Show i YULETIDE fiNDS LOCAL MERCHANTS BUSY IN REI RETAIL All HOPEFUL IN WHOLESALE LINES Local business men mer p a anticipate te a lively I Christmas trado trade notwithstanding the rather unsettled financial conditions which seem to the countr coun coun- tr try Locally tho tho-r tho Thanksgiving trade was wasI J I somewhat in advance anee of what it was last at year yean and this tle tho merchants e believe augurs well wen for tho the Christmas season bu buy buy- ing Though the talked of reduction of ot the high cost of or living has not not been been appreciable ap ap- ap as yet ct iri hi Salt SaIL Lake City there thc is an undercurrent of feeling according to the tho eastern castern press and trade magazines that it is headed tills tl wa way and arid some re reductions ro- ro I at least may be looked cd for Cor b by Christmas time or at least the new now year ear Salt Lakers however live very well anyway so that in grocery meat nd d produce lines business keeps well up to the tho normal standard The fact that tho the thoi i holidays s 's tome come the latter part of the I month two 1 three weeks from pay payI payday payday I day dar for many man does not materially affect Christmas buying The holiday Is looked forward to for 01 a month or six weeks in ln advance and the householder usually mue makes a a. special ef efI effort of- of I fort to h have ho o a little surplus lal laid aside for fol Santa Claus Glaus exigencies generally speaking the prices of holiday holida goods have not ad advanced In the past year ear though as alwa always s 's there are the tho more exI expensive ex ex- pensive goods to toys S 'S included for fo those I In a position to afford them Wholesalers Are Aro Optimistic While the retailers in tn all branches of ot business art arc concerned for the present only with Avith tho the forthcoming holiday I and ann the rounding roundIng- out of the 1910 business year ear on the right side of the tho ledger ledger- the who wholesale sale dealers are arc planning and fl figurIng figuring fig fig- on the next spring business Here too prospects are arc considered encouraging Crops in the to CO country have been bounteous bounteous boun boun- the tho will of a majority of tho people people peo peo- pie has been expressed politically and now new business is expected to pursue the tho even eyen tenor of ot its way for tel some time limo to come The farmers farmers farmers' have ha been blamed blame for Iol the high h cost cot of oC living It t 1 ia said ald that the they demand demar 1 high prices for their produce and being the aso caso th they arc aire better bettor prepared the themselves financially to live e well and to enjoy enjo all aU the comforts and many of or the luxuries of at life This his makes males business for the country stores tores and this again makes business for the city wholesalers The retail meCh merchants too profit di- di through the affluence of the tho farmer farm farm- er et espe especially jally at this season of or the year ear when the tho c figure that it is to their ad advantage advantage ad- ad vanta vantage e to mak make a n. trip to lo the city to do their holiday buying finding as aM the they do more varied aried and extensive stocks to se select select so- so lect from In ru the tho stable lines or of shoes and dress goods g as aF well as in groceries and provisions which the tho p people must II have an the thc demand is always about tho the Fame nnie differing in quality rather rath rath- er than quantity and and in prosperous years ears moro more of the high class goods g are naturally naturally ally purchased Demands for next years year's goods the tho tho spring sprin stocks being filled at al present indicate that a prosperous twelvemonth is expected in Utah in common com corn comI I mon Ion with other states of the union next ear a Building Trade Waiting Jn a building line the trade is nol not so good A lull in real estate has been beon marked for Cor some months pa t. t. t and building building build bull in ing too loo is at low ebb hh Bu Buying in in in- inthe the building lil lutes s c-s is being postponed as flate late its as possible too on account of the squab- squab bio blo o over or r ft freight rates now being aired Ini Inthe in i tho the commerce commission proc proceedings e dings in inthe inthe the east An apparently trifling change in railroad rates means moans a good deal to the purchaser of carload lots of ef goods and supplies The money market according to local reports is still some somewhat hat tight Rates are aro firm and Salt SaIl Lake City banks iq common with those of the entire country so seem scorn om to bo hO well loaned up and not de desirous desirous do- do sirous of letting go of more than is necessary necessary nee nee- essar essary even at prevailing rates of in in- in terest It Is felt that the results of the recent election will have some influence In loosening loosening- money to some somo extent but hut any readjustment anticipated has not transpired as yet The local mining stock mai market ct is not encouraging though h recent advances in in metal prices have liae lent no little encouragement to followers ers of the tho game gamo who look for fOl spring trading just as brisk in proportion as the summer and fall all lla trading trad in lug ing has been dull The Tire general feeling in a business and financial way is that better bette times are aN coming though the anticipated improvement improvement improve improve- ment is not yet noticeable to any appreciable appreciable extent un n |