Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1896-11-28
IMPROVED RETAIL DEMAND
Business Revival During November is
Greater Than Was Expected.
WOOL SALES CONTINUE ON A LARGE SCALE
Some Reaction in Mnnufncturing
After the First Rush of orders,
but II Feeling of More Conf
dencc is Noticed.

NEW YORK, Nov. FIR. G. Dun & Co.'S
Weekly Review of Trade tomorrow will
say: When the rush of orders after the
election SlaCkcncd many began to think
business declining. Subsistence OF deferred
orders is not decrease of business.
Broadly speaking, the gain has leen
greater than anybody expected ana It is
not surprising If a small part of 1t Is in
excess Of the present consuming demand,
Reports from all parts of the couatry show
clearly the enlargement of trade, not at
all points In the same branches, but every
where helped by more confident feeling
Extremes of weather have made the week
not altogether good for retail trade, but
in that line also there is Improvement ON
the whole.
Wheat has risen over G cents for the week
without material change in foreign advances
which have been, on the whole, less stimulating
Western receipts are falling behind last years
ana Tor four weeks past have been only l9,Ol2,jsi
bu'' against 2t9y2u2i bu. last year. while the
exports, flour included have been 6.25O.ySl bu.
In the same week against 6,265.0iS bu last year,
a amI are not large enough TO create excitement.
But thirteen cargucs have left Tacoma in No
vomber and thirty have left san Francisco, with
JwSiNe more loading ana forty engaged. The
milling demand in the Atlantic states Is also
large, and at four western cities the output of
Hour IN iiNe weeks has been 22H5,4ll bbls.,
against 2,bl3,30O in the same week last year,
little, and is coming forward freely. The most
Important factor IN the wheat market is that
has been expected.
Cotton has gained only sixteenth after its
considerable decline. The northern mills
taking much less cotton than in prev ioUs years,
anu the demand for goods Is evidently disup-
pointing. Wool was and Is still bought largely
for SPECULATION, and earlier purchasers are UNI
loading on the later but the mills are not
yet doing much more than in october. n few
more have been started, but there Is scarcely
more demand apparent for staple goods. In
Guiding speculative operations, tho sales Of wool
have been for four weeks &Ihla, 100 lbs OF which
2i,2i2,u00 lbs domestic against q. 2eG.C50
lbs. last year of which 133Si75O lbs. Were do
G3j, COG lbs were domestic. lut the producing
the capacity of the works, and the stuppagc of
several large carpet mills within the past ten
days Is Of Importance
The collapse OF the nail combination, and
probably Of the beam combination and CON
siderable reduction in the quotations for nails
ana beams, give reason to look for q larger
demand FOR products Of iron and steel. but at
present the sales against speculative purchases
made some time ago are depressing prices and
Bessemer pig has sold at SEP and, according
to some reports, little lower at Pittsburg.
The demand for such products as are not CON
trolled by the combinations is somewhat in
crcasing, but by no means rapidly
pccted. In minor metals tin is scarcely strong
as 1t was week ago, but copper and lead are
stronger.
Failures for the week have been 300 in the
United States, against go last year, and thir-
ty-oight in Canada, against forty-sey last
year.