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Show TRADE CONDITIONS CONTINUE BRItiHT Stores Report Better Opening Than Usual of the Fall Trade. REAL ESTATE VALUES ARE HOLDING UP WELL Present and Prospective Improvements Im-provements Give Healthy Tone to Market. From all sides come cncouraglne rcpoTts of trade conditions during tho past week. Retail nnd wholesalo business continues the eamo as it has boon all through tho heated season. In dry goods lines nnd similar branches the trade of tho sast week has mado a material advanco over Umt of a year ngo. Tho recent millinery openings were bettor intended than those of lost year, and moro buying in this particular lino was recorded than thero has bten for many seasons. In short, every branch of business represented In this city Is enjoying a decidedly prosperous era. Whllo ; conditions are very satisfying, tharo is no excitement ex-citement existing in any special departments. The rttnll dry goods otores aro doing a splondld business. Ono prominent storekeeper who deals- in dry goods nnd furnishings of all kinds reports that his gales for tho past week wcro doublo thoso of a year ago. When tho fact Is noted that this Is a mid-season, tluso gains are Indeed encouraging. Local dry goods merchants say tho summer season Is practically over, and many ore putting away tho summer stocks to mako room on their rhelves for tho' fall goods, which aro arriving dally. Dealers In this lino statu that, to all ovidenccr, the full trado will surpass that of many seasons. Tho unusually heavy tourist and colonist travel, with that or drummere apd transients In general, has filled tho hotels and taxed their accommodations to their utmost capacity during tho summer, and tho rush lu by no means over. One or tho leading hotels did doublo tho business during tho post wck that It did during tho r.imo week or 1001, and a great Increaso or buclnesa Is reported by all. In shoo lines the snmo cncouraclng conditions condi-tions prevail. Dcsplto on advanco in tho wholesalo prlcca or leather, tho local merchants mer-chants aro keeping prlcca na they havo been hcrctorore. In tills, as In other brnnches, fall goodS" nro arriving nnd being prepared for display. dis-play. For an idea of prevnlcnt conditions thero Is no better sourco of information than tho roal estate market, and It is in this branch that a gonoral feeling of certainty and conncrvn-tlvo conncrvn-tlvo encouragement is held. Judge E. F. Col-born, Col-born, whon asked to glvo a statement regarding regard-ing real cotato conditions, said: "Conditions aro very tatlsfylng. While there Is no great activity, yet thero is no prostration." Ho went on to explain that, owing to an Indisposition Indis-position upon tho part of landholders to part with their poesesslonM, values kept woll up. Several lnrco deals aro being transacted. which for tho present aro being held In secrecy. se-crecy. Tho numerous and Important Improvements Improve-ments which are being mado In this city and outside points, such ns tho beautifying of East South Tomplo street, tho building or new railroads from this point, tho proposed erection or cmolters In Salt Lako valley, and tho repairing or ilfty mlle9 of sidewalks In town, havo a great lnfluenco in tho advancing of real outato values. Tho booklets issued recently re-cently by tho Real Entato association or this city aro nlso creating a great demand for Salt Lako property. J. L. Pcrkss, another well-known broker of this city, waa Interviewed, nnd apoko In similar simi-lar hoperul ttraln. "Tho market is affected to a small extent by tho coming olectlona. but Eovernl deals aro being made," said Mr. Perks. Local stocks wcro very nctlvo during tho pest week, Ono noticeable fcaturo of tho week's 'proceedings was tho advance or Con-rolldated Con-rolldated Wagon and Machine preferred, which climbed to $10fl, a gain of 12 slnc6 last week. Tho closing quotations wcro as follows! Amalgamated Sugar Co., preferred common BnrncH Banking Co.. Koj-svllle. ......... L5.00 Ccne. Wagon & Machine Co., preferred.. 106.00 common .;S Commercial Notional Bank no w Descret National Bank 3-W Dcscrct Savings Bank Davis County Bank. Farmlngton 117.00 First National Bank. Ogden 270.00 First National BanK Murray 115.00 Homo Firo Insuranco Co Lowlaton Sugar Co Lehl Commercial & Savings Bank 110.(0 National Bank of tho Republic 10 00 Ogdcn Savings Bank Provo Commercial & Savlncn Bank IK. TO Rocky Mt. Boll Telephone Co W W Stato Bank of Utah . J67-O0 Sugar City Townslto Co.... "-- Sanpoto & Sevier Sugar Co... IJ-oo Tho Utah Sugar Co., preferred Jl-ls common - i-J'o- Tho Idaho Sugar Co '; ,4, Thatcher Bros. Banking Co., Logan.... 122.00 Utah National Bank "j-w Western Idaho Sugar Co...,.-. Zlon'o Savings Bank & Trust Co 1.00 Z, C. M. I - 1,3-OT BONDS. Church ; tni Salt Lake City Railroad jot Salt Lako City Railroad. 2nd mortgage. ...1M Sumptcr Valloy Railroad 101 Utah County Light nnd ower Co.......... 103 A. substantial Increaso Is shown in the ban clearings over last week. Yesterday's report of tho clearlng-houso is as follows: Yesterday's clearings ftf " Sumo day last year Sis'lis S Week's cloarlngn 2 mo Sji 97 Samo week last year 2.530,-41 97 Building Permits. Building permits Issued for tho last two .vn.kn M an follows: Lorenzo Snow, four . f , 3,m a"1 Bruneau," Vrnmo 'addition German Lutheran church. East Seventh South, between Stnto and Second East. 3.M0 P n Cook. Second, botwocn Canyon -road aid A street, two brick cottages. ThoJ CorleM." 19 Wcsts'ovo'n'th South! Cbr'w1 Thompson." Fourth"" South'" bol tween Fifth nnd Sixth East, two cottages, ?!000 each v. ."u,-"; 2' Daniel Staplos. middle of block. First Snd Second South and Ninth and Tenth West, brick eoltogo 'K0 Mrs. Kuphema Mor.by, Third East, cor-ner cor-ner Stcffcson, brick cottage .... l.OCfO S. D. CToulon. H South Eighth East, TVcBtorn lMracorona ' company.' f hod ...... 100 Sixteenth ward social hall. Fifth West, between North Temple and rsWest, au woodsr'ssi'""''''''' 'b7s Ob PC Varren.0 Flrit North 'bVtWo'enlVtn and Sixth Wost. doublo modern, two- M-rtln Sffl. corr'two'brick mSup?. hnV.ck:-'jVfr;r;'on a. .SS. CS.'ear "ThlVd'south: UU'Span'gMh South-and qtiitc. ftnmo warehouse S. wo-jeneen. M7 South Fifth East, brick CJ" Nobicy.' co'r'n'or Notth 'nnd'wcit ' Temnle streets, ndldtlons V. A. Sorenion. 219 South Second East brick b&rn Total ' 3'"5 |