The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-08-11

roads Of the northwest. of a % and % per
per cent raise in freight rates on Iiinl-
Der. If the increase goes IL, common Ium-
Der viii cost Salt Lekers from 81 to 81 Il
thousand more here this winter than at
present. It is estimated that lumber
shipments from the Oregon mills to points
east OF Salt Lake amount to 800 OD0.c00
feet annually
The Retail Trade.
No retailer is buster than the hardware
man these days Everything he handles
is experiencing an unusually good trade
al present and the out of town business
of the local dealers is the heaviest now
of the entire season, Sporting goods are
leading in the amount of stock sold.
The majority of the retailers are having
their cleaning up sales at present and
prices are as low as they have ever been
at this season of the year. Buyers for
all the local houses are now in the east
and reports are that they are laying in
the largest stocks they have carried in
years. Some of the biggest shipments are
arriving but will not be unlocked until
early in the fall.
The shoe men are particularly busy and
fall styles are being displayed at several
of the stores.
Local wholesalers are laying in their
stocks. Yarns have advanced and 10
cents a pound the past week and towel
ling is scarce and advancing in price
Labor Situation.
The strike of the biographies here in
the office of the Western Union, to-
gether with the strike in other offices of
that company and several eastern offices
of the Postal company, has had an ap-
preciable effect here on business demand
ing the constant use of the teleSTa ph.
Considerable Inconvenience has been felt
among the majority of the business men
and the impression seems to be that
should the strike continue for several
days or week an intolerable condition
VIII prevail Shippers are worrying over
prospective strike of the switchmen on
the Denver * Rio Grande system be-
tween Denver and Salt Lake and it is
generally admitted that such a strike
would badly cripple freight shipping OPP
eratiOnS on the line and cause no end of
delay, loss and Inconvenience to local
merchants. Officials of the road here
yesterday said they had not been advised
of the situation at Denver and didn't lCok
for g strike.
Stocks and Bonds.
This is the summer period of duIlness
in commercial stocks and during the past
week the list was very inactive. Follow
ing are the latest quotations:
Amalgamated Sugar Co. preferred. s IS. 90
common ...-..................... 165 90
Beneficial Life Insurance Co.. los %
Barnes Banking Co. Kaysville w $40 90
Con Wagon & Machine Co, pfd... 1170O
common ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 106 90
Commercial National bank. ....... I75 90
Deseret National bank -.---........... 2S2 90
Deseret Savings bank .--..-.-......-.. 525. 90
Davis County bank. Pennington - 100 90
First National bank, Ogden. 325. 90
First National bank, Murray $3.50. 49,. 90
First National bank. Logan .......... 49,. 90
Home Fire Insurance Conn.,. $50 60
Heber ]. Grant & Co.................. 125. GO
Lewiston Sugar CO.................... II. -
Nephi National bank commandments. 100 50
National Bank of the Republic 153 %
Ogden Savings bank ......-........... 245. 20
Provo Commercial & Savings bank 155 %
Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone Co. 81 90
Silver Bros Iron Works CO... 1O0. GO
State Bank of Utah...-..-..-.......... POI 90
Sugar City TOwnsite Co ............. 1871 60
State Bank of Brigham City...-..-.. 126. 90
Thatcher Bros Banking Co... 147 90
Utah-Idaho Sugar Co, preferred. $50
Common .... .--.--............--...... 4 %
Utah County Light x Power Co... lis
Utah Banking CO......,..,-........... III 90
Utah National bank ..-.-.--.-.-.... 152. 30
Utah Savings & Trust CO-........... 1O9 90
Western Loan & Savings CO... Loo. 90
lions Savings Bank & Trust Co... 800. 90
T. c. NJ ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 205 %
Bonds.
Salt Lake City Railroad ..............I01
Sumpter Valley Railroad. .........-....10 1I2
Utah County Light & Power CO.. 1021s
Utah Sugar Co --.-.-.-.-.-....-...-.....10 4