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Show TRADE AND BUSINESS. The week bus seen an excellent start for the Manufacturers' Association; Its membership Is growing, and the people all manifest the liveliest interest in Its endeavors The public is also doing all that it ran In aid of the purposes and plans of the association, and no doubt will continue to do eo. The proposal for a glass factory draws forth offers of sites in various quarters, and there Is a unanimous opinion that such an establishment would be s paying one here. The demand de-mand for glass Is large and unfailing, and the materials are here In abundance, abund-ance, of the very finest quality The Indications are excellent for the putting up of this rt of a factory. Fire clay is here also In profusion, of many different kinds, suitable for all classes of manufactures In this line The suggested utilization of thl3 In a manufacturing plant receives favor on all sides, and would be an added source of community wealth. The railroad situation has been brightened during the week by good news Trom the Moffat line. The main company will do the work of piercing he Continental Divide with a railroad tunnel for this line, as now announced; and tb" contracts this side are being let as fast as the details and specifications can be figured out. The Western Pacific Is pushing Its work In vigorous style, beyond the point of the mountain, west of the city. The detailed statement of the route to be pursued by this line was given in yes-terdav yes-terdav morninz's Tribune. The Utah Construction company has the work In hand covering the heavy work up Feather River canyon and through Beekwith Pair, and one hundred and fifty miles from this city west-aid west-aid to the Nevada State line, which Is being graded rapidly The line from the point of mountain Into the city is not yet precisely determined; It will depend somewhat on the right of way negotiations, and on the completion comple-tion of certain purchases of ground. If the terms are not satisfactory at one particular spot, the company will go to another. The magnitude of the contracts, con-tracts, and the effectiveness of the force and the machinery for carrying this out, indicate that rapid work Is expected. expect-ed. The revival of the old rumor that this company is about to buy the Salt-air Salt-air road is polslbly true, but there are reasons to doubt it. The coming extension of service and quickening of time on the Salt Lake Route will more and more add to the importance of that line It Is already 8 powerful Influence In the whole Western West-ern railroad situation, and its effect in opening up the great and rich mining region oZ southwestern Utah and southern south-ern Nevada, through which it runs, Is magical. The building of branches to Bullfrog, Goldfield and Tonopah will be great for all that region. The extensive railroad programme announced lv the dispatches for the Harrtman roads will be a great thing for the mountain country. The extensions of the Oregon Short Line in Idaho are no .loubt a part of th general plan; the Minidoka branch is completed, the Yellowstone Park Hue Is under construction, con-struction, and the longer extension in southeastern Idaho evil no doubt be Completed next season. The Rio Grande Western Is keeping up Its repute for enterprise and progress pro-gress ulso; It Is Improving and shortening short-ening Us lire at every possible place, and Will no doubt withlri a short time seriously take up the Sallna cut-off, s.vlng it access to trrTatonl Its. and this access, with the I J real depoMts near by. would'ajl opportunity to put n at Gre crossing one of the greatest iron! in this country. 0nf The mine output continues tost something better than half J' dollars a week In value The M this State justly enjoy high X In the capitalistic world, by real' their excellent management T richness and permanence of 9 bodies. The rmeltc-rs a,0 do (heJp 1 splendid shape, and have lhJf confidence of the mining men 1 naive plants that arc being the north face rf the Oaulrrll Just this side of Black Rock, wl this one of the greatest oreI centers In the world. And worll Ing pushed there n ft marvcJ 'er. It Is a miraculoun , harJ the old-time deedness 0f aj panse. to see the f:,re f ht covered with buildings and tA immense fill for the smelter the busy labor of men by the hi pushing on the great change on the hillside. The Stat at large has henefiti mously by the reCPnt KtQTma outlook for next season's agrl operations Is first-daw,; and f uses, also, the water promise 1 dant. The high prices of all 1 stimulate hope and effort, and : will no doubt be again at the to? The wool prospects are especial the price of the fieeces being sol to make a big band of sheep ajj good a thing as a fair mine fulf ore. In this city, business Is strut collections are good. The banf1 ances of the week are emphi dence of the prosperous conA affairs, these reaching the gfV figure of 60.1 per cent increase I bank clearances of the same wi year ! Building operations, though son Is rather late for thepa, f active; It has been a heavy ye building line, and from every ' next year will be even heavier number of structures are beings' by home land-owners, and Or side" buyers of 8alt Lake real,' do much Improving on them.Tl ter Haa k an Investor from M geles. was In tho city In thee of the week arranging to put land bought by him on his w last June, L modern business ml posite the new irpheuni theai this latter s'ru. ture Is Itself m ment to the city Tn the country at lars;e. bri trade Is reported and a new A ord Is Indicated for the holidaf Prices are advancing and bauT ances for No-, ember testify H menxe turnover in all trade Hrf-lng Hrf-lng the meuih. with a total lai. excess of any month ever recsJ Bradsti ' ei put--, it Industrial Is showing Kre-iter progress, any previous time, says Dun; I way earnings In November i last years November by 6.1 j Business failures are about aV Park learances In New Yorlf' week, compared with that of thK spondint; y. e.--k last ear9how; 1 per cent; but In the Jpanka 0 New York there was a gain 9. cent, mak'ng a gain for all of. cent. The stork market has fluctUSl there are nltcns of an unhealtm. Hon. bir money is so abundantly situation Is so strong, thafljj sensitive element on the stresff doubt he able to control the mof and lea.i them to the strength; stead of the weakening of th.J business, Industrial, and flnanSL atlon which now prevails. |