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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1887
Page
7
Commercial matters indicate quiet to firm movement in grains and foods. Flour, oats, rye, and barley hold steady with light trade. eggs, potatoes, butter, cheese, and fresh beef show stability. Sugar and molasses remain very quiet, while poultry and apples stay firm in a calm market snapshot.
Trade at the fish market remains quiet as demand falls due to higher freights. Mackerel prices unchanged while codfish stay firm, pickled bank cod scarce, and pollock prices firm. Herring, alewives, haddock, halibut scarce with steady or nominal prices. canned goods demand steady. receipts include mackerel, herring, pollock, and cod.
Market quiet with no outside activity beyond New England. Corn steady at 53 to 54 cents for steamer yellow, 52 to 51 4 cents for steamer mixed. spot lots 52 and 51 4 cents. Oats firm with moderate sales, No 2 white oats on track 40 to 41 4 cents, fill-ins around 39 4 cents. Inspections show 150 cars including corn and oats lots. flour and meal prices listed for various grades, with export and fob figures. Rye, oats, barley, and hops markets noted with ranges.
The butter market shows quiet activity as held goods outperform, fresh goods dip slightly. New York butter firm with Eastern tubs at 80 12c and Western creamery at 13 14c. Cheese stocks move well, good cheese at 15 42 1c. eggs steady with Eastern extras at 14c bid and 15c asked. Chicago eggs firm at 12 5c with moderate receipts.
New York prices show eggs steady while dairy quotes edge up and down for Western and Eastern creamery products. Potatoes, sweet potatoes, and hay demand remain steady with light receipts. Poultry and game varying by region. beans, seeds, and onions show mixed bid levels. Cabbage and other truck items hold firm. tallow prices listed for city and country renderers.
No change cited for fruit. Andrea Lo Vico arrives to sell at Fiske's Wharf on Tuesday. Cargo lists 2642 boxes Palermo oranges and 5480 boxes Palermo lemons, with assorted prices for apples nuts dried fruits and Florida oranges, mandarins, and tangerines from multiple regions and grades.
Market notes show no change in rk, with steady quotations for hams lard and pork items. Veal supplies good and lambmutton quiet, while beef and pork prices range with many cuts listed from common family to extra prime and mess.
Sugar markets show quiet activity with multiple refined grades quoted steady. Beverages include Manila Iloilos and Iloilos notes, with granulated at 513-16c and various forms ranging from 41 to 67-16c per pound. Wholesale granulated price listed at 6e. Molasses market remains steady with Porto Rico fancy crop at 42c, Cienfuegos 24c, and Cuba boiling nominal 20c for 50 test.
Markets by telegraph from Chicago on April 8 show cattle receipts around 1000 and shipments 3000 with strong demand for shipping steers at 3390 to 525, stockers at 360 to 425, cows and bulls 150 to 425, bulk 270 to 315, and grassers 255 to 350. Hogs receipts 3000 shipments 6000 steady but slow with rough and mixed prices to 560, packing and shipping 560 to 585, light 516 to 545, ships around 340 to 380. Sheep receipts 2000 shipments 800 stronger with wooled natives 83 to 10, lambs figs.
No markets opened today. Consolidated figures show six days receipts 24 288 and exports to Great Britain 17 194, to France 405, to the continent 13 869. Stock at all United States ports totals 507 855.
A transcription of shipping briefs noting Gras brook with six cases earthenware Mitchell Woodbur & co one case musical goods G W Sheldon & co several woollen goods Stone & Downer fifty kegs arsenic 306 bdis hides Haytien ports logwood bananas coffee logwood order F A Richards piling eggs potatoes lumber Susie P Oliver cedar logs maracaibo sugartea Whitney.
Observed shipping docket detailing brig Acatiia-600hirds and steamer Alpha-5 at Yarmouth with sugar, potatoes, and halibut. matanzas ship Irthington logs 17 100 bags sugar. Christine brig in Cienfuegos with molasses. W L White steamer at Sagua with sugar. Halifax steamer Carroll reports multiple mackerel, eggs, salmon, dry fish, and various shipments, listing firms Beaman, Ellis, Hathaway, Haskins, Montague, Jones, Russell, Stone and others.
