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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1889
Page
7
The report shows mixed bond listings with minor gains across Nav and D.& R.G. issues, while grain markets in Chicago New York and Detroit run quiet with slight price movements. Wheat and corn futures edge lower in several hubs as stock levels and receipts shift, with oats and rye showing modest activity and muted demand across the season.
The report notes uneven movement across commodities with copper and tin steady, flour dull and steady, corn firmer, oats higher, potatoes easy, and several items like butter, eggs, pork, and beef showing varied but generally stable to firmer trends. Sugar and molasses hold steady to firm while tallow softens and oleomargarine remains erratic.
London reports an average wool sale attendance with 14 989 bales offered. NSW, Victoria and Cape of Good Hope lead, including 300 bales of snow whites. Prices varied by grade with scoured and greasy lots across Victoria, NSW, Queensland, South Australia, Swan River, Tasmania, New Zealand, and Cape regions.
Farnum Reardon & Co report a weak wheat market from opening to close with May liquidation and shorts buying July amid expectations of a rise that failed after a Northwest rain shower. Corn and provisions also slide while cash trade stays dull and rumors of slowing domestic demand surface.
Butter receipts reach 1406 pkgs today versus 917 last year with fair demand and a firmer tone though prices hold. Market closes firm and steady as Western creameries quote 24 26c, Western extra firsts 22 23c, Vermont extra creamery 24 25c, and other grades range 16 28c amid expectations of Elgin market tomorrow.
Eastern creamery quotes and receivers prices for wholesale butter meet firm Chicago market notes while New York and Cincinnati markets hold steady. Eggs beans and cheese show mixed receipts, with white cheese prices rejected and new york reports of 10c fancy goods deemed unlikely. Potatoes and hay markets remain steady amid quiet demand as Jersey extras and Florida sweets show modest activity.
The market shows strong demand with quoted prices for various vegetables and produce. Marrow squash 60 per ton, Hubbard 90 per ton, cabbage 85 per barrel, red cabbage 1 per barrel, onions 75 cents per barrel, Bermuda onions 1.75 per crate, Spanish onions 1.25 per crate, beets 0.25 per bushel, lettuce 0.50 to 0.75 per bush, turnips 0.40 per box, radishes and turnips 0.50 per dozen, celery 0.15 to 0.17 per box, parsnips 0.25 per bush, spinach 1.50 to 1.75 per barrel, cucumbers 2 per what, rhubarb 0.10 per something, parsley 1.25 per bush.
Provisions report lists today receipts of pork products across bbls tierces cases pails and boxes with last year figures and notes a fairly steady market with good demand. Prices cover pork products lard beef tongues hams bacon and fresh meats with regional quotes from Chicago St Louis Cincinnati and New York and details on plate m ess and beef hams tongues and tripe.
The list shows prices for beef and mutton items with quality descriptors ranging from common to fancy. Entries include 10 percent and 8 9c for mutton, yearlings at 842 9 tac, and Eastern real and choice grades with 6 7c to 9 942c. Outputs reflect mixed values and conditions from poor to good across regions like Brighton and Chicago.
Kansas City stock yards receipts 3650 cattle with prices for native cows mixed butchers stockers and feeders. Hog receipts 3787 market weaker with heavy and medium prices and pigs. Sheep receipts 1190 steady. St Louis York ers hogs easy with mixed packers and butchers to extra. Peoria hogs quiet at 465 to 480. Cincinnati hogs in good demand common and light 4485 to 495. Chicago cattle receipts 14000 active lower with beef and steer prices and Texas steers 3385. Hogs receipts 17900 slower with mixed 475 to 495, heavy 470 to 500, light 480 to 500. Sheep shipments 7000 with natives 375 to 460, corn-fed 490 to 550, lambs 475 to 650.
The Maranda is due April 11 from Jamaica with bananas for the Boston Fruit Company. The Naranja, 2750 cases Valencia oranges for Boston, passed Gibraltar April 2. The Aberlady Bay, 9300 boxes Palermo oranges and 13900 boxes Palermo lemons, sailed from Palermo March 27 for Boston. The Wallachia, 15000 boxes oranges and 12000 boxes lemons for Boston, passed Gibraltar April 1. The Sjofna is due April 9 from Barbadoa with bananas for WW & C R Noyes.
Auction sales indicate H Harris and Co will sell on Tuesday at 10:00 in the morning 1000 boxes of Florida oranges.
Apples receipts today 526 bbls versus 186 bbls last year. Baldwins 1 125 per barrel, russets 1 25, Northern spy 1 75 2 50, Tallman sweets 1 25, greenings 1 12 per bbl. Grape fruit steady at 3 per barrel. Oranges lemons demand fair at old prices. Messina lemons 2 25 3 00 per 300, Messina oranges 2 75 38 25 per case. Palermo lemons 2 25 3 50, Palermo oranges 2 25 300 per box. Valencias 3 50 regular, 5 6 per case large. Florida oranges 3 50 4 50 per box. Russets 1 50 2 50 per box, navels 4 5, tangerines 2 3 60 per half box, mandarins 2 2 50 per box. Cranberries demand dull, prices steady. Dried apples quiet, evaporated fancy 6 4 2 c, good to choice 5 4 2 6 c, sun-dried 3 4 c. Strawberries receipts larger. sales 20 30 c per quart.
