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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1888
Page
7
The department Reports from Trade Centres is discontinued and its information placed with local market data. Telegraphic reports on any commodity now follow the Boston market report for the same commodity, making each market complete in one place and avoiding cross-column comparisons.
The report lists cargo flour and grain prices with declines in Western wheat affecting millers. It provides specific bag and barrel quotes for flour and cereals, New York and Chicago price movements, oats and rye quotations, and notes on prices for corn, barley, seeds, potatoes, poultry, hay, and game across Minneapolis, St Louis, Milwaukee, Detroit, and other markets. Strong entities include Minnesota, Michigan, New York, Chicago, St Louis, Milwaukee, and miscellaneous price figures.
Receipts of butter are steady with prices holding for choice creameries. Western and New York dairy quotes show varying grades from extra to fair, with Western creamery at 26 28c and Vermont extras around 81 82c. Cheese demand remains steady, egg markets are unsettled, and foreign beans show strong demand while domestic pea supplies shrink.
The market reports steady prices for apples with Baldwins at 3 3 25 per barrel and various other fruits. Oranges and lemons show tight Florida supply with Palermo oranges at 350 450 per box and messina/orange price ranges. Bananas remain plentiful with bundles around 2 250 per bunch, noting recent Boston receipts and a Timor steamer due. Cocaanuts at 30 per 1000 count.
Pork is steady and firm with good demand for hams. Dressed hogs and lard hold firm while various cuts and prepared meats are quoted at mixed prices. New York and Chicago markets show firm to active futures with beef and pork values ranging across cuts and packers reporting steady to dull conditions in different regions.
In New York cotton stayed quiet with middling uplands at 9 13 8-16d and low middling around 9 1/2d, sales totaling 281 bales. Futures opened steady and closed barely steady, with a detailed table of opening and closing prices for April through October. Liverpool reports fair demand at unchanged prices while American spot sales reached 10,000 bales. Regional markets show mixed activity and varied stock levels, with several ports steady or easy and others dull.
A dense OCR list outlines through trains on Western and Eastern divisions from Augusta Haymarket and Causeway stations, with departures at 83.30 am 12.30 pm 7 pm and 9 am 7 pm. It mentions connections to Eastport Calais Portland Halifax and services from Portland to St John and the Provinces, plus Maine Central Grand Trunk and Knox Lincoln lines with various Haymarket and Causeway departures.
The notice lists Sunday train times on the New York River Line and returns to Weymouth Hingham Scituates and areas including Fall River Taunton Newport South Braintree South Brantree New Bedford Middleboro Brockton and Brockton with connections from boats from New York and fall river Updated by GEO L Connor and J R Kendrick General Pass Agent and General Manager.
Seven day net receipts across ports total 30 912 with exports to Great Britain 89 836 France 186 and the continent 1 415. Stocks at all US ports 645 244 and interior towns 183 597. Week ending figures compare with prior year across totals and stocks.
Sugar trade stays light with large offerings and steady refined prices. Quoted Cuban and Java varieties show modest gains and buyers demand remains steady in New York and Havana markets as molasses remains quiet with unchanged quotes for Ponce Porto Rico and Barbadoes boiling grade.
Truck demand steady with large Southern supply and active sales at listed prices. Items include asparagus 6 per 4 doz, green peas 2 per crate, tomatoes 2 ripe fruit per canner, cabbage 2.75 per crate, Norfolk kale 0.60 per barrel, onions 3.50 per crate, spinach 1.20 per barrel, string beans 3.50 per crate, Florida beets 1.256 per crate, and assorted native and other vegetables priced per bush, barrel, box, or crate.
Kansas City hogs steady as receipts reach 6000 yesterday with 5000 recorded today. Peoria hogs steady at $5.30 with 500 receipts and 460 shipped. St Louis hogs mix from Yorkers at $4.90 to 5.50, butchers up to 5.50. Cincinnati hogs weak with common and light at 4.80 to 5.60. receipts 2800, 600 shipped. Chicago cattle receipts 7000, 8000 shipped. steers 3.80 to 4.00, stockers 2.50 to 3.70, cows 1.75 to 3.70. Hog receipts 17,000 with 6000 shipped. mixed 5.05 to 5.25, heavy 5.15 to 5.85, light 5.05 to 5.25. shipments 255 to 490. Sheep receipts 5000, 1000 shipped. natives 3.60 to 6.00, Western 5.0 to 6.0, Texans 4.50 to 9.0, lambs 4.60 to 6.40.
