Salt Lake Tribune | 1900-11-04 | Page 9 | Business of the Week

USINESSnF JHE 8 WEEK I U olvLOy QEIHE ulLLu ij Some Lines improved by the Storm TRADE AS A RULE WAS FINE f r I I I Millers Advance the Prices of Bran and Shorts Trick of a lour Dealer Which Causcdi a Deputy Sheriff to InvcstigaterMiller > Whoso Name Was on the Sacks Exonerated ugh the Utah Sugar Factories Aro Turning Out a Big Supply Prices Are Maintained I The week was split In two by the beginning be-ginning of the new month Merchants generally do not expect a great volume of business toward the close of any month but do look for revival soon after the new month Is fairly on the calendar It may bo stated In trulji however that the business of the past seven days was fairly good The first part of the week was helped out by the storms which caused many heads I of families to If l y in supplies that they I had heretofore neglected simply because be-cause they were not needed and the I last three days saw a quickening of i business such as has not been noted I for several months past and prominent dealers say nearly all the sales were in seasonable goods Taken as a whole there seems little reason why the merchants mer-chants should complalnof the business done Collections however have been slov J so far and will probably continue In I that condition until after the election t Is over