Sugar receipts today show 3 bbls versus 132 bbls and 228 birds with 5704 bags from last year while raw sugar prices stay steady. Refined sugars command firm demand with high prices for pulverized powdered and granulated forms and Belmont A at 7 1 4¢. Molasses receipts total 47 bbls and 100 hhds versus 116 bbls and 248 hhds last year as prices stay steady, with Ponce Porto Rico and Porto Rico options priced per gallon and New Orleans and Cienfuegos grades listed.
In New York prices hold steady with middling uplands at 10 5 16c and low middlings 9c. Gulf ordinary at 7 13 16c, good ordinary 9 3 16c, middlings 10 9 16c. Sales total 372 bales. Futures opened firm and closed steady. table shows opening and closing for Apr and subsequent months. Liverpool spot cotton steady amid 12,000 bales sold with 8,000 American, futures quoted across April to October. Other markets report firm middlings across Augusta to Philadelphia with varied net receipts, exports, and stock levels.
Tallow receipts today show 67 barrels and 6 birds versus 46 barrels and 1 bag last year with no change reported. New York market activity for city and country fats shows slight variations with notes on coffee, whiskey, turpentine, rosin, tar and petroleum prices and closures.
A long OCR style record itemizes shipments at AGUADILLA CORNWALLIS CIENFUEGOS LIVERPOOL MIRAGOANE MATANZAS JAGO SAVANNAH YABACOA YARMOUTH and Yarmouth NL with schooners brig steamers and cargoes including sugar potatoes logs limes timber hardware books woollen textiles cotton and oils. Numerous firms such as Boston Sugar Refinery Nash Spaulding & co W H Cole co and J R Greenwood appear alongside many ship names and consignors detailing quantities ships destinations and goods for early trade activity.
At Avon dale orders include schooner Grey Parrot with 700 sacks salt. In Jamaica port Antonio steamer Marmion carries 106 bush corn 36 bush oats 1 half barrel flour 1 nest tubs lamps stores 1 bib etc. Digby Nova Scotia steamer Cleopatra lists 125 barrels flour 5 cases blacking 20 coils cordage 4 cases paint 6 pieces marble 1 case millinery 1 case paper hangings 21 packs household goods 200 egg carriers 4 packs hardware. Liverpool England steamer Oxenholme 746 cattle. Buenos Ayres ship Colchester 4 packages tobacco 2 boxes personal effects 1 chair 1 206 339 feet pine lumber.
Local carpenter M. K. Norwood of Somerville settled $3000 debt for about 40 cents on the dollar. Callendar Insulating and Waterproofing Co. of New York and East Newark, N J has suspended operations. Creditors consider an extension. The firm claimed assets of 427000 last July, including 200000 in patents, with liabilities at 92588. no current condition statements issued.
Market wires report London and Liverpool cargoes with wheat steady slow and corn steady. Weekly British wheat deliveries total 50,417 quarters at 308.1d average. Futures in Liverpool firm with various California wheat and American corn quoted. Antwerp and Paris show mixed signals as English markets remain quiet.
A list of buyers and agents from multiple cities including Atlanta Baltimore Birmingham Buffalo Charlotte Charleston Cincinnati and Chicago. Names and firms such as W S Everett Draper Kingsbury Slingluff Halle Nixon Stevenson Vandergrift Perry Sweet Taber Asiel Brown Drake Gates Coughlin Benckenstein Crane Schnadig Greensfelder Brooks Leonard are noted along with their associated companies or firms.
Illinois and Tennessee to Missouri and New York list of shoe firms and agents with names and cities. Entry highlights Farnum Wallace Gerhart Doe Howell Gillespie Hinkle Dixon Blum Obendorfer Branham Marks Wallace Henson Roney Warren Streng Rosenberg Gramman Coleman Nussbaum Singleton Goodbar Vogel Hill Kilbourne Wollner Stern Moore Hollins Carter Hall Throne Herman Richardson Laird Lindsley Opel Dittman Hamilton Brown Clark Gotzian Nettleton.
Time Table of March 10, 1888 lists fastest routes via Central Railroad of New Jersey Philadelphia & Reading and Baltimore & Ohio. Departure from New York Central Railroad of New Jersey at Liberty Street includes multiple morning and afternoon slots to Philadelphia and daily services to Baltimore and Washington with several connections and sleeping cars. Agents in Boston advertise connecting tickets and room cars.
February 4, 1889 timetable notice details local and through Boston service to Albany Syracuse Rochester Buffalo and western points. Highlights include Latins BS line departures 6.30 am and 11.00 pm with drawing room and dining cars Worcester to New Haven. Tickets and sleeping accommodations available at 232 Washington Street or Kneeland Street station.
A dense listing of station times and routes for the Central Division detailing departures from Kneeland Street Station to New York via Fall River Line and various regional stops. It includes Ashmont, Marshfield, Cohasset, Hingham, Easton, Brockton, Weymouth, Taunton, New Bedford areas and notes Sunday schedules, via Brockton or Taunton, with multiple daily times and some ex lists.
Budding timetable lists Cape Cod routes with varied start times around 8.15 am and end times near 4.15 pm. Towns include Bourne Brewster Falmouth Provincetown Sandwich Sagamore Yarmouth Woods Hole and Nantucket with several via connections and limited days for Nantucket Mondays through Saturdays.
The document lists train times from Providence Division stations including Park Square Station to New Work on the Shore Line and various branches. It enumerates daily and Sunