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Show GOOD WEATHER I -J IMPROVES TRADE JH Business Responds Quickly to Bright Days and Merchants Are Elated Over tho Outlook. Salt Lake merchants report quick i M ' results from the Improved weather con- dltionn of the last two days. The spring Itj sunshine brought the buyers out In BH throngs and there Isn't mush doubt that fH j Friday and Saturdny were the heaviest ;H days for business since the holidays. vHI The Jobbing trade has not been af-lH af-lH t fected so noticeably by the mctcorolog-,lHj mctcorolog-,lHj I leal change, the wholesale business having been more uniform than the rc-mw rc-mw , tall trade throughout tho period of bad Ml , roads and almost unparalloled preclpl- ,' Ml ; tatlon. The real estate, market hus al6o j "Mt 1 ' responded to the cheerful weather con- (M ! dltlona and It Is confidently believed klj that the coming week -will see many f Wl ' now deals consummated and a strong r Wfi revival In building operations. Money f Tal , continues plontlful and collections are ij , good. In fact, It would seem that tho Ifl business situation generally wns highly ' 'flW, ' favorablo from ovcry point of view. The Lkfl starting of work on tho Oregon Short FiMj - Line's now shops, with assurance that ijtM 1 Its largo new depot will bo built as "r tuL coon as the old shops can bo gotten out M i of the way; the continued active con- mm structlon work on the new railroads MJ l which are to connect Salt Lake directly fvVf with Denver and the two largest cities iMH on the Pacific coast; the splendid crop 1 outlook, constant Improvement in the t Mfl , mining- Industry and tho improved I 9 prospects for oil, all are factors in mok- ' W lng the present season the strongest In J 1 a business way that Salt Lako City has i -i i over seen. !The bank clearlngB of tho week, compared com-pared -with the clearings of the corresponding corre-sponding week of last year, were ns follows: March 25th Li 402.817.42 i W1.S33.21 March 23th 2U2S7.32 -J3a.G36.S0 March SOth 2C7.326.10 4U.E6S.7i March 31st C13.2S5.3D 6S2.S9S.73 April 1st S8S.iaS.01 43S.CGO.31 April 2nd 231.756.S1 400.767.S7 Totals U140.2W.10 J2.&53.473.23 There has been little activity In local stocks, the only feature of the week having been the adding of the Utan National bank to the list of dividend payers. The latest quotations are as x follows: Doeerct National bank J278 .00 Homo Flro Insurance Co 140.03 Utah Sugar Co., preferred 9.35 common 2. 5 State Bank of Utah 146.00 Donoret Savings bank 273.00 Zlon's SavlngH Bank & Trust Co... 1W.00 Provo Com. & Savings bank 133.00 Lohl Com. &ySav!ngs bank 1G0.CO Thatcher Bros. Banking Co.. Logan. 115.00 First National bank, Ogdcn 2O5.O0 R. M. Bell Telephone Co 82.00 Davis Co. bank, Farmington 107.60 Barnes Banking Co.. Kaysvllle 230.00 h m Ogden Savings bonk 160.00 H "Con. Wagon. & M. Co., preferred.... 01.75 MM) common 07. CO H MH Fremont County Sugar . Co 10.00 MH Amal Sugar Co., preferred M.OO M MMur common 110.00 MMMM Idaho Sugar Co 10.30 MMMKv Lowislon Sugar Co 10.O) D MJf Provo "Woolen Mills Co 60.00 B MjM People's Co-op, Lehl 10.00 rTf v Bonds. S3 Church 101V4 ifA Con. Railway & Power Co 100 ff jft Salt Lake City railroad 101& 1 ' Sumpter Valley railroad 102 ) j Utah County Light & Power Co.... 102 WJ $ BUILDING PERMITS. 0 Building pormlts woro issued during tho ItfV'i wook a3 follows: IfJj'J Mrs. Mary C. Nlckorson, Bollovuo Wltvil street, brick cottage 1,000 IIyVtI Mrs. O. R. Trowbridge, Strong's fii 5 3 court, brick cottage 7C0 fir )( 4 George E. Nlchola, Second West and jU'lfl Fourth North, brick cottage 1,000 4 J- E- Trowbridge, between Sixth and II Seventh South and Eighth and II; 'ft Ninth past, two brick cottages.... 2,000 A. i (1 Lorcn7.o Snow. 03 Almond street, M- .-Sm brick cottage L S00 C vEl Mrs. A. W. Bock, Second North and Sixth West, brick cottago. 1,000 MC Jit Carl Guncbor, 831 Foster avonuo, Mf f addition 200 H l McGurrln & Co., 32 and 31 Main MT' street, alterations .'. 10,000 (L O. Hcmmon, Poplar Grovo, addition. 250 u Henry Pllgor, Folsom addition, briok Ml cottage COO Mk f vi Keller & Co.. K Wo3t Second South, U.'l brick addition 200 MJf. M IiHtato of G-W. Clayton, West Tom- mi i 1 pie. batween Second and Third j.lc; South, brick storoa 2,000 1 J' Robert Miller. 39) J street, frame lA i houso 4CO j'jf l Total .$20,160 |