The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-12-05
BUSINESS AND TRADE.


has newly come is stimulative to trade,
and the winter s scasonable business is
on in full volume The demand for
heavy goods and for winter supplies has
been in considerable degree anticipated,
but lit will now be rapidly pushed 1t
is more seasonable weather, also, for
the holiday time and a "whte Christ
mas always favorable for trade and
appropriate for the feeling OF the great
Christian festival, makes everybody
feel better and more willing TO spend
their money.
The pure food exhibit has been a
leading feature of the week, very
strong attraction to the publc, and Il
satisfying one.
The tremendous building activity of
the year has received some check by
reason of the storms and the colder
weather Still, that activity continues
in unusual degree, with the indications
very decidedly that the great record
last year in building in Salt Lake Will
be shown to have been doubled the pres
ent year. 1t has been a marvellous year
in building, not only in number OF
building permits, but in quality OF
structures erected and In the great
variety Of building operations pursued.
Skyscrapers, until recently unknown In
Salt Lake, are now getting to be the
regular thing, and Main street will be
we'll adorned with them when the pro-
iects now under way and IN immediate
contemplation are consummated. The
work on the big skyscraper hotel at the
head of Main street, TO he called the
Utah Hotel, is being pushed with all
due energy; we noted last week the ar
rival of train load of steel structural
material for it, The week Just past has
been signalizcd by the arrival of a
train load of steel for the big New
house skyscraper hotel, corner of Fourth
South and Main. Work on these and
on other building projects will be
pushed with the utmost energy until
the structures are completed. \ new
theater, the finest in the West, is a
big promise of the week.
The real estate market shows up
strong all the time, The desirability Of
owning Salt Lake realty is evident to
that any investment in Sal Lake realty
is sure to be n profit winner. The fu
ture of this city, situated as it is with
rich area of five hundred miles in
every direction without any chance for
rival trade center on big scale, is
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metropolis OF the mountain mining re-
gion and of the great agricultural val
leys is assured,
General business in the city for the
week just past has been strong and Wig
orous. There is great demand for all
classes of goods, greater demand than
over before, this largely by reason of
the new population which comes in at
rate of about one thousand month
The fact that all Of the hundreds of
dwelling houses put up this year and
last arc not only fully occupied, but are
clamored for even before they are ready
for occupancy, proves beyond the least
doubt the great and rapid growth OF
the city in population. There have been
large additions to the wealth here also
by reason of the newcomers, and al
together Salt Lake City is probably the
liveliest city in the United States in
percentage Of growth and general ad-
vancement. The clearances of the banks
in this city for November were the
record for month, reaching $33 ,2S2,
600, as compared with S2S,3S2, ,0l0 90
for November last year,
The mines are fully up to their regu-
lar producing capacity and are doing
excellent work, The smelling facilities
here have been largely taken away
from the farming regions of this val.
ley, so that ore smelling is now very
little troubled by the contentious dis
putes and lawsuits Of the farmers. The
new smelter under construction in the
Tooele valley and the smelter city that
is being constructed around it, make
exceedingly lively times in the valley
TO the west Of us beyond Garfield. Gar
field, and generally along the north
border Of the Oquirrh range, is an ideal
smelling and ore reducing site, where