Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-03
CONDITION FOMAHESTRADl
Business is Better Than for January Of the
Last Year.
MANY ADVANCES REPORTED BY IOsBERs
City This week VIII he Full of Hard
waNe, Furniture and Implement
Dealers, Two of which
Hold Conventions.

House trade in many lines shows
marked Improvement as the year advances,
the merchants meetings being in full blast
now and many retailers attending. sales
men are also sending in good orders from
the road. Business for last week was much
better than for the closing week OF jan
uary last year. Collections have been
fair, but not so satisfactory that the job
Sers are Dragging about them.
Omaha will be full OF hardware, furniture
and implement dealers this week. The
hardware dealers Of the state Will have a
big convention and trade exposition Tues
day Wednesday and Thursday. and the
furniture dealers will meet Wednesday and
Thursday. Implement dealers will be in
town in numbers to arrange for their
spring shipments, February 1 being the
date when the jobbers begin their busiest
The Week passed by without any advance
I'm dry goods, but neither was any decline
reported. All lines are firm and the price
is tending upward Business is increasing.
both staple and fancy goods being in strong
demand, which will have the effect In all
Shoe jo6bers are having all they can do
to keep pace with the business, and they
full capacity The shoe situation has not
changed and no advance has been made
by the jobbers to the retail trade. Leather
prices, even II 1t does not go higher soon.
Many Advances in Groceries.
Refiners have advanced the price of sugar
5 to 10 cents per 100 pounds; Those who
ton says higher prices will come. There
is a very good demand and Withdrawals
are showing an increase oyer last year.
Syrup is very strong, with an actual ad-
vance last week of two groups, which adj
Vances ten-pound cans cents a dozen over
the previous week. Refiners all largely
oversold and jobbers stocks are very light.
Supplies are coming forward slowly.
An advance Of 20 to . cents barrel on
bulk oats went into effect last week, and
manufacturers freely predict correspond
! ing advance on all package goods.
/ Cheese is higher the price ranging n to
a mound
Stocks are reported exceedingly light. and
Notwithstanding the high prices ruling, the
demand is very heavy.
Soap IL Going Up.
All kinds of laundry soap are quoted Is
| to p cents a box higher than a week
| ago. Tallow has shown an unprecedented
advance and is at the highest point reached
in several years. This, with a strong add
vance in other ingredients, makes it seem
probable that the price will be higher
Prices have recently been made to the
| Gamers on two and three-pound sized tins
pretty accurately the cost OF his pack for
| 1907. Cases and cans and solder have adj
vanced so that the cost of packing. let
| raw material, will make two-pound tins
| cost or 6 cents per dozen more than last
season and three-pound tins to s cents
| per dozen more than last season.
No prices have yet been made on future
western corn, at least openly. There is a
to get a considerably higher price than
last season, and II looks now as II the
figures would be fixed at a point at least
| nc per dozen higher than the opening
prices of 1906
Prices on futures have been named by
| a number of Gamers. These prices without
| exception are from ~ to 10 cents per dozen
on three-pound cans higher than the OPEN
| Ing prices of 1906. No. los are held at from
| Is TO So cents per dezen higher than the
opening of last year. These advances are
perfectly justified by the increased cost in
the packing of these goods. The question
of the bare market or the prosperity OF the
country and its consequent ability to abb
sorb very large pack does not enter into
the situation, apparently
Regarding Canned Salmon.
The market on canned salmon is very
strong particularly red Alaskas, on
which the situation grows stronger every
coast contend that salmon cannot be packed
in 1907 at profit unless the price is adj
tails. This figure refers particularly to red
Alaska. Furthermore, the stock of red
Aiaskas on the coast is the lightest for
These facts give great strength to the mar
| ket and 1t would appear morally certain
that figures will be advanced at an early
Among the articles that have been at-
tracing particular attention are ten-pound
apples. The market has been advanced,
many holders demanding an advance OF
4oc per dozen over the prices ruling q, few
and the light supply still higher prceG
probably will be seen before many weeks
nave gone.
There are not many changes TO report in
dried fruit. The supply In almost every
article, with the exception of prunes, ID
very far short OF the usual needs of the
country. Prunes are holding their own and
any spirited demand would doubtless spring
the price on this article.
Paints, Oils and Glass.
There is no change in the glass situation,
The market is firm Turpentine has ada
vanced to 7so. Boiled linseed oil is stiii
48c while raw is Ale. Lead is unchanged,
Carter's being TIC and Southern 7%c. Tha
demand for paint and glass continues good.
Business is improving in wholesale hard
ware circles. and the movement is growing
heavier Few changes are noted Wash-
boards are up a little Manila rope Is uu
about Ac. The outlook for spring business
in hardware is better than ever.
BOGUS SAUSAGE IS SIEzEn