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Show HUBBARD TALKS OF . BBSMESS SITUATION Says No State in the Union Is in Better Condition Than Utah W E Hubbard of the Hubbard In estnie t comiany yesterdaN 1 sc ssed tV bu uess situation as follows n era of pro pent 3 pread ng hroughout the co ntr The oast ern papers state that not n years ha e the foundatio s of business been on so -good a basis and tho f.reat corporations in oil in cop per in steel and other branches are co n ng raonev The re er or of unused ap tal s st 11 overflow The co utr is r cher bv m 1 1 ons pon 1 ons of dollars than it as one short year ago and the publ is tremendoush san gurae It 16 a state of affairs n en a tog needless to add to the wel fare ot persistent bears Even onr local papers, in b g headlines, state that pro j?er ty is country wide Irom all over the land come reports of great m provement in bus ness, crops are the bumper kind, metal market in fine condition silver higher and stil) going up, northwest banters note f increase in business south ant ci patinc great December trade Mon tana was never more prosperous than now No other spot in the country should be more prosperous than Utah We have mare things in our favor than most any other state. Reports come from Chicago that the banks are bulging with money .and lare sums are being loaned at-3 at-3 and 3. per vent, and loans as mall as 10 000 at iV per cent. It is reliably reported that the Salt Lake banis are full of idle money and it would seem that 8 uer cent is a high rate, of interest -nder the circumstances and it is reasonable to beheve a lower rate of interest would wonderfully stim ulate business locally in all lines Eastern papers state that in many of the large cities there 13 a gTeat increase in the real estate market with advancing prices and it is reasonable to believe th s, considering the mmense amount of idle money and the des re of many people to mveBt their money n stable and substantial forms of an vestment It s reasonable to ex peet a great increase in the real estate market locally Many bene ficial laws were passed during the last session of congress and n an more will be passed th s sees on the merchant marine, the rural cred t and the preparedness measures especially which will add greatly to the already increasing prosper ty of the country The rural cred t b 11 will encour age thousands of people to take up land cultivate and improve it who now do not dare undertake it It will give courage to those who now own the r farms to make manv al d t onal improvements and thor oughlv cult ate the r lands It F gi e the farmers long t me loans at low ates of nte est and nil! enable tl 0 c tv man who wants to bu Id a home to get money at a greatly reduced rate W th all these thngs taken together It would be hard to pred t anyth ng but the greatest era of prosper ty that the Un ted States has ever ,een regardless of what pol t al partv mav be inpowc |