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Newspaper

Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Apr 08, 1890

Page

7

Dry Goods Trade Sails Quiet Through Early April

The dry goods trade remains quiet in wholesale and commission circles during holidays in New York and local markets. Prices hold, with drives in white goods, ginghams and challies, while cotton and wool manufactured goods face price influences from raw material costs. Fall River and Providence outputs, export shipments, and recent firming in certain fabrics shape a cautious outlook for jobbers and retailers.

New York Fall River Providence Boston Messrs F R Townsend & Co Rhodes & Bros Philadelphia Commission House John & J Dobson S Underhill & Scudder

The Qol Trade in Wool Markets and Prices

Market for dosistic wool remains steady with firm prices and active demand. Buyers delay receipts as new clip prices rise, while old wool sales hold firm with Coates Bros noting increased recent demand and larger sales as holders close for the season.

Ohio Pennsylvania Michigan New York Texas California Maine Messrs. Coates Bros Philadelphia

Wool clip expectations in Texas show cautious buyers ahead

Dealers note limited washed wools and small Territory stock while fall wools sell well. The tariff bill favors wool interests and, if enacted, may lift clip prices. Importations will continue until the measure takes effect, keeping the coming clip slow as buyers remain cautious. Texan opening figures point to broader regional trends.

Congress Lkely Texas

The Cotton Trade Week in Cotton Market and Weather

A dull cotton week with limited speculative activity as holidays approach. Prices hold near unchanged amid favorable foreign reports while Mississippi floods persist. Weather in the South brings rain. floods threaten bottom lands and worm risk. Weekly movement totals 34,377 bales, 5,609,038 bales since Sept 1.

Mississippi

Flour and Meal Trade Report From Grain Market

Receipts today totaled 4280 barrels and 7985 sacks of wheat flour plus 250 barrels oatmeal and 900 barrels cornmeal. Prices firm as prices rise on winter and some spring patents. spring patents largely unchanged. Minnesota and Wisconsin brands quoted at 4.50 to 5.50 for winter and spring patents export grades at 4.90 to 5.00, with other flour types holding steady. rye flour quiet but steady at 3.35, cornmeal firmer for bag meal, oatmeal small sales at 4.50 to 4.60 for fine and 5.20 to 5.30 for cut.

Minnesota Wisconsin Canada Superior Canada

Grain trade and stock totals from 1880 market summary

The report shows today’s grain receipts totaling 13 770 bushels of corn 18 270 bushels of oats 88 tons millfeed and 6070 bushels malt. Last year for the same day receipts were 7670 corn 7520 oats 35 tons millfeed 2000 barley and 5450 malt. Visible supplies by date and location, stocks in Chicago, and Boston elevator totals are listed with market prices for steamer yellow corn oats and barley.

Bush Chicago Boston Jush N. Y N. E Boston & Albany Eevator

Produce Trade Report Shows Quiet Market Conditions

The day's receipts list butter 1642 pkgs and 1212 oleo, cheese 1249 boxes, beans 295 bbls, potatoes 32 cars, sweet potatoes 19 bbls, hay 43 cars, straw 4 cars with year-ago figures noted. Butter markets in New York and Chicago are quiet with Western creameries priced around 18 22c, eggs easing in New York, and broad steady demand for potatoes and poultry amid ample supply and stable prices.

New York Chicago Kansas City Cincinnati Houlton Herons Houlton Rose Aroostook Hebrons Vermont Rose Burbanks White Star New Brunswick Nova Scotia

Market Report For Potatoes Fruits And Vegetables

Potatoes small sale at eight dollars per barrel with sweet potatoes ample and quiet trade. Jerseys at three hundred seventy five dollars per barrel and Floridas at twenty two hundred fifty. Hay and straw supplies liberal. Fancy hay scarce with asking prices around sixteen dollars and sixteen fifty, but large sales unlikely. Common hay around fourteen dollars per ton. Maple sugar and syrup well supplied with varying prices. Onions and assorted vegetables show steady demand and prices. Florida cucumbers at two to two twenty five per crate, Florida tomatoes unchanged at two per crate. Virginia asparagus five dollars per eight dozen, native cucumbers limited at fifteen dollars per bushel.

