Show RA MEN COMPLAIN OF DULL TRADE RADE The Th traveling men who ma make k e Utah u aIH a. a h IH l their goods are grumbling grumbling- about c conditions in this State out- out c ef the capital city As usual the Of sufficient precipitation d during l vinter has lias to bear the brunt of th iut If It fault there be Here are the thel l of three sojourners who are up at the Kenyon I Beers representing a J large rge East East- r vehicle house and land traveling from to San Francisco and the t The he number of vehicles sold in Salt I ake this year is 50 60 per cent less than and nd the outlook for the coming nis IS not at t all promising The peo- peo e lI me that this con condition is due I hortage of water Business con- con are better In the rest o of the entry than in Jn any year since the of 93 I have been teen cov covering this for twelve years and I know I say is correct I know of carriage e concerns that have en trailing vehicles around from farm to farm fann and from house to house for forth fortt th tt s purpose of Increasing their sales I It Ills Is too bad that tra trade le in Utah should b p e regulated re by c climatic conditions B B. F. F McCready represents one of ot the I k largest varnish concerns In the world He sells varnish all ll the way from Chicago Chicago Chi Chi- cago to ZIon 1 returning through Montana Mon Mon- I tana and the Black Hills country He has hiS a ad different story to tell He lie says I I have found business conditions fa- fa all ap over my territory Collections Collections Collections I are re good too There have been no complaints this year My trade has been better than It H was last year The mail mall orders T received by the house from I this p part t rt of th the tho country have also been i in excess of those of a year ago Harry C. C Boyd general agent in Jn San Francisco for the Western States for forthe forthe forthe the Hamburg Bremen Fire Insurance company If Utah only had the water supply that Arizona has she would be at the top of th the heap What you ou want in this State Is water water water and more irrigation There There- is no good denying a I fact fart that is really staring everybody In the face Business Is not as good goodas i as It might be It is not as lively as r we would O d. d like I e to to see It I am ani doing doingO j f O i L g J 1 7 J L k I IL fairly well for my company but business business business busi busi- ness Is rot roOt improving as s I would like to S see it And all this is due to the dry winter Except right here in Salt I Lake the tle men on the road Ore Ire not selling sell U I ing the goods that they ought to Merchants Merchants Mer Mer- chants are buying closer and they are not carrying the goods that they used to 10 Our business depends on trade In In- In creasing I go into a country agency and r I find that business has dropped off oft instead of increasing All this is di directly directly dl- dl traceable to the dry winter When the merchants cant can't get custom ers they cut curt down their stock and decrease decrease decrease de- de I crease their fire tire policies The agent for Utah reported ti to ipe pe that he had not had a single new risk in eight months Business in other States is good and In n the Northwestern tern States it is climb climb- ing Washington Oreg Oregon n. n and California Califor Califor- nia are really booming The report from the Willamette valley in eastern Oregon is that they never had such And the P Pacific I c States are doing tine finely I We Vf are compelled to turn down business there that we cannot carry Even in Alaska we ve are doing a fine tin business The report comes coms down from that Territory that the salmon canners are doing an immense e bu business 3 i. i |