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Show BUSINESS AND TRADE. f W The effect of the conference trad. t fm has been manifest in the business a- .11 fairs of this city during the pnst week. ILm and always to the good. There has Hl been a good movement, also, in real cs- iBZl tate, some noteworthy sales having ' WM bceu reported. The real estate market jiHK is always good, sound, and strong here P and Salt Lake realty stands deserved! JbL. high in the estimation of the inventors, 7 Wa because of the future of the city there mm is not the least doubt. It i3 bound to ;W bo a metropolitan town, with realty EBuB values high. idffls The building operations of the seasor jVM arc getting under way, and every iihlv fml cation is that the building will be ex tensive, uot only in the number of "gS. structures but in variety of construr- Ufln tion, from the huge Ncwhousc blocks jHl. all the way along to the tnodest cot- tfWll tage. And a feature of it is that ten- aHV ants can hardly wait until the aevr 1MB structures are completed before wantinjj to get in them and all the lime there JjtlW is no vacant house in town, which Wfy proves that the city is growing rapidly si and is on tho high road to greatness. fflm Tho newly proposed Commercial club jBfll building will be a substantial addition Mm to the Ncwhouae cluster, and the plani Wm for beautifying the city will add at 'Jy tractiveness aud desirability ercry MM where. The active canvass now on for increasing the membership of the Com- jK mcrcial club wilL.makc the building of its new structure comparatively easy, 4fi nnd by extending that membership to JIM all Westorn cities, the fame and advn RS cacy of Salt Lake will be made a loc&i Jew feature in all of them. Wm The mine? are getting in better con 1IH dition also than before;: the modifying ?MM decision of the Federal District Court in the United States smelter case heart- -jljgl ened things up wonderfully., The com- pauy is putting on men in considerable Myl numbers in order to perfect the appara- j jfZ tus required fully to meet tho condi- 'wR tions imposed b- the court. Thero is mm also a hotter feeling in the miniug $M world in general than there has been :mi for a good while past. The sky 5 1MW lightening all around, and faith in the 'mt independent ameltcr is undiminished. With that in operation, Utah ore pro-ducors pro-ducors wjll bc -in as good a position as possible. ' The water supply for the ensuing year is amply assured, and the season HI is opening early, promising excellent re 4sQ suits for all farming operations. The jM wool soaspu is upon us, the shearing iH ' has begun, but there is a decided differ ill ence of opinion between. the wool sell- 'llw , ers and the wool buyers. The latter ,1 : insist upon prices materially below 1 those of last yearj while the -wool sell Bill I .ers are not. disposed to make the '"f ,rf. cessions w.hich the buvers ask. When IHu the buying is fairly on, the wool busi ,WjR ' uess in this region is a very cxtensivp MM ( one, amounting probably to as much 1m ( as $-1,000,000 paid out through the BM banks of this city and State. fljf There is nothing now in the railroad llNr li world, good progress being made, as MM staled, all aloug, in the construction of zMM T the Westorn Pacific, which will mi- W double'.ily be completed between Sap Francisco and this city during the pre M cnt year. Wm F Noteworthy progress will b'e madf zyjtL A also on the Moffat road botween Den- JJT ver and this city. Much work mar bp expected for this road in the Uintah 'Jm country the present season. H Q Iu the country at large, the v eek 'mM re seems, to h.'ive si-own a falling off in iffiD pr the bank clearances, but a gradual ''WK -though slow recovery is noled from the (fljr effects of the fiuaucial stringency. The 'IK week'K developments have been in thf )W ad direction of improvement, and the ap- -uT Q proach of- Easter has stimulated the jmt retail trade to fair nctivitj-. The early Jh crop report? show better than a year "Mi ago, and large expectation of good i"om jQ the crops is indulged in at this lime tjB Manufacturing returns arc unsettled, .'9 , thore having been some resumption of jM ' activity in the mills ?.ud factories, but Jl there has been a falling off in the pro $T Jta duction of -pig iron, Tbe Erie rail- way's financial operations are disturb ing the market 'to some extent, the av!fl J uro to negotiate its offerings having 0f been Conspicuous. But now that Mr. .m ttt Ti'arriman has come to the rescue, the , bad effect of that failure is practically "iV lug, a thing of the past. Mr. Harrimau will iff a aj probably pot tho Erie on a sound and JP profitable basis, doing everything neo- jft essary to make the roadbed and equip'- jM get nicnl equal to the tremendous demands f0 Jj upon them. sfl 1 The slock market has been fluctuAt-B JJJJ ing, but generally weak. Efforts to (9 r push the market are followed by rear; V tionorv tendencies, and many evidences 9 ncw of manipulation are manifest. At thoW j same time, the country is unquestionjjim ' ably on a sound basis, and recovery J"ij9 slr merely a matter of time; and it is tCS ikipt 'he honed of no long time, either. jmWM I |