Ana Jerseys Floridas Uiet Southern White Cape St Andrews Norfolk Florida Havana Virginia

The Fruit Trade and Provision Market Report

The fruit market shows firm apples with Baldwins at 4 to 5 per barrel, and Russets and Northern Spies at 350 to 400 per barrel. Mediterranean fruits arrive sparingly with Sicily lemons and oranges steady, Florida fruits mixed with smaller orange arrivals, raisins and cranberries firm, pineapples poor, dried apples strong, strawberries larger and quiet. Steamship arrivals due include Bessarabia with oranges, Marmion with Jamaica bananas, Bratten with Baracoa bananas, and North Britain carrying Messina and Palermo fruits to Boston. The provision market remains steady with supplies of tallow pork lard hams and bacon compared to prior week.

SRE Eus Besses Florida Maine Sicily Catania Bessarabia Thomas Anderson Palermo Boston Marmion Jamaica Boston Fruit Company Bratten Seaverns North Britain Gibraltar

Cattle Hogs and Sugar Markets From Kansas City to Chicago and New Orleans

Market notes show Kansas City hogs and cattle steady to firm with ranges for heavies and mediums, and strong sheep demand. Chicago receipts and prices for beeves, steers, cows, bulls, and Texas steers are listed, while hogs and lambs show steady to higher trends. Sugar and molasses markets quote refined sugar levels, raw sugar stability, and molasses receipts with regional price ranges for various grades and vessel cargos.

Kansas City Chicago Texas

The Cotton Markets Across Cities and Prices

New York cotton is steady with sales of 150 bales and varied quoters from 8 11-16c to 11 11-16c for uplands and different grades. Futures opened quiet and steady and closed steady. Consolidated three day receipts total 9214, exports to Britain 2123, to the Continent 12033, to the Channel 6227, and total US port stocks 25,730.

New York Augusta Galveston New Orleans Mobile Duill Memphis Savannah Charleston Wilmington Philadelphia Baltimore Cincinnati St Louis Louisville Great Britain Continent Channel United States

Print Cloth Market Shows Strength in Fall River

The Fall River print cloth market shows stronger sales with 3c 4 per cent added for 64s as the current quotation. In Chicago curb May wheat trades were bullish with higher prices and active outside business, as winter grain reports fuel optimism and influence buying sentiment nationwide.

Fall River Chicago Gilman, Cheney & Co Boston

Weather Turns Cooler As Corn Prices Edge Back Higher

Weather has cooled with rain likely slowing field work and dampening harvest pace. Traders shift to a bull stance as corn gains fade after early strength, provisions stay firm, hogs hold steady with initial gains then retreat. Farnum Reardon & Co Boston quotes show mixed grain futures with slight upward bias in corn and firm oats and pork prices. Closing grain prices vary across New York St Louis Milwaukee and Duluth markets with corn around 30% to 39% cash ranges and wheat near 80% to 90% in various contracts.

Farnum, Reardon & Co Boston Bob Babe Bate New York St Louis Minneapolis Northern Milwaukee Duluth

Oil Market Report from FW Prescott Co

FW Prescott & Co at 54 Devonshire Street reports oil market figures with opening and closing times in April. Details include shipments for April 2, refined price per gallon, and cottonseed oil certificates with various price points and averages since the first of the month. The record notes highs and lows and multiple closing times across April 5 and 6.

Aliforata Wines Sheery C. W. WH Sanbqebn North Market Street Losteu Prescott & Co Devonshire Street J Pipe Ee Pecaace Eee

Boston exports April four value by items and destinations

The list records Boston export values for April four across numerous goods including naval stores pine tar oils and lubricants iron and steel products textiles and foodstuffs with totals for England Nova Scotia Newfoundland and Labrado British West Indies and other destinations. notable entries include breadstuffs meat fish and clothing items along with machinery and furniture valued in thousands of dollars.

Boston England Belgium Geeius Aes Buenos Ayres Turks Island Singapore Gambier Melbourne Nova Scotia Gorre Porto Rico Spracegum Molassex Germany Cuba Haven Cooperagesto Miquelon Langley Newfoundland and Labrado British West Indies

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