Omaha daily bee., 1902-06-15
CONDITION OF OMAHA'S TRADE
Jobbers Extremely Well Pleased with Re-
suits Thus Far.
JUNE WILL Be A RECORD BREAKER
Not Much Change In Market Values,
but Prices ne n RuIe Continue Firm
-ConsuminE Demand Ex-
celIent for June.


The excursion to be held on Thursday
snS Friday ioy,C Of l. this rs. week {osS,b has di efeh td dur I'M;
the last few days. No trouble or. pains are
being spared by those. having the matter
In charge to make II the banner excursion
of the season. An invitation to take part
In the excursion has been extended, 10 the
Live Stock exchange at South Omaha, and
according to latest reports enough Will go
from there to NIL one car. Sentiment re-
gaIding these excursions has changed very
materially and jobbers generally are tax
ing greater interest than ever before. II
seems TO be admitted on all sides that per,
sonal acquaintance between the city and
parties and ought to be encouraged.
AS. regards trade the situation could
all sections of tributary territory indicate
crops in general as doing well and giving
4 pamasee s o ba a rssnited from ~ snrplns Of
moisture is limited to small areas and will
not cut much figure in general results. One
country, which means a large hay crop and
an abundance of feed for cattle. As cattle
have of late been very profitable for far
stock-growing sections of the. west and
trade In all lines correspondingly good. A
crGl feeling o. CONFIDENCE in ali depart
mcnts END JChbers seem inclined to push
out for trade harder than eyer: Their ef-
very large consuming demand in the coun-
try. accounts for the increase that is re-
ported in the volume of sales over previous
years. Prospects for trade in the grazing
states west of Nebraska are most en-
coursging. In those states live stock has
not commenced to move as yet, but IL is
predicted that shipments will be the
heaviest in the history of the trade and
that more money will be sent back from
the big markets than ever before.
GrOcers Very Busy.
AS was the case last week all the grocery
1ODbeTg in the CitN are renOTtinR a EeTV
heavy busines doing and it is about all
that they can manage, to keep abreast Of
the flood of orders arriving by every mail.
The orders are no. for any special line of
goods, as is the case sometimes, but cover
Stock sns wn sRew faRst that al Consumers sSEHi sG 0s are e0S Sngin iR
because they have the money and are will
ing TO part with 1t.
pened as regards market prices during the
last few days. Shipments of the new pack
Of Columbia, river salmon are reported on
the way ar wiz be on the market in the
near future. Dried fruits are moving along
without any very noteworthy changes in
Smyrna figs is said to be very backward,
owing to cold weather and a late spring
on the other side.
Ahead of Last Year.
Extensive building operations in all sec
tons of tributary territory has created an
hardware and jobbers report sales run
mag considerably ahead of corresponding
P PSiIIo 6t, nag y of all kkinn1tdss: a PSsn ssili Gls' fr stdss
There is also q very good demand for shelf
hardw4Ie O all kinds and because of this
country as well as to the west, prices gen
lime would seem to point to an exception
ally good summer trade.
Good Shoe Weather.
Omaha is well supplied with shoe houses
and when they all report a good business
It means that something is doing. The fact
that there has been all kinds Of weather
this spring has been of great help to re-
tailors in cleaning up their stocks. job
bers say that an unusually large number
Of Sizing,up orders are coming to hand;
their stocks rapidly and that prospects are
for a continuance of the demand.
ing in the most encouraging reports and at
the same time are taking many fall orders.
sbnS, aIas,r Who npos were s e little t,n,o backyard
evidently changed their minds and are
falling into line with the balance of trade.
these columns that this would be the ban
ner year SC far as jobbers of leather goods
tEe concerned still promises to prove true.
Dry Goods Strong.
While no marked change has taken place
in the dry goods market adyices from
they have sold up very closely the output
Of cotton and wooden goods and that lne
Whe that is true or not there Is GER
tainly no great surplus of goods on hand,
as evidenced by the difficulty met by lob
bers in getting some orders filled.
Local houses report a very large sale of
fall goods of all kinds; in fact the total
volume is far in excess of the record of
previous years at this season. Unless all
signs fail this will be the best year IN the
history of the jobbing dry goods trade of
this market
A good many buyers nave been in during
the week and current business has been
fully as satisfactory as the fall business.
A tempting array of fruits and vegetables
was to be found on the market all the
week. Almost anything that one could de-
sire was to be found, and Of good quality.
Prices, however. continue rather stiff. as
Strawberries, which more at
than any other fruit at this season,
are coming from a number of different
but LrlceS are high and there
does not seen tn he any prospect of their
very low at any time during tile sea-
waiting fer cheap stock to put into cans
are more thar likely to suffer disappoint-
mert.
and high, but there is promise of a
in annthe- column.
In the way OF vegetables old potatoes are
pretty well solu out, only a limited quantity
Of northern stock remaining in sight.
Cotton Market.
NEW YORK, June H.-COTTON-Spot,
closed quiet; middling uplands, 8 7-l6c; mid
dling gulf, lille; sales, 7,215 bales. Flu
lures closed quiet and steady; June, 9,02c;
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