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Show ( j2 THE nEnALDdiEPOTLIOAX, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, SUNDAY, JULY 16, 1916. DEWEY PCDINTS LESSON OF GREAT SEA BATTLE Ourselves Yes, Madame, ItlsTrueThatWePride If we tell you that you will get merchandise of a certain on the truthfulness of ottr advertising. value at a certain price you will get it. We use no legitimate advertising only to use what were our will be. We give full credence to the intelligence gains. No sale is complete at Walker's until the Hero of Manila Bay Says Is News Censor for Mexican Operations North Sea Encounter Es tablishcs Supremacy ' of Dreadnought. This Store Closes Saturdays i 1 If - K (DV ADMIRAL GHOnGB DCTV12T) y :.- TO Famous bath soap; known everywhere. Larg-61Z6, made to sell at 10c Limit 5 to a customer. : -- ' - ' vl X In the battle of Skagerrack rreat t. t. armored dreadnoughts came to grips for the first time In the history of the world. In that fight th tattle cruiser Jdayed lt3 part for the first time In a ' T: V I ItrhM enasrernent. cruisers Light In and of wr tk m!dt the l ttld and diwl. Tho.e fighting, S: tnU . daredevils of for first-clathe first the sea. thj destroyers, on : time In history closed In Ml in Lrod daylight to drive home f .." .. v and take one chance In torpedoes athir of surviving. hundred The showing of that day will have A mi'-?- i to do with the fleets cf the future of world. the nil rations by but The Herman flet was feeling Its way f" sea, looking far an to pportunlty to its strike a blow with conditions The British fleet wns spread sea. out over 20t miles of the North The day was and a ship coiM not be mad out more than six miles. This necessarily short rante was to of tho Germans. Their fleet the liking n ;is concentrated. They determined to U ba'tle. The British were anxious for a decisive battle. Tho battle cruiser squadron Immediately closed in. linttla were not Intended to fight batcrullers Admiral Heatty, however, tleships. to attempt to hold the !errnnn fleet until the British battleships couM corn. up. SfaeAItTTIUn. MAJ. noi It appears that three of his ships Mad. Uouglas MscArthur of the genwer.t to their death early In the fight eral staff of the army has been desigof this attempt. It would seem, nated Baker as official Secretary however, that they inflicted losses upon censor by Mexican operations. The during the enemy that made their sacrifice Information, whether of operations In yrorth while. Mexico or along the border, will pass He lint tie Crullers Limitations. Major MacArthur'sofhands. through the infordecide will what portions Bat the lesson Is this: Battle cruisers, mation In his possession are to be frlven vlth the weight cf their armor sacriwill make no effort to control but out, ficed to speed, with fewer big trims the manner In which tho Information is than have dreadnoughts, cannot give used. ftn.J take with the latter class of ships. In grip with dreadnoughts they are sure to be sunk. pretty by practically all those that Tho battle crul"r was crumpled tip exemplified were sunk in the recent battle. pnd Its unfitness to play a leading role The battle of Skagerrack seems to in naval dramas was demonstrated. Justified the position which has This was the first phase of the bat- have been taken by the experts of the Ions seems to tle. It have ben after the general board of the American navy. linking of the three ship ledthat the recommended board Tho general the for fifteen years that has by squadron, battleship United the arrived. There were four continue the policy of placing itsStates V.'arspite. chief and they reliance In big ships. hips In Intothisthe squadron.cf the fia;ht. midt Plunged The dreadnought has attracted very They appeared to have found a fleet little attention because she has not outnumbered them. that gre.itly They heretofore been in the fighting. The tremenin for a tanic