The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-09-30

Inc present week Will De llVely one
the Fair and Conference coming, as
they do, so close together, cannot fail
to draw thousands of our country
friends to the city, where they will re-
main from week to ten days.
Utah products are still in demand,
and are going out in such quantities as
are satisfactory. Some ten cars of salt
were shipped during the week. Potatoes
are in good demand, but the price is
still low, 25 cents being all that is of
fered. A concession in the railway
rates of 10 cents per hundred is being
asked by on shippers. and there is said
to be fair pr. &C: that the conces-
sion will be mao This done, Our
spuds will flow out 70 the eastern mar,
kets in considerable stream. Wheat
is being shipped almost as fast as it
leaves the thresher, and the outside
demand continues undated. Flour is
firmer than week ago, with a prospect
of a rise in price within a few DAYS.
Brewing barley of A No. l grade is be-
ing inquired for by outside parties. . In
oats there is no demand, save for home
consumption.
Shippers and merchants in the coun-
try should not fail to be present at the
next meeting of the Utah Produce Ex-
change, which will be held on Monday,
October 9Th, in this city. The thor
ough Organization of the Exchange is a
matter of vital Importance to every
grower, producer and shipper. The
initial steps having been taken by the
representative shippers of this city and
Ogden, the movement should CON-
mand the hearty support of every
farmer and shipper in the country
If Utah people desire to compete with
their neighbors and keep abreast OF the
times. il is absolutely necessary that
they should be thoroughly posted as to
move ents east, west, north and south
OF US. This the Exchange will enable
them to become.
Lead opened at the S. notch last week,
and it was quoted at $500 yesterday.
There are those who feel conf
dent that the present price, or one very
near it, will be held during the next
few months, and if this be so, a big
revival in our mining industry may be
confidently looked for.
Silver, after vain endeavor to attain
the summit, has again relapsed, al
though not to its former price. Yes
terday it was quoted at 94H.
The sugar famine is virtually at an
end that is, there is sufficient on hand
to fill all demands, and it may as well
be said that the demand is not so great
as 1t was few weeks ago, when every |
household was turned into a miniature
canning factory. The supply of sugar.
however, is limited. and any failure of |
the factories to make prompt ship |
ments, or an unusual delay on the part |
of the railways, might precipitate an
other famine.
Dun & Co., of the Mercantile Agency
have favored us with their special crop
report OF the northwest for the week |
ending September 18TH In Minnesota.
twenty towns are reported. The ma
iority of these places report the
grain yield as being light, in some in
stances not being one-fourth of the
usual quantity, and in some cases the
yield is far short of the home demand.
Altogether, the Minnesota outlook is
very discouraging. Dakota's report is
considerably better, and decidedly
more encouraging. Some loss by frost |
and also by hot winds is reported, but
in the main, the outlook is not such a
one as to cause any fears for the future.
In Iowa, there is considerable variance
in the reports-ln some sections bust
ness is dull, in others booming. Crops
generally, especially corn. promise we'll,
grains of all kinds is light. In Wis
consin, farmers are very much discour
aged over their grain yield, although
hay and corn is large in most instances. |
In the sections where farmers run to
stock great deal, the small grain yield |
will not be so rotic sable.
There is every indication that the
material wealth of Ogden will soon be |
increased by the development of the
late discoveries near the Junction City.
The quartz ledge recently discovered |
by Corey & Sons. is now being WORKED
by five men, and several hundred tons
of ore are now on the dump. A larger |
force of men will be put to work dur
ing the coming month, and shipments
will soon be made to this city. A vein
of galena has also been discovered at |
the head of Taylor and Wheeler Can
yons. No assay has yet been made. |
however. The gentlemen forming the |
Junction City Mining Company, now
working properties at Bingham. have
received encouraging advices from that