The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-11-25
MINING BUSINESS
SETS THE PACE
Big Companies Recently Or
gained Represent Total Cap
itaIizatiOn of So, 900, 900.
BRISK TRADE IN ALL LINES
PLENTY or FOWL PROMISED FOR
THANKSGIVING DAY.

The feature of Salt Lakes business
situation for the past ten days has been
the unusual number of big mining COM
panies organized here. No less than
half a dozen companies have filed arti-
oles of Incorporation with total cap
italization ranging close to s5,0O0,00O.
The formation of these companies,
backed as heavily as they are, has eff
fected the commercial activity here i'm
mensely. The heavy bank clearings due
TO the payment of taxes have made an
admirable showing.
Every branch Of commerce has re-
sponded quickly to the winter weather.
The coal situation has improved to a
great extent. causing general satisfac-
ton in business circles.
Among the Realty Dealers.
While there has been nothing spec
tacular in the realty market for the
week. dealers declare they are we'll
satisfied. There has been a steady de-
mand for modern houses for rent, a
large number of small transfers have
been made and the inquiry has been I'M
usually active on small, outlying lots.
This the dealers declare is a good
sign Several large deals are in the
making and the next ten days ought to
see the market in better condition than
it mas been for three months past. The
cold snap has stopped the moving to a
great extent. or has sent the late house
and fat hunters scurTying for a habita-
ton for the winter. The rental agen-
cies are stacking up for the winter.
Building Active.
Contractors all over the city are in
high glee over the improvement in the
brick situation. For the past few
months they have been held up on all
Jobs where they We're compelled to use
any quantity of bricks through the in
ability of the kiln men TO keep up with
their orders.
This has handicapped contractors in
finishing up and enclosing several large
jobs about town. The bricks are now
coming in rapidly, however. and the
kiln men declare they will soon be able
To supply the demand of the Salt Lake
contractors. at least. The Salt Lake
company is completing kiln that will
yield 225,000 bricks per day, and prep
aratiOns are under way for building two
kilns for burning facing brick.
The cold weather has sent wages uI
a little here and there about the city
Contractors are making every effort tC
get their new buildings enclosed before
announcer SnO1SIOr1l- common ldDOrerS
are far from plentiful and it is almost
impossible TO get skilled labor in the
city.
Lots of Turkeys.
These are joyous days along commits
sion row. With Thanksgiving day half
a week off, hundreds of crates of tur-
keys, young old. to say nothing OF
chickens, ducIs and geese, are being
shipped in to the local dealers.
There is going to be a plenty of the
Thanksgiving fowls this year Prices
are normal and every indication points
TO a record consumption of the strut
ting tribe during the next few days.
The other features of the produce
market have been of the most ordinary
sort all week. Butter and eggs have
been plentiful at firm prices. The cold
weather put the egg market on the
rise a few cents early in the week but
il dropped later on. Potatoes are plen-
tifUL both Irish and sweet. The fruit
market has been featureless, with the