Umtucstlonably see that the very existnot did public dous smotmt of hammering. in the ence Urttish of of the "Warsptt North sea resulted dreadnoughts Phillpot In the bottling up cf Captain tells a thrilling tale of the experience all Germany. It did not generally reacf hlj vessel ant the punishment she lize that the battleship was performing took. Ills steering Rear went wron? Its purposo without the necessity of the and hts ship trot out of control, clash, however, present fighting. Thethat Hinged Into the midst of the enemy demonstrates in the final Issue it Fleet. She drew the concentrated fire is the dreadnousht which means vicof six enemy battleships at one time. tory or defeat. She ran amuck and touzht to do all This battle seems" also to have proven the execution possible. Her every (?un the value of that other branch of tho worked to the maximum. which has been fleet fighting Vet she stood her punishment and most attention In the American given navy, :; ;ne She served the purpose tho destroyer. through. ftr which a biff ship Is created. She usefulness of the battle cruiser her or The scout cruiser has not been deprovedto the fitness of herself andwhich the -the purpose for lass the inadvisablllty of perform the pending but are built. She proved exthe fast lightly armored dreadnoughts upon rorrectness of the theory of Isthose in a clash in which vessels to wise have held that It are engaged Is shown perts whomuch for heavy icrlflce of Skagerrack teaches possible speed The battle firmer and bite guns. of guns of various calivalue less the comThe Warsplte is a vessel readily of most of the vital problems than bres parable with our own Texas and New of the navy. i'ork. A Teat of Torpedo. The Marlborough Is a 23.000-to- n ship WIS AN RUNNING ef about the class of our Arkansas and "Wyoming. Fhe. too, stood a vast mount vt punishment. Including that of belnjr torpedoed. battle- Salt Lake Woman Will Try ' This latter test of a modern A number of ship Is very Interesting. tlarhting war ships have been sunkbutIn the for County Clerkship. they by torpedoes, present and without were mostly old vessels Mrs. Mamie K. Iiowman has anth resistance of the newer ships. Is sure a nounced candidacy for the RepubThe impression that torpedo subto prove the undoing of the dread- lican nomination for county clerk, convencountynow Republican has not yet teen demonstrated, ject to the her noughts perfriends are and tr.il tho survival of the Marlborough tion, fecting an organisation in her behalf. to prove It. tends A third nni most Interesting phase Mrs. Howman said yesterday that she was the at- does not Intend to mako a strenuous cf the battb of and that both sides. These campaign for theshenomination tack of destroyers on does will be don work whatever which were Intended to in ships, tiny A number of promn o!iet way. serve the purpose of a screen, to bo inent have profIlepublican women outriders and scouts of the rig ships, fered their it Is under-In support and been regarded heretofore r.ad currently " tnat clubs will be organized beins incapable of attacking first-- c stood her Interest during the coming month. in the daytime. ships Mrs. Howman is a widow with two Their method of. attack was set down sons. She is a graduate of the as beinsr one covered by darkness de-or small Hisrh school and the Unlver-sdt- v Lake Salt conditions fosr. ths by Utah of and Is familiar with the on In to are Intended creep stroyers duties of offices, having held public unleash their bit: the ships,to torpdos In number a of state and positions are before and attempt escape they was born in Salt She offices. county unk. a one of the member of is and Lik Oermsns the that It had been knwnattacks w!th their prominent families of tho city. had practiced rtiy This was a poslbl use of destroyers. th.t neither Ami rlean nor destroyers British fleets had riven much consider- atfn. In the North sea