Show WEEKS BUalrotoS GOOD Yesterday Especially Was a Banner Day BETTER THAN A YEAR AGO Although the Conference Trade Is not What it Was in the Dnys Gone S by Jicrchants Generally Report a Satisfactory Showing Commercial S Stocks Inactive Sugar Company in nourishing Condition Election of Directors Millers Desire to Ship Hour to England via Galvcston Taking everything Into consideration considera-tion the week just closed may be said lo have been a very successful one so far as business generally Is concerned There were no great deals cither In real estate or stocks but there was S a steady even trade during the first I fl two days which fell oft greatly during S Wednesday and Thursday and picked up very slightly on Friday and then came to a head yesterday when retail dealers especially had no complaint to S make There were times In the days gone by j when the merchants o Salt Lake j j 5 looked upon the coming of conference with about the same delight that a child looks forward to the approach of Christmas Christ-mas It is not KO now however In the days referred to the farmers reached the city by learns and as the stores in the country settlements then S were small they bought here during their semiannual trips supplies stilll tent to last thorn until the next con feronro rolled around But that was before the I railroad had penetrated lieS lie-S various towns In tin L Stale and when freight was much higher than It Ls at present when roads were bud all I I tho year round and there was little Inducement In-ducement for the average resident of Utah to visit the capital then I save on Just suicb an occasion im the present Then was a decided lnereust In the retail trade yosleidny however over hut of a yijr ago and that the I slonny afternoon kept many Intending pur rhaaers at home goes without saying AU In all I the week may be nald to have S been a very satisfactory one from a liusiiipns st ztiiiVflilit Commercial stocks have been Inactive ns usual There wers no changes 0 > ispeak < jf save In 1Lah Sugar some of which sold as high as 1150 to 1185 Tho utah Commerclal and Savingn bank yesterday declared its usual quarterly quar-terly dividend of Ii I per rent S The demand for money was said to be good |