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Show In OF TRADE FELTJUmNE WEEK nlig in All Lines Falls Off Following Heavy Conference Confer-ence Trade. ILD1KG IS ACTIVE NEAR LIBERTY" PARK ares Brighten Up Displays to Attract Spring Purchasers. Pur-chasers. 'or. the first time in many weeks the lty market has been quiet. The num-. num-. of sales reported by any dealer has i! small and there have- been few s of any size. The condition is ro-dsd ro-dsd as momentary, however, proba-in proba-in line with the slight falling off in it lines of business after conference, ; as the inquiry has "been excellent, 5 expected that the number of sales soon increase. There has been a Jy good trading, however, in small f for building purposes, especially th and east of Liberty park, wherp. hin the past few "weeks, fullv hsif iiudred lots have changed hands, and iy modern brick cottages worth 50 and over started. On the north ch building operations have been ox-led ox-led to Eleventh and Twelfth streets, new houses arc springing up on all epoiiE are. given out by dealers al-t al-t daily of many homes, . which will in the neighborhood of $5000 beinj; strnctcd. Work was started on the idruff apartment house on Second t just below Second South, under direction of CL 31". Encdahl. supor-ndent supor-ndent of building for the Salt Lake urity and Trust company. The foun-on foun-on was completed some time ago, within the past few days the stone k has been begun. Skyscraper Contemplated, he only largo "business don I of note the purchase by the Clayton lament la-ment company o'f the propcrtv at corner of Kicharda street and First th The company already controls adjoining property, the Wbittinc-i Wbittinc-i block, and it is said that on the iration of the present leases, which run another year, the company may t a handsome" skyscraper on the cof-of cof-of Richards street and build an ad-r'lial ad-r'lial three stories on the Whittiug-i Whittiug-i block. A large excavntion is be-made be-made for the foundation of the new dine on Main street, which is to he ipid by Onllaway, Hoock fc Francis pany, and the occupants of the r-s jiipt south of this place arc prong pro-ng to move out regress on the handsome-'new depot the Oregon Short Lin: is going rap-forward, rap-forward, and it is thought by many before the-structure is completed ill be made into a union depot for roads. In the meantime'.- the Kas-trade Kas-trade in the ladies' furnishing stores imies oxi'elloiit, and already some of finerv hag appeared on the streets, eating what mere man may be up inst when the season of gaiety really i3. A visit to (he millinery stores ven more entrancing than "the dis-' dis-' in the store windows would indi-. indi-. although they show something of beautv within! "Alice blue'' and erry VVidow" styles are not. the only gs set tin snares" for the pockotbook 'my lady." There arc "visions' tuts, shoes and hosiery, not to men-the men-the laces and ribbons with which helpless ono will be brought lo ae-ll ae-ll this leap year time, s a result.' the shopkeepers arc ny. and report trade good and grow- i As soring houscclcaning progress-thc progress-thc call for new fittings for tlio sil-:-rooni, the kitchen, the bed chain-and chain-and even the laundry becomes more more insistent, and rugs, carncts. liturc, curtains and hangings of ull U sell at rates that indicate cither cnieudous increase in the population determination on the part of many sewives to cntirelv refit their es. Othor Lines, ucb of -the house furnishing trade, he accounted for by the amount of building that has' been going on the many apartment hotels and ning-houscs which have been opened ng the past few weeks. The warm ther has also increased the call for ter weight clothing of all kinds, and trade 'lone bv the haberdashers has i i excellent. ! he call for building material has mded lo lumber and bricke, yet there-been there-been no reduction in values. Most lers report a" slight, stiffening in ;es, and the indications seem to bo c values will .be high throughout the ion. he hardware dealers report a con- ' illy growing demand for machinery, j fivers' supplies, too. havo been void j ing the week in largo quantities, iving thai the mining inlerests have a picking tjp. A sign of the. season j "c call for great quantities of sport-.goods, sport-.goods, including baseball goode, tin supplies and all the accessories, outdoor itnorts. frou materials of Kind which go with new homes, such i julters nnd furnace connectiop", buvc ! n selling well, as would bt natural jt'imection with the great union ut of : Ultng that hns bon done. Antonio- ! i supplies have aiso conic ju for a 1 tJsnle. and .show that the spirit of i sprinp is ahrond and that the canvon and the lakeeidc will Soon come into their own again. Stock Quotations. ln financial circles there have ben reports that money was ti'cht and that it wjis difficult to' obtain JoauH. Rates j have been fairly easy, however, and there has apparently been an ample, ' supply to carry on t lie lnrpo amount of binldiuj' that people desired done. The followiup arc the latest quotations quota-tions for local stocks and bonds on the i exchange Saturday: Amalgamated Susar Co. pfrl.. .. 03.50 do cornmon i GO 00 Beneficial TIfe Insurance Co llo.OO Com, Wapon and Machine Con., pM. 110 oo do common OS F.O ' Commercial National bank HO. 00 Deserct National bnnk L'85 oo Deseret Savings bank 510,00 First National bank, Ogden 230 00 Home Fire Inr.urancc Co 1S6 00 ' Mober J. Grant & Co 130 00 ' I.ewiston Suerar Co 12 7i0 , National Bank ot the Republic 140 00 Osden Savings bonk IM0.00 Provo Com!, and Saving; bnnk 1 IS 00 Roclcy Mt. Bell Telephone Co... CO 0U , State Bank of Utah 105 00 ' Sugar City Townslte Co....; l'Jn.OO Thatcher Bro?. Banking Co H7.00 Utah-Idaho Sugar Co.. pfd..w 8.7.0 1 do common 3.05 Utah National bank 10. 00 i Utah Savings and Trust Co 103.00 j vvcjtim Loan and Savings.!,.... 104.00 I Zlon's Savings Bank and Trust Co. r.tO.OO 7,. C. M. 1 106.00 1 BONDS. Salt Lake City Railroad 101.50 ! Sympter Valley Railroad lOJ.Stij Utah County Light and Power Co. 102. 50 ! Utah Sugar Co 102.00 I |