The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-08-18

awakened interest last week in the
work on the new Oregon Short Line
depot and the Oregon Short Line
yards. A big steam shovel is excavat-
ing for the building, and the sOunda-
ton work will be started by The last
of October in all probability
The NewhOuSe and the Judge build
ings are moving ahead satisfactorily.
The steel for the Newhouse buildings
is on the way and will be here within
ten days. 1t is a fact not generally
known that with neither building above
ground yet, Mr.. Newhouse has rented
all the office space in the Boston block
and half the Office space in the New
house building. Contractors are hus-
ting their work as fast as possible,
and building operations generally
around town are humming along at a
good rate. Shingles have gone up
slightly again, brick is hard to get and
labor is getting a little more scarce.
With the Retailers.
With the exception of the special
sales being conducted at most of the
stores, the retailers have experienced
a very quiet week. The call for min
ing machinery is steadily increasing
and hardware men report good de-
mand in their line. There is an es-
pecially strong call for sporting goods
of all description just now, due to the
vacation season being at its height. ~
Buyers for the local retail stores are
returning from the east with reports
that they have put in the heaviest
stocks on record. Some of the larger
will begin coming in the
next two weeks, but it is probable
that merchants will have a late fall
and no fall goods will be displayed for
several weeks to come
The clothing trade continues fair,
with cut prices predominating at the
of the stores. Shoemen say
the travelling men from the jobbing
houses are already on the road with
the fall goods, and that country mer-
chants are writing in for orders Prices
show no inclination to go lower than
at present. White and tan shoes are
still selling in goodly numbers, despite
the approach Of fall.
Wholesalers Busy.
The local wholesale dry goods men
report receiving shipments of goods
for the fall trade in large quantities
These include all of the staple lines
The advance in cotton continues, and
jobbers are apprehensive as to the out
come of the increase. Many predict
that should the cotton market continue
to go up, foreign goods will shortly
make their appearance on the local
market. The ribbon market expert
enced small shock last week through
the strike of 5000 ribbon weavers in
New York and other eastern factories.
The operators want an eight-hour day.
and the controversy is being adjusted.
The wholesale grocerymen are busy
with big orders. General trade in
grocery goods continues good along
staple lines.
Stocks and Bonds.
The local commercial stock market
has suffered a good deal the past week
from the inability of the operators to
get eastern quotations on time, and
from the general uneasy tone of the
eastern stock market, to say nothing
of the shrinkage of the New York ex-
change list. There has been little
movement in any of the high-Driced
stocks. The latest quotations are as
follows:
Sugar Co, preferred. 8 IS. 90
common -. ..--.-...................1 63 %
Beneficial Life Insurance CO... log On
t9drheS Banking Co, haySville.-.--. JAG. 90
con. wagon & Machine Co, pfd... liz 90
Cofrmon ..;:..----.-..-..... -......... loo 90
SoIiIInerSiai Natlonai bank..--..-.... 175 no
Deseret National bank ........,,. 900 on
Deseret Savings bank ......... 40 M
Davis County bank, Pennington 100 %
First National bank Ogden -. 325 az
First National bank MURRAY 100 IA