Omaha daily bee., 1895-12-01
CONDITION OF OMAHA'S TRADE
Local Business Situation Shows Improve
ment for the Better.
COUNTRY COLLECTIONS ARE STILL SLOW
Favorable weather Conditions Give
Impetus TO business In Most Lines
OF Trndc-Coursc OF the
Wholesale Markets.

week ago II was pointed out that trade
at this season is governed in very large
degree by the weather conditions and that
no great activity could be expected in the
movement of SNOW" goods until there
should be a considerable fall of the beau
tlful." The coming OF snow and wet, as
we'll as cod weather, as predicted, caused
n very material Improvement in the demand
for goods In most all lines, and jobbers are
Enthusiastically in a much better frame of
mind than was the case a week ago Some
houses have been very busy getting out
rush orders, and all houses have. without
exception, done n good business.
Reports from the country are OF hopeful
character, speaking, as they do, of good
demand on the part of retail buyers Tor
seasonab.e goods that have remained, here
tofore, the shelves uncalled for.
Collections do not show any Improvement
and while pobbers have been as particular
as possible during the past year or more
about credits there is no denying the fact
that money comes in slowly. An increased
movement of live stock from thls state
has set in, and that will nave tendency
to put more money into the country. Grain
is not moving to any extent. and good
many grain men do not expect TO see any
quantity of corn on the move before the
first Of the new year.
GROCERY TRADE FAIR.
The demand for fancy goods incident to
Thanksgiving day helped to swell the total
respectable proportions, Goods went out
quite freely. and the jobbers generally APP
suits suits of of Il the 'Ias past We weeks operations. This
is In marked contrast to the complaints of
dull trade and stagnant market that come
from primary points in the east.
AS TO prices, there have been some
changes of Importance
The manufacturers of Battle Axe plug to-
bacco marked up their price cents per
pound.
nat al md hnnr Gtn
Coffee crop estimates from Brazil are in
creasng, and while no serious break may
is quite a common belief in the east that
the natural tendency of the market will
he downward.
the mackerel catch on the American coast
Is virtually ended. During the next few few
but that will depend upon the weather.
Eastern jobbers are complaining that
there is not the usual interest in the do
mestic products of staple groceries. Com
mencng with rice the record since the
first appearance of the new crop has shown
under which the trade has been sluggish
and values unsettled Molasses forms an
other subject Of complaint, as buyers do not
take hold with any interest.
Members of the trade nre calling atten-
teton to the steady ' resusctaton Of the
article of food appears at last to have
attracted a sufficiently broad demand to
start a considerable quantity of stock in
the channels of consumption, and advices
from across the water Indicate that they
are experiencing the same revival in the
demand in Europe.
Nebraska sugar Is moving into consump-
tion little more freely, though not nearly
SO fast as 1t ought. Figures have just come
to hand giving the acreage of beets in the
different countries of the world, which will
be of interest as showing the possibilities
of the industry.
FIGURES ON THE BEET CROP.
The subioned table shows the areas under
sugar beets in the respective countries in
the years named and at the foot there is
added line showing the annual average
acreages for the whole period. The totals
In the right hand column include. in some
years. insignificant areas contributed by
European countries other than the six
enumerated in the table: