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Show ill IS BRISK j I EVERURANCH I Volume of Business Incident to 1 , Holidays Larger Than I j Ever Before. i ' iVCRBASED MONEY SUPPLY ( t FOLLOWS FALL SCARCITY i f ' I Season of Prosperity Among ! f Farmers Insures Solidity of ' General Conditions. r, ; In kecpinfr with predictions made Isnjcj weeks ago, the year 190" closed filh ra,' opt'1"'?"1 "in business eir-; eir-; fas' and with everything in excellent :,ijj)C for starling out a ucw year. Cou-i'ii:ry Cou-i'ii:ry t0 ,isua' euslom, there was I' Elilo or no falling off in volume of busi-' busi-' I tiS fo'dowing the Christmas rush mid "' ijaumuor of merchants called attoution (0 ji,0 heavy trade the past. -week. One ! ,vMnir merchant reported sales Sine to more than $2000 In wo-; wo-; jjcn's suits alono on Monday, following 3 '"'siatcnicnf. -which is echoed by uasv otber merchants, calls attention j to the fact that people are well supplied u ,ith moncv and confirms the assertion I nude before the holidays that customers ', wo purchasing Roods for Christmas PTsnnts more than ever before. The ' told weather is said to be responsible , 'ififjnuth of the Into demand for cloth -vine both for women and for men. The I LaK ot' fars ,n manJ" departments Vsi? also! strengthened the demand con-; con-; 'ril'rably. . . . , This feature will increase vrith the !iinei5 at, the opening of tho new fyar. Inicdiately after holiday season, soil of the stores proceed to take in-: in-: inioncs aud sales are tho next qrdor I !ct: business. V: will then bo only a few weeks to the tunc for" the stocking up Mor spring trade Following the sales : fevers will start for the eastern trade i ictnt'rs to select ucw stocks. I I" Hardware Trade. If hardware lines, general Irado has Vtw rood for the past week, although web of the business has been of the pt Christ mas order These stores, also. ijfo fouecnu'd m taking inventories aud ithiD :i few weeks will begin prepa ration? ra-tion? for spring business. There is a jfilhcring of salesmen from all parts of i S iJcintcr niountain country and from rv-gm- localily where Salt L.-ike City job-j job-j .Jtrs lo business and heads of depart : IxtfDls are carrying on their yearly con-; con-; Trrrnces. I r A ttrung feature of the general prot-: prot-: 'tfritv irporid from all parts of "Utah, Uiio. Wyoming, western Colorado and Nevada is (he stnlemeni. made that the i 'firmors were neicr in a more prosperous , j : (oQiJitioii than at the present time. . ; fThis PH-ans, it is said, that the basis of ; ' of the business of the community ' wf II founded and that them can be j in s'unip in general industrial condi- Cornier a vcar at least. , ' Monoy Is Easier. ; Bankers report colled ions improving !i wzallv and I do supplies of money grdw-; grdw-; HiZ considerably. After the first few I jwiitlia of the year there will probably. K- nothing: of the -light tightness -which ftcuileil in the fall months on several (fasiony. ffll The increase in money supplv comes 1 largely ftom the fact, 'that liiero has Jlllfn a creat decrease in tho demand '.1;' from builders ami investors who wished f jff tonnnnfp larc'p diajs. These operations r4Ys.'" Ki'J in '' fw weeks, and prepara a I lions arc now being made to meet, all 'If, "i'mamls. .i a result of the winter feca-uqlfW, feca-uqlfW, building materials aro somewhat lawj'iwct and the demand will not increase '.ami Tfr' much until the opening of .spring. Itiia Fipnifioanl fact tbnt. during the JaWfiit holiday season, nearly all of the ;Bt5rf5 ran far ahead of last year and iwi& Jlio dav before Christmas' some of Hll '?s 'arK't dado ever niyl,ciirn in the business, fn spite of the fact that bhopping hegnn earlv iothc tall, there was no let-up aud'thc last tew days were as busy as usual. ' Local Stocks and Bonds. As might be expected, tho wcok has been light in tho stock market and Consolidated Con-solidated Wagon, and Machino company's com-pany's slock has been about the only one for which there has becu any demand. de-mand. With the payment of the regular January dividends and the extra dividends divi-dends of February, business is expected to pick up and there is nothing iu the' outlook that suggests discouragement in nnv way. Following arcthc latest quotations for local stocks and bonds: Amalgamated Sugar Co., pfd $ no. 00 Amalgamated Sugar Co,, com 192.00 Con. Wagon t Machine Co 120.00 Continental National bank 130 00 DesercL National bank X00.0O Dcst-rel Siivlnga bank. 710.00 First National bunk. Ogden 3no00 I'lrat National bank, Murray...... no.00 Klrst National hank, Iigan 220.00 Home Tire Insurance Co.... 205.1Jo II. J. Grant. & Co 1:10.00 T.cwlston Pupa r Co 19.6 National Hank of the Republic.... 'ico!o0 Ogden Savings bonk 280.00 Plngroe National bank, Ogden.... 202.00 Provo Com. Savings bank....... I6fi.00 Rocky Ml. 13ctl Tel. Co G7.00 Salt Lake Security & Trust Co.... no. 00 State Hank of Utah 23G 00 Sugar City TownsHrj Co .15 00 Thatcher Bros. Bank's: Co., I,ogan. 150.00 Utah Bkg. Co.. Lelil fc Am. Fork.. H8.00 I'tah-Idaho Sugar Co., pfd 5,50 Ptnh-Tdaho Sugar Co.. com .77 Utah County Liclit and Power Co. 1.00 Utah National bank . 135.00 Utah Imp. Vehicle Co , 35.00 Utah Savings k TrtiKt Co 112.00 Walker Bros., bankers 250.00 Western Loan k Savings Co....... 106.00 Zlon's Savings Bank & Trust Co... 600.00 Z. C. M. J 207.00 Z. C. Home Bldg, & R, B. Co.. pfd,. 1.00 Z. C. Home Bids- & R. B. Co., com. 1.00 BONDS. C. R. & P. Co 03.00 Sumpter Valley railroad 101.00 Utah County Ugh I & Power Co.. 102. 00 Utah Sugar Co j , 105.50 During the weok the First National 1 bank of Ogden paid its regular dividend 1 of T, per cent and a special of 6 per cent. The Ogden Savings hank declared Its l regular of 2 per cent and a special of S per cent. j 1 7-' I |