Omaha daily bee., 1905-11-05
CONDITION OFOMAHASTRLDE
Jobbsn in All Lines Pleased with
Existing Market
BUSINESS is sTtADIEs Mo LARGER
Retailers Report They Are Doing Ret
ter Than Ever Before--ChRnges
In the Price Of Groceries
and Dry Goods.


All lines OF wholesale trade are enjoying
strong. healthy demand. The fluctuations
as TO the volume OF business which char
acterized the market earlier in the fan are
large as It was for perhaps one or two
weeks II averages much larger for a series
at point where they can take their time
about husking their corn and are buying
largely from the retailers, who say their
business was never better Omaha grocers
have all they can do TO I'LL orders with
promptness and the same may be said OF
usually large trade all through the winter.
Dry goods jobbers report a good house
trade for the week. Direct orders and
those from statesmen also continue heavy.
some lines OF heavy cottons are being sold
out, particularly mapped goods, blankets
running on goods for next year, II Is al
most impossible to have the orders nlled.
their strength and some advances are
threatened. Advance buying for spring is
very large, and printed wash fabrics are
Coffee has undergone no material change.
Yopk big GiEe HIN bs except new
on, outsiders and weak holders selling out
and the coffee going into stronger hands.
The output is still 10000 bags behind that
for the corresponding period of last year.
se Ted ARE, are quoted at S9s to Sls cents. 10.
this week on raws, both in London and
New York. JObbers consider that the in
dications point to lower prices for refined
CheeHe Goes still Higher.
Cheese is active and higher, prices being
nc over those of a week ago. Some OF the
best informed brokers predict a famine OF
the October make Buyers have held or
on account Of the previous high prices,
thinking that a reaction might take place
on curtailment of consumption. On the
contrary the consumption has increased,
and when the buyers tried to get the fancy
october make they found the holders re-
luctant to part with II at prevailing prices.
sellers n Ne STe y are "a oTs sr buyers cn than
factories have been closed and the re-
mainder will close in ten days; in Wis
remainder will close in two weeks. Indi-
cations point to higher values.
Inc demand for canned goods continues
unusually good and covers the entire line.
Corn Is not moving freely as could be
wished, yet the orders keep coming for
tair-sized lots: The price, however is
badly demoralized because Of the fact that
| almost every jobber is seeking to unload
and the question Of cost does not appar-
emily enter into the situation. II would
seem to the well informed that the retailers
would do well to stock up while the jobbers
possible for this class of goods to sell much
below prices now ruling. There Is an
a &c dGna demand for peas, with tendency
Is well cleaned up and any change must
be for higher basis OF values
Apples Attract Much Interest.
The item of absorbing interest during the
last week was evaporated apples. The sup
ply In sight is exceedingly limited. More
over there were good many short sellers
VINO We're compelled to cover, and these
facts coupled with the fact that there is
a decidedly heavy trade in this article COW
market up nearly 11Sc a pound. There is
otherwise very little change to report en-
| the dried fruit market, with the possible
exception of currants, which have scored
an advance of sc per pound within the last
| Unusual activity has been DISPLAYED I'm
the rice market, caused by an unusually
heaYy demand for actual needs, together
with a. speculative movement caused by
the well known fact that the crop is de
cidedly short Under stimulation of this
Kind the market has advanced in the south
| from S19c per pound for choice Japs TO 4ikc.
which Is now the asking price for the
same grade OF goods. Prediction Is made
that &c market will prevail before the
| end OF the coming week. The demand is
sctive from the consuming trade, and II
looks as II the present market would not
only be sustained, but further advanced in
| the near future. The crop in Japan Is so
short that they cannot give America any
| supplies, but, on the other hand, will them
| selves be compelled to use large quantities
OF island rices.
Conditions in Shoe Trade.
Shoes have not made any advance for the
week. The tendency in raw materials Is
shoes. Local Jobbers say the recent report
from Chicago that shoes would advance 20
per cent in a few weeks was exaggerated
| Hides have advanced that much in the
| last few weeks, but this does not mean
| that the price of shoes will be Correspond
| ever, that the advance will be strong this
winter. Trade Is excellent with Omaha
| shoe concerns.