battle, however, be-- I vl upon the British stroyers d"",'Hd fleet, got in closa and discharged their torpedoes. It Is believed that a fore of them true that were sunk, an t It Is probably not succeed in d"troylne any they didflrst-clas f British came nearsh!p. Theytheuno.ues-tionab' gjttlng It is not shown srd however, n att k did not prove that such advi5.al e. ttratf sic.illyveil thatthe British fleet re- It U belle pondrd by sending it destroyers lr.to tlie rti'.ist of the UormanThefleet under i ' ,fact re-similar circumstances. .... ' v very tins that destroyers played a were and In the fighting part ., Important active throughout the envaet nient.InThoa small ships tisefulness of the? as such that which took i ' ' preat strujrsrte Is regarded as Mufrrrrack off pia-l aving ben iemonstrateil. A itolnt of intense interest to the first birr sea fight public in this Is the high rate of t of modern navies " J e '.. loss of lire at.oar-- snips stiik. on the Mary, the Indefatigable nr.d the Invlncib: there was hardly a man aved. Already Isthe United States n.T.-- de- great nnmbe.s of ?rtrnent receiving Individuals who have to make as to devices that for saving lives aboard might be ftrrhtlng shirs. In time of battle, however, tliere Is no tine and no inclination to make use of these devices. When a battleship Is hit and seriously damaged there is no of knowing whether or r."t she Is vny about to sink. It may be possible that she will remain aflcat for hours, or that she may not sink at all. Her purpose is to continue to damage tho enemy to extent. A single the greatest possible final shot from a sinking may be illZS. IinXJAMI.X G.v?"I'l the ship tide of batthe blow that will turn tleA and the destiny of empires. Gen. Benjamin G. Hill has TlNrd quite therefore, damaged battleship, a rapid rise in tho army of the AtACioto fight. The men remain In the in the turrets, at their guii3. government of Mexico. General f're rooms, commander l man continues that particular ranza ?ms arP"intea him Kvery of Mexico City. alH Job whleh is bis in fighting the hip as the Federal District tne nrst chier. as sue mav strike a blew. It there- iiiiponani caused posi near long a sensation in Mexico fore hanper.s that when the battUM:ii City byhecUlncr the merchants together down there Is practically nobody and manufacturers joe of Mexico City and on deck, and there Is no man who may them on the exorbitant lenve hi pest in t!mj to put on a life lecturing price charred for clothing, foodstuffs belt or launch a raft. Quite naturally, being . life-tfid other necessities of The Fedvery man dies with the ship. eral slrrdl-i- r of Mexico City is someAll Die VIth Their Ship. what to th District of ColumThe theory cf fighting the r h p until bia in the United States. the last moment htema to Lv been . J ss .... '- ; -- -: ad-ant.i- (- h-i- T do-I'rml- CJI-A- S e -- dls-prove- n, dread-nongh- ts .B br Ska-srerrac- k - l'nlr Cnrranza's General in Mexican Capital .t lr Marl-borous- h. -- I - m ;rjy,i . . ... .,. trf-nera- l . '. Qin y fig-frcstio- r.s ud X- con-tlnu- t ps tr- rte-ceiu- ly Di-tri- ct I If Drug" Deipartment. 50c Size ,0-(loro-- 29c no,,, The best preventative, for excessive per- spiration. An indispensable hot weather necessity. Limit 1 bottle. Drug: Department. Black Outsize Hose, 2 prs, 75c Taken from our regular 50o line of women's hose. Fine cotton; double heelf sole and toe; extra strong parter top. Main Floor. ji'. -1 b'-aus- Girls' Sport ITats to $5 at $1.95 Pillow Case Specials cases Extra fine Jer&ens Bath Tablets, 5 for. 29c. - ' , customer is satisfied. at 6 p. m. Until September 1. Hour Sates Front 9 to 1 Onlts Morning Monday LIMIT QUANTITY. NO PHONE OR MAIL, ORDERS WE RESERVE RIGHT I "Washington. July 15. George D wey, admiral of th United States navy, finds that the mighty c:ash between British luid Oermxn fleets In the North sea has established the supremacy of the