Show EVERY il RECORD RD I IS I II I BROKEN I 1 HR HERE i Merchants Expected t Ix to Count 33 Per Cent Cen Increase in Busin Business s Double for Railroad 1 INCHES OF SNOW V e. e e HEAVIEST IN 10 YEARS the sun aun causes cause the U UNLESS snow to beat best a hasty retreat re retreat re- re I. treat in in the next two 4 days there will b be b. a greater depth of the tho beautiful 4 on the ground this Christmas day than the tho total for the tho last lut lutten ten years yearl j 1 Last night there thero was wu approximately approximately inch inches of 01 snow on 4 tho the ground The total amount of l snow now on the tho ground for lor the years 4 1907 to 1915 inclusive was wa but 4 inches or 2 3 of an art inch U Uthan len hess 4 than th the present amount 1 t. t In 1907 there here was wu n no 9 snow OW at t atall atall all o or day Iris 1910 there there- Wa was wac but ut an inch last lut 4 year there was none none up to 6 1 4 A heavy snow b began an falling however later In the evening and nd piled up five inches before belore the tho storm was wa over Snow on the tho ground for other 4 year yea in in the year ten-year period follows fol foi lows 1914 22 inches 1913 63 Inches 1912 25 inches 1911 34 inches 1909 35 35 l Indies Incites nc b C and 1908 1903 1 I 4 Inches 4 t. t L L L t 4 P C I Z I 1 7 I I 1 T I r a r i i r rP the poor business man P PITY PIT The rue holiday trade this year has put a lot of gray hair in his head head and and its it's his own fault Counting his money in lime time to I drag himself home homo to get set a a. couple of or hours bours sleep and hustle down dom town t. t logo lo- lo go on a a. still hunt for more clerks clerke to tn take in more money for tor him to Count Countis is the thing that has baa put those new lines in his forehead During the Ole bus busy part of ot the tho day he has come to the surface occasionally for or air in the tho sea of shoppers who virn have flooded his store only to be ba swamped again by another wave of or people anxious to give him their gold sold There has baa been little picking and choosing either by the he customers customer to tn delay purchasing Show Sho Shome me the boat best I you ou have P has been ben he the only Instruction mimic mimic- Lion tion to the tho salespeople BIG INCREASE This has been true not nol only of or th that this at stores ores and departments of or stores handling han ban tiling goods that make the children happy but in tn all lines The department stores have had but one handicap the lack hick of or space to 10 accommodate their patrons A comparison of oX their figures for tor the holiday business will show an increase of 33 3 3 1 per cent ent over the tho corresponding period last year Railroad travel is a fair aIr example on which bleh to base prosperity figures at this time Ume of the tile year ear Tile The business of ot the Short Line originating in intermountain country countr had Jumped per cent over o last year The Tho roa road is having bavins tome sonic difficulty dir dif in iii get getting ling Pullmans to take care of the traffic as Is the Ule Salt Lake Route The travel out of ot Salt LakI Lake Laka and vicinity to California on the I latter latier road is 40 per cent above that of last year on this line lino And the Uit eastbound business will approximate the same figures The Rio Grande too is up on its toes to take care of ot its passengers as the number is 25 per cent snore more this year car than lien last lastOn On Interurban traffic in and antI out of or Salt Lake the Ule Orem lines show a 20 per cent raise as compared with last years veers holiday business and the Damberger Damer Dam Dam- berger er er route reports 25 per cent cant as a modest figure for their increase JUMP OF 40 W PER CENT A representative e hardware house says sas that it and other houses in this thiR line in the region show a Jump of ot from 2 26 25 to 40 per cent over Ule lie month o of December last year One of the tho biggest furniture houses of or Salt Lake Lako says sas that their customers forgot to ask prices Wrap It up and send it it were tho only instructions here Candy and has reflected tho the looseness of money One big firm reports a 25 per rent cent Jump lump in receipts only the higher hiher priced goods being in much demand An exclusive haberdashery save bays only the most expensive goods in tim store art are selling rapidly and that the income of or the establishment Is a |