The report notes firm quiet markets in New York and London with various price quotes. Vipe Line Certificates opened April 6 and closed later that day with 76c to 78%4c ranges. Turpentine and rosin trades in New York showed turpentine at 389% ec, rosin around 122 to 125, tar nominal, while petroleum closed 65ga 6%gc and RSW at 74cc. Coffee in New York quiet at 141%¢c. futures weakened overall with a 25 to 50 point daily drop on heavy selling, 103,750 bags traded, and St Louis/Cincinnati price levels noted near $109.
A dated shipping ledger lists cargoes and consignments from CIENFUEGOS to HALIFAX and RIO GRANDE DO SUL. Entries include sugar, eggs, medicine, mackerel, salmon, codfish, rubber, hides, goat skins, and assorted merchandise aboard multiple vessels and firms such as Cutler Bros, Haskins & Montague, DeLong & Seaman, and Brown Bros & Co, with quantities in bags, boxes, drums, bales, and other units.
Shipping list reports Mosette at Digby with 456 barrels flour SO bags middlings 125 barrels corn meal. George M Warner at Port Gilbert with meal flour pork beef beans chains. Yarmouth steamer Yarmouth carrying flour marble hardware dry goods duck paper hangings boots gas pipes oat meal cornmeal.
Receipts list extensive railroad consignments across multiple lines: Boston & Albany, Grand Junction, Boston & Providence, Old Colony, New York & New England, Fitchburg, Boston & Maine Eastern Western Lowell System. Items include bales cotton and wool, flour, oats, corn, wheat, barley, bales leather, butter, cheese, eggs, bacon, lard, sugar, coffee, tea, potatoes, beef, pork, and various crates and boxes. Totals and tonnage vary by line, with hundreds to thousands of units recorded for each railroad segment.
A dense sample of produced goods lists crops animals and goods with units and quantities. Items include barley corn oats dressed hogs half barrels tubs cases butter eggs cheese lard molasses coffee tea beef pork sugar and hides among others with varying package units and assorted totals.
A brief table of total receipts at the port lists the principal staples for all shipment points and in transit. It also shows the total receipts for the previous seven days, providing a snapshot of trade activity and movement of commodities through the port.
Liverpool market notes show bread stuffs with wheat steady and fair demand, corn easy with poor demand. English and French markets steady overall, spot and futures mixed, California and Chilian wheats quoted, American corn prices listed, Paris flour May at 38f Ge.
A Kansas City shoe industry directory style item lists numerous buyers and firms from across the United States gathered in Atlanta and various cities, naming Edwin Bates Co, Moore Marsh Co, Draper Moore, Mandell Bros, Frank Adler, Rich Robinson, Reed Jones, G P Gore, Schnadig Bros, Greensfelder, Guthma & Telling, Hatch & Emery, F Yen muehle, E L Dodd, C Meis, Thorne, Robi Bu, Buford Porter Davenport, A P Doe, Rich Bros, Lederman Marks, Goodbar Co, Fleishman Mor s, Wingo Crump, Freeman Gotzlan, Dittman Boot Co, Hamilton Brown Shoe Co, Kelley Goodfellow Co, Einstein Sons, Childs Lee Dunlap, Wachter Bros, Childs Lee & Dunlap.
Train times and service notes for multiple lines in and around Boston, Providence, and New England. Includes Shore Line Fast Express to New York, Steamship connections, and numerous local branches with daily and Sunday timings, return options, and seasonal notes.
A long OCR filled schedule shows trains from Boston Station to Alton Bay Rochester Farming and many stops including Andover Haverhill Malden Medford Wakefield Reading Wilmington and others with numerous times and station annotations. The fragmentary data lists multiple trains and via routes with inconsistent punctuation and numbers.
Time tables show trains from Boston stations to Northampton Madiey Amherst Belchertown Bandevillg and other towns with multiple daily departures. Full schedules for local and through trains available at stations. James T. Rae BCR D. J. Flanders Genl Manager Genl Passenger Agent.
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