Show UNITED these aro dose business men of provo are patting through never intha history of the city has trade been more dull the wild cat boom that struck the city a year ngo against which the fought so vigorously is lit the bottom of the whole trouble it tended to d receive and tho better judg ement of was over come some kofl our business men judged the future by s he seeming prosperous times daring the boom and have consequently overreached over reached themselves the moro conservative said at tho time that a a reaction was bound to come that inflated prices on on real estate would not keep the city alive and they pre pared for the coming crisis well the reaction has come with a vengeance and it does BO good for us now to get excited or curse the fato that has overtaken tho city the business men should be united and help eacia other pull through the difficulty it lies wholly with our home merchants whether more failures are to overtake the city or whether they will manfully and breast the tide and overcome the present depression local creditors are tho worst to deal with tho most pressing in their demands and if they become too exacting at such limes jas we are now experiencing all a business man can da is to assign eastern creditors have be envery lenient and seem to realize that it is folly to press choir accounts while times are so dull to avoid assignments our homo merchants and capalia ts should be considerate aad lenient as possible some sort of an alliance should be formed and merchants must stand by each other until trade becomes more active to force a lot of goods en the market when there is naturally BO little business being done is ruin ous to the trade of tho city and therefore all should be interested in seeing that no more failures tale place prospects are quite bright for the coming season and no difficulty U be experienced iffe can bridge 5 over the present depression is no us 3 to lose confidence because indiscretion has brought failure to a t couple of conr business houses provo hf i T 4 is alright and next fall limes will boom with genuine prosperity in fact good trade 13 apparent for the coming summer months prom the experience had with the boom we will be better prepared to push provo to the front for heroff but genuine prosperity willbe encouraged real estate talk wont count when men wish to establish some profitable factory a prospect location will not be raised to three or four limes ita value let us hope also that mechanics and other good citizens may be able to secure building iota at fair and reas enable prices forget that we ever had a boom in the garden city and let us follow in the good old path of yore that will surely make provo a great city |