The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-09-24
BUSINESS STILL
ON The INCREASE
Trade in All Lines Shows Salt Lake
to Be Prosperous.
REAL ESTATE PICKING UP
EVEN BETTER TIMES ARE Ex-
PEcTED FROM NO WON.

The week just passed shows a dis
tinet improvement in local business
conditions. and this would have been
even more apparent had the cooler
weather of the fore part of the week
continued through yesterday. The for
mai opening of the fall season in bust
ness circles opened under ideal weather
and retailers were elated at the pros
peet. The few warm days by no means
made the. week a disappointment and.
on the other hand. helped it not at all.
One of the best indications of the
eity's growth is the increasing amount
of alterations and building going on in
the uptown district. Contractors have
practically all they can handle under
way. Building activity has been ac-
compaRied by a slight livening no in
realty circles. Property has been prac-
tically at a standstill since springs ac-
tivity, but numerous private sales re-
corded last week indicate that the mar
ket has by no means entered on a win
ter sleep. Realty men report that con-
ditions at present are 100 per cent bet
ter than at the same time in 1908 or
1904
One of the sales of the week was that
of the Spra que property on State street,
north of the Bell Telephone company's
building, to s. D. Evans for about S20,-
600. Mr.. Evans will erect a $40 900
building on the property. Plans have
not yet been completed.
Building permits issued for the fort
night ending Saturday noon aggregate
S5S.S75. The majority of the permits
are for small homes of a value of from
$1,000 to $4,000.
Bank clearings show a highly salts
factory increase over the same week in
1904, the increase last week being 46.4
per cent. Money appears to be plenti-
full.
The woolmen throughout the state
are expecting a banner year. many
looking to see their clip bring them 25c
a pound before the shearing season is
at hand. No better proof of the fine
prospects for sheepmen of the state can
be given than that there are already on
the field travelling representatives of
some of the largest wool houses in the
east They are offering from zoe to PC
on contracts for next years output.
Commercial travellers at the various
hotels report no small measure of sue
cess. They look on business conditions
here as excellent. as attested by their
local sales.
Men and teams are being hired by the
hundred to work on the Big Cotton
wood conduit and on the Western Pa
cific. There is plenty of work at good
wages. and this. after ALL is the truest
barometer of business conditions in this
or any other city.
Good Prices for Stocks.
Many local stocks are standing at a
price considerably above any point ever
heretofore reached, and yet there are
no sellers. Advances have been nota-
BILE in Consolidated Wagon and Idaho
Sugar. Other stocks are also reaching
the high water marks of their history.
as regards price. An extra dividend of
per cent has been declared on Il. c.
NJ. L., payable on and after Oct is.
Corrected quotations on local stocks
and bonds follow:
Amalgamated Sugar company, pfd .si02 90
Common ...... ...... ...... ...... ., -195 90
Beneficial Life Insurance Con-. lO3 90
Barnes Banking Co, Kaysville...... 125 90
Con. Wagon & Machine Co.. pfd.. 106 90
Common ...... ......... .............. "a %
Commercial National bank .......... 10 90
DeseTet National bank ...........-.. 2SS 90
Deseret Savings bank ..-............. 5j5 %
Davis County bank Pennington. III 90
First National bank. Ogden ........ go 90
First National bank, Murray. 1i5 90
Home Fire Insurance company. l67 o.
Lewiston Sugar company ............ 10 20
Lehi Commercial 81 Savings bank. i19 90
National Bank of the Republic. $50 o.
ogden Savings bank ................. $50 %
Provo Commercial & Savings bank 142 %
Rocky NTH. Bell Telephone Co... 81 %
State Bank of Utah .................. 167 90
Sugar City Townsite company. 172 80
Sanpete & Sewer Sugar company. II s.
The Utah Sugar Co, pfd.............. II Is
Common $50. .......,...........,.... q
The idaho Sugar company .......,.. Is IS
Thatcher Bros. Banking Co. Logan. 122 %
Utah National bank ................. 1e7 Oh
Western Idaho Sugar Company. IL %
lions Savings Bank & Trust CO.. 10 00
Z. c. NJ. 1T3 %
Bonds
Church 500. ...... ................... 100 g
Salt Lake City Railroad ,............. 10tH0
Second mortgage ..................... 100 o.
SCmptor Valley Railroad ............ 10f %
Utah County Light & Power Co... 102 %