The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-05-19
BUSY WEEK IN
BUILDING LINES
Construction Work in Salt Lake
Assumes Large Pro-
portions.
A SCARCITY OF LABoRERS
RESIDENCE DEALS FEATURE OF
REALTY MARKET.

Salt Lake business men are in the full
swing OF their early summer trade and
the week which closed last night averaged
ZIP in excellent shape with the volume of
weekly business handled earlier this sea-
son
The realty men. builders and lumber
and hardware dealers are probably expe-
r4encing as busy a time as any other
class of tradespeople in town. Work is
opening up in splendid fashion and while
brick IS still scarce and several grades
or lumber are unObtainable contractors
are buster than they have been this year
ana the work started throughout the city
earlier in the season is rounding into
shape TIE city is experiencing a build
orally realized here
Employers report a scarcity of labor
ers, skilled and unskilied, and contract
Ors are employing every possible means
10 secure help Street work about town is
taking large number Of men and if the
present situation continues to develop
along the present lines local builders will
be badty tied up by the middle Of the
summer for want Of WoFkmen.
Very few men are coming into the city.
employment, agencies have loag waiting
LstS OF employees who are willing 10 pay
higher day wages than have been offered
cannot he filled.
Among the Banks.
Money rates continue unchanged. with
g good demand for money. principally
from the wool men, who are buying more
freely than they have been for some
weeks past. Cleanliness are holding up
remarkably well, running ahead of clear
lngS for corresponding days OF last year
Bankers are watching with interest the
reports on the winter wheat acreage of
the country. Reports during the past ten
days indicate that the sfFinkage viii run
ss.vhS1 bushels under last years. How
ever. on account of last years crops il
y estimated that farmers haVs kept on
hand over 10000. 90 bushels of last win
ter wheat, and the shrinkage will pc
somewhat made up for in this way. The
things out considerably from present in.
dications.
Real estate men have had another good
week and every agent in town is salts
lied The inquiry on business properties
y picking up 10 some extent, but the res
i3ence property sales are the feature Of
The market. The rental market is in as
bad shape as IL has bean for weeks past
and the dealers have given up worrying
until the passing of the summer Sc IS
some OF the apartment houses now under
way completed
Hardware men are selling big orders of
baseball supplies. Saidlerv is going in
big lots and at high prices. Agricultural
implements are selling better than they
on better terms
wholesalers ana JODpeFS.
4 feature of the wholesalers and job
bers' business at present is the steadily
increasing demand made upon them by
merchants for automobile clothes. Hun
dreds of autos have been sold in the in
termountain country this year and as the
new owners are of the wealthier class
there has sprung up a heavy demand for
clothes f0r men and women motoring en-
thusiasts. Outside of this feature the
market is comparatively quiet as il is
between seasons for the big houses. Sum-
mer goods are being sent out en- second
orders from the retailers. Ready-made
clothing for women and children Is hav-
ing a hard season the demand falling off
greatly No reason can be assigned for
the slump and retailers are working hard
tn get rid of their stocks. Ribbons are
getting scarce. velvet ribbons advancing
10 per cent recently. Silks are in good
demand with prices rather stiff
The carpet and rug jobbers are having
d busy time of IT, as the annual spring
moving season is drawing near and
houses all over the city are being re-
furnished Furniture men are expert
encing a rush of late spring business.
Big Retail Trade.
Summer buying is in full swing among
the local stores. ClOthiers are selling
large stocks Of warm weather goods and
at the department stores crowds thrOng
the aisles from morning until night daily,
picking up bargains in the sales that are
now on at the larger establishments.
Dress goods are moving in a satisfactory