Show TRADE BUSINESS AND FINANCE In local business circles tho event of the week has continued to be the conI strike and the absence of the men who arc in the National Guard stationed at the points of friction In and near the coal mines The merchants in whose employ the members of the Guard were have chovn signs of restiveness at their prolonged absence and In view of the oncoming holiday trade of the uncertainly uncer-tainly of their return The Governor thinks that they ought to be patriotic i enough to make no complaint In view of the needs of the public and no doubt he Is right but the problem with them Is to get expert clerks to make their holiday sales Business remains fair and In good volume the bank clearances are not as much in excess of those of the corresponding corre-sponding week last year as they wele In the former week hut still they show strong nnd well with an Increase of i 5 per cent Collections are fair to cany and the approaching holiday trade is beginning to have its effect The demand de-mand for seasonable wearing apparel and for winter supplies has increased materially with the oncoming of the winter weather The building operations of the season In this city have been very extensive and important new dwellings going up in every part of the town and several large business structures being put up The Y l C A building Is to be a large and handsome structure and the new Atlas block will be a beauty it Is nearing near-Ing completion so far as the outer work is concerned and it presents a very handsome appearance The mines continue to pour their mighty streams of wealth into business channels The past month yielded close upon two millions of new wealth from this source an amount which would be very considerably increased the present month if the coal and coke supply for the furnaces could bo assured In ample quantity As It is the managqrs oC them are husbanding their resources and arc doing remarkably well under the circumstances The railroad situation remains the same the Los Angeles gap Is being filled as rapidly as men and money can do it and the Moffat line IK also energetically at C work The Western Pacific has shown nothing new during the week General conditions in Utah are excellent excel-lent it has been n good season for the farmers and the prices of his products are at the top notch The turkey supply sup-ply has been and continues to be short at very high prices Indicating a splendid splen-did opportunity for the farmer to make his tax money with practically no effort The very material decrease In tie capitalIzation of the incorporations filed In the East during the month of November No-vember which was much smaller than tember month for a number of years shows the business tendency to be decidedly de-cidedly in reaction against the combine com-bine and consolidation idea that was so much in the ascendant two years ago it is found that the system was one oC padding of speculation of rakeoff and of imposture and doubledealing Instead of actual business enterprise The country will be slow to support any further combines and will look will reserve upon the schemes of even the most I hightoned financiers aCer this And yet It is only the great financial maelstroms of the East that have been aflectud by these deals and while the speculators have been In deep distress and one set of sharks has been skinning another the great mass of the country has pursued the even tenor of its way In peace and on a strong business basis Even the slump in iron has been but comparative and the demand has become be-come slack only in comparison with tL time when the call was so urgent and Imperative as to be unprecedented Crops have been good the prices for them have brought top prices and though the cotton crop is short the price is so abnormally high that the planter will realise more than he docs in ordinary years for a full crop Bradstreet reports a better feeling In some lines optimistic due to retail trade improvement which is stimulated by the cold weather and the approach of the holidays jobbing trade has also expanded in consequence of reorders the whole being in sympathy with the strong position of agricultural staples Readjustments of wages are being accepted ac-cepted with much less friction than ex peeled Markets for crude Iron are steadier but the shutdowns In the Iron nnd steel trade more than offset resumptions re-sumptions Foreign exports are 1m proving Dun reports trade seasonably qule except in lines affected by the weather and holiday goods which are in good demand Commodities are generally lower In price though some Important articles as cotton eggs and dairy products pro-ducts are higher causing a rise In the Index Number to 98223 against 9782 D month earlier Manufacturing condi tons are Htlll irregular the best symp torn of tho week being the steadiness in Iron and steeL Railway earnings for three weeks of November were 486 per cent larger than a year previous The Intermountain Mercantile agency rcpoils that the week waa characterized character-ized by a further slackening of Industry and by a wholesale and retail Christmas demand which promises to expand the volume of holiday trade beyond that of last enl by an Increase In tlie Investment Invest-ment demand for securities by the appreciation ap-preciation that money will begin to fowl fow-l by January 1st and by the spreading action of manufacturers looking to the reduction of costs of pro uctlon Wages of two hundred thou and industrial employees have been cut ten per cent and a like reduction for three hundred thousand more will be made by January 1st Bank clearances show n tendency to get back to the normal basis the increase In-crease In New York gradually receding from the high figure of CO per cent and more shrinkage down gradually until he past week time decrease there Is but 183 per cent decrease compared with the corresponding week last year In the cities outside of New York the increase I vns JC per cent making the decrease I for all 111 per cent The New York bank statement Issued yesterday was weak though Its publication scored an ephemeral rally but the changes were not at all pronounced In the various Items though anticipation of worse made It comparatively favorable The stock market for the week I has been progressively favorable and the indications I indi-cations all around are that the financial kiteflying of the metropolis Is about over |