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Show TRADE AND FINANCE. AN ANOMOLOUS STATE OF AFFAIRS IN THE BUSINESS WORLD. With Good Prices Prevailing for Nearly All Commodities Exports Large and the Balance of Trade In Favor of This CoatUry Business. Chamberlain fcCo.'s Report says: The various va-rious reports of trade are. strangely at variance vari-ance -with wiat was expected a month ago. Dullness is the -wail from many sides. Prices in several of the staples -were lower, but wheat and breadstuffs generally advanced. The Washington bureau of statistics shows the exports for September to have been oyer ?S2,000,000, while the import were only 61,000.000, showing the balance of trade, in our favor to have been 21,000,000; whereas, in September, 1S90, the balance was T,-000,000 T,-000,000 against us. The railroad share market mar-ket has been fairly active, with a strong demand de-mand for bonds. The increased earnings from the grain traffic on the granger roads are. beginning to show, and again commence to encourage speculation. The surplus reserve re-serve at New York creeps 6teadily up, and is pow above il2,000,000, while money at all points is easy. Gold continues to flow this way, and another 43,000,030 have been shipped. The Clearing house returns from fifty cities show 6omc encouragement in being 3 per cent above those of last week and 5 per cent above those of the same week last year. A Mammoth Clothing House. There are two representatives of Garson Kerngood Co., in the city for the purpose of securing an eligible location for starting a clothing and furnishing goods house that is calculated to be. second to but few in the west. The firm these gentlemen represent, is one of the largest in the United States, having a store in nearly all of the large western cities. The Denver branch is as lsrsre as any similar house in that city. I'ulike most other firms, in the same line of business, Garson Kerngood fc Co.. manufacture nearly all of their own stock in Rochester, New York. In company with Mr. W. H. Lett they have been looking at several locations which have been offered them today, but have not yet found one suited to their demands. de-mands. They say they do not expect to fiiid the choicest places vacant and for the present pres-ent will have' to accept the best they can get until they are sble to do better. Curbstone Gossip. The Odd Fellows hall is up to the third story. Real estate transfers yesterday -were to the amount of $10,01. Susrar Troiii the Lehi factory is beinj: received re-ceived in the city daily. Contracts have been let for three new houses in Popperton Place. A dividend of f 25,000 was declared by the Dcseret National bank yesterday. Pmoke consumers are boinr y laced in the boilers of the Electric Light company. T. M. Kennedy Bold a lot yesterday in Jefferson street subdivision to H. J. Osborc for $050. John Ireland purchased a lot in Bcllevue Park additim, of Harrington, Donnelly fc Newell, for $100. Two electric, cars, for ue on the Topper-ton Topper-ton Place railroad arrived in the city yesterday, yester-day, an-1 are beinj equipped with theL-rno'or? theL-rno'or? t-jdiy. AVantlvad claims to have ordered a life-size life-size pt!.tie of Abraham for Lincoln Park addition. ad-dition. Not 1o be outdone iu the statue business, Judee Colborn claims to have ordered ord-ered one of Charley Popper for Popperton Place. A party composed of Governor Thomas, Secretary Sells, Colonel Pace, J. R. Walker, Henry Lawrence, Mayor Scott, S.J. Daly, C. P.'Mason, N. E. Connor, of Cheyeune, Horace and Arthur Staynrr and Ray Walker paid a visit yesterday to the sujrar factory at Lehi- The R. G. W. placed a special at their disposal. M. P. Mason, a rcidcnt of Carthacre, N. T., but who has fully $75,000 invested in Salt Lake realty is in the city. Mr. Iaon h3, in the past year and a half, invested fully 1, 000,000 in real estate in various sections sec-tions of the west, and he thinks more of the rjroperty he has here than in any other place he has put in his money. |