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Show I Rundown of sales activity. by community or area " ly $14 million compared to $8.8. : million the year. beforea 58 per- centincrease. y , Kaysville experienced one. of . tlys lowest increases, at only four-tenths four-tenths of a percent increase. Sales rose from $8.1 million to just over Si2 million for the quarter. ; '. Layton sales showed a con-, tinued upward trend, although not a dramatic increase. For the 1988 quarter, sales rose to $67.8 million, a 3.9 percent increase over the ' $653 million in sales during 1987 at that time. North Salt Lake sales skyrocketed past several other cities, ard -narrowly beat out neighboring Woods Cross, for the quarter; Sales totalled $20.2 . million, a 31.6 percent jump over . 1 the$15J million of a year earlier. Small South Weber saw sales ' more than double: from $554,000 in : JulySeptember of 1987, to $1.3 million in 1988. That represented a 147 percent jump. Sunset saw sales climb by 6.8 percent, rising from $4.1 million in 1987 to $4.4 million in 1988. Syracuse recorded an unusually sluggish increase. Sales there rose by only four-tenths of a percent, going go-ing from $8,537,000 to $8,574,000. West Point saw sales show a relatively gigantic increase. Sales catapulted from $61,500 in 1987 to $335,000 last year. , West Bountiful merchants saw a healthy increase in sales, with a 64 percent increase. Activity went from $3.1 million to $5.1 million. Woods Cross sales increased from $19.4 million to $20.1 million. That represents a 3.7 percent increase. in-crease. The unincorporated county saw sales increase, comfortably, by 35 percent. Cash register receipts rose from $2.4 million to $3.2 million. . Tiny Clinton had A relative feast in sales increases, jumping - from $189,000 during the period in 1987 to $780,000 last yean Fruit Heights also experienced a healthy increase. Sales jumped from $6261000 in 1987 to nearly $ 1 . 1 million, for a 73 percent climb. Farmington also experienced a hefty sales increase during the third quarter of 1988. Sales totalled near- . . . .. . - , . I Si I CLEARFIELD - July, August and September of 1988 were, months mat should have made most t Davis County merchants happy. Taxable retail gales receipts from all communities but one showed increases, in-creases, many, of them significant, compared to sales activity a year earlier. ( Only in Bountiful were sales down, and there it was by only half a percentage point, said Jack Bailey, Clearfield Job Service manager. : .; ' ... ' ".. For the three month quarter, Davis County's total sales stood at $252.1 million, an increase of $20 million, or 8.6 percent, over the same quarter a year earlier. - Here's a rundown of sales activity, activi-ty, by community or area: " Bountiful's economy continued to appear robust, with $64 million in sales compared to. $64.3 million for the quarter in 1987. For the previous 12 months, sales activity was $253 - million, : compared to $251.8 million, for a half a percentage percen-tage increase.. 'V,-; ..' " ... In CenterviUe, meanwhile, sales came to $15.8 million, up-from up-from $15.2 million a year earlier, for a 3.7 percent increases Even Clearfield, where sales have often been down, of late, activity ac-tivity showed a positive direction for the.quarter. Sales rose by nearly . seven percent, climbing from $15.8 million during July-September, 1987, to nearly $17 million during the quarter in 1988 - - ' - |