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Show BUSINESS QUIET Oi 1H FRIDAY Spring Chickens on Market, but Sell at Advanced Prices. Business was very quiet on I he produce market Krlday and dealers reported prices very steady. They displayed a good variety va-riety of eatables, including an excellent lino of fresh fruit. Early summer apples , from Davis county arrived on Hie market mar-ket Friday and pent-lies and apricots were plentiful. There was a good supply of various kinds of berrfi". Although 11 was "fish day," the demand for fish was light. The market was well supplied with fish of all varieties. Moat is not vor-y plentiful owing- to tho fact that the demand for the eatable Is not very great. Tho hot weather accounts for this, however. There are already a few spring- chickens on the market, out they are very scarce and the price Is high. Dim's Trado Review. NEW YORK. July 0. R. G. Dun & Co.'s weekly review of trade tomorrow will say: No one can now question the substantial substan-tial character of the revival In Uie iron and steel trade which is rapidly rising to high water mark. The output of the principal producer has already reached within a moderate percentage of full capacity, ca-pacity, and railroads as well as builders In leading branches of construction work are in the market with their oidt-rs. This wonderful change. In a short period, In tho activity of the greatest manufacturing industry of the country, the bright outlook out-look for the crops, that of corn giving promise of an unprecedented yield; the cheapness of money; and the fact that the tariff bill has been passed by the senate; these are the conspicuous features feat-ures of the business situation. This maintenance of trade revival Is all the more remarkable because this Is the usual season of crop uncertainty and midsummer mercantile dullness. Further advances have again been scored In the hide market. Leather buyers buy-ers continue to operate at advanced prices in all kinds of leather, but business now is less active than a week ago, owing to many shoe factories having closed down for stock taking, etc. |