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Show R FRAOE GROWS BETTER B Isest Week s'nC9 tho 0Pen" H 1 ing of tha Year. H JOBBING BUSINESS GROWS H ) Unsettled Weathor the Only H J Bad Factor. ! Merchants Look lor Great Activity in All Linos With, the Open- fl- ' ing of Spring1. ' n Retail merchants of Salt Lako report fl I that the past week gave thorn a. larger fl i trade than any previous week of the present year. "While business generally fl t la not yet what It should be, as com-1 com-1 ; pared to last year, when tho growth o ' the city is taken Into consideration, flra there la every Indication of early lm-fltu lm-fltu provement, and oven a better year on fllj the whole. Tho unsettled weather has ftir been a factor In delaying the spring- re-H re-H vlval in trade, but this very factor, fli with tho unusually heavy precipitation fl which it has occasioned, will be the fl r making of greater business later In the HR session. The Jobbing trade is already flt . Improving steadily In almost every line, jY "hile real c9tate is picking up at a f ' marked rate. Even this early there Is Wfi activity In building, a great many mods',! mod-s',! erato cost residences being already un-n'yf un-n'yf dor way and a number of more cxpen-wLv cxpen-wLv slve ones having: been, planned. Plans jjAyu ;i for business and office blocks are not maturing rapidly, but there Is reason to believe that several large ones will be 1 built during the year, so that, with the PB I new Y. M. C. A. building in progress, lfl the now depots assured, and the great f-fl number of apartment houses and res-i-?fl dences which are continually going up, drH there 1e sure to be employment for even gjflh more than the usual number of bulld- jJfl The feature of the week in commer- iflK clal stocks was the throwing on the fDPw) market of a large block of Idaho Sugar jjflJ, stock, which forced the price down to ii $10, It is understood, however, that the MHt J stfr-fk offered all went into permanent Mm i hands at that figure, and that no more mt Ht can be obtained at the same price. The i fl3 latest quotations on commercial stocks llfl are' as follows; MH Deseret National Bank J27C0O fH Z. C. M. I 162.00 fH Home Fire Insurance Co 140.00 j The Utah Susar Co., preferred...... 9.50 1 common .. 2.0) H State Bank, of Utah U5.C0 , Deseret Savings Bank 270.00 lB Zlon'a Savings Bank and Trust Co.. 1S7.00 TJM Proo Com. and Savings Bank 133.00 . LWlCom. and Savings Bank 105 W Thatcher Bros, Bkg Co.. Logan 113.(0 in j First National Bank, Ogdcn 203.50 W'Vm Davis 5iunty Bank, Farmlngton 107.50 Uh" ' PitTZte Jinking. -Co., Kaysvillo 220.00 flf ' Ogdcn Kavinffs Bank loO.OO (I' , Consolidated W. & M. Co.. pfd 93.00 f j ' common CO.C0 VJJH Fremont County Sugar Co 10.00 t i Amalgamated Sugar Co., pfd 6. CO 1 fJci common 105.00 'Iff Tdnho Sugar Co 10.00 .Iff: Lcwlston Sugar Co 10.00 Wfi Provo Woolen Mills 60.00 iff J People's Co-op, Lehl 10.00 ff( , BONDS. Ifi I Church bonds 101& li! i Cons. Railway &. Power Co 100 (fti I Salt Lake City Railroad IOIVj .rfTv' Sumpter Valley Railroad ...103 jljl : Utah County Light & Power Co 102 'nit'' Tnc ban'c clearings show the usual Vl substantial gain, the following being the j wgeHly comparative statement of the i locozt clearing house: flS 1901. 10O3. i Pobruary 29., $ 441.053.02 ? 453.013.97 March 1 4(W.421.79 473.D14.13 WM h March 2 4fll.211.2U 463,3-24.04 WM i Marcli 3......' 400.047. M 352,Sl.fll March 4 SK5.337.GO 2C9.S27.90 March C 405.SI3.C5 251,&01.S9 Totals $2,5G1,S75.33 J2,nO,7a3.53 |