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Show LIVELY WINTER Retell Outlook Is ExcelieiiL : 1 Prolonged Period of Warm ' Weather Causes Unsteadiness. Un-steadiness. Corner in Wool Will Result in Higher High-er Prices for Clothing Bank Clearings Jump. Retail business waa slightly unsteady last week, trade having been unusually heavy some days and light on other days. The volume of business, for tho entire week was fully up to the standard and the prospects for a llvoly fall nnd winter win-ter trade continue excellent. The -only apparent reuson for the unsteadiness Is the prolonged period of unseasonably warm weather. With cooler weather yesterday, yes-terday, the Saturday trade was very largo. Steady Gain in Jobbing. Wholesale and Jobbing trade continues to gain steadily, on account of the unusually un-usually large amounts of supplies demanded de-manded In agricultural districts snd mining mi-ning camps. Money for deslrablo loans Is very plentiful nnd collections nro good. A feature of the rcal estate markot Is tho Increased demftnd for"fnsido bu.inos9 property, while a number of good homo properties ure also changing nands. ' Wool Crop Cornered. Local merchants arc receiving 1 r-llfl-catlon of advances In tho prices of woolen goods, said to bo due to tho sfact of next year's wool, clip having bten virtually vir-tually cornered by the trust. The advance ad-vance Is from 5 to 20 cents a yard on clothing fabrics, which means that tho average suit of clothes will coat about 51.30 more than formerly. Somo observers observ-ers see In this advance another Indication Indica-tion of the determination of the trusts to "hog" tho results of prosperity, and predict that unless, wages throughout the country nre advanced to correspond with the Increased cost of living, anothor era of hard times will be due In the near future. fu-ture. , This vlow does not coincide, however, how-ever, with the reports of other prominent promi-nent business men who have visited tho East since election. These ilnlm without with-out reserve that conditions In the country coun-try at large could hardly be belter; that the mills aro putting on Increased fcrces to meet Increased demands for goods, nnd business men everywhere express the utmost ut-most conlldenco In the situation. E-. cry Indication, they say, points to the coming year being the most projperous one the country has seen for moro rhan a decade. Securities Have Advanced. There have been some advances during the week In local securities, with tho market fairly active and the tono Improved. Im-proved. Among the sales were Utah Sugar, preferred, at from 59.05 to J0.9S, and common at M.(X to &1.15 per share; Fremont County Sugar at J10.SO to $10.95; Z. C. M. I. at J1S1 to S1S1.50; State bank at Jill to 51-15; Idaho Sugar at 111.03 to $11.15 and Deseret Savings bank at J302. Tho Deseret National bank paid a apodal dividend of 5 per cent. The latest quotations: quota-tions: , Doseret National bank $270.00 Z. C. M. I 161. 0D Homo Fire Insuranco Co H1.00 Utah Sugar Co., preferred 9.S Common 4.10 Stato Bank of Utah H5.C0 Desorct Savings bank 302.0) Zlon's Savings Bank and Trust Co.. H7.0) Utah National bank 110. CO Provo Commercial and Savings bank 133. CO Lehl Commercial and Savings bank 112.00 Thatcher Bros. Banking Co., Logan 112.00 First National bank. Osdon 212.50 Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone Co 3.C0 Davis County bank. Farmlngton 110.C0 Ogden Savings bunk 117.50 Consolidated Wagon and Machine Co.. preferred 91.00 Common CO.CO Fremont County Sugar Co 10.9") Amalgamated Sugar Co., preferred 92.00 Common 110.00 Idoho Sugar Co 11.10 Lewlston Sugar Co 10.00 Sugar Cltv Townsltc Co 100.00 Barnes Banking Co 125.00 Bonds. Church $102.25 Consolidated Railway and Power Co 90.00 Salt Lake Cllv Railroad 102.25 Sumpter Valloy Railroad 102.EO Utah Consolidated Light and Power company - 100.(0 Bank Clearings Jump. Bank clearings of last week Jumped to more than a half-mllllon dollars In excess ex-cess of the clearings of tho corr03pond-Ing corr03pond-Ing week of 1908. Tho incroA30 Is partially par-tially accounted for by tho largo disbursements dis-bursements mndo to farmers for sugar-boots sugar-boots on the 15th Inst. Tho comparative compara-tive statement by days Is as follows: 1901. 1903. November II $ 969.11W.IS $ 560.117.55 November 15 921,795. 63 V77,172.0 November 1G 1.001.S74.SG S19.0C7.40 November 17 979,900.05 S5C.CSG.TO November IS S74.011.S0 'jSCSTSja November 19 779,191.31 C09.SG1.31 Totals $5,GSt.003.79 ?3,0$S,G23.S0 Increase. $571,350.20. |