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Show IBULL ON THE- COAST. JHSchardson Comments on Business Jcondltlons In California. Tho Tribune. amS: April 25. -- Thr. belief that 4j00lidltloii.s throughout L'tah, and ifcrly in Ogden. arc by far more 'Tift than on the Paclllc coast has 'jnglhened in the mind of R. T i?Bn. a member of the Mchard-'WWt; Mchard-'WWt; companj as the result of a JK8' visit In California. The Og-llBtlluul Og-llBtlluul islted both San Francjsco iwfAngoles, as well as other large Tn Los Angeles, he asserts, the "bottom "bot-tom has fallen out" of the rcaf estate market, with general mercantile! lines almost al-most as bad. According to Information obtained by Mr. Richardson, the largest Jewelry manufacturing firm of Loa Angeles An-geles recently dismissed twenty employees em-ployees because of Jack of business. Some, few house-s. he contends, arc giving thirty days on goods, but u majority havo resorted re-sorted to the C. O. D. plan. While the conditions aro somewhat better In Sun Francisco, owing to the extensive building operations on the 1015 exposition, there la also a decided lack of business activity In tho fair city, according ac-cording to the local merchant. On Market Mar-ket street In San Francisco, between Third and Fourth streets, Mr. Richardson Richard-son found several vacant storerooms, a condition, he declares, that he has never before seen In the Cullfornla metropolis. |