Cargo and goods tallies from Cow Bay and Buenas Ayres with flour cornmeal and lard among items. London steamer British Crown clears, listing flour oil cake wheat feathers cheese canned beef leather machinery rattan goods and cattle among the extensive consignments and counts.
A compiled ledger lists shipments to multiple railroads including Boston and Albany Grand Junction Providence Fitchburg Boston and Maine Boston and Lowell and others. It itemizes cotton wool flour corn meal oats barley and various farm and pantry goods with quantities such as hundreds of bales and bbls, dozens of boxes, and several carloads, reflecting extensive commodity movement by rail.
The Department of the Interior Indian Affairs in Washington invites sealed proposals for beef bacon flour transportation and related goods for the Indian service. Bids due April 12 1887 and May 3 1887 at New York and Washington offices. All bids require certified checks of at least five percent. J D C Atkins commissioner.
Sealed proposals from contractors are invited until May 6, 1887, for supplying the U.S. Army with helmets, hats, uniforms, bedding, tools, ropes, cloths, and other manufacturing materials. Deliveries begin July 11, 1887 to Philadelphia and Jeffersonville depots. Domestic preference applies. government may reject all proposals. instruction blanks available at the office.
Sealed proposals in triplicate for dredging in Little Harbor New Hampshire and Narragaugus River Maine will be received at US Engineer Offices in Portland and Boston with bids due April 30 1887. Information and forms supplied on application. Also sealed bids for towers for a Boston Custom House building due April 14 1887.
Railroads Boston and Maine announce through trains on both divisions with departures from Haymarket and Causeway stations. Services include Augusta, Lewiston, Manchester, North Conway, St John Halifax, Eastport and Calais routes, with multiple daily times and a morning meeting at 8.30 am and afternoon slots.
A dense list of Western Division train times includes numerous stations such as Alton Bay Rochester Farmington Exeter Haverhill Lowell Melrose Melrose Highlands and others with varied departures and returns. Sunday trains also listed for Dover Haverhill Lawrence Lowell Medford Portland Reading and more.
Schedules list numerous towns including Amesbury Beverly Chelsea Dover Everett Ipswich Lynn Salem and others with times across days. Mentions Workingmen's train service Thursdays and Saturdays and city ticket office at 306 Washington Street. Signatories James T. Furber and D. J. Flanders as officials.
Boston station on Causeway Street lists extensive through service from Boston to Montreal and many New England points, with morning and night departures, Pullman and parlor cars, local runs from Manchester and Concord, and numerous stops from Lowell to Springfield. A detailed timetable and full information are available at stations.
Central Massachusetts Railroad trains from Causeway Street Boston depart starting Monday February 21 1887 for Jefferson Way Stations and various suburbs with multiple daily expressions and times listed including 9.10 11.50 am 2.45 4 5.05 express and 6 pm on several routes to Reachbottom Sudbury Wayland Weston Belmont Waverley and Waltham. Geo W Storer and C Mellin signatories.
Train schedules updated for Monday February 28 1887. Services from Bathon to New Work Shore Line Fast Express and Shore Line Mail run daily and Sundays with specified departure and return times. Routes include New Wars Steamboat Stoningka Line and other stops such as Providen Pa tucket Dodgeville Hebronville Attleboro East Providence Hyde Park and Stoughton with varied Sunday exceptions and late-evening returns. Instructions note connecting trains and delays and state the Shore Line service may be subject to Mansfield arrival checks.
After April 4 1887 week day trains depart Boston for New York River Line at 6 p m with returns via the river line at 6 p m Several intermediate stops include Ashmonge Barnstable Hyannis and more Coastal towns list times for many stations such as Provincetown Cohasset Hingham Plymouth and Fall River with varied return times through the day J R K Kendrick General Manager announces the schedule and notes weekend and weekday differences and special conditions for boat connections and Dorchester lines.
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