of MaIn Maln and Sec South streets ts This layout will 11 le more sire than any so far Installed by the company compan This will unquestionably be the biggest year ear local hardware men have hae ever ex The volume of trade so 80 far this month Is awa away ahead of the trade for last July and It Is Increasing daily dalli Implement men report a similar condi condition condition tion In their business and the automobile dealers are arc having a record summer r Officials of the Utah Independent Tel Telephone Telephone ephone com company pan are now engaged In doe clos closIng doeing Ing up the details for consolidating the Independent companies of this state Idaho and Montana It Is expected the consolidation will be practically effected the coming week S Stocks and Bonds Commercial stocks have been unusually i quiet all week only the sugars proving active to any extent Practically all the stocks are now quoted and this has partially caused the lull now how prevalent The latest quotations are as follows Amalgamated Sugar Co pfd Amalgamated Sugar Co corn com Beneficial Life Insurance Co 1000 Barnes Banking Co Con Wagon agon Machine Co pfd Con Can W r M Co corn com Commercial National Bank Deseret National bank 2900 Deseret Savings bank 52 OO Davis Co bank Farmington First National bank Ogden First National bank Murray First National batik Logan Home Fire Insurance Co Heber J Grant Co Idaho Sugar SUlar Co Lewiston Sugar Co 1150 Nephi National bank National Bank of the Ogden Savings bank Provo Corn Com Savings bank banle l Rook Rocky Mt Bell Tel Co Silver Bros Iron Works Co State Bank of Utah Sugar City Townsite Co State Bank of Bingham 1200 Thatcher Bros Banking Co Utah Sugar Co pfd Utah Sugar Co corn com I Utah County Light Power Co T Utah tah md Ind Telephone C Co 35 Utah Banking Co Utah National bank Utah Savings Trust C Western Idaho Sugar Suar Co 1100 Zions Savings Bank Trust Co Z C t I 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