Show I i BJJSiNESSOFTHEcjiy i S The man who weighs on year n hRln t another I niul measures lime by UClOH f in bushiest can find no fault with the year Just ended Whether his bulncsa S lie Unit t of fiiriner miner morchunt manufacturer or banker In will md I when he balances his nccount that the last year of the century was one y prosperity In Utah and that the impetus im-petus given to commerce and industry bide fair to carry the State Into opulence opu-lence and renown I A year ago The Tribune detailed the S achievemeuta of 1SOO In the business world and the show Ing was cause for congratulation This year all the records rec-ords of 1S9U arc surpassed and In the I S columns of this edition will be found the facts and figures to Justify the 1p pride we take in Utahs commercial V progress In sounding the opinions of men who arc accustomed to gauge the affairs of this commonwealth I point of agreement agree-ment was found In this That It has been a year of unequaled prosperity in Utah As to causes the differences of cp5nlon arc only In regard to detail Speaking bioadly some say that Utah shares the general prosperity In the Nation growing out of a continuance of a Governmental policy which polcy restored re-stored business confldpnce Whatever the cause the effect has been marvelous IM Utah Taking one by one the resources re-sources of the State it Is found that S 1 S all the wand of fortune has touched them i 1 Tin mines have produced their wealth us never before and the high values of I eopper and lead have swelled the ordinary or-dinary returns The increase In the I metal output was over 0000000 Inconsequence I In-consequence there has been more Investment In-vestment in mining prOpel l 1IflOVC doS do-S velopment of new territory more machinery ma-chinery 1 i installed and relatively a I keener activity In speculation In mining blocks Thestockmen have of n verily been In clover 1Iorse because of thc dc mumlH of to vats have douhled or tiebled in value and profits arc being realized upon herds that for years were fccutcely worth branding Catlleralseis S have been confronted with a demand 4TI for beef which drew heavily upon their holdings and sfnl prices booming upward up-ward Today a beef fleer In 11 ah Is asS as-S good IB money In the bank Sheepmen with their wool and mutton have I shared In the honolUs of a good marketS market-S and the fleeces of nearly 5000000 sheep I In Ulan were exchanged for coin of the f realm The agriculturist has also had a better bet-ter time of It though unfortunately 5 some of the graingrowers were unable I tojeallvje fully upon their I crops because S I of high freight rates and the impossibility I impossi-bility of the railroads providing cars toUT I to-UT the crops to market The sugar I beet growers got a slice of thepiollts f S of tho farm and so promising has the I Industry become that at least one newS new-S I sugar factory In the State Is promised I for the coming year The mines and farms and herds of I hCIls I live stock are at the foundation of the stet foundaton States greatness They produced I money last year and they attracted i men with money to the Stale They 4 I put vast sums Into the channels oft of-t trade they ciealed the activity in como com-o S merce and Industry and made the demand 4 de-mand for labor which put money Into I the pockets of the poor Needless to say the merchants have Si j I prospered I They report a growing 1 i trade throughout the year and the S I holiday business which Is really Q t t S i mcasuic of the amount of money which y I people have to spend was a recordS record-S 1 breaker for Utah The storekeepers en S h urgckl ltheir sloclcs in 1000 made Improvements > arr 1 > provements In their places of business S employed more help and in various S ways Indicated that they were feeling I the tonic of times It Is I il good lmes I evident 1 too that they put some of their money I I Into the banks along with the savings of the workingnun the farmers the caQlemcn and the miners for the bank i Sp records show a great increase In the 2 S number of small depositors and a proportionate pro-portionate Increase in the amount of v deposits over last year On December S In mfiO the deposits In Salt Lake banks h I aggregated over 10000000 a gain of sJ I 51750000 over the same day In 1SOD The figures speak eloquently of the conditions condi-tions In Salt Lake tofs But all the money Is not Jn safe deposit re I de-posit vaults The paRt year more than any olher savings have ben withdrawn with-drawn for Investment in homes The 5 real estate dealers say that it was a I banner year In building renting and tl S realty 1 transactions Houses have gone I tip ranging from the most mod st of collars to tie most palatial of Brigham Ion r 1 Brig-ham street mansions and there Is no IbT i 1 indication that the fever for homeS home-S S building will abalo There have also 3 I I bMn a great many houses hull for i Denting but the demand for these cI2 houses sllll cxiceds the supply A reason S rea-son for this Is found not only In the influx ct in-flux of new residents but In thc temporary Liail S tem-porary slay of people from neighboring 1 States who came here to gIve their I children the benefit of Salt Lakes educational S edu-cational advantages As an educational I educa-tional center the city seems destined to S be one of the greatest In the whole J I West S S I A significant feature of the real estateS estate-S business has hen the heavy Investments A 3 Invest-ments by outside capitalists In Salt Lake business property Some of the I purchases were made with the assurance A assur-ance that modern ofllce buildings would Ii u fcoop replace some of the structures d t which have long since become land cf marls on lions t thoroughfares No doubt a factor in the real estateS I estate-S movement IH the talk of projected rail fi way at least one of which the Lose Los-e Angeles onntctlon seems a certainly A and judging from surveys another the Ib J I Burlington I may be counted upon as j coming Jn ihc near future Biiblncss S men realize the value of these promised prom-ised J lines of communicatIon with the i Veit and JSnst and consummation of time muehtalkcdof Is hopod for Thcro are detaIled statements l of the commercial and industrial I progress of S 1 Salt Lake nnd Utah In this edition and I hey are worth reading 101 |