dreadnought, tothe inability of tho battle cruiser stand punishment and the Below are tiiefulneis of the destroyer. extracts from a searching- article by Admiral Dewey reproduced In the Scientific American, by courtesy of Sea 2'ovrer; comparative values as such. We consider it own former prices and what the new Bale price of our patrons to be able to discern real bar- Our entire line of girls' and misses' sport hats of duvetyne" and Madagascar straw. None exchanged or credited. Second Floor. Stamped Linen Centerpieces, 79c. h Pure linen, round thread ; are size. Stamped for French eyelet embroidery work, Limit 1. Art Department. Boys' Stamped Rompers, 21c Fine quality material. Choice of tan or bine. Easily worked designs. Sizes 1 to 4 years. Limit 2. Art Department. Union Suits, Regular 12 Yards Long Cloth, $2.00 Size 95c; Outsize $1.05. Silk-to- p Women's glove-sil- k top union suits with lisle tiphts. Pink tops or all white suit. A saving of nearly one-fourt- h. Main Floor. ITats, $1.00. Boys' Straw for the all new larger boys; Styles season and formerly priced Some excellent values. ' to Sold in full bolts only, but it comes in two lengths, 36 inches wide. Limit 1 bolt. Annex. White Pique, Yd. 22c 27-in- ch this $2.25. Second Floor. heavy quality from our regular stock of a 3oc grade. Limit 12 Broad-wal- hemmed and quality e; yards. Annex. Our entire stock of little boys and girls' hats that have been selling at 25c. Plain straws and mottled effects. readjf for use. These prices, with a limit of 1 dozen: Size 42x36, each . Size 45x36, each 22i2 ,25c Ecoomy Basement. Annex. Twilled Cretonnes, Yd. 9c 36-inc- Children's Straw Hats, 15c Women's Trimmed Hats, 09c Sport and street hats and untrimmed Good range of colors. Formerly priced to $1.9S. 25 inches wide; medium and dark ef- shapes. fects; Persian and floral designs. Limit 20 yards. Ann. Ecoomy Basement. Rugs, Special Rag The "hit and miss" Crocheted Bedspreads, $1.05 popular patterns in different colors; fringed ends. Limit 2 of each size at these prices: Size 18x24 inches, at. Size 24x36 inches at Large size; heavy quality; made with cut corners and finished with fringe. Limit 1. 35c. 59c Annex. Ecoorny Basement. 25c and 29c Wash Goods, yd. 11c Fancy Dressing Sacques, 39c Broken lines of Jap crepes in striped patterns ; figured plisse crepes lace voiles. Sale price is and less than cost to manufacture. 27-in- ch Dainty figured crepes and voiles; finished with silk cords or ribbons. Odds and ends of former values to $1.25. Limit 2. 36-in- ch Annex. Ecotomj'- One Lot Porch Dresses, each, 98c White Lincne Skirts, 09c New, clean goods selling regularly at Lawns and dimities in effects. Big variety of neat patterns. Limit 1. $1.19. Basement. Plainly made; finished with wide hem and pearl buttons. Small lot only, but all lengths and waist measures. Limit 1. lace-trimm- ed Ecojoray Basement. Ecoomy Basement. LARGEST BUFFALO HERD RAI LROADS FACE COAST BANK CLEARINGS IN WORLD IS IN CANADA NC REASED COST SHOW HUGE INCREASES From Nucleus of Four Calves in 1873 Total Has Grown to 2077 15. The CanaAlberta, Canada, dian government isJuly with sigmeeting: nal success in its efforts to preserve the buffalo from the swift extinction which threatened it a few years ago. This Is shown in a report on the growth of the herd at Wainwrljrht Buffalo Just Issued by J. B. park. In.Alberta. Dominion parks commissioner. Hark The report fhows that in April, 1909, the herd numbered 402. Since then it has gradually Increased at the rate of about 200 a year, until today It numbers 2077. lllatory of the Herd. The hiFtory of this herd, now the in the world, dateg back to largest 1873, when a Pend o'Oreille Indian captured four little bison calves two bulls and two heifers by cutting them out of a stampeded herd on the Flathead reservation in Montana. In accordance with a peculiar characteristic, often noticed by old plainsmen, folthese