Omaha daily bee., 1896-05-10
CONDITION OF ONAHA'S TRADE
Consumers Buy More Freely of Most All
Kinds Of Merchandise.
BANK CLEARNGs SHOW A LARGE INCREASE
Increased Confidence Everywhere
Apparent, While Create Activity
is Noted in Many ~Lincs-B"Si-
mes az south Omaha better.

The principal feature Of the week as re,
CARDS local business circles is the sei'e'" -
expression that there is a better ieeilhb pr
vniling and that the improvement IN that
direction already noted has continued. Com
mercial sentiment is slowly but surely drltt-
ing in the right direction once more anu as
the feeling Of confidence grows IL may pe
expected to increase It's speed, 30 'r"' '"'
change from one week TO the next may pe
more marked than at the present time.
The prevailing sentiment for some time
among business men has been in the difec-
ton of improved conditions, but OF la'e 'he
general public is becoming Infected 10 some
extent, and when once consumers come 70
believe that the period OF nara tunes IL
over. large purchases may be expected III
ali directions. a business man remarks that
the people generally have denied themselves
50 many Injuries and even necessities uur-
ing the past two years that they VIII very
quickly give themselves greater latitude as
soon as they feel that 1t Is SAFE to 40 So
There is apparently Il slight change in this
direction already, as evidenced by the in
crease in the volume Of business as COM
pared with a year ago.
The weather has been favorable for a good
business and without exception local job
bers are reporting a very fair movement OF
merchandise into all sections of tributary
territory. In some localities the demand mas
Increased very materially as compared with
u year ago, owing to the revival OF local
industries.
The bank clearings, with the heavy IN
crease over the corresponding week Of 1875.
from the jobbing houses.
NEBRASKA PFI.TRY.
While the season in some lines OF business
is just opening with the coming OF summer,
1t Is the reverse heS S WY, ire otheT pa nteS' The latter
is true in respect to the handling oil furSi
and though small. shipments OF turs VIII
continue to arrive for some days. the season
is practically at an end. The trapping of
wild animals for their skins is s;til quite
what it was in the early days, when whole
boat loads of skins were shipped down The
made by the traders in a single season;
Omaha Is the market to which the most OF
from here they are forwarded to the greater
manufacturing markets ,,.o.o H.,
past year was smaller than usual, owing
to the fact that the drouth Of the two years
past caused a good many streams to go
Then. too, prices have been very low and
there has not been the incentive for trappers
to work hard that lhere Is "heh prices are
A good many beaver were taken last year,
but they are pretty well eXterminated in
this state. Occasionally one is taken in the
Pate. and last winter a fine specimen was
cnnght in rt the PA Rnpi liner fe agaut miles, here fT nmd
there, but not many years ago a trapping
party could be reasonably, sure OF taking
hundreds of skins in a single season. Their
determination in this section has been al
buffalo.
Mink is still quite plentiful, and a good
many skins taken from that anima! were
brought in the past season. The mink Is
one of those animals that appears to be
able to hold its own in spite of the hos
tility of man, and has never been driven
out of the old eastern states. Mink fur has
been in better demand and the market has
shown some Improvement in consequence,
but sun good peits brought on ahou, o.
twenty years ago mink was so fashionable
that the skins of the eastern mink, which
is n little larger than the western, sod at
SO, and even above.
Another fuT,bearIng animal that refSses
is the most plentiful of all in this section
of the country, at least: The fur Is gener-
ally worked up into limitations and is used
in the manufacture of caps, gloves, capes,
etc, in fact, for NEST any purpose where a
cheap article is demanded. Good peits are
hardly seem possible that any one could be
found who would trap them for that price.
the rivers who follow the business all win
ter.
population, which seems to increase in num-
hers "a the country fills up with people.
complaining, chicken coops of high bred
fowls, was just what the skunk wanted to
make max i, life bearable' an and his ,r race has
him. Great bundles of skins were received
here he ,, last year sn6d but With the skins HrN was wos good 5d at
The iqtt is long. Siaek and silky, and i
manufactured into cloaks, capes, etc, the
skunk skin becomes black marten,
An occasional otter is taken in the state.
but they are pretty nearly all gone. During
the past season only a dozen or
yers of furs have placed such a price upon
me head of the otter that he has been
hunted FAR and wide, and II has been hardly
DGSSlDle Tor him TO find "A hiding Mace ThP |
skins received here the past season brought
from an IS to $40 each zach t., 30 b. ,o,n, t., 81
sectnons of the state, and one need not go
out Of sight OF Omaha to find his haunts,
hundreds are taken every season, The
about from 50 to g cents on the market
taken last winter, but they are not very
shadow of what, it was in the days past.
stil, In connection with the hunting of
game s for ths market, i affords a Lying to
farmers who otherwise would be idle during
TIE greater part of the winter The que;-
when the fur-bearlng animals are ex-
s]titutes will be found, The supply OF deer
Gcent to furnish a hundredth part Of the
buckskin demanded for the purposes OF
manufacture, but tanners have learned to
make good buckskin out of horse hide and
calf-skins that answer every purpose of the
genuine article,
LIVE STOCK MARKETS.
The past week has witnessed a consider
able revival in the live stock business at
South Omaha, The arrivals OF cattle, hogs
and sheep have been considerably above the
average Of late. and the market has been
on most DAYS active. The consuming demand
has been fully sufficient to absorb the in;
creased receipts and every one connected
with, the business appears to be feeling very
much encouraged, The only drawback Is
the extremely low range of prices, but that
Is common TO all markets and to many prod
ucts other than live stock,
The announcement thai Swift and company
had closed down their Kansas City packing
house and would transfer their business to
this point was a subject for a good deal of
Ii has been known for some time
that Swift and company were hav-
Ing. a good deal OF trouble with
their laborers at Kansas city,
and a strike has been anticipated for the
past two weeks or more. They have been
gradually cutting down their business at
Kansas City and increasing their purchases
of stock at South Omaha. Should the com.
pany decide to keep the house closed any
length of time II could hardly help being