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Show BUSINESS AND TRADE. Tho week has seen tho formal inau-guratiou inau-guratiou among tho business men of thc couimunit3' of the preparations for the National Encampment of the Grand Arinj of tho Republic, to be held in this city next August. Thc executive committee met in tho Commercial Club, on Tuesda3', and upon formal organization organiza-tion proceeded to ln3 out the plans of procedure. The work will be divided among a large number of committees, and members cau be added lo the executive execu-tive committee at au3' timo where cf-ficicuc' cf-ficicuc' or results nrc to bo gained 03-such 03-such additions. Thc work of thc committee com-mittee appointed io clinch agreements with hotel and restaurant keepers providing pro-viding against increase in rates for that occasion has met with encouraging success. suc-cess. Thc bill lo add fifty acres to Mount Olivet cemetery has passed both Houses of Congress. This addition, being more than two and one-half times the present area of the cemoterj'. will be followed bj' a good deal of activity in la-ing out plats, and fencing and improving im-proving thc ground. The President has doubtless signed the bill b3' this time, and the addition is formally made with that signature, thc ground being a part of the Fort Douglas' militar3' reservation. reserva-tion. Thc building activity proceeds as well as could be expected for thc scasou, and every indication is that tho enormous enor-mous building cncrg3' of last year -will be continued the present year, and possibly pos-sibly even exceeded. The real estate market in this city is always active and firm, thc holders of propcrt' realizing thc benefits to be derived from holding it, and the prospective purchasers sensing their advantage ad-vantage in buying properly now when it is reasonab!- low. Tho general business nctivit of the city is kept up in excellent shape, the bank clearances showing a gain of 33.5 per cent over thc clearances of the corresponding cor-responding week last year. The rapid increase of population makes 'lively trading, and compefs dealers of all kinds to keep full and varied stocks. The prospective starting up of the pumping plunt for tho relief of thc intercepting in-tercepting sewer in thc western' part of thc city gives groat encouragement to the dwellers on the West Side who arc below the point of service through the main gravitj' sewer. Tho outlook for a splendid year under the wise and business-like administration of the American party is first-class for Salt Lake. Thc mining industry, upon which the prosperity of Salt Lake City so large dopends, is experiencing a ve-vival that is likely to restore the old condition of activity, and rich output on the basis that' was developed prior to the currency cur-rency striugoncy of somo -fifteen months ago. The Fi.uk copper smelting process is likcl to enable a large number of mines to be profitabty productive in the near future. That process is simple, tho cpst of putting it in is small, and the results of experiments and tests mode are all that could be desired. This 'is likely to be a good railroad year for Utah and Salt Lake. Thc announcement an-nouncement was made a few days ago that thc first train of tho Moffat road building westward from Denver had run into Steamboat Springs. This finishes the road through the worst part of the Colorado route, savo only that tho great tunnel through the main range is not yot completed and the road is using tho switch-back over the divide in the meantime. mean-time. Construction down the Tampa river from Steamboat Springs will bo easily and quickly made. It is uot unreasonable un-reasonable to expect that tho road will be built practically to thc Uintah country coun-try this 3'car. There should also be a good deal of the heavy work through the main rango between the Duchesne and tho Provo rivers in Utah dono tho present year. Tho Western Pacific is promised for through operation by the end of the' year, which will give us an entirely new line through to San Francisco. And then Salt Lake City will have four maiu lines to the coast, tho original through lino to San Francisco from Ogden, tho Oregon Short Line to Portland, the' Salt Lako Route to Lor, AnT?l Western Pacific to San TnWK yet shorter line than either Z!,' believe, will be built in tnc e jitmL and the road from Ely t0 g.fj'.'w which was officially ant,ouncJ1f New York as authorized and f fif will bo a link in that uew iBllllS,TCT road will be through tho Mono thence ou to the San Joaquin valfp will be the shortest line from & 'Br to San Francisco that could ha Tho f requeut storms add l0 fcfA tainty of tho amplq supply of wst D all purposes next season, and tb "JB winter gives a favorable ont,!vB every department of Ibo Stat ' fl ' duslrics. and for profitable cmnli -1 for tho ensuing season. "r'?f In tho country at large, trad ''! ? pands slowly but stendih-.' UMU aud jobbing lines note good ordriK' immediate delivery, and mnre donee is noted in placing orde twl spring trade. But concorvatism uJStli, thc rule, tho tariff question casiS!' half in the expansion of th0 mannfgHJ of iron and steel, and this afftJB largo number of industries. The Br' I market is slow and dull, the coiSu I tion of copper not meeting tho crrBl lions of thoso who looked fnr u5-it mediate rise in thc price of thiaJKj Lead is also dull, with small dcna-jMI , Thc bank clearances of the . for tho week showed a substantial over tho clearances of the correJJBL ing week last year, amounting tfjMi -wards of 20 per cent. The twcrt! " regarding Congressional legislate Wfj "i undoubtedly a factor in retarijit-1 Hi recovery of the former prospsjEl throughout the country. And tllBf ,J certainty will causo recovctv ioKl uulil after Congressional actioi K bcoii had upon the tariff. It iiBf likelj' that with the new arimitmiXl. , wc shall have the disturbinu inD with respect to general IcgislauVjHl threats on business expansion that 1 been so ruiuous in the past trcpnB ' |