Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-10-27

pushing ahead with uncompleted build.
ings as fast as possible, so as TO get
them under cover before any more fall
storms got In and the permanent cold
OF winter sets in. There is also some
complaint that building stone can not
be secured In sufficient quantities; but
| this Is due 10 lack of teams.
One prominent contractor says he Is
surprised that the parties using the
Red Butte quarrles do not I'll up the
heavy rut cuts In The roadway with
shale, as this would make a sort OF
tramway track TO run the wagons on,
and save tremendous wear and tear
both to vehicles and to horses.
The new Westminster college build
ing has been delayed for lack OF stone
and brick. but this want has now been
supplied. and construction is rapidly
proceeding. Local builders and archi-
tocts express their belief that the COM
ing spring Will witness an immense i'm
petus given to building In Salt Lake
City Sewer. gas, electrical. railws-
and other improvements are being v2.
tenslvely introduced. and the city APP
pears TO be on the straight road TO per-
manent advancement.
HARDWARE LINES,
The hardware trade reports business
fair, and collections the same. Nails
and barbed wire for spring are selling
rapidly, as country merchants are
stocking up for spring. Builders
hardware is having fair call The Iron
market Is reported strong with
marked tendency TO higher rise. Fur
naces and consumers back east are re-
cd Il. n fA Loo s.1
plies that can only be obtained at
higher prices. Steel conditions are re-
ported similar to those OF the iron
market, with deliveries In bllets, sheet
and tin bars and rods becoming steadily
scarcer. At the same time jobbers re-
port u much greater number of blast
furnaces In operation now than In the
last six months, and the October output
VIII probably be the largest IN the his
tory OF the iron industry In this coun-
try. The lead market Is reported stiff,
while tin, both sheet and In bars. was
never 80 high as now.
The trade reports harnesses as stlll
selling very well, number Of sets hay
Ing recently been sold In this city at
$50 per set. There Is also a steady
call for horse blankets, and saddlery
OF every kind. Stoves are selling well,
e'iN =" SUI uk sVouS tnc market IL
very active. Then the roller skating
fad has struck the hardware trade
agreeably hard, go that II IL trials and
tribulations TO ship In enough skates
10 MI orders on file, for the craze Is on
TO stay. one large local establishment
reports being short 1000 pairs. They
are made ut TorrlngtOn, Conn, are re-
tall at Is cents to s. per pair.
IN LUMBER MARKET
r,,an 49,. ''1, -
= ~, ue''.rs Ieport tne situation |
vi VI, ,as. ws1N US Carried over into this.
' "'on , nun'.,un . me scarcity OF cars |
, sonet'ue WIN uilhpaled Jury with no |
~ en- Iii, "a i'i.leu'ate rehet; so that |
10 sh,,, ' 49, :" sne no''nwest continue
~ snut uoWn OF run llght, as their |
,Nrus hre stocked up with goods ready |
~. snlp,heht me trade reports an
iplloIHHi demand lor shingles on ac-
,uunt VI the storni' ~ Is claimed that
~ vas not single shingle TO be
a"u ~ DusIs ,ouhty me DAY after the
'.ut,l supsiheu' ana SIX cars were sold
w .nat uay, AS me unroofng
lal aniplins Vi houses seems TO have
o,rn pretty general.
ne uaIe reports great difficulty IN
e'.,ns eepnone ana telegraph poles
- w SouI'iy supply mas become so
10y" ~ wy "'a'Neiously Increasing
lernanu 'nat me companies are begin
'ns W ,ealise tnat some substitute
aua. ~ i"umu lof wooden poles at an
as uSs tho PROBABLE substitute viii
y sttel nh'tlce work standards with |
0hetete foundations. All the poles
sithln sight have been bought up for
ne rest OF me year
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~ Wy snSoaraslns, perhaps l
eins ei uan W. before Stocks arc '
LIS n,eu w as iast as The trans 4
o o,S a'Tn companies can bring the |
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n, de,,sna. 'es low 10 supply pres.
n the hnt,rr ains steady can
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