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Show ture growth and prosperity. Building operations have been! quite active, permits for eleven months aggregating $2,208,420, against 1,074,835 last year. J Two large new office buildings have been completed and one is now being planned. A start has been made on a new custom j house, for which the appropriation appropria-tion is $500,000. Review of Business. Dun's Annual Review has the following brief review of the business - of the past year in Salt Lake City and Utah. Conditions have not been the , most propitious. Jobbers and business men . have had a satisfactory, satis-factory, and careful estimates indicate in-dicate a fair gain in leading jobbing job-bing lines. The unfavorable ' feature are the continued shortage short-age in the water supply in some 1 localities, the low price of silver I and the deprejsed condition of the mining-stock market. 1" hardware, groceries, dry goods, notions, clothing, shoes, drugs, and furniture there is an immense im-mense increase over 1901. ' Sheepmen have, had a fair year, the clip, which brought somewhat better prices, being about 15,000,000 pounds, a gain of 10 per cent over the year before. be-fore. The canneries had an exceptionally ex-ceptionally good season, packing about 275,000 cases, an increase of 25 per cent, and a large portion por-tion of the output sold at good prices. The beet sugar industry made considerable headway, the output being 37,000,000 pounds, an increase of over 25 per cent. .One company has spent nearly $50,000 in improvements, and ex-! ex-! pects to spend during the coming com-ing year $1,250,000 in a new fac-, i tory, canala and improvements I in a new district. An alliance to some extent of the beet interests inter-ests with the cne sugar interests, inter-ests, and the investment of considerable con-siderable eastern capital in the industry, further assures its fu- |