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Show BUSINESS AND TRADE. Tho Tribuuo carries in its local columns col-umns today a rosumo of the building operations in tho city. It shows that thoro is an immense amount of building build-ing going on, that the city is improving gloriously, aud it will open tho oyca of thoso who pretend that nothing is going on. A perusal of that- review will euro .anyone of whatever ppssi-mistic ppssi-mistic views ho may entertain. Tho establishment of a Hercules pnw-dor pnw-dor plant is ouc of tbo prospective man-ufaeloiics man-ufaeloiics scheduled for Salt Lake, made known during tho week. The Nowhouso property has boon put in excellent shape, ami improvements of the Nowhousc realty in various paTts of the city is "on tho list." Tho formation of (lie drainago district dis-trict on the big ridga this side of Ogden was described in Tho Tribune ou Friday, and is likely to provo to bo an important development for tho State. Tho branch railroad to Kamaa is vouched for as a sure go. This will bo of immonoo service to that portion of the Stato in doveloping tho great dairy interests thuro. It will also bo of the highest valuo to tho cities of Salt Lako and Ogden, as promising a reinforced supply of dairy products. Tho stores of Salt Lake City during tho week havo shown tho partial opening open-ing of the fall trade. The weather indicates that fall is upon us and trade will change correspondingly. Tho bank clearances keep up well, and sales aro largely for cash. Tho realty market, always good in Salt Lake, has shown much strength during tho week. Tho dosirability of owning Salt Lako real estate and the excellent profits shown from timo to time in real cstato deals, encourage tho markot all the time. Tho Stato is assured of bumper crops in all farm products and. in fruit. The fruit raiserB havo through their or-' ganiation got their business in a better bet-ter condition than over bofore, and tho probability is that Utah fruits will this 3ear bo more profitable than in any year in the past. Although the market influences throughout the past week havo been of a conflicting nature, the good over-weighed over-weighed tho adverse, and tho professional profes-sional clement was somewhat surprised to find the stock market almost totally ignoring tho somewhat unfavorable government gov-ernment crop roporl. The upward swing of the big 'markets, however, has been so pronounced that careful authorities believe it is time for a reaction. re-action. -Nothing is looked for, as far as the immediate future is concerned, but an upward trend to the dividend stocks, although frequent reactions are logical and essential to an orderly advance. ad-vance. The copper shares have partaken of the goneral market improvement, mainly main-ly through the extremely favorable August report by the American Copper Producers' Association. A decrease in domestic visible stocks by over 15,-000,000 15,-000,000 pounds brings the supplies to approximate ,' ten days' consumptive delivery, and tho importing of copper from England and France by American, agencies to fill tfieir commitments has been creating considerable alarm in these foreign centers. During the past few days there has been considerable liquidation in London Lon-don copper warrants, representing tho speculative feature of tho metal market, mar-ket, and inasmuch as London speculators speculat-ors frequently have, succeeded in checking check-ing an upward trend in copper by a virtual "shorting," there has been somo expectation that the present activity ac-tivity along such lines might have the samo effect. There can be no qucitiou, however, of tho scarcity o copper metal in tho face of consumption that has far outgrown production, so, basically, bas-ically, the metal outlook is most encouraging en-couraging for the producer. Spelter remains firm, while lead has receded only to an extremely limited extent by virtue of the settlement of the southeastern Missouri lead miners' Btriko. Silver has been stronger in London, the home of tho silver quotations, the American quotations quo-tations during tho latter part of the week having boon in excess of 00 cents per ounce. t Tho great commercial agencies report re-port progress along genernllj' favorable lines. Thero is expansion in tho fall jobbing trade, lyufc the breaking of the drought in the corn belt was too late to enlarge tho yield; 3'et it chocked further deterioration, and was helpful to the late forage crops, pasture, stock water supplies, and fall seeding. Another favorable feature of the week was the ending of uncertainty by the passage of the tariff bill by the Senate,' substantially in tho form in which it will finally be enacted. The yield of other crops than corn has been excellent. Lower temperatures have stimulated retail trade and enlarged the movements move-ments of cotton aud grain. This tends -to improve transportation and exports. Signs of general trade revival are accordingly becoming more apparent, and less hesitancy is shown in providing provid-ing for various requirements. Merchandise Merchan-dise stocks aro at such a low stato that there must bo much movement in replenishing. A quickening wholesale whole-sale and rotail movement is reported from tho leading centers. The stock market is reported active and aggressive for tho first timo in a long while, and as this has usually been a weak spot in tho financial and tho busino8S situation, the strengthen ing of this market is correspondingly significant. Tho disbursements of tho Standard Oil in dividends for the third quarter of tho yoar amounted in tho nggrogatu to $14 ,728,750. Tho year's payments aro expected to exceed $100,000,000. A thousand, quarters of Argentine boef havo reached Nov York say 150,000 pounds. This, of course, is not enough to break tho prico or oven mn-t.ftrln.llv mn-t.ftrln.llv tn add to the supply. Nor does it appoar that those who own this imported im-ported Argentine boef aro at all disposed dis-posed to undersell tho market. They will got the best price they can for their product, for they mako these imports im-ports as a business proposition, and they will get all they can for thoir moats. They are not market-breakers in &iy sense, nor can any relief bo oxpneted from such comparatively insignificant in-significant imports as those. On the whole, the country is standing stand-ing up very well under tho tariff legislation, leg-islation, that has, in fact, boon discounted dis-counted for come timo, and tho prospects, pros-pects, in spito of the great damage to I tho corn crop, aro qui to satisfactory Cor tho year's progress and prod Is. |