Show I f CHRISTMAS TRADE FEATURE OF WEEK V Retail Stores Feel Feci Effect of Approach Approach Ap Ap- Ap- Ap 5 of Yuletides Yuletide's s Cheer V 5 CONFIDENCE ON INCREASE INCREASES EI EIB S B Business Generally Quiet Bu But But V With Inquiry Good In InMany inMany inMany Many Lines S. S The llie lIo beginning of the Christmas rush In the tho retail market the ten tendency ency on V th the part of the banks to loosen up tip upon tipon on their rules governing the cash payments pay pay- ments the feeling of oC confidence in tho S financial stability of oC tho the Vest West g generally gener gener- norall nor nor- all ally have been the features o of the tho week weel In Salt Lake business clr circles cirdes les i Outside of oC the tho Christmas tro trade e In inS in'S S 'S r tIle the retail lines there has been t comparatively com corn paraU oly little buying or selling What hat there has been was in preparation for foi forthe or orV V the tile future and on a conservative conser basis Dealers realize that people must have clothes and food whether school keeps V or not and therefore some orders or ers are arc still being placed for staples As arule a n. rule however howe tho the tendency Is to wait walt 55 an and see what the tile new year will bring forth I A glance at the lie streets of or Salt Lake City on a n. Saturday night is a goo good cure for those pessimists who assert the tile ther r financial flurry has entirely killed trade V here lere The windows are ga gay with Ith Christinas Christmas Christ Christ- mas inas decorations the stores crowded cro with happy happ throngs eager to buy reI re- re 5 I for or their friends and ev everything e cv- points to the tho approach of ot the Christmas season In good earnest Some ome dealers report that trade has not hot been up to the standard set sel b by byS S other seasons Others again sa say bustS bust bul S n noss Is quite up to normal for fOl the time Ume of year All wore a n more hopeful ex expression ext ox V after ater the crowds of Saturday S hIou S Comment is made from time lime to time on Oil tho the decrease In Salt Lake bank I V clearing house totals Bankers are aro not 55 In the least inclined d to an any alarm on that score and thia that is because use the they theyS S kno know the reason In Goo good times when confidence Is su suS superabundant su- su S ant many of oC the banks leave their clearing house certificates with the tue clearing house from front day to day In InS S that wa way often a single bank will add to the clearing house balance slice sheet or in business which properly belonged to the tile da day before D B By including these sums on the clearing clear clear- ing lag house reports the latter hatter latter wa was padded It was vas a practice common in man many cities in practically almost e cr every city In the country countr In Goo good times It made mallo a line showing Since last November ember however er the banks have been lIcon effecting their settlements settle settle- ments dall dally daily The Tile clearing hou house e re report report re- re port pon now represents the actual business don In iii the tile clearing house banks by bycheck bycheck bycheck check each da day It is still a n. sufficient t amount to prove pro to the tile banker that Salt Lake Lalee Is not dead yet ct DC if r course the the ho cutting down of ot the tile instruct on i forces nod and of at tho mining milling 5 Ii Industry Jl J has V decreased tb the tho b bl balances l i c s also The fact that tho the i slump In iii copper was one ono of ot tho the features features fea lea tures of the tho flurr flurry and that Utah Ulah is isa a a. copper producing state cannot but have Its effect t temporarily on Ibcal balance sheets But nut while the decrease in Salt Lake Is large there is the feature that In every en city In lit the tho country countr except Min Minneapolis tin tin- SS neapolis there thero have been corresponding correspond correspond- I lug ing decreases Most Moat of the cities clUes carried car car- ried In the tho reports are lar larger er than Salt S. S Lake Their business Is more varied an and therefore their decreases arc are no not quite so pronounced in percentage al alS although although al- al S though they may represent more In ac acV actual actual ac- ac V business Just as ns occasionally occasional V S their Increases arc not so 80 large A large largo item Is IB not such a large largo proportion tion of the totals In the real estate world for the tho week 5 Salt Lake reports that It still sun has hos but bu butt 1 t few houses to rent Therefore the tho in income Income inci In- In ci come come from houses and from front business property as asell well ell is stable stahle Therefore S- S values being on an investment basis show no weakening weakening- Realty dealers V report that there thero Is no weakening in values an and that there thero is considerable S inquiry People are on the lookout for 55 snaps but thc they fin find them as scarce S. S now as ns they really in the thc most active lays days of at Salt Sall Lakes Lake's real estate market Inquiry at this season of the year car carIs 55 V is mainly for Investment purposes The 5 Is sarel safely someS somewhere somewhere somewhere some some- where for Cor the th winter an and while all S the houses arc full the tho fall influx LaS is La over o and ref residences are not in tho the de demand de- de S mand inand they were except for inc invest invest- t- t I. I men ment t. t V V Tho The middle of ot tho the month Is notable for Its paydays and these nr are pass passed I S now flOW by banks and all tho the concerns un s scarcely a a. comment The Utah Idaho i V Sugar com company pan la is still sUll pa paying In tn eh ecu V on New Now YOlk Voik which aro are tak n f. f care of or b by the tho Utah and anti Idaho banks banka 1 I c which find the they can rca readily lh accommodate accommodate S date their thell customers in this regard f. f The Amalgamated Is la paying in n sh r. r and cashiers cashiers' checks which arc ore now S taken Just the same saino as each cash Ot Other OtherS S lar largo large o payrolls have u been met without S dl difficulty cult Dividend Coming 11 n 1 The approach of the ne new year brings with it the usual dividends dl s by the Use Usen sarious n u rious companies of Utah Few aro are in inclined in- in dined as yet et to pass pals their dividend dl and it is calculated that about a ItalY half million in profits will bo distributed to Utah stockholders In December and andt t tho the early da days das s of or January Despite Christmas profit proUt talc taking dig Utah stocks on fon foreign markets are reported as slightly up in iii quotations S Some of or the more Important are given gi us follows Amalgamated mal Sugar ugar Co Cu pfd SO 00 do common 00 oo V Beneficial Life Ins Co V Con Wagon agon As Machine Co p pfd do common 97 00 Commercial National Bank no 00 Deseret National Bank BanI ir oo 00 V Deseret Savings Bank Batik GOO 00 First National Dank Bank Ogden V n 00 V V Home Homo Fire Ins Co IS 00 Heber J. J Grant St St. Co ISO 00 oo Lewiston SU Sugar ar Co 11 ii 50 National Bank Dank of oC thc Ulc I H 00 Ogden Savings Bank 00 Provo Pro Com Corn Savings Bank lI 00 Rocky Hocky Mountain Bell Tel Co Cu State Stale tato Bank Dank of Utah V Sugar City Townsite Co 00 S Thatcher Bros Broi Banking Co Utah Idaho Sugar Co lf pfd CO do tb common 10 Utah National Bank 1 Utah Savings Trust Co Western estern Loan Ionn Ravings Savings Oo Co o ZIons ZIon's Say Sav Bank Trust Co i 00 V Z C. C M. M I. I I J. J BONDS Salt Lake City Railroad 1021 Sumpter Valley Railroad IO 1024 1021 Utah County Light Power Po Co 10 Utah Sugar Co 1011 |