young creatures lowed the horses of theobediently who hunters had slain or driven off their mothers. The Indian in gave them to the Mission of question St. Ignatius, where were kept as pets and became they as domesticated as ordinary cattle. When the heifers were four years old. each had a calf. From that time on in number, they gradually increased were thirteen head until, in 18S4, there and finding tho care of them too great a tax decided to sell them. Ten head were bought for $250 apiece by C. A. Allard and Michel Pablo, who were on the and Svere ranching see that specimens of shrewd enough toreservation, what was even then almost an extinct animal would eventually become very valuable. The herd increased under their careful supervision, and in a few years it became possible to sell specimens Some idea of the avat high prices. erage rate of increase may be deduced from the observed that half the cows give birth to fact calves vear, while twin calves are not every uncommon. As a rule the bison calf is a very hardy creature. There are Instances of the Pablo-Allar- d calves their feet In less than a minutefinding after birth and showing fight within half an hour. In 1906 the lion. Frank Oliver, then for minister of the interior, obtained the Dominion government an option on to Pablo t00 unsold head Tables Show Advance in Price of Materials Needed for Upkeep. the belonging and Allard, and eventually they were DELAY IMPROVEMENTS all bought for $200,000. The ''roundup" lasted two months, and was carried out by seventy-fiv- e cowboys, horsemen picked for their ability froma Alberta and was 1accomplished with Interesting Comparisons of loss of less than per cent. Since it became the property of the Prices Issued by Union Canadian government this great herd has fared well in the new National Pacific System. is beThe park at aWainwright. the travfavorite resort ofpark coming eler. It ha8 an area of 150 square miles and is securely inclosed with a Plans for a number of improvements high wire fence. In the way of double track, the extenof the automatic block signal sysTOURISTS ARE COMING sion tems, the changing of the train dispatching system from telegraph to Big Party From Kast on "Way to telephone and the reduction of curves Parle. are being made by the operating and The Chicago. Union Pacific North- maintenance of way department and western line, the tourist agency for the the office of the chief engineer of the Chicago & Northwestern and Union Pa- Oregon Short Line. cific railroads, will bring- through Salt The officials contemplated making a Lake Tuesday the largest excursion number of Improvements during the run to the Yellowstone park during the present year, but owing to the increase present season. A special train of in the cost of material and the inabilseven standard Pullmans is required to ity of the manufacturers of the east to handle the 135 people who are aboard furnish material the road was comthe train, which left Chicago last night and which will make stops en route to pelled to abandon a number of its dethis city. The train is running as the signs for this year. second section of the Los Angeles The work of reducing the grades and limited and will arrive here In timesec-to be run to the park as the second taking out curves on the Echo canyon tion of the Yellowstone special. On the section of the Union Pacific at a cost return from the park the train will be of $3, 000, 000, is progressing and when hours held in Salt Lake for twenty-fou- r In order to give the excursionists a completed will aid in the handling of chance to see the city. heavier trains and result in a reduction A party of fifty bankers with their of operating expenses. families from Cleveland will arrive in To show the increase in the cost of Salt Lake during the week en route to Yellowstone. The party is coming over material since the beginning of the the New York Central lines to