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Show LOOK FOR BIG TRADE Elks' Reunion Will Bring Country Merchants. PROSPERITY IS PREVALENT Wholesale Dealers Anticipate large Sales for Country Trade During Convention Week, When Hundreds of Storekeepers Are Expected to Come Here to Combine Business With Pleasure Good Crops and Active Industries Insure Much Spending of Money ln State. (Sundays Dalls ) -- - Week ending July 20 Aug 2 Bank clearings W5MC-J W 571 9.l Realty transfers . 5 4w U 145 Ilulldlng permits 21 SCO 10o0 -r Wholesale houses In Salt Lake are making preparations for a big trade next week, when hundreds of countrs merchants are expected to be In the city, ln attendance nt the Elks convention con-vention nnd reunion During the hot months trade Is usually very dull, nnd this season has teen no exception It Is believed however, that many retail merchants have been only walling until the big lodge week to lay In their supply sup-ply of fall goods A big trade Is anticipated on account of the genernlls prosperous condition of the people throughout the State The crop prospects never looked better than nt present, nnd the farmers feel very cheerful over the outlook They have money to spend and much of It will find Its way Into the cash registers of the merchants both In Salt Lake and In the villages More mines nre producing pro-ducing and paslng wnges than ever before and this nlso gives an added stimulus lo bualness A further tlln-trlbutlon tlln-trlbutlon of money comes from the large construction work being carried on by new railroads nnd branches of The present comparative Inactivity In business both wholesale and retail. Is not at all discouraging to the dealers because, the midsummer season Is looked upon ns the period of dullness and the time Is well employed In taking stock and making preparations for the fall and winter That Investors havp confidence In the future growth of the city Is evidenced by the fact that thousands thou-sands of dollars are being expended In the erection of apartment houses mans of which would do credit to cities twice the size of Salt Lake In nome cases these houses are completely rented In advance Few sales wrre reported ln local commercial com-mercial stocks and bonds but the trend of prices was genernlls higher The advance vvaa notable chlefls' In the Og-den Og-den stock-, First National Bink of Ogden going up 1 points to J212 the highest tlrfure in Its history, Ogden Savings bank to $112 and Amalgamated Sugar, common tn 50.' No sales In the last named stocks have been recorded re-corded The quota tlous, as cited yen-terday yen-terday b) Broker John P. Cutler, Jr , follow : Dcseret Natlcnal Uank . rK M 7 C. M I,. . . . 162 M Home I Iro Insjrnnco Co . . 11) to Utah Sugar Co m M) State Dank of ITtnh .. Its ") Deseret Savings Dank 218 00 Commercial National Uank 100 () 71ms Savings Hank Si Trust Co 132 trt PI Jt Natlonnl Uank Ogden 232 60 Rocks Mt Hell Tel Co ,. 101 i Ogden Sivlngs Hank 143(0 Consolidated Magon &. Machine Co (Issued), preferred 101 50 Amalgamated Sugar Co , preferred ion 00 common ... . t m RONDS Church Ronds ice Consolidate! Railway and Tower Co Ronds 1A Salt Lake City Railroad Bonds iooi, Bumpier Valles . 102 |