Omaha daily bee., 1891-09-27
THE CONDITION OF TRADE.
A Better Feeling Prevalent in All Business
Circles.
A FAIR VOLUME OF GOODS MOVING.
Omaha Jobbing Houses Enjoying a
Very Satisfactory Fan Trade with
the Prospect of n still Bet
H ter Business.

Iub SDlclulu DIOoptNI ll an hbhhNhhb
crop Of all kinds Of farm products and the
prevailing high prices for the same is having
a beneficial effect upon every line of business.
The inclination among the farmers to hold
back the marketing of their crops may defer
tho boom in trade which would be sure to
follow the sudden marketing of the farm
products, but there Is enough being sold to
make trade better all along the line.
The wholesale trade of Omaha is very
satisfactory and there is a prospect that it
Will be still better as the season advances
and crops move more freely.
The wholesale hardware business is fully
up TO the average Of past seasons, but not as
much above the average as dealers expect 10
see IL a little later. Unreasonable weather
has served to retard the movement OF goods
In this line to some extent. Jobbers note the
lumber of telegraph orders received and the
fact that everyone is In a hurry to have or
ders filled as indicating that stocks are small.
The retail dealers appear TO be buying only
for present needs and when the fall trade
does set in it will be likely to come in a rush.
In New York the past week reports were
of n somewhat irregular nature, n portion
Claiming galn in business and others a fall
Ing away. The latter, however, seems TO be
due to having temporarily filled the wants of
certain territory and is more than balanced
by the gam made in other localities, the gen
eral distribution undoubtedly picking up, and
most dealers repeating tho expressions OF
confidence with which they have referred to
the market all the season. There is, how
ever, no attempt to take special advantage of
the demand in the matter of putting up
values, but buyers are conservatively met and
rendered a supply that makes selection
prompt and easy.
Nails retain more or less OF the familiar
irregular features, and there appears to be
nothing particularly promising upon the
market. There are threats from manufac-
turers as to what they propose doing to i'm
prove matters, but nothing decided material
ICES.
Local jobbers in the grocery line report n
very satisfactory trade and look for Il steady
increase in the volume Of business. There
has been n further decrease in the price of
coffee amounting to half a cent per pound
and n still further decline is looked Tor. JOB
bers have caught up somewhat on orders for
sugar and the sugar refineries have dropped
prices n little. Canned goods and dried
fruits are beginning to move to the western
trade, and as the quality is fine and prices
low the demand promises to be large.
In New York city, says the Bulletin, we
find most of the markets IN the grocery line
in much the old condition, and trade in staple
groceries moves upon a comparatively even
keel. Accounts from local jobbers aud
groCers indicate that a good general as
sortmcnt of stock is being turned out daily
to meet the booked orders from an expand
banding line of trade, ana the
ties report similar conditions. That
means, of course, resort sooner or later TO
first, or bulk supplies for replenishlpent of
RssOrtments, and holders are correspondingly
hopeful throughout. Although organized
speculation is confined to coffee, the reviying
tendency to trade Is generating a tendency
TO work up a more or less buOyant feeling
among holders of some of the leading com
modities, ana there has of late been u %noticea-
bic effort to take advantage of modified crop
prospects on two or three articles to work up
a little boom. 1t is, however, difficult to in
duce buyers to engage in Investment beyond
apparent natural wants.
Omata's wholesale dry goods merchants
are actively engaged in filling ORDERS, the
movement of goods in their line being large.
Business in staple %cottons tie past week
In New York, says the Bulletin, has been
unmarked by any new developments of
moment. The demand OF. the spot from day
to day has proven indifferent in nearly all
directions, but, although orders by mail and
wire have tluctuated somewhat, the aggrc-
gate has been about up to recent average.
~ the same time there has been an irregu-
larity in the course OF business. which,
while it has served to keep certain lines
well sold up and firm, has not prevented
some accumulation of stock in Othors, so that
whilst the general tone of the market pre-
serves lately noted Improvement, there have
been instances of impatient holders favor
Ing buyers in order to help along sales.
This, while exceptional, is an indication
that certain agents require something more
than prospects of future improvement to sus-
tain them. Low grade goods, whether brown,
bleached or dyed, are in the strongest posi-
tion, as stocks are generally IN comfortable
compass, and the influence of the tirmness in
tho price of print cloths is moro readily re-
Elected by them. Fall prints were in quleter
demand towards the close of the week, but
the way in which business in these has
kept up so far this season has been most
gratifying to agents. Apart from fall nov
elites in fancy styles. staples and shirtings
have done well and n large business has
been recorded in indigo blues. Prices are
firm all round, and Aliens styles have boon
advanced onc-fourth of cent per yard. Dark
ginghams are also we'll sold up ana firm in
price. These will now gradually yield up
first place to spring styles, which agents are
preparing to put fully on the market. Some
of the finest makes have already been shown
and quite good progress is reported, although,
taken all round, in fine woven %cottons, white
goods and new seasons hosiery and
underwear, the aggregate trade for next
season is backward compared with what
had been done up to the corresponding time
last year. The jobbing trade in all its
branches has shown good results for the
week, but late indications point to the best of
the fall trade having past. The south has
been doing more business and may yet be in
the market for some little time. making
amends for previous indifference. Trade re-
ports continue favorable from most outlying
sections, and rs the monetary situation be-
comes moro assured aud previous fears of
btringency are proving unfounded, collec-
tons grow more satisfactory, much of the
late irregularity having disappeared.
OMAHA LIVE STOCk MIRKETS.
OMAHA, Sept, 20.