Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-01-27
G[EAR|NGS OVER
SIX MILLIONS.
c.,ided Increase in Business as
Compared With Same Week
OF Last Year.
MANY REAL ESTATE INQUIRIES.
r.,, sales Not as Damaging to
competing stores This winter as
usual--All Prosperous.

r.o mast week, while not made sig
.,soant by any special feature In the
,ocal commercial world, has been en-
,,,sv satisfactory to business men VINO
..or, m ogree that It has been an Inn
,,ovement on the corresponding week
N last year. The clearing house
,ransactions are over the six millions
mark very material increase over
,,o cIeariugs for the same period OF
1905; and while unsettled balances, or
,onevs due from bank to bank and
carried over from one day to another,
a1ure considerably In the increase,
sim the growth in legitimate business
1. very marked and shows a substantial
expansion and gives just hopes for fur
ther enjoyment of good times.
Money continues easy IN the local
hanks. with rates at and per cent,
but comparatively little is going out In
loans. one banker reports depositing
NOT very heavy. as people are making
active use OF their money mt present
instead OF laying II up IN fact, there
& a little less in the general total OF
deposlts today, than go days ago. There
Is more activity IN the STOCK market.
reported than for some time In the
past.
REAL ESTATE LOOKING UP"
The real estate market is on the road
to an enltyenment that 1t has not ex-
perenced for some time, judging by
cheerful observations from the profess
sion. One prominent dealer reports
that he has this day the names OF 20
prospective buyers, whom he Is unable
TO call on, so pressing are the require
ments In other directions.
In every real estate office, the dealers
may be seen with-not rueful, but a
cheerful cOuntenance, prophesying good
things for the town and for the state,
and particularly since the election In
the association, which put vigorous and
active men In control. Inquiries are
reported daily for all kinds Of property,
business and residence but mostly resi-
dence, as many people are reported as
preparing to build their own homes IN
the spring.
ADVERTISING THE CITY.
The Real Estate association Is pre-
pairing to make special effort in the
way Of properly advertising the city,
as witness the long and carefully pre-
pared schedule recently drawn up by
Judge Colborn, president of the ASST.
catlOn. Dealers say the time has gone
BY when Salt Lake can be advertised
only as curio center; there is some
thing elss here besides curiosities OF
only transient interest to the casual
tourist Dealers also call attention To
the need In this city OF more fireproof
Buildings. for at present there Is only
one really fireproof structure. the Des-
eret News building, in Salt Lake; am
Inc shortsightedness OF investors In
erecting thIee-story buildings where
six and eight stories would be more
appropriate, is commented upon with
regret
WITH THE MERCHANTS.
In merchandising lines business is an
Improvement over last year, by con-
siderable and particularly IL this no,
uceable from the fact that the annual
Clearance sales which are now In full
past IN various stores, do not appear to
nave any depressing effect on the same
uades IN other places OF business. On
the contrary. such sales seem to have
only the effect Of so enlivening trade as
70 make It necessary for local tradesmer,
% order more frequently from the man.
ulacturers' And II may be remarked
mere that eastern correspondents are
noufying Salt Lake business men that
Ihey must order for some time ahead.
and order without delay. II they would
nave their shipments attended to with
any degree OF promptness.
Inc dry goods men are busy jobbing
10 spring goods and finishing up the
winter trade. Even the retailers are ar
anghs ginghams and other light
weight fabrics In their show windows.
although It Is not much past midwinter'
ana the public is assured that the va.
nety OF patterns in dress goods this
spring VIII satisfy the most exacting