Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-11-26
CONDITION FOMAHASTRADE
Continued Warm Weather Makes Bushes
Somewhat Quiet
DRY GOODS HOUSES HOLD CLEARING SALES
JnconHrmed Report that Packers
Have secured Control of shoe
Making neutrality-suspicious. NotR-
bic Advances in Cotton.

While the volume Of Omahas trade last
week was fairly large, ii was, on account
OF the continued warm weather, less than
was expected Farmers will not quit work
to buy winter goods and consequently the
retail merchants are not yet placing
their second orders with the wholesalers.
Shoe and dry goods houses are the ones
which notice the laxness Grocers and
hardware men report a. large trade The
grocery market was featureless in the
matter Of prices. In dry goods notable
advances were made. The local houses
held clearing sales all week.
Sensation Among Shoe Men.
The report has come to the Omaha shoe
jobbers. although It has not yet been con-
| fImed to their satisfaction, that the
packers have secured control OF the manu-
tacturing company which rents, but never
sells, machines 70 the shoe manufacturers.
The packers, say the jobbers, are not
content to control the hide market, but
another department Of the shoe trade.
The wholesalers prophecy that IL the re
higher figures and remain there. With
| out this factor the tendency is consider
ably higher. In the last week no adj
vances have been quoted on leather and
consequently the shoes of the Omaha
houses remain at the same figures Along
| with the dry goods people, the shoe men
! complain that warm weather is causing
/ slack business.
! The tomato situation in the east is
| about as reported last week There is
no spirited buying and the few packers
/ who have stock that is liable to frost
]
| load Statstlcally, the position is very
/ strong. However, with the tomato, Stats
be the outcome Of the t future Tse Of the the
! tomato market, predictions of high prices
today garry very little weight Jobbers
prematurely advanced and too high a
basis was established to interest them
! in t'matoes. Therefore the transactions
/ IN TINS line have been very limited during
| the last six weeks.
The corn situation is unchanged. The
/ Hhn hnW &c.
warehouses are urging sales. Otherwise
| me disposition is to hold to stock and
thing is sure, and that is that the goods
are going very rapidly into consumption
-, There is no change to report in the gal
| ers are giving out the information that
they are going to be considerably short on
| their deliveries This cannot tend toward
anything but a stronger market One
| packer has made his final statement that
10 per cent is the very best he can DELIVER
on his contracts. Other packers in New
| York state say 80 per cent, so the situation
| is exceedingly strong.
Oysters in Good Demand.
Canned oysters are in good demand, with
! the supply at the present time quite made
ever, the next two or three weeks will
doubtless see plenty Of these goods in the
johbers hands.
Gallon berries are practically cleaned up.
| Very few Of these goods are obtainable
from any source.
|
| there stronger feeling than in canned
peas. Desirable standard grades are
tory goods for IOc sellers are hard to find
and the situation grows daily stronger.
Coast advices report vsry. strong posi-
ton in canned salmon. With only one
quarter of the pack of pinks available that
are usually to be had at this season of
the year and very light supply in any
closely cleaned up before we have gone
very far into the season Columbia river
agh oil nlF ig TnraN 81 iNal v n q
up Very few sockeyes remain, so that
the supply of fancy fish is apparently very
far short OF the usual requirements of the
trade. There is fair supply Of Alaska
| red salmon, and at the prices that are
being named this ought to go rapidly into
The situation is daily stronger in dried
fruits This nsppies particularly to Ca
prunes. Every one of these Items has
been marked up during the last St. week eek
| of an advance in dried fruits is raisins,
which have not advanced, nor can they
association packers are practically doing
nothing, either in seeded goods or in loose
the market being controlled by the outside
interests, and there appears to be an
abundance of stock among the outsiders
| to take care of the requirements OF the
trade at least until after the hrst OF the
Advance In Evaporated Apples.
New York evaporated apples are showing
further advances. New 10TH papers al
nounce the failure of large operator
who has in previous years, as well as
this season, sold short. He was on the
wrong side of the deal this year, and l;
now Short some seventy cars, and is offer
ing to settle on the basis of 20 cents OF
the dollar. OF course, the dealers TO whom
this party has sold, would naturally sci
against their contracts, and now wheI
these different buyers are compelled to q
into the market, II only tends to advanc'
the market and make the situation all tn
= stronger.
e California walnuts are very late this sea
son, some three Of four weeks. Practical!
! no satisfactory stock has been received
from California up to the present time
and in fact no advic of any shipment
[ to the river have been received so far. Tn
trades are depending entirely on importet
goods, which show up satisfactorily II
. | quality. The demand for nuts is goo
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