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Show BUSINESS AND TRADE. The week hns been distinguished by cool . weather with- danger of frost, but not so much damage from the freezing freez-ing has boon done as was feared. The, pushing of reclamation projects in different dif-ferent parts of the State, as nai;rafod during the week, have given a lively air lo progressive movements of tlinl kind. Tho indications arc that the present season will' sec far more of this than has boon in evidence in any one season in I - history of Utah. The deposits of snow in tho hills arc reported to be amplo to assure a plentiful plen-tiful wator supply during the season for all purposes. Public improvements in tho city are taking on their season's form, assur-in- good niovemoiit in this direction. Tho Board of Public Works, at. its meeting on Friday night, awarded tho contract to Mr.. V. J. Moran for water-main water-main extensions, amounting lo $80,000. Contracts for street paving extensions were also awarded. Mr. Mo run being tlio lowost bidder. The work of this season in paving will make a connective connec-tive series of paved streets throughout tho central pnrt of the city, extending from the eastern bench to tho railroad tracks on tho west. The real estato market shows signs of activity, and- indicates an upward tondeney. There aro many inquiries and realty is firmly held. Marked improvement im-provement is noted in building operations, opera-tions, foreshadowing an excellent building season. Many new structures, it is oxpected, will bo pushed, and tho Maccabees have . decided lo build a home for that, order in Utah. With excavation work in progress, foundations founda-tions going in, brick-laying actively pushed, and scores of builders busy on residences in many parts of the city, tho activity in construction is evident. Teams and men aro at. work' in some of the suburban additions, leveling the plats and grading streets. In a short time contractors will be busy with laying lay-ing several miles of concrete sidewalks. The retail stores ' have on joyed a large business tho past week, and buying buy-ing has been steady and strong in substantial sub-stantial lines, including clothing, shoes, houso furnishings, and the like. In many ways trade has been better than it was in the week preceding Easter. The railroads are all in excellent shape, and the increased travel makes good times for them. Low homeseek-ors' homeseek-ors' rates from Southern California are in effect every second Saturday, and undoubtedly will tend to add to the constantly con-stantly increasing farming population of the Stale. Contractors are busv preparing speei (5,Ilji()Ils ;,nd estimates for . In Shoil TJne double-tracking between r J U)ll nd Ogden. to conqdetc .In do , b track -fro.1. Ogden to Salt Lake. I tracts will .be let and construct. mi begun be-gun .within ten days- The new "high line" on bait Lak.. ,m,,e.is now re,.dy fo,-..5oat..uyU" Hum removing the dars and I.i -u-hich have been previously cauSul i'. floodB in the Meadow Wash- THe "Gel Acquainted"- special of, tl,o Oregon Short Line, .which earned the heads of the principal departments of tho .road, returns afler a .trip, throi-h the lowis of Southern lduho; and Southwest em -Wyoming. ; Governor Spiy ! 1' bai:l from Southern Utah, where he inspected the Newcastle I mention project, which will reclaim about tltirty-fiver thousand acres of land, being one of -the .largos, reclamation projeets that has ever been undertaken' in the State. He is on thusiastic over the progress thai, is.be-ing is.be-ing made. The great, Davis and' Weber. Counties canal whie.i has been completed at a cost of $200,000. and which, obtains its water supply from the Weber river, is just, completed." Water was turned inlo tho big ditch on Friday for the first time. This project will rcclainj twenty-four thousand acres of land. Tho canal is nine and a half inilos in length, extending .from a little below Devil's Gate to the top of .tho Sand ridge. It is a magnificent improvement, put in at comparatively small cost. The wool clip of Utah is expected to bo about, ten per cent short of what it was last year. But the fleeces arc unusually good, and- the sheep come from their winter feeding grounds strong and' healthy. The shearing is in progress throughout, the State, and buyers are on hand with offers for the clip, which the flockmasters. aro loth lo accept. They prefer instead to act in unison and store .their wool, waiting wait-ing developments, 'hoping to receive bolter prices. ' 'r , . No feature of . mining in Utah is better bet-ter marked than the continually widen-' ing market for ores of all grades and descriptions. The lead, copper, gold, silver and zinc mine owner has abundant abun-dant competitive demand in the Salt Lake market for tho output of his property, espocially so at this tine when the smelter furnaces are not operating op-erating full blast, while tho producer of milling grade ore can dispose of the same oil the open market for the first time in tho history of the State. This low-grade ore in the past has cither not been mined, or mined and thrown upon tho dumps unless tho owners could afford to install a concentrating plant. Western circles are watching the Fastcrn markets closely in the expectation expecta-tion of early betterment in stock prices.. Everyone is awaiting tho Supreme Court decisions, and with these out of tho way the markets will take on new life. It has been manv years since the stock market" business has reached as low an obb as that of today. Locally, tho rftock market has resolved re-solved itself largely into a traders' affair. af-fair. There is a lack of Eastern support sup-port which was such a strong factor tho first of the year, and the Utah Investor In-vestor seldom if ever buys stocks on a falling or depressed market. Stocks, however, in so many instances, aro considered con-sidered worth more than thoy arc now bringing that many investors predict an ourh improvement. The great commercial agencies report re-port business slow in recovery, with cautipu Ihc predominant feature. The volume of business is large, but is much bolow tho producing capacity. Dullness Dull-ness is reported in pig iron, with only about seventy per cent of tho furnace capacity in blast. Quietness also is rc-nortcd rc-nortcd in finished material, anil cur- tailnieril, of mill operations iifl General trade was hardly nJjM and -ibbers report snotteij ;9 In wholesale lines the (ntl curtail, and slow onJo(t0B ported. ffl Building is arthe in Bnnie'B irregular. On the whole tntrj9 up to normal, but no. ilacijt'B off is noted. There is abundance l)f mfl able for conservative iuvoVB it avoids the slock "i!rkctB Thine- wT'nk wilh a .disposlrifl to take even tho smallest, '-SB accrue. -!fU Crop reports are unlfnrrnl and there would seem to hrnl the way of a good season's 9 |