Show TRADE IS STILL I GROWING BETTER BEiTER 4 Local Conditions Show Improve Improvement Improvement Improvement ment in All Lines REAL ESTATE MORE ACTIVE DEMAND DEMAND IS GOOD FOR SMALL i HOUSES Hons I Trade conditions con di Arc tre t improving steadily 5 1 in Salt Sil Lake There Thero is no boom but a sound increase in the th volume of business In all lines Hn s Spring orders are moving m freely and there Is a better feeling since it has been found out that the livestock on the ranges has not ri t suffered so 50 much muchas as was at first reported The warm weather and thaw came just in time to stop severe severs losses and the present out outlook outlook outlook look is much brighter Jobbers report an Improved demand for all lines of ot goods while retailers tind find no cause to complain the thaw having bavins loos boa loosened loosened ened enod up business a well as ice and snow There is a marked improvement in real estate At present the demand Is almost entirely confined to small homes and va vacant Vacant cant lots lo on which homes can be built The number of transfers during durin the week showed a marked increase although all were for lor small amounts I Transfers of Real Heal Estate Realty transfers during the week were as follows Monday A Tuesday 81 Wednesday day Thursday Friday Saturday Total 6 Total previous Week ending Feb 7 I Bank clearings show a decrease over a af year f ago owing I to the he decrease in spec speculation speculation o oT The clearing fea n for the week were per cent under the corresponding week of last year St Louis showed about the same decrease and Baltimore greater as did other cities but the aver average average age aE of the country shows a slight In Increase inCrease inCrease crease Local business however was never in a more sound condition and banners and business men generally say the outlook Is highly satisfactory Demand For Per Money Noney The demand for money mone is good but there is plenty to loan on se securities securIties The rh Improved prices for metals and the ample supply of water for irrigation irrigation gation gatlon help the situation Local bank and commercial st were inactive during the week Some of the subscribers to the stock of the Idaho Sugar Suar company maie maje payments and took too receipts yesterday but the company will wili not be Incorporated until the bounty bill becomes a It law The rhe measure has passed the Idaho house and its chances are said to be good Utah Sugar common solo sola up 5 cents to 36 Mormon church bonds and Sump Sumpter ter Valley alle railroad bonds went vent up a i cent Local Stock Quotations Following are arc the latest quotations for I bank hank and commercial stocks and bonds Deseret National bank 00 Z C M 11 I 1 ass OJ 0 Home Fire Insurance company 00 Utah Sugar company preferred 9 95 I Utah Sugar company common 3 I 1 63 State Stat Bank of Utah 00 Deseret Savings bank W 10 tl Commercial National bank 00 00 Zions Savings Bank Trust Co 00 I Commercial Savings bank 30 00 Lehl Lehi Commercial Savings bank 00 Thatcher Bros Banking Co Logan 11 50 First National bank Ogden O den U 00 Rocky R ck Mt ft Bell Telephone company compan 94 00 Davis County bank n Farmington lie 00 Barnes Banking Co q e J O gj 00 Ogden Savings hank bank t O OCon Con Machine preferred l 00 OO t Con Wagon Machine common 67 6 tX J Gr Greley eley ele Sugar company compan 00 CO Ama Sugar company preferred 97 07 9 BO 50 BOAm O Am il 11 l Sugar Su r company common 00 Provo Prove Woolen Mills company I I Peoples Coop Lehl Lehi 9 Mormon Mornion church bond Con Railway Power Co C bonds Con Railway Power Co stock I I Salt Lake Lak City railway rall ay bonds Valley 01 Utah County Light Power pOY Co I |