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Show . i BUSINESS AND TRADE. Tho sj'mptoms of the oncoming spring are more and more manifest 4aily. We shall doubtless have some disagreeable weather yet, but tho fact th,a't spring is hero iB evident. And with the coming of spring, business prospects brighten, everybody gets busy, and there is something doing all along thc line. A noteworthy event of the week was the transaction noted yc3tcrdaj- morning, morn-ing, tho $10,000 real cstato deal on West Temple street, where Messrs. Dixon arid Ellis sold to Simon Bros, a tract of laud S2H by 1C5 feot. The purchasers announce that they will proceed pro-ceed to build a four-story warehouse upon the ground, which will bo a decided de-cided acquisition to that side of town. In other respects, also, tho real estate market is in good form and condition, ' ana me ounuing ujjeruiauus um ian tu ! be extremely heavy thc coming season. sea-son. Already thoro iB much building planned, aud this on an extensive scale in every respect, both as to tho size of buildings and of the numerous structures in contemplation all over the city. The rumor during thc week that tho church was planning a fine largo offico structure at the northeast corner of South Tcmplo and Main was exceedingly ex-ceedingly well received by the public. Every one would be delighted to soo such a structuro put there. It would bo not only a fine addition to tho city's business capacit3", but it would renlacc structures that havo served their use and that aro now in decay. Business operations iu tho city havo been on a good scale during tho week, with much activity in various Hues of trade. Tho bank clearances remain considerably below thoso of last year, but in this respect thero is a gradual gain week by week. With tho opening of spring trade and tho getting in of now stocks, tradesmen aro alert for new business, and their offerings are extremely enticing. Thc markets present pre-sent now delicacies daily and tho stalls aro very tempting. Tho Independent telephone has been transferred to a New Jersey interest, but whether it will continue independent indepen-dent or be merged is unknown. A striking dovclopment of the week was tho proposition mado by Mr. John W. Hay to iuduco thc smelters of this valley to move over to Green River, Wyoming, offering a $300,000 bonus, fifteen square miles of land, a perpetual water right, and coal at $2 por tou. It is a remarkable, not to say astonishing, astonish-ing, offor, bui. still it is one t li.it will hardly be considered seriously by the Biuelting interests. These arc now firmly located at Garfield and vicinity, and thc smelter sites aronud tho point of thc mountain aro secured amply for all purposes, corporate and independent. A rumor of trouble between the United States company and the- Guggenhoinis ia probably an exaggeration, because it is understood hero that tho United States company has made a very favorable fav-orable contract with tho American Smelting and Refining company; and besides, tho United States company, iu its proposal to abate altogether tho poisonous fumes from the smoke stack of its smelter, has a fair and reasonable reasona-ble prospect of being relieved from thc court injunction issued in behalf of tho farmer.-:. Tho mines of the Stato are rospond-iug rospond-iug nobly to all demands, and only await tho construction of an independent indepen-dent smelter or the untrammolcd operation ope-ration of custom smelting, to be iu as good u position as evor, if not. bettor. The railroad prospects arc un-dimmed. un-dimmed. The Western Pacific will have a lino completed between this city and San Francisco before the closo j of thc your. And that will give a now and entirely, independent line from here to tho coast. With the completion of j this track, with tho already completed lines f rom here to Portland and to Los Angeles, with tho two to San Francisco, this city will bo thc grentcst railway center and point of junction of tho Western country. And all of the main lines will havo to build hero in order to get their coast connections connec-tions and to obtain for themselves thc benefits of the thousand-mile haul between be-tween hero and Omaha, of which they arc.nrv' dqprivodf although their tracks arc buiii lonir distances this side -of, Omaha. And in tho case of some of the roads, but a few milos of construction, construc-tion, comparatively, .would give thorn access to this city. The winter has given us abundant snows in tho hills, so that tho water supply is well assured for tho coining season. At tho same timo thc winter has ,bcon a very mild one, and tho sheep on the ''desert" will undoubtedly undoubt-edly come out to their summer ranges fat and strong nud with good lleeccs. Tho prices for wool will not roach tho maximum of last yenr, nor will thc bidding be so eager and so keen. Still, thc wool clip will bo a very heavy business busi-ness for the banks of Salt Lake City, through which paymout for the wool will probablv aggregate well above 43,000,000. In thc country at largo thoro is some improvement each week in tho business busi-ness situation, but collections rcmnin poor and the general wage reductions noticod do not promise well for an industrial in-dustrial activity at all comparable with that of last year. The improvement in the iron and steel trade is not marked, although thero is a good business doing in those lines. Tho curtailment of cottougoods production continues, and . is likely to bo accentuated by tho tou per ccut reduction scheduled by thc Eastern mills. Advaucc orders for goods of various kinds aro not larce. although tho general distributive trade has improved during tho week, shown by tho business booked by jobbers. Thoro is, in fact, but little change in tho situation, as noted by tho chamc-tor chamc-tor of tho buying. Tho shrinkage in volume of trade as compared with last year is very marked, aud doos not tend to an enthusiastic feeling in the direction direc-tion of recovery in trado and industrial aetivit'. . There has been some activity noted in tho stock market during the wcok, but it was a feverish and unsubstan-tiafupurt. unsubstan-tiafupurt. There is nothing solid about the stock market at present; nor does the public seem in the least disposed to invest its money iu oven the best of securities. Aud still, the fact that so little real injury was done to the country, coun-try, either as a whole or considered as to any of tho principal commercial ccntors, by .tho tremendous financial stringency that was imposed by iow York's greed and incompetence, is shining shin-ing evidonce, not to bo disregarded, of tho tromondous strength and vitality of tho country's resources, wealth, and industrial in-dustrial power. |