Chicago European war the Union Pacific has and then over the Northwestern line caused the following table to be made and the Union Pacific, returning over the Denver & Hio Orande. This is the up. The Increases in costs by percentlargest excursion from one city this ages of those things necessary to the year. upkeep of a railroad and its equipment are shown as follows: Car axles 92 Engine axles 62 Exports Shoiv Steady Increase in All Lines; Breadstuff s Carriage bolts 67 bolts and Meat and Dairy Products Lead Eleven Months9 Machine 17 Track bolts Totals Reach Enormous Figure. Ill Bar brass 216 brass Spring 33 coal Blacksmith 15. of bulletin usual The exports showing monthly WASHINGTON. July 70 cottonseed oil, food animals, meat and dairy Malleable iron fittings cotton and mineral oils from the principal customs districts 39 products, Car forglngs of the united States was today completed by the bureau of foreign and 50 mestic commerce, department of commerce. It Frogs exports as follows: . 72 11 Months Ending May Gasoline May 1915 11?5 1916 1916 72 Exports by Groups. Common bar Iron 3S9.72S.922 529,839,903 45,992.968 Headstuffs. dollars 89,991,361 69 291.735,729 Sheet Iron Cottonseed oil. pounds .. 15,951,742 252,754.186 32,309,820 43 lead Pig .. 19,903.909 Sheer lead 2,362,272 Cottonseed oil, dollars 21.243,172 1,770.983 61 . G9 2.528.279 31.929 53.4 428,240 Cattle, "hogs, sheep, dol. 30 Car .framing Meat and dairy prod., dol. 27,380.3".: 173,464,598 231,3i4.S28 18,502.132 30 lumber and building 615.290 8,103,097 Bridge 5,361,530 Cotton, bales 60 4,235,791.929 Car siding 2,776,872,675 319,933.953 239,181,139 Cotton, pounds 50 stringers 333,488.882 360,370.125 Lumber 29,875,716 Cotton, dollars 20.65,497 15 Ties . .22R.47S.753 Mineral oils, gallons 2,192.599,915 1,967.059,031 225.951,698 50 Nails .. 17.314,240 11S.690.990 Mineral oils, dollars 144,819,761 12,997,458 S3 Nuts 27 covering Pipe 1.123.173.844 1,202,697,765 109,762,475 117.775,925 Total, dollars 82 Powder 67 Rivets Articles: by 92 Exports Principal steel Cold drawn 3638.04 4 31,471.079 43,718,136 Corn, bushels 4.939,262 97 34.542.492 Soft steel tool steel 25.268.663 Corn, dollars 3,104.910 4,095,558 420 speed High 86,433.656 86,751,423 Oats, bushels 13,028,168 12.459,837 100 51,669,895 Brass tubing 43.494,720 8.099,084 Oats, dollars 6.372,621 69 tubing Copper bushels 166.819,831 249,576,455 Wheat, 14,182.447 14.569,699 69 wire Copper 22.980.078 18.659.2S6 319,961,546 Wheat, dollars 207,357,954 169 zincs 15,077.390 Battery Flour, barrels 13.853,451 1,318,483 1.340,489 S5 batteries 87.651,616 Dry 7,562.325 Flour, dol!.3 9,781.697 77.962,678 followthe has The same road Beef, vanned, pounds .... 12.180.0S0 47,270,795 6.656,768 "65,359,539 issJ of inBeef. canned, dollars 10.70S.547 ing statement showing tht record 1.235.171 2.491,648 8.457,386 1902 and between in creases railroading Beef, fresh, pounds 121,487,671 14.517,970 19,543,015 191,169,380 1916 'as comparing the motive power 1. 857,332 Beef, fresh, dollars 23.707.338 15,363,220 2,500,716 two years and the Beef, pickled, etc., pounds 2,420,784 6,662.432 28,622,635 and equipment of the 36,272,910 Beef, pickled, etc., dollars 694.649 3.771.312 3.004,271 tonnage increase to the train: 248,478 Oleo oil. pounds 5,378,626 5,209, 93S 95,091.070 71,691.311 Locomotives Oleo oil, dollars 645.599 11,560.717 705,24: 8,389,725 Pulling power Bacon, pounds 534.044.758 57.092,373 35,429,453 304,229,561 Number uacon, dollars 4,580,025 8,017,792 41,294.730 72.860,543 Freight cars Hams and shoulders, lbs.. 31,215,921 23,598,800 162,233,167 262.321,156 Number Hams and shoulders, dol.. 4,774,647 3,169,493 37,855.649 23,435,029 Tons 8 Lard, pounds 22.124,934 441.702.106 Tons to capacity 379,761,51 47,784,072 ,.. the train dollars Lard, 6.025,749 2.330,585 41,386.876 48.917,033 in1916 to the railroads 1895 From .... SO. 433 Neutral lard, pounds 403. 