Show Business Notes Business men are not at all discouraged dis-couraged over the failure of Salt Lake to get the Southern Pacific cutoff and they do not believe that business conditions con-ditions will suffer In consequence It Is argued that Salt Luke will obtain some alight benefit from the improvement Improve-ment of the rood oven though the trains do not enter this city and In any case they say the city Is no worse off than before One real estate dealer is Inclined to believe business will bo better now that the cutoff matter has been certainly decided ao many people have been waiting for the decision before making Investments S Considerable activity Is noted In the stocks of the Utah Sugar company and several thousand shares have changed hands in the last few days at prices ranging from 116 to 1615 The Utah Trust and Savings company com-pany has declared Its semiannual dividend divi-dend of 3 per cent Duns Review has the following to say of Salt Lake The situation continues without material change Further snows have bettered the outlook somewhat some-what but the fall IB still light General Gen-eral trade is fairly satisfactory tyr the season and a reasonably good demand Is I had In groceries drugs and hardware and the weather has helped the sale of rubber shoes Spring orders In dry goods dlothlng ± shoes and notions are lair but the uncertainty of a good season attending the lack of snow makes buyers conservative Collec tions are sotlsfictory with retail trade fair Money is in satisfactory supply and meeting with a good demand at firm rates Yesterdays bank clearings amounted to 5G6356 as compared with 510019 for the same day last year |