Show BUSINESS BUSNES B SINESS TONE T BETTER ETTE 1 National Conditions Mirrored in Activity in All Local Lines LUMBER PRICES RISING Continued Demand Makes Market Finn Wholesalers Firm Wholesalers Say Trading is Good General Genela I cond conditions for Cor or the tho wo week an encouraging Improvement Improve Improve- mente ment and tho outlook a along nearly all nil lines line at this time limo Is excellent ties ie Tho Smoke 71 VC or of recent financial bat bat- iv j In East Is la rapidly clearing n a ay a-ay a. and a general air of or prosperity perl the thc entire Jho situation with a strong undercurrent nt Vid of or confidence apparent apparent ap- ap parent all over o tho the count country country- With i the tho rumor or oC r the tho harriman harriman- Gould combination the speech of acceptance ac- ac of ot W. W II Il Taft and tho ho filing or of f tho lie quarterly report of tho tIm United States Steel H company tho tue public as us asi a whole has ha apparently decided that the tho late lato i financial trouble la Is about over SJ and arc rc making fu full Preparations for or a Son slon sion campaign n ot of aggression and pro m res- res In Eastern financial circles It Is IR still apparent appart nt that stocks are arc being manipulated for fot- tho benefit of or capital and in fn some somo quarters the belle belief Is entertained that prices arc are going coin perilously high There 1 nothing In Iii tho the situation however howe to even e re re- re suggest a condition panic aI- aI a gradual decline In the prices I of industrial and antI other securities will wili probably set in shortly Active A tl ro Week Locally Local wholesalers and jobbers jobber r re report re- re port an exceptionally active week Winter AY Inter blocks arc now near nearly all in inand and distribution to the retailers will commence shortly in the line lino nil all of or the tho staples for winter winter wear wear weal and many of or tho fanc faucy goods aro on hand and the tho orders received from outside points to dato date Indicate an excellent ex ex- winters winter's business busine Hardware of or all kinds is moving mo rapidly agricultural implements of all aJl kinds hinds nails barb wire binder hinder twine otc etc are being sold In ever increasing quantities The demand for sporting goods this season Oll has per per- haps not been a as largo large arJo as during former years eurs but a all II the tho latest devices devices de de- dc- dc vices in fishing l lel tackle el le rifles es shotguns shotguns shot shot- guns buns and l' l revolvers are aro F selling well an and l all Mil in all the tho year has been a n. satisfactory one ono Most 1 of tho ho hardware hardware hardware hard hard- ware stores have received their winter win win- ter tor consignments of or sl skates ates an and I winter sports Impedimenta general general- ly Jy and some home o of these have already begun to place their wares on bilton Harness Harne an and for Cor tho the past palt week weel have been enjoying a l vent verlL able boom althou although h the trade trado in the these o for months past has been excellent I Lumber Up a n Little Th The lumber outlook at this time if JR of the tho best with stocks s high and I every indication of a large influx of orders In iii ho tho close future An advance ad In prices ha has haI already set In In ono one or 01 two mills milts having having- advanced ad the rates on lumber a a. tow fow ow points and it Is expected ex cx- that within a a. week or 01 so o tho the others s will wUI fall tall Into line hue Tho only likely to lo with n. n bu business in this lIn line is tho the car Hon un with the tho recent receipt oC or largo go orders from flOn tho the 1 Uh for lor ca cars of ot alt all th In hi not nol likely to prove Drove serIous Tho coal conI situation too lOOt is causing tome some une uneasiness ne but hut buta a n. gradual improvement In conditions having to do with the commodity is noticeable and unless some unforeseen phase of the situation develops a a. coal famine this year Is a r remote mote pos pos- Doings on tho the local stock exchange have havo been well wen up to tho the average for this time o of year ar and local industrial stocks s have o b been en quito quite active Reports Reports Re Re- ports from the various factories 01 or of orthe the Utah-Idaho Utah Sugar company compan and the Amalgamated com company pan show a n. alively alively lively state of ot affairs with lions going forward at full blast for forthe tho the opening of or the sugar beet season next month Local Stocks Quiet Following Followill aro are the latest approximate mate mato quotations on local industrial and other stocks based on the transactions transactions bus for tile the past week and the opinIons opinions opinions ions of local b business me men mel familiar familial with local values Amalgamate Sugar Co pfd Jt 3 6 00 Amalgamated Sugar Co com cool IJO Beneficial Lifo Lito Insurance C C. Con Va Wagon on t Much Macli Co pfd 11 60 Con Wagon Mach Co com corn Comm Commercial National hank bank Dc National l bank 00 Deseret Savings bunk First National bank Ogden n Home Homo Fire Insurance Co 1 Hj 00 Heher Heber J. J Grant Co Lewis Lewiston ton Sugar Co I- I 1470 National Bank BanI o ot of tho the Republic H 1 Ogden den Savings a bank banI 60 00 provo Co Savings bank banI 1 Rocky J Mountain n Bell Deli Tel Co rI I 0 State Stalo Bank of Utah Sugar City Townsite C C. C I Thatcher Bros Banking Co 14 7 10 Utah-Idaho Utah Sugar uSar Co pfd S. S 95 Utah-Idaho Utah Sugar Co Cu com corn Utah National bank 00 Utah Savings Trust t Co We Western Loan SaIn Savings s. s ZIons ZIon's Sav flank Dank Trust C C. C Z C. C M. M 1 I I. I GO BONDS Salt Lake Oil City railroad J Sumpter Valley Vailey railroad 1 no noI Utah Co Light Power po Co I Utah S J Sugar r Co |