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Show BUSINESS AND TRADE. The week has shown somo important business development?. One of those is tho trust deed given by the Commercial ciub, amounting to $250,000, for the construction of its new clubhouse, corner cor-ner of Exchange place and tus street. This iusirts an energetic pushing push-ing of the CGUsrru.-titn on the admirable admira-ble plans which havo been adopted. Other important business operations have been the lotting of tho contract to build tho Jordan and Salt Lake canal culvert at Parley's creek crossing, and repair the conduit at tho East Mill creek crossing of the canal; and the bid to build the west side aqueduct along N04I1 Temple street. Both of these are important" matters, and the latter is especially important in that its inclusion in-clusion i ti the proposition submitting the bonds to vote secured a considerable consider-able support for tho bond issuo by those interested iu this aqueduct. It is to be hoped that this aqueduct w.:j be snllicifutly advanced by the time of the spring meltings to carry off the flood water. Trade in the city during tho week-has week-has been strong and active. Tho bank clearings show a gain of 26 per cent over these of the corresponding week last yeor. All kinds of trade are fair ly active and the markois arc well sup-pliail. sup-pliail. Tho building operations of ti.e year have begun in earnest, aud with the mild, plonsant weather prevailing, thero is nothing to prevent the energetic pushing of work. The frame work of the Dooly block, corner of Second South and First West streets, shows up strongly, the active .work ou the Commercial Com-mercial club block, the pushing of the Mr. In tyro building, aud the gcuerad activity ac-tivity manifest throughout the city in the building line, all promise extremely extreme-ly well for tho ensuing season. The real estate, operations are in good form. a'nd. with the practical certainty that no prohibition legislation is to be feared, tho prospect is for a good year of real estate activity. Prices aro well hold, but every one knows that investment invest-ment in Salt. Lake realty is something sure and profitable, so that the demand for property is always good. Important Impor-tant singlo sales are reported from time ro time, and the aggregate of sales is always' important. The mining industry is getting well on its feet, and undoubtedly this will be a good year for tho mining men. The properties aro producing handsomely, there are new and better facilities tor the treatment of ores all the time, and the indications offer great encouragement, encourage-ment, in this directiou. The smelters of the vulley have less to fear now than for a numbor of years past on accouut of vindictive law suits bv the farmers, aud the immense rcduciiou works being j constructed at tho point of the mountain moun-tain west of the valloy arc adding immensely im-mensely to the ore reduction facilities of this region, making it ono of the most extensivo and thorough anywhere in rho world. This is likely to be a good year also iu the railroad line for Salt Lake City and for Utah. Tho Western Pacific is pushing on rapidly, and its promise of a through track in tho fall is everywhere every-where recognized as a surety. On Wednesday of this week the Lcgisla- 1 -jj, ture will go out west on this track ta ' I' t the salt beds, with a viow to ascertain. 1 1 mg what legislation is necessary ta ' r deal with the aalt proposition whon the quest ion has " been thoroughly pasgG(1 ' upon by tin? courts. The UnlverMU JSC chillis all the salt lands under the cn 3?E fb.ing act, nnd so far ia the winlfolfew with the l.kelihood that it will & tunic so to the end. 510 The MolVat road will undoubtedly ht hoard from strongly tho present voar i &'S in its construction towards Salt Laic, I revm Uty from Steamboat Springs, its prcs. ffe'f cut U-rmii.uH. This road has had ill feet mendous duties to overcome in g H i V$ ting across the range and from Kremtn. frcn ling ovrr to Steamboat Springs. Bui &c f4' now tho difficulties aro entirely over. Sitae come except as to the main tunnel j n ' which is boing bored through the Hockv " raugo, and construction will be com i 7 panilivrly rasy until the raug,e! tweeu the headwaters -of the DucZno : and of the Provo is reached. Then vel1 later on doubtless the line which 11 ' WC scheduled to bo built down the Provo t river and around tho mountains and.,' S 'f up through the narrows to Salt Lake 1 will be shortened by tunnolbg the 'li t range this side of Parley's park and' In J down cither Parley's or Emigration i 5-'a canyon. ; gmpc: The prospect of hostile legislation 5)ntn against the railroads is hazy at pres- Saiiw ent, and we may reasonably erpect to ; 0 be spared this at this time, so that ;$Dj? railway construction will not be dia- ' Mce couraged. It will undoubtedly be found ' MeI that all of the main transcontinental 1 lines-the Chicago & Northwestern, the Sit? Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul, the ' SkP Hock Tslnnd, and the Burlingtonmust all build to Salt. Lake in order to get '-V' the advantage of the railroad connec r & tions hero which will lead to Portland, : fin'"1' to Los Angeles, and a choice of two' ' '3 lines to San Francisco. This will be to ' tho immense advantago of all thoEO 'fW" roads, which now have to turn over'ilA p thoir transcontinental business at Om- Vl aha or at Denver. ' ?!j The season 's agricultural interests I h aro assured, in that tho deposit "of ': VD' suow is ample; and the wool interests!-,1 are assured, in that the sheep on thej desert have had ample water and for- J ciwis age and arc pretty certain to come ontif2l'b01 with heavy fleeces and on to the Bum-mcr Bum-mcr ranges in good condition. ) jtHo In the country at large, the com-K mercial agencies note some expansion ftcm t of trade, but disturbances caused bv jjiscH price reductions in iron, steel, and;-1 other metal markets, tho wcakcess in jkran securities, and the near approach of Wge. the tariff revision unsettle progress. It1?'atr. was expected that there would be a considerable revival in the metal in-Uiimsi dustry by reason of these reduction! 1 V o prices, but this has not been had. 'The -,t1 copper market i3 weak, with symptoms l e of decline, and the lead market is dull. : sntts. Stocks are uncertain, with a markefcj'r 0 that docs not bear any pressure il breaking. There is an abundrMfei:- ' moue3v-but this money prefers invest- ment in bonds rather than in stocks. :,fc),Sflr, The bond market is strong and advanc- ing. The glut of money continues, hut itlt is somewhat relieved by tho bond of---h fcriugs, which recently havo been verv ' Pa great. " j Wh ' Tho return to the old-time prosperity &vr seems to be by fits and starts, with oc-! S- n' casional drawbacks, and, although thei; financial, industrial, and commercial fetslv basis of the country is overvwhere rgf ij.'t:i ognized to be sound and treiuerioosM SJjE strong, thoro is much depending upon ij?!' tho crops of the ensuing season to con-: tilh co tinuc tho advance towards the former r fnr prosperous conditions. sin 'l |