| Show Hard Times Bring Some Unexpected Odd Results lIar Hard times lIme ore are having somo some freak results In Salt Snit Lake Lako ns as elsewhere l for Cor forbad forbad bad financial winds blow someone good food Just ns nR do any other brand An Axi study of or the tho holl lay day season trade the tho fact that hat In Salt Lake LOke the candy manu mann manufacturers were Mere making heavy heay advances In fp n sales while tho the Jewelry stores Were ora losing laMing out almost completely Now comes conies another development along time the line The Tho banks banka and thu ho tax collector mire lire who will suiTor rr r from It Last year every time timea a merchant bought stock ho he found In Ini i 1 lre tow few months that prices had gone gono up and that It If ho he had bought an much he helve have made an additional I mar margin margin gin of or profit through selling on the tho ad advance vance in retail schedules So Bo ho lie borrowed b l tho the money from tho iho tank bank next time limo he bought hought finding ho could pay Interest on borrowed till til und and still make malto money with vilh the way ho tile market kept going up liP An AJI ordinary merchant began to carry twice tho the amount I of ot stock Mock he ho normally did A sore often found f und Itself stocked up ip to out oUI of or fear tear for advances In n price Now No the tho market is one Merchants are arc unloading stock not loading up Tho trade trasie motto of today Is III a II small purchase a II quick sale lillIe a n short hort credit md anti a 1 new buy qU Large stocks are not being taken on Oil and tho the new style of ot buying Is making th merchants look closer to home Instead of or to distant trade centers In this fashion which to continue through gh the tho year yen 1 ho the bank loan lon will vIII not figure as it did In the time days das of the Iho upgrade march marchAnd marchAnd And Anel from this same name source look on out for the tax collector Ho Is a boy who will get badly stung In 1808 1901 Stores where whre ho he has hIlS encountered OOOO In stock to t tax he ho will suddenly finn handling no more moro than or 15 17 OCO 00 In stock and ho he will twill have to levy Icy assessments n correspondingly ly it will wll mean a n Ii la go slump In tile the taxes no matter how rigidly tho the tax man tries maintain to values on real estate holdings and property other than mer mor chandise stocks Before the tho heeL fleet sailed called El led from Now New York recruiting In ImI the marine corps was abandoned because It was tul Per Perhaps hops haps Just then hard times limes sent men hunting service while the tho chance chanco o oa ot of ofa a 11 long bong trip sent them that way Since Sinco then thon the tho army anny has been tho the ary and It Is probable that unless this reverse had como come tho the problem of ot fill filling lag ing the army would havo have assumed assume overwhelming proportions during this Congress Time Tho railway mall mail service Just justat at nt present ls is having moro more lI for examination a II week than thun it hail had a it year before November 1007 1907 A solid solicitor tor for tIle the city directory happened Into Inlo a I home hOllie where ho saw aw n a ac college banner banne on tho tIme wall anti ho ventured to ex cx explain explain plain that ho himself was a graduate of ot Ufo tho Institution The Interviewed and Interviewing found themselves fra tra brothers and Ind this led to ex cx explanations that tho the directory dl solicitor was a mining engineer stranded for tor the Ula winter who had turned to any an work rather than to 10 remain Idle With the tho banks and und tax ta men mon on tho adverse side of the tho commercial situa situation lion tion the tho homo home manufacturer the tho got gov government service and the army scent Been scent to be decidedly winners inners by the tM slump |
