The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-03-23
BUSINESS AND TRADE.

The snowstorms of the week have
done immense good to the general out
look for the season, reinforcing the
ample manner.
Although the unexpected bad
weather Of the week had temporarily
depressing effect on all business, the
building operations of the season are
actively beginning. The big construc-
tiou is getting on well and hundreds
of homes are to be built. An active
demand is reported for home sites.
The need of stone finishing plant
in Utah has been felt for a long time.
Contractors and builders have pointed
out that Utah building materials could
frequently be used more economically
than those of other States If the mar.
BILE, granite, and other building stone
in this State could be quarried and
shaped and polished. Efforts have
been made to have the capitol com
mission consent to use Utah marble,
but in some instances it has been
found that the producers are depending
entirely upon the State contract for
financial means to enable them to de-
liver the finished product for the build.
ing.
C., c.. Prescott, Salt Lake man.
whose headquarters are now in Cleve-
land, and R. o. Stanley, a Detroit
builder, have formed a partnership
with the express purpose Of establish
ing finishing plant in Salt Lake
to handle stone quarried in Utah and
Idaho. They are not bidders On the
capitol work, however. They say they
have no intention to compete for that
contract, that they hope to enter
permanent business particularly for the
purpose Of competing in the northwest
and on the Pacific coast with the
quarries Of southern Indiana.
Mr., Prescott, who is here to inves-
tigate stone deposits, says he and his
partner will have the advantage OF
a great difference In freight rates
over the Indiana quarries. They say
they will invest their own capital in
the business,
Real estate men have interested
themselves in the city beautiful move
ment. The Salt Lake Real Estate AS
sociation has joined the Commercial
Club and women g organizations of the
city in an effort to have the people
take more interest in their streets, side.
walks and lawns.
The past week the weather has been
anything but pfopitious for the sale
Of spring goods, but the merchants OF
Salt Lake smilingly declare that they
have no complaint to make. Depart.
ment stores, dry goods stores, e1clu.
sive millinery establishments and
other stores dealing in supplies that
are dear to the feminine heart, report
big business during the week. They
say, of course. that trade would have
been heavier had spring weather pre-.
vailed during the entire week, but
they are content Hardware stores re-
port heavy demand for garden i'm
plemeuts aud sporting goods, while fur,
niture establishments have been busy
supplying the demand for numerous
things needed in homes.
Merchants in general say that money
is more plentiful than for number of
years.
The Walker Brothers dry goods
store yesterday formally increased it's
capitalization from 100000 to
100000.
The electric roads that center in
this city are working out terminal
and union depot, and have several ter
minal points under consideration.
The time schedules are announced
for the new Pacific Limited, the Over.