The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-03-11

pie cases and trunks. Architects re-
port they are being swamped with or
ders for remodelfng plans for houses
and stores.
Rental property is said to be scarce
at present Most of the residences
built recently have been erected for
use by the owners. This has caused
a dearth Of houses for rental purposes
All the apartment houses are filed to
tIzeir utmost capacity The natural re-
suit of these two conditions is that rem
tai property has become more and
more scarce every month for some
time past The constantly increasing
population has made demand for rem
tai property great Rents are higher
now than they were six months ago
because of this demand and shortage
of supply.
Work on Packing House.
Work on the packing house and
stock yards of the Utah Packing COM
pany was begun last week. The total
expenditure for all the work to be
done by the stock yards owners and
those at the head of the packing con-
Germ viii be more than $150,OO0. A
large force of men will be kept busy
until summer building the packing
house and getting ready for its opera
tho So soon as the packing house is
ready for operation several hundred
men win be put to work around the
works The packing house with its
hundreds of employees will make a lit
tie city of itself.
Last Wednesday the friends and
members of the NJ. & NJ. A. held their
second "get acquainted excursion.
The party, 500 strong, went to Nephi.
The immediate result of the excursion
was felt in the formation of bust
ness mems club at Sandy. Local mer-
chants expect TO benefit largely from
these excursions. Il places them in
close touch with country merchants,
and has the tendency to boost. home
products as against foreign trade.
In Dry Goods Circles.
In dry goods stores dainty spring
fabrics are being shown. The coming
season will be one of light colors. and
beautiful effects. The goods being
shown ere of soft and clinging char
acter. Prices will be high, it is said,
owing to the general increase in the
cost Of raw materials. The cost will
be more than made up in the effects
produced, it is claimed.
Spring millinery and mems furnish
ings are arriving fast now. Most all
stores have filled their windows with
dainty creations of the miliner's art,
or beautiful neckwear and ShirtingS
Hardware men report that farming i'm
PIGMENTS have been in great demand
the past week. Several large orders
for builders hardware are also report
ed The week has not been unusually
b1 isk for the dealers, but the prospects
are bright The immense amount of
building contemplated for the spring
and summer insures a prosperous sea-
son for hardware men.
Lumber merchants are in about the
same condition as the hardware deal
ers. Lumber shipments have not been
large recently. owing to the weather.
With the opening of spring this con-
dition always changes
Stocks and Bonds.
Small sales characterized the COM
merciaI stock and bond market Su-
gar company stocks and bonds wiD
probably be the most active in the fu-
ture as some of the companies have
announced dividends in the near IL
ture Nearly all trading done last
week was in this class of securities.
Z. g NJ. l. is also due for dividends,
and is active. It is selling at S204 per
share. The Rocky Mountain Bell Tel
ephone company has announced that it
will spend all the money derived from
the sale of increased capital stock in
extensions and improvements.
Following is a list of the quotations
of local commercial stocks and bonds:
Bid Ask
Amalgamated Sug. Co, pfd. s 90 90 800 %