1,280.91 1,263,397 24,652,042 creased their ' mileage 39 per cent and 16.T.163 Neutral lard, dollars .... 3.457.872 136,658 2,856,682 the tables of comparisons showing the .. 113.515.92S Pork, pickled, etc.. lbs. . 7,267,074 7,390,634 43,925,398 number of dol. 955.636 711,640 Pork, pickled, 12,698,951 4,758.701 increase In capital, the Lard compounds,etc,pounds. 4,901,563 44.984.676 5,219,231 60,613.817 Lerd compounds, dollars. 4S7.973 576.733 4.440,751 5,230,270 Nrutie oil. gallons 127.904.186 11,781,549 13,102,514 143.937,102 lie operated :H 3,989 oil. dollars 56S.777 4,173,932 Capital ..t 4,957,004 (jiala 74G. 'L 92.632.047 hauled Kallons. 425.7S0 (tons) 72,921,428 802,361,01 IlluI?1,natinJ? Freight 5.62 6,891 oil. dollars . o.OOS.Sfi'i 46,774.274 48,407,043 Passengers carried ljlumJnating oi, 22.343.382 221.621,488 190,213,845 No. of employees gallons .... 25,r.1.375 LuhriHt,n ndollars 4.223.828 2.787,204 32,641.410 25,067,512 Compensation of employees Lubrlcals!'1 24.355.459 213.21S.0S8 Taxes paid 252.567,955 GasollneTVT'P'itha, etc. gal 29.734.761 2.645,607 37,780.574 24,001,098 Cost of operation Gasoline. mU'htha, etc. dol 3.731.43 Revenue from operation iXC1 S6.15S.675 74,639,:C4 826,047.600 oil, 633,361,898 etr, jrn.l Residuum. 17.041.105 Freight rates (per ton miles) 22,666,199 1.612,767 Residuum. fuePf'"- etc. dol 2.3 S 1.3 24 Passo'ngers rates (per pasenger miles. Tel-lowsto- ne - do-sho- ws 43.-,7o-6 a ' em-Mil- c-- - - Salt Lake Well r in Front With a 36 Per Cent Increase, Figures Show r Gains in bank clearings on the Pacific slope during the month of June over the same month in 1915 show a wonderful Increase. In Salt Lake the show that there Is no quietclearings down in the general business world. ing In fact the June payments through the banks as reflected by Dun's Review are the largest ever reported for the month. Two years ago the in the month of June in Salt clearings Lake were as compared with $26,578,993 in 1915, while this year the clearings in the month aggregated ' $35,763,384, an increase over th same month, in 1915 of 34.6 per cent. Of the thirteen clearing house cities on the Pacific slope every one showed an increase over last year in the month of June. But one other city showed a than Salt Lake39City, greater increaseSacramento with this city being per cent. on the Paoific The total clearings month of June of the slope during the current year were $595,753,676, an inof $117,181,816 and crease over last of $86,828,706, the inover June of 1914year crease the past June being 24.5 per cent. Total Clearing! Conn try. According- to Dun returns from 131 in the United States, leading cities to no less than $20,515,438,-48amounting an increase of 46.0 per cent as compared with the same month lat 525,-066,8- year and of 48.0 per cent as contrasted with the corresponding month in 1914. there was no special activity Although on the stock exchange or in the other markets, bank clearings at speculative New York City continue to show gratthe total at that Improvement, ifying 56.4 and 60.0 per cent, recenter being last spectively,twolarger than in June some ago. Wnlle year or of years these great gains reflects portion the sharp advance in prices that has taken place in practically all classes of merchandise, it may safely be asserted that in the main they result from the of general business. greater volume of Prosperous conditions in every part the country are indicated by the favorite returns made by the cities outside of New Yrork, the instances where decreases appear being exceptional and of little importance. Every section reand the ports very satisfactory gains, total of all centers shows an increase of 30.6 per cent over last year and of 31.7 per cent over 1914. Padflc Slope on the Paclfio The total of all citiesFigure. is much in excess of any previslope ous June record and is 24.5 per cent last year and 17.1 per cent larger thantwo more than, years ago, while indications that the improvement is general is provided by the substantial gains at San Francisco, Los Anthat appear Ta Seattle. Portland, Spokane, cengeles, Salt Helena and other coma, Lake, ters. The figures in detail follow: 48 - 0, 1916. June. San Francisco Los Angeles . . $262,155,776 102,960,666 65,136,030 47,622,006 35,753,384 10,220,207 19,959,704 10,253.286 6,075,230 18,302,008 9,367,534 4.836,816 3,111,029 . 