Omaha daily bee., 1896-03-08
CONDITION OF OMAHA'S TRADE
Jolbing Trade Shows Some Little Gain Over
Last Year.
COUNTRY COLLECTIONS NONE TOO GOOD
bnnk CIenrinRs Indicnte n Recovery
from Last Ycnr's Low Point
Omaha Keeps Pace with the
Rest of the Country.

The general business situation can hardly
be said to present any new features of inn
portance, the conditions remaining about the
same as noted a week ago. There Is moth
ing to be gained by denying the fact that
business has not experienced the expected
Improvement since the first of the year.
In Omaha It was hardly anticipated that
there would be any very marked Improve
ment, owing to the scarcity OF money In
tributary territory, but i'm the country-at-
large a general revival OF business had been
expected. with few exceptions the business
int. ests of the whole country appear to lie
following the waiting policy. When the
success of the last bond issue was an
nounced 1t was believed there would be an
upward movement in the business world,
but Ii did not come. There are apparently
other causes still that must be gotten out OF
the way before activity in trade circles can
boone a reality.
while the improvement over last year Is
small this section averages up about as well
past week the bank clearings show an in
crease, as, compared with the corresponding
period of last year of as per cent. while the
average gain for the whole country was
Only 81 per cent. The only city in this sec
while Kansas City shows a decrease Of So
per cent, Denver 10. and St; Joseph 1872 per
and Sioux city q failing off of over 10 per
cent. If the bank clearings are any indica-
IlCI t1ey WOulu seem 10 prove tnat o1nana
is not doing so badly after all as compared
with other western and northwestern cities.
Most houses report a AIR business doing
of last year. In some instances very large
gains are pointed out, but they are to be
explained as the result of some special
cause, such as the going out of business of
one house and the division of Its business
between the remaining houses. The volume
of business doing is on an average just a
little larger than last year.
There Is a feeling that the period of de-
preston has been more prolonged than the
accepted theories say 1t should be, and that
by this time the country ought to be emery
business men are looking for improvement
in the near future unless some local cause
prevents 1t.
LIVE STOCK TRADE.
business at South Omaha is still. light,
and there is no apparent reason for an
of al kinds of live stock are light, and the
volume of business doing IS in consequence
sre 5oin AT a tnH large game Business si N 0t and t mereei IS
nothing in the condition OF the country to
warrant the situation being such as It is
at South Omaha. As a matter Of fact, there
are less cattle feeding in Nebraska than
usual, but If all the cattle in the state
coming to South Omaha there would be no
just cause for complaint. Such is not the
going out of the state to other markets
Under the influence of more favorable rates.
or from other causes. The, same thing is
shipped from the South Platte country to
swell the receipts of other markets.
PRODUCE DISTRICT INTERESTED.
Business in the produce district during
the past week has been of a very unin,
teresting character. The market has not
s sts"gn On much Gosf chang lang Of values nroanc being Mill, ab tba
demand has not been very brisk.
c mmission houses, handling dairy pro
s ae1 + ,nd in msnnfs in, in the III ..R RIT,SRS9G:se sbea las
state. however, is less Interested than most
. any other agricultural state, in the north
q onv Sf,antitv and has never been a larg,
consumer Of "aiIed' cheese.
Wisconsin supplies the most Of the cheese
spnrlon m Article s.a' The eo "aled" cah eaa,"s sales.
man shows up in the springtime and usu,
he will offer at about Z cents. when good
cheese Is selling at 10 cents; As As a rule e,a H.
and after he has flied them full he vi
offer any that he may nave left to the
{. commission houses to be sod on commits
: 6 cents on it. which is as much as the
factory ever expects to get out Of It; -,
Filled cheese has never taken. well in thi!
city, and cheese men are very bitter aeains
1t on the ground that 1t is running the eX
port trade and setting a good many peopl'
in this country against cheese, and thu.
reducing the consumption, both at hom'
and abroad In the calendaf year asa 1Syo a. Il
OOG,0O pounds, against G9,OOO,OOO pounds u
1891, and the value of these exports fell OF OF
ttdllN ~ pei ttliNs ~ nv AA@Sst -
the exports of cheese aggregated 100000
pounds: This heavy decrease in the export
is in striking contrast with the heavy gain
in the exports of cheese from Canada. II
1870 this country exported 100000 pound
of cheese and Canada less than 1000 20
pounds. During the fiscal year ending jun
80, while the of cheese from TIL
country amounted to nearly so. 100000 pounds
the shipments from Canaca were lag, O0O,O0
pounds. In other words. Canada now eX
ports nearly three times as much cheesl
as the United States, whereas twenty-five
years ago Canadian exports were less thai
one-twelfth of ours.
The Canadian law prohibits the manu-
facture of filled" cheese.
SHORT ON CEDAR WOOD.
Dealers in cigars are noticing the fact tina
cedar cigar boxes are not so plentiful a
they were and that imitation cedar an
yencered cedar are being used to even
greater extent than usual. 1t Is a wei
known fact that the cedar wood from whicl
Cuba, and ow ing to the war, II Is almost i'm
possible to secure supplies. The SINAI
amount of cedar that remains In this coun
try is i'm the hands of spectators who ar
asking a heavy advance in prices. 1t take
a whole year to land a log in the Unite'
States from CLna, so that IL the war wer
to end in the near future 1t would be som
time before a supply OF lumber adequate {
the demand could be secured.
st. Louis General Market.
ST, LOUIS, March T-FLoUR-Domestic trad
continues good; export sales difficult to make
but one sale of 1000 sacks made; prices higher
patents. SO, 7Oq3.S5; extra fancy, $S4Oq3.5O; fancy