Omaha daily bee., 1895-05-12
BEING MADE WHOLE BY FAIrH
Omaha's Trade Recovering Through Hope
Ennxcd In hy EnrlY pring.

Omaha's Trade Recovering Through Hope
Buoycd Up by Early spring.
The local manager of X. G. Dun & Co.
Mercantile agency, speaking of trade for the
week. says:
80 far May has seen very marked i'm
provement In trade conditions We are lift
ing ourselves out Of the dumps chiefly by
applying the faith cure, but the results are
quite satisfactory. The patient who has
lost heart is almost half dead and the sick
person who believes he is recovering Is half
cured. Outside of n braska trade Is good
and within the state the feeling is very
much better than ever. The early spring
has forced crops, and we are three weeks
nearer harvest than we were at this time
last season.
"This is a significant fact Rye is out in
full head, and with warm weather VIII be
small grain is likewise ahead of the date
and spring wheat will be offered for sale
early In July If no meteorological catastro-
phe interferes to prevent 1t. In other words,
within six weeks our farmers will be real
izing upon their crops and life will be re,
stored at the country stores to increase and
intensity as the months move to the
certainty of the largest corn crop ever
raised in Nebraska.
and even in Omaha the builders are COM
parativeiy busy. For six years contractors
aged, and hence when they read in their
! official organ that $l6,OOOOOO represents the
IN buildings } th & HdertaRen t. dnTns bIs
Isl the largest week in six years, and is
| one more straw showing that there Is d
| favorable gale coming from the right direc-
| ton.
'The croaker has not forgotten his song
however. A prominent contractor told me
| Thursday that there was not 500 worth OF
| brick work being laid in Omaha, and that
| there were only l,O0O00O brick in the yards
but these were a drug on the market.
was startled by his pessimism and begar
to look around. l found over 1.O0J0N
| ater, as many more going into the new post
office and large quantities being utilized II
| a score of foundations for good sized struc
| lures to say nothing of several two-storS
| brick stores and fifty or more cottages
| Evidently the contractor in question is en-
| not getting his share of the work in Omaha
| Locally, there Is too much somnolence
| Even the Commercial club has suffered
| slight attack of spring fever, and, OUTSIDE
| the state fair programs and plans Is doint
nothing of any consequence. The lawyers
| and the courts will probably keep the cana
proposition ON wheels until the working sea
| son is we'll spent. Positively, unless some
thing is done to rouse the sleeping energie
| of our citizens we shall all be doing ava!
| through the youth of the city's develop
| ment. M
What foresight and energy will do witt
small capital and opportunity Is well Illus
in the Beaver valley in southwestern Ne
braska. The seed sold at from $3.50 to 5
per bushel and the hay brought 81 per ton
The seed run from eight to twelve bushel
and the hay from one to four tons per acre
The product would be LOO bushels of see
Estimating the seed at 81 and the hay at 81
it is plain that the crop is worth $500
Within six miles of Daubury 100000 wort
of alfalfa was raised last year.