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Show LA .SOLID fONDHiON Commercial A eucies Keport Credits in Zion are Better Than in Any City iu tue West. IRRIGATION COMMITTEES. Lumbar and Lumbarman Busy Tall Sea-. Sea-. son Contractors on tb Joint Biiild-in Biiild-in The Fina EefiJcnces Built- A Timks reporter interviewed the commercial ai-nuoio t!is morning on the condition of trade ami the financial standing of business houses iu this city. The inl'oi mr.iiou gleaned was to the e!T!ct that credits were better even than in any western city. While business busi-ness houses in many of the centers had been sadly shaken by the stress of financial weather for nearly a year, there had been a very Btoall percentage of failures fail-ures in here. It was learned that many merchants pay cash for goods and nearly all discount their bills before they are duo. This state of things is so unusual that eastern ugents like in come herd, as they consider it the best point to mako in the west They are surprised at tho sound condition they find their customers custom-ers in. In the outside towns of the territory ter-ritory it is better still, and trade is reported re-ported to have never beuu better. The people are buying largely mJ the merchants mer-chants are fully alert to the demands of their trade. Payments are generally prompt aud thete is lots of money iu circulation. This is accounted for by tho l.caiy clip of wool and thu certainty if big crops of lthui. fruit aud hay. This stock ranges ars iu pi ima couditiou, assuring a favorable year for that interest, in-terest, no matter how bard the coming winter may be. All of these things indicate in-dicate that Btxt year and the remainder of this will be the best that has evr been seen in Utah. Among tba lltn I ilora. The work cn the Baldwin block on Commercial street has been temporarily suspended because of a misunderstanding misunderstand-ing with the firm which is supplying lUu stouo. It took some time to lay the foundations founda-tions for the McCorniek block, and passers pass-ers who did not get inside the fence enclosure were of the opinion that work was not going ahead very fast; but in this they were mistaken. Tho building is now about half completed to the first story and is rising rapidly. Plasterers are at work ou the first story of the Morlan building. There is verv little work in any of the architects' others except residences. resi-dences. Tho foundations of the Lorenzo Young block are nearly ready for the first story. Many people who imagino tho building build-ing trade is dull and who have not taken a short ride on the street cars, would lie surprised if they should ta,ke such a trip. On tho north beuch some splendid residences have been built. Many of these are expensive, ex-pensive, costing us much as $15,000 and nearly all are pleasing designs. These new buildings are found even to the eastern extreme of the city limits. In the sirtith and southeastern portions of the city these have been many improvements. im-provements. And the East bench has kept pace with other sections. The most noticeable thing Is that the greater percentage of these i buildings have been erected on new additions or subdivisions of the largo blocks. 'The country over the Jordan has by no means been neglected either, aud it is sale to say that nearly L'UO residences have been eroded this summer between the river aud Garden City and Brighton. Irrigation ( ouimlttaas. The details of preparation for the Ir- rigation congress have nearly been arranged, ar-ranged, so that all which remains to be ! done is to keep interest alive until the convention convenes and to perfect all arrangements for the entertainment of the delugates. Everybody is united in believing it will be a success, and nearly every one is doiug his best to make it so. j Colonel Donnellan on Saturday an-I an-I uounced the following committees: I On t'imiticci. K. Dooly, W. S. McCorniek, Mc-Corniek, Flias A. Smith, NickTreweek, N. A. Kmpev. (hi. i i ilinn nnil Entertainment C C. Goodwin, Wiiliatn Balderstou, U. W. Vounir, It V. Chambers M. K. Parsons, Par-sons, O. J. II illister, J. W. Fox, jr., Fred Trimmer. H. C. Lett, Spencer I Clnwson, C. IV Mason, 11. W. Lawrence. Law-rence. 11. M. Wells, G. W. Bartch.C. L. Stevenson. I.nmbnr nmt Lumi:?r Men. Lumber dealers report trado as showing show-ing considerable improvement with the brightest prospects for a good fall trade. More of the commodity was sold in the city la-t week than for any two of the pr ceding two months. K i. Jones of tho Ainsiey Lumber company, (wholesale dealers) Portland, j Ore., is in the city. David Ferris, representative of the Ore.gr n and California Lumber com- pany, Portland, is paying a visit to h:s i friend W. H. tsmith. I Andrew Boston one of the largest j dealers in boards and limension stuff iu i'rovo came iu from tlu Garden City today. Ho reports the building trade at Provo as being brisk and tho business busi-ness of the town in a most prosperous condition. For tha Joint lluililtrig. I Nearly all of the contractors in the city are busily engaged in figuring on I the contracts for the city and county I building. Theso bids will be for ail kius and character of work to be douo ou the structure aud arf all to bo iu the hands of the county clerk by the loth inst. |