Omaha daily bee., 1906-11-18
CONDITION FOMAHA'S TRADE
Men On Implement Row New HIppieIt Of
All in LEGAL Jobbing Circles
TAKE BIG oED-RS DURING CONVENTION
Hardware Houses Also Enjoy Unusual
volume Of Trade, aud Dealers In
other Lines Are satisfied
Fish SIN Advances.

The implement men are the happiest
among the local jobbers for Largely at
tended annual convention OF retail dealers
Is Just over and the jUbDers have many
thousands Of dollars worth Of orders on
their books to show FOR their activity OF
the week. The implement jobbers are be-
ginning to get their stock and books In
shape for the new year, ana business lor
been entirely satisfactory. No immediate
change in prices is scheduled but wagons
now are going at the advance which was
named early in the fall.
Mail orders are coming in for rail- SORT
ing-up and winter goods in the shoe me
The Joo6ers had good business i3st wef iS,
much OF II being orders Tor ruooeIs, IN
duCed by the few days Of wet weather and
coming from dealers who had neglected
to lay In adequate stock,
The dry goods houses are practically
bare OF winter goods, though the wants OF
the retailers in the country have not been
shipments have been delayed from the
factories on many desirable lines OF goods.
| When the cold snap came last week many
rush orders for winter goods came In from
the country. Some lines are stu back
ward I'm coming from the factories and the
jobbers begin to fear that the delay Will
put the spring business in the same COndt-
ton in which winter trade has been. Cot
ton IS firm at the high prices.
Fish stIn Advancing.
Local jobbers declare maCkeTel is good
| buy for any merchant at the present time
| that while prices are high in comparison
with former years, in few months tn "
will look cheap The catch of domess,c
! fish is practically a failure and the Nor
| way catch is about half the usual Prices
have been advancing rapidly for two or
three weeks. No prices have been named
/ on fall caught Irish yet and II looks as
/ though the market would open 81 to So a
| barrel higher than last years opening.
! The demand for Holland herring is
| heavy, and although the catch is much
| larger than last year there are no surplus
| stocks. Goldfish is high and will continue
| to be higher for genuine eastern caught
The foreign pack Of sardines is prac.
! tically over and but very few cases have
| come to the American market, the fishing
! in France having been almost a total fail
ure. Reports on good authority say tho
| French government has made a second ap
preparation Of 100000 francs to keep the
/ fishermen from starving. All imported sar
dimes will be very much higher, as the
fishing VIII not begin until July OF mex
year
Tomatoes and corn are without any ma
tcrial change from last week, There is {
good, healthy feeling in tomatoes withou
any change whatever in prices; also good
The market in canned peas is mucl
for a 1O-cent seller: in fact there is no
Is cents.
ton, with many of the packers withdraw
and declining to name any price on futures
Canned goods Of an kinds have been mo. m9y
ing remarkably well and retailers supple
seem to be very light.
situation in Dried Fruit.
The dried fruit market has been exceed
ingly active almost every item in the lin
having shown advances during the week
Evaporated apples have been marked III
y cent or more. EvapOrated apricots ar
hard to obtain at any price. Peaches hav
shown a Il cent advance with most seller
and as high as l cent per pound with Others
Seeded raisins have advanced l cent pc
pound and prunes another "a cent, with fun
Their advances in sight 1t is impossible [
say where the end Of these advances is I
be. The raistn packers contend that price
are not yet as high as they will go an
that these prices are caused by absolut
scarcity of the material In prunes, tw
of the heavy shippers seem to be takin
in the available supply, believing that "a
justfes and that the spread betwce
prunes and other dried fruits is altogethc
too great. Certain II Is the demand fC
dried fruit Of all kinds, considering tn
abundant crop that was harvested,
|. beyond the most sanguine expectation {
the average jobber.
Head rices are very strong, with an at
vancing tendency, while Japans are shad
! easier. The demand, however, is suthcler
to keep the market in healthy condition
| and lower prices can hardly be eNpecte
before the middle of December.
Sugar Is unchanged in price on both ra
and refined. though on the latter price
are quoted a little lower for DecembC
and January delivery. The local deman
in the last few days has shown some in
J provement.
Americas are firmer and scarce 1t Is sal