Salt Lake Tribune | 1916-05-02 | Page 6 | Trade Marches On

TRADE MARCHES ON. Trad eTpanaion continue? to t'dp oriir of the day and the record of the pa :it v. eek hhows continued improvement. improve-ment. More contracts we being of-fcro, of-fcro, than are lakn, wi'."'3 ar in-t in-t t-rcrjMng and thre is a fin spirit of riptimiMii regarding tlie future all o er j t he country. Foreign compdications, notn ith; taudi ng ominous prcdiction.-n prcdiction.-n nd gloomy foreboding", are not seriously seri-ously regarded in bu.siuess circles, or if they are so regarded do not stand iu the v.av of putrpri-ie. For a time the munitions makers a nd those who secured se-cured contracts for war siipplie- of all j kind- were apparently the only highly ' pmspemus people in th-1 counlrw Xo.' legiitniHte Pusiyess is luM'iu its 'uin and t here is seemingly no end to the ilT'TPHsP. iJuring the past, oek there have heen a number of strikes, some of which looked threatening. Some of these labor disputes have been settled, while in the case of others negotiations are proceeding with good prospects of amicable arrangement. Just now there are few idle men in the manufacturing centers and labor is more than ordinarily ordi-narily well employed in the farming states. Tn a few weeks ihere will be a call for harvest hands in Texas and from that time on until th" grain crop of Minnesota and the tJakotas is safety garnered the demand for help will increase in-crease and wages will continue to go higher in the rural communities. Citizens Citi-zens of one Kansas town closed up their places of business last year and went out into the fields to help the farmers save their wheat crop, the preacher, the editor, the school teacher aud the I banker doing their share. Something , like, that may be necessary this year, although I he Kansas wheat crop will probably not be so large. No one knows exactly what will happen to t rude after the European w ar, i he polit b-al cconomisl s being di vided in opinion. While the war continues, con-tinues, lu. v ever, there is little room for doubt. Business in all neutral countries not blockaded will continue to increase and the noa-.belligerent countries should be more prosperous than ever. We would not undertake to say how much Utah is prospering by reason of the wave of prosperity, but it is nevertheless never-theless safe to say that we are getting our share of the good things while they are being passed around. Copper .bids fair to reach o0 cents per pound and silver is selling at uearly 72 cents an ounce, with lead at $7.oU per hundredweight. hundred-weight. There is no doubt as to the highlv prosperous condition of the mining min-ing industry in Utah. Wool is selling at fcmcy prices and cattle, hogs, sheep and lambs are quoted at high figures. Sugar is at the top notch and the demand de-mand is increasing. So it is all the way down the line, higher prices for our principal products and wealth pouring iuto the state, which has the effect of booming all kinds of business and pn-tting money into the hands of all classes of citizens. We should say that. 'Utah, iu proportion to its population, popula-tion, is more prosperous than many of the older commonwealths with far greater pretensions.