Omaha daily bee., 1899-09-10
CONDITION OF OMAHA'S TRADE
First Week in September Shows Up All
Right as Regards Trade.
JoBBsRS HAVE ABOUT ALL THEY CAN DO
Live stock Continues to Command
High Prices to satisfaction of
Growers, While Meat Eat
ers Complain Loudly.

During the month OF August the general
retail trade Of Omaha seemed rather duh
and the volume of sales. outside OF a few
large business houses, was small. With
the opening Of September Improvement was
noted, as the people who had absented
themselves from the city In July and Au-
gust began returning, and trade SEEMED 10
take on new life. During last week
strangers came to the city In larger num-
bers. some on business connected with
either buying or selling and others as eX-
position visitors, which helped to give a
little more impetus TO trade In general. As
a matter of course nc. great boom can be
expected while the weather remains warm,
or until the coming OF frost, when the fan
trade may be expected to open In earnest.
AT the present lime the demand Is largely
for SUCH merchandise as may be required 10
piece out the period of warm weather;
Local retailers have been expecting a good
deal from the attendance OF exposition
visitors this month and they sun belleye
that before the gates are closed there VIII
will buy literally OF winter goods. This
belief Is based upon the assumption that
prices for staple goods are considerably
lower in the city than the country and
that there are always attractive bargains
to be picked up at the large stores that
could not be expected in the smaller couh-
try stores.
with the Jobbers the week just closed was
entirely satisfactory the demand Tor
VltitllhIlhlbe " aal MINUS ~ no '~NLa 49,
large and the volume of business OF most
gratifying proportions, As a rule the 1op-
bers of omaha have been KEEP very Gbbs syt
they could attend TO from now until the
end of the holidays. During the early part
of last week 1t looked a little doubttu! IN
some quarters. owing to the prevalence OF
hot winds. II was generally real2ed, now
ever. that the corn was SO far advances
shorten the crop a little and that, there
would even then be a large yield ana sum
Client to make business good In the state;
The coming OF cooler weather aiiayeu an
fears and 1t would look now as IL a very
large crop of corn was assured tor the
state. In d few localities, as Is always the
case, there has been some. little damaSe
and the yield may be a little short. Win
the corn crop assured the future OF the
jobblng trade will. be good, beyond ques-
ton. for u year to come at least.
values Continue High.
Values on all kinds Of merchandise con-
tinue very high and still advances are re
ported from day to day in the news col
hmns of the daily papers. some Oh Ine aui1
vances appear to be due to the very goou
demand and others to be a combined elt9rt
OF the pant of manufacturers to limit the
output and force prices upward. IN either
event values show no INCLINATION to weaken,
but such changes as take place are all on
Down in the produce district there is a
fair trade doing and the return Of people
and boarding houses !. Increasing the con On
OeIlhIu IL IT'S ldlSt as I oubhN = ~ 800
sometimes commission men ask themselves
what the people eat Omaha is most fortu,
nately situated as regards securing a good
fruit supply, being within easy reach OF
the Pacific coast as well as the southern
fruit SroTT y I r6 districts and ,b Wn a5e,j t1e p s%59pliy{
seems as if people do not buy as freely as
might be expected, and hence the question
Is sometimes asked as to what people eat.
One thing is certain, the people of Omaha
do not believe in eating anything that Is
very costly. and the minute any kind of
fruit advances to a point where ii might be
considered rather dear the demand ceases.
Bank Slie,qhr'nss show Nrr a falling off tinmsse G Isat
year, just why 1t is hard to say. The only
explanation is that Omaha was full to over
the money spent by the exposition visitors
found it's way through the channels Of
trade and through the clearing house.
Business In south Omaha.
At South Omaha a very fair business is
shape. Values on all kinds of stock, cattle.
h1ss ana tbe sheep Il n are an msgn: hna c IN G1nsG In
the price of meats. Farmers and stock
growers generally are well pleased with the
prices at which stock is selling, but not as
much can be said of meat eaters, especially
those In the east, who complain a good deal
of the high prices. There is another class
of people who do not like the ruling high
prices, and 1t is composed of those farmers
who nave an abundance of corn and want
most every one that the price of stock cattle
Is way too high and that the buyer takes
"a US iLh VI iSN'i pSihS "plC " SCI MS
money out again, but still the supply is
not large, while the number of those want
tng cattle is great, so that the market holds
up pretty well, Last year n good many of
the farmers who bought cattle for early
feeding lost money, and some seem to think
that the same thing will happen again this
season. However, there are buyers for all
the cattle, and the man who is timid sim
ply does not get the cattle, as there are
plenty of others who have the nerve. one
popularity of the cattle trade this season
consists in the fact that while during pre-
vious years farmers have had to buy Il
good many cattle on time and be carried
by the commission men or stock yards
banks, this year the country banks are
flush with money and are CARRYING almost