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Show TRADE AND BUSINESS. The week has been an exciting one in the activity of realtj sales on a grand scale, and in tho oroected construction con-struction of enormous business and office blocks. The Newhouse purchases pur-chases nnd plans sot a pace which no one else has caught up to. but .nevertheless, thero aro plans of large proportions b3' other property owners. On Mr. Newhouse's euormoiis purchases pur-chases on Main and SLato streets, below be-low Third South street, he plans to const ruct two onormous office buildings, ono of ten stories and one of twelvo stories; tho full particulars of purchases and buildings contemplated, con-templated, by him and others, being be-ing in Tho Tribune of last Thursday morning. Mrs. Judge has the plans out for a huge nine-tor3 office and business block, corner of Main and Third South, on the site of the Druchl & Frankcn 'drug store. Tho present list of the building propositions, most of which will be well under wa3 (and some of them completed) during the coming 3"car, is as follows: Twelvo-story ofiTIce bulhllnj:. by Samuel Sam-uel Newhouse. northeast corner "of new street and Main. Ten-story building, by Samuel Xew-Iiouse. Xew-Iiouse. southeast corner of new street and Main. Railroad Exchange, eight-story build-In;, build-In;, by Mrs. Mary Judge, southeast corner cor-ner of Main nnd Third South. Ten-story office building, by M. H. "Walker, northeast corner of Second South and Main. Sevon-story building, Utah Savings nnd Trust company, east side of Main between Second and Third South. Combined hotel and opera house, by Kastorn syndicate, southwest corner of Fourth South nnd Main. I31ght-story apartment house, by Samuel Sam-uel N'ewhousc. Second I2ast, between Third nnd Fourth South. llio Grande and Western depot. Third South and Fourth West. Orogon Short Lino nnd Salt Luke Ilovito depot, South Temple and Third West. Ten-story building, by F. Aucrbach Si Uro., on site of their Main street building. Large building, by Samuel Xowhouac, at corner of Market and Main streets. Estimated total of contemplated Improvements, Im-provements, S7,500,000. That is a brilliant arrav. and as a nest-egg it will undoubtedly be prolific pro-lific of a vast increase. To them may fairly be added the improvement of the old tithing-housc corner, at Main and South Temple; and in tho rcalt.y sales the Lichtenstcin purchase of tho Fnrdlc3 propcrt3 on lower Main treet, between Sixth and Seventh South, for $30,000, is entitled to mention, In tho building improvements im-provements must also be noted the contemplated addition o'f two or more storios to the big KeUh-O'Brien block on Main, between Second and Third South, which was tho pioneer of the recent big purchases and improvements im-provements that arc now taking on such mammoth shape. The Walker Bros.' great store antedated all others, and was planned for a fivo-story structure; it may be woll considered that tho great boom for that part qf town will force the other two tories.' Every dny-notos sales of importance, im-portance, and it is alrcndj evident that the realty, market of Salt Lake is taking on magnificent proportions. pro-portions. Also, it is certain thnt, groat as has been tho building activity ac-tivity tho past season, that of the coining 30:1 r will far surpass it. and make a record high nn among the larger cities of tho count r Business in Salt Lak'o is vcr3 strong and active, with prices constantly con-stantly advancing. Merchants aro doing a great business. Trades of all kinds arc doing well. Collections are satisfactoo, and the prospects for the future are rosier than ever. The increase of 4-1.2 per cent in the bank clearances for the past week, compared with tho corresponding week Inst year, show forth tho storv in concrete form of the cit3"s mighty sweep onward; and this is about tho average weekly gain sinco the American Ameri-can pairs' came into power Januarv last. ' ' In the Stato at large, with the heavy snows to encourage the "feeling of security as to good crops m 190, with the live stock wintering under uncommonly favorablo. conditions: with remunerative prices for all products and a quick demand for everything; with tho railroad situation situa-tion more promising than ever, the Wcstorn Pacific a certainty and the Moffat road almost knocking at outdoor, out-door, nothin'' more cheerful could be asked. The completion of tho coaHt railroad connections will give four lines from here to the Pacific, the Southern Pacific, the Oregon Short Line to Portland, the Salt Lake Route to Los Angeles, and the Western-Pacific, now building, '1 his connection connec-tion will force all the groat lines, the Burlington, the Chicago & Northwestern, North-western, tho Chicugo, Milwaukee & St. Paul, and the Rock Island, to build here. All have lines well along hithorward. and a comparatively comparative-ly small extension of their tracks lo Salt Lako would add very greatly- to tho length of their mileage haul on through freight and passenger business. busi-ness. . . The mines of Utah continue to add to the yvenhh of the Nation at tho rale of upward of thirty million mil-lion dollars a year. They are prudently pru-dently and conservativcl- managed, nnd 'have deservedly the , very highest high-est repute in financial circles. Jho enormous smelter plants being constructed con-structed at Garfield are getting on finely, and the coming year will sec great work done thorc. Tn tho country at large the same story of rush and activity- is told yveok bv week, and the same stoiy of congestion of rnihvjy traffic. Brad-street Brad-street sa3s that this congestion of transportation is a serious factor in many' sections. Manufactories are crowded all over the country, and in a considerable number of plants the pressure is so great that night and day work is going on. Labor is ovcryyvhcro scarce, and yvap-cs arc generally being raised. Copper remains firm, at an advance, and yvool is strone. with, an advancing advanc-ing tendenc3. Silver is down a little, under tho Govornmenl's bear tactics, but the advance was on such strong lines that it cannot be permanent perma-nent checked. The financial world of New York is much cheered 1)3 tho prospect of January interest and dividend pay-mcnts pay-mcnts far in excess of aiy former record. Invetsments arr accordingly pushed on a large basis; stocks aro bought frecb at higher figures, and the feeling of gloom at the supposed scarcity of money has passed entirely entire-ly awny. The country- was never so rich and prosperous as it is t.oda3. |