Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-03-18
BUSINESS NOTES.


Today's bank clearings amounted to
S5l3 liS,14, as against 1884 3S6.6l for the
corresponding day Of last year
A. II. Woolley manager Of the gro
Gerry department Of a. G. NJ, l., mas re-
turned from business trip to New
York,
The regular monthly meeting Of the
board Of directors Of the Utah sugar
company Will be held tomorrow morn
Ing al 10 o'clock at President Smiths
office.
The grocery department OF the y. c.
NJ. l. is being equipped with new shelv-
Ing and counters.
A local -four man tells hard tale on
a milling concern In this state which is
alleged to have placed q large quanti-
~ OF straight grade -four on the salt
Lake market In high patent sacks at
sacrifice prices that Is, "sacrltlce'
on a high patent basis which in this
Instance was purely Hypothetical OF
course there was a profit very salts
factory profit, to the originator OF the
idea, but 1t rather demoralized the
market and opposition handlers have
been busy explaining how II all came
about TO citizens who bought the llour
and found II would not work for the
purpose to which high patent -four is
put.
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Major Bird has returned from Dem
yer business trip. lie met r, A. Kirker
at Denver en- route for New York where
the chances are very good for raising
$4,000 with which 20 develop the yalu-
able asphaltum property Of the Hydro
carbon company Of this city whose
mines are seven miles above Sunnyside
station. II Is understood that a very
profitable line OF by-products have been
discovered In this asphaltun, and that
the development Of the property means
great thing for the state, also the
owners of the property
The Calster Bros. and Il, II. Jen-
kIns have bought 1850 acres In Sum
init county from the Union Pacific road
for $4,000 The land Will be used as
sheep range, and will accommodate
nearly 10000 sheep.
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Mary n. Gray has sold TO Hugh XII
kenny b3xl56 feet ON Twelfth East
street near Twelfth South for $4,000
Martha Woodbury. has sold TO G. T..
knight. 2hxl0 rods on Brigham street
near Second East street for $1,000
Karl d. Hardy, Of the Home Invest
ment 4 Savings company Of this city,
has gone to Parma and Roswell Ida,
In the interest Of the colonization plans
of his company. a telegram was re-
ceiyed this morning from g. Il. HURT
OF Boise at Chicago by the Investment
company stating that large excursion
was starting from Chicago today for
Idaho under the auspices Of Mr. HURT.
The company has sold four quarter Sec
tions of land near Belleyiew to Joseph
Nichols Of Rlverton In this county, who
will remove thither with his two sons
and son-in-law and their families. They
take with them four carloads Of house,
hold effects and 200 imported merlno
sheep. Two of the sections Of land are
improved and have houses and fences
The Salt Lake Stockyards did lively
business yesterday The management
handled five cars Of British horses For
Moncreiff Bros, bound for the Grand
Junction corrals; also four cars Of
stooker steers from the north for j. n.
White who viii put them to grass upon
Antelope island for grazing. The
yards also handled $50 fat mutton from
Hiram Stewart OF kaysvlle for knight
& Co.
The board Of governors of the Com
mercial club meets tonight In the Main
street headquarters OF the club, and
will add a number Of names to the ros-
ter Of membership. A telephone was
put IN this morning. and the number Is
2S6 Stationery has been secured and
Secy Harris Is ready for any amount
OF business.
Secy. Axton Of the Y NJ. c. A.. Is the
daily recipient Of letters from all parts
Of the east inQuirng about chances for
securing positions with mercantile
houses IN TINS city, Most OF the anX-
ious inqurers are stenographers or
bookkeepers, There seems TO be a
great desire among eastern people to
locate in Salt Lake Mr.. Axton viii
turn such correspondence over to Socy.
Harris Of the Commercial club,
a Salt Lake wool and hide man re.
plies 10 the claims recently made in
the News by an Idaho woolgrower
that the Boston market was practically
free of wool and calls attention TO a
recent statement IN the ANGLICAN Wool
and Cotton Reporter TO the effect that
on Jan. ] there were about 100000 coo
pounds Of wool in Boston, OF which 81. o.
$4,000 pounds have since been sold
At a meeting Of the stockholders Of
the North Jordan Canal cornpan,y toIa,s