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Show BUSINESS IN ZI0X. VARIOUS EXPRESSIONS OF OPINION ON THE CONDITION OF TRADE. Some Good and Kad Reports Country Trade is Prosperous but Collec- ' tions are Backward-Fine Weather lias .J Varied Effects' on Different Lines. -j, j Business for the past week lias been scfO" what difficult to analyze. In some linos jf ' trade it lias been good, in others indifferent, and in still others it has been bad. The fine weather has had a tendency to depress business busi-ness in the heavier lines of goods somewhat, but there are few complaints from merchants, mer-chants, nearly all sayinjr their tales average up well with previous years. Couutry merchants are buying largely and re. ort a good trade; but that collections are sl w on account of fanners holding back tl j. ips for better man- i. w estate is somewhat quiet, but realty nif agree that it is improving. The princi-i princi-i U: s .les are made to bona fide resident l4-to l4-to those w ho desire to come here to v permanent homes. Values are i'u, : v there is no speculation. AVnile nit 'ey is not unusually plenty, business men have no difficulty in securing accommodation on reliable commercial paper. On the whole, business is in a most satisfactory condition and the promise for the ititur rilit. Kvey'.tody is waiting anxiously ir reliable information that the Deep Creek road is to be built; for if that announcement should bij-. mad.', this city would see the most prosperous pros-perous year it ever enjoyed. completion of Brigham Young Trust Co.'s block on Commercial street arc to be let next w eek. The Equitable Co-op. is to build a business house em the corner of Richards avenue and First South street. Bricklayers have commenced on the walls of the Simondi and Ingersoll apartment building on Third South" street and have gotten them nearly up to the second story. Chamberlain & Co.'s Keport. The week past has been somewhat irregular irregu-lar in quotations and unsettled in feeling, but the general concensus ' ,2i)i'J: f ' .r" "j1 '''oa Second Soa'.' About $riOQ,.Trprth of barley was raised this summer on tweaty-thre acres of land near Syracuse beach. Fifteen thousand dollars have been expended expen-ded up to this time in the imrpoveruents at the IIt Springs. Insurance In-peetor Ponncll is still engaged en-gaged in reading people some sensible gospel gos-pel on the question. How to to avoid tires. T lie artit les of incorporation of the Edward Sanborn corihauy. Cgd- u, were filed with Secierjry Sell.- yer-tcrday. The company w ill engage ia the pnvkiee and commission bu.-iness with a capital of $10,000. - West Side Straws. C. H. i arcs, sec retary of the West Side ass.M lst'em, siysthat within the past v o weeks there has been a heavy increase ;u the number of letters received from eastern parties who are studying Salt Lake as their o.ijeftiv point fr manufacturing and other business enterprises. It is ex-peete ex-peete l that during the coming week a number num-ber of these people uill visit Salt Lr.ke and personally iuspeet the opportunities our city offers... The Utah normal college and conservatory of music to he built on the West Side is to lie located on Senior's Brighton-Central City addition, a short distance south of the I tah c Nevada railway. The site is jj(vnoiin one of the very best snrroi J Ed. Senior "v V LnIydarkmprovetnea on on a'lnrze scale. The stox rcrer.tly buiit by Mr. Bogan is to be supplied with" ft stock of general merchandise, and effort-; made to capture a portion of the iurrcasiugjtrade on the West Side. . Meii and teams are at work grading Second Sec-ond South street west through to the western west-ern end of Lake Breeze. The street is eighty feet wide, and is to be made one of the best drives in the city. Coateg A Corum are having erected nn additional ad-ditional number of houses in Lake Breeze. The tmild'ug are of brick, containing all modern iiirM7cinents, and cot about -500 e eh Tfciv- Klt Lake Pickle company, whose works are located in Brighten, has re. cived an order from a single house in Salt Lake to take all the goods they can manufacture. The West Side association lias applications applica-tions from eastern parties for samples a? fruit, veget;,l. !r and grain grow u in the vi-einity.f vi-einity.f Salt Lokc City. Tin? sut ar factory proposed to be built on the Wes: ':ie it is. 'said will be the la-gc-t mayufacTViriu';' establislanent west of the Missouri river. The illumination in the shy on Thursday night was caused by th" burning of four large stacks of hay near the Kenneally ranch. The increased activity in West Side enterprises enter-prises is calling out a corresponding demand for property over the Jordnn. -: Ed Senior U having, photographic views made of the L tah normal college aud conservatory con-servatory of music: , A new- drive is to 'lie constructed between the race tracks and BrigTiton for the benefit of West Siders. The road-bed of the West Side Rapid Transit Tran-sit comrany is being repaired. An additional number of houses arc to be erected at Brighton. In the Building Trades. There has been no extraordinary activity in the building trades for some time; but nearly all of the leading contractors have more or less work on hand. Nearly all of the heavy jobs which we re arranged for in the spring are progressing finely and many are Hearing completion. There is little unemployed labor in any of the branches of the building trade. Of the little there is more carpenters are reported idle than any of the others. The plumbers are all at work and there is not an idle member of the trade who is necessarily nec-essarily so. Plastering will commence ou the Dooly block some time next week. .AVork on the excavations for the new business busi-ness block on State street, which is being built by O'Meara Bros., .V: Merrian is near-; ing completion. Masons are now working on the last story-of story-of the MeCornick block and it is intended to liave the building under cover by the first of December. The foundations for the corner portion of the Brooks arcade have been completed and the carpenters are laying the first tier of joists. It is reported that the contracts for the |