Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-09-30
CONDITlONOF OMAHA'STRADE
Fall Meetings Over, but Road salssmsn
Send Good Orders
MANY VISITORS EXPECTED TINS WEEK
Ak-ssr-Ben Festival win Bring Many
Merchants TO Omahs-severai Adj
vances Are Named in Hardware
Sugar Demand Lighter.

Though the fall buyers meetings are an
over and few merchants are visiting thu
large volume OF trade, statesmen sending In
good orders from the road. Next week
house trade Is expected to improve TEN,
porarily, for many retailers who did NOT 4
come to the city early in the season ari [
preparing to take advantage of the Ak-Bar.
Ben rates, ana to call on the jobbers while
lectlons are much better than a few weeks
ago. owing to the fact that the farmers are
Of their crops ~ns sTe settiIns their ne.
counts with the retailers.
The toy season is at hand and all jobbern
who handle that line OF goods have large
variety OF new and interesting creations, All
holiday novelty lines are now being pushed.
SHOW SHOW rooms have been prepared t1r sar-
the best Of opportunities for selecting what
they want.
Wagons, wagon beds and dump boards
are In great demand at the implement
houses. In spite OF the fact that wagons
have been advanced. and the advance was
not buy heavily before the advnnce. aud
now they must have wagons, for the farm
erS are Drep 5nse to gSthss Sse big SsTn
hard to get, in fact, the jobbers have none,
and other makes are in none 100 lar~s
supply
Advances Named I'm Hardware.
Several advances have been named In
has taken place In pieced and pressed TIM
ware OF all kinds and In iapanned ware.
Galvanized ware is up Is per cent on tie
av,rage Manufacturers OF wire fencing
ale advancing the price about per cent.
basis cents per 100 pounds higher. Shot
has been advanced cents. New Prices
hive been ma aled on clothes wringers aud
they are 80 cents to Si.50 higher per dozen
than were the former prices.
Local jobbers OF dry goods are havlna
great difficulty to secure bleached goods,
eve Of a1ya need nriCpe and
they do not know how the situation will
turn out Blankets are practically not "a
be had. and ginEtams and sheetings are Il
be had only in small quantities and with
great difficulty All seasonable goods are
now scarce, and iobbers expect no lower
even next spring.. for many OF them be-
lieve advances will be named In the spring
Raw cotton has had no change i'm valut
vance is rather to be expected
Paints, OIL and Glass.
The glass market is firm and the goodt
weather. builders being DESTROYS OF havina
the, new buildings enclosed before there y
hnse 1Sr pr ai see sa 20 2
and the market is up from to 10 per cent
The paint business continues to- be brisk
prices have not changed. Carter's being
quoted at ~ cents, while Southern Is az
cents. Linseed oil Is unchanged. the boiled
The fan trade In shoes has opened az
splendidly, and, as one jobber says the
done will fiji out the year. which has been
extraordinarily good Prices are firm with
out notable. change. Orders from all parts
leather the market is irm and very steady.
with no price changes. The bulk OF busi-
Is hs ,6 and SeT. Changes
price. r
sugar Demand IL Lighter.
Due to the fact that the preserving sea-
IL a.. n lax< at h. f0R
sugar is lighter, and consequently the mar
ket Is not so brisk. Refineries are not now
runnins SO far behind and the Jobbers have
though there are no large stocks on hand.
Raw sugar was dull all through the week.
the jobbers say conditions favor higher
prices. Brazil seems TO be In earnest about
the tax on coffee; and the big planters sx-
money with their coffee as collateral This
may put the price up or cents" Gays an
Omaha jobber, but the question Is whether
or not they can keep 1t up any great length
of time"
great deal of attention because OF the fact
that the pack is over and the season the
shortest on record. There has been heavy
goods as fast as they were offered. AS a a
consequence the market has further adj
vanced. both on 3-lb and gallons, and to-
basis, very firmly. The partial failure OF
the Nova Scotia BURBERRY pack and the
Maine pack mas na0 the erect OF bndfply
advancing prices on these goods The
the opening price. New packs OF canned i
sries are are being S0 made BY the josSefs as
Owing TO the dificulty IN securing labor
in the south. prices have not yet been
generally made on canned oysters. Some
few packers. however. have made prices
isc to Soc per per dozen higher than the open.
ing of last season. No Information is at
hand as to what damage the gulf packers
as some of them are in very exposed situa-
tions, II would seem as IL 1t would be Inn
for them sS serious dam
packing and the naming of prices.
Evaporated Fruits and Prunes.
Evaporated pears. while In small supply,
have been offered at reasonable prices but
amounting TO about 1c per Id. Raisins have
been very freely sold at opening prices, but
largely controlled By packers and specula-
tors and prices for early shipment are at
least Nc per ID. 4, above the .S opening; The
ing the month OF October perhaps has ne
something TO do with this advance In prizes
or or n not Is Impossible to say. Il DOUBTLESS
win be maintained until after the FIRST OF
The advance I'm currants recently noted
has been maintained and even higher prices
are being asked by a number OF importers
Prunes are also stronger than they have
been, with a general advance OF hc per
ID. or more from every section OF the state.
From the present outlook II will be impos-
sible for the California shippers to deliver
tho goods thst have been sold for October
delivery. Everything is against them. La
Dor Is exceedingly scarce; box shocks are
not obtainable as fest as required; iitho-
graphers have not Furnished sufficient la
bells and cartons, and last Of all the rail-
roads are unable 20 furnish an adequate
number of cars for the transportation OF
the goods. The California packers and
shippers are heroically trying to overcome
these conditions. which are making Il the
hardest season that they ever have gone
up against. In the meantime the tobbers