1915 $209,31 5,003 84,720,028 51.6S2.138 Seattle 41,662,209 Portland 26,573,993 Salt Lake City 8,052,404 Tacoma 15,942,965 Spokane 7,375,103 Sacramento 4.538,102 Helena 14,897. 40S Oakland 7,870,143 San Diego .... 3,673,292 Stockton 2,309,073 San Jose $478,621,861 Pacific . . . .$595,753,676 Plus. by sections and months for the year to date are Figures in detail average daily bank exchanges byloelow ior three years: 1915. 1916. June. $ 779,139,061 New England .$1,049,965,514 . 1,618,828,320 1.131,485.002 Middle . 330.923,135 South Atlantic 464.122,672 660,102,528 Southern . . 840,840,598 . 2,533,269,074 1,927,805,356 Central West . 713,186,839 Western .... 859,146.734 478,621,861 Pacific 595,753,676 $6,021,263,782 Total .$7,961,926,588 8,025,481,548 New York City .12,653,511,892 $14,046,745,380 United States . ; .20,515,438,480 Average daily: $540,259,000 June .$789,055,000 I May April March 786,376,000 761,997,000 789,115,000 799.896,000 . .768,288,000 Februarj' January .... . . ,' 581,900,000 574,290,000 510,021,000 538,043,000 536,568,000 P.C "25.2 21.5 "26.0 14.3 34.6 27.9 25.2 39.0 33.9 22.9 19.0 31 .8 34.8 24.5 givei P.C. 34.8 43.1 40.3 31.4 .31.4 20.5 24.5 30.6 56.4 46.0 46.0 46.0 33.8 49.4 46.7 49.1 Plus. FREIGHT IN PLENTY Heaviest Traffic in History Atvaits Railroads. W. H. Lampton. general freight agent of the Denver & Rio Grande, returned to his headquarters in Denver yesterday- -after making a traffic survey of the conditions in the lntermountain the outlook for country. He says that the heaviest traffic in the history of 1916 1902 Inc. Pet. 419,537 tons 1,002,000 tons 138 64,000 41,030 1,646,000 43,417,000 f- - 296 2,363,000 95,000,000 475 58 52 119 60 1895 ployees and, wages as between and 1916, a period of twenty-on- e years, is as fellows: es 1S95 1915 Inc. Dec. Pet. Pet. 178.000 247,000 39 $9,000,000,000 $16,000,000,000 76 697,000,000 2,046,000,000 193 961.000.000 89 507,000,000 785,000 1.506,000 91 $ 446,000,000 $ 1,271,000,000 185 139.000,000 248 40,000.000 cents 726,000,000 8.39 mills 2.04 1,075,000,000 cents 2,075,000,000 7.38 mills 2.02 this section is excellent, if the war in Europe continues and the amount of metal which is being shipped from this section of the country does not fall below the present shipments. "The crops in all parts of the country," eaid Mr. Lampton, "are in good condition and I expect a heavy movement eastbound of wheat and other grains consigned to European nations." Mr. Lampton says the Denver & Rio Grande is getting its equipment ready to handle heavy traffic and he asserta that during the month of are May, the last month for which figures available, and west showed that traffic both eastOne road in the decided increases. middle west Increased its freight to the west by 62,000,000 pounds during and the eastbound traffic that month73.000,000 increased pounds during the same period. "The report of the increase in traffic on the Denver & Rio Grande has not been completed as yet. but it will show The a heavy gain," says Mr. Lampton. Denthe line of the fruit &crop along Rio Grande, both in Colorado ver and Utah, has been badly uamntu uy the frosts and a surplus of refrigerator cars for moving potatoes will result. "Ah see yo' is housecleanin'," said Mrs. Snow White. "Yes,"replied Mrs. Marsh Green, "dey is nothln' lak' movin' things rmnd once in a while. Whv. I de.s come across a pair ob slippers under re bed dat Ah hadn't see fob. five inter-mounta- - -- . . . 1 1S6 . . . 2,942,000.000 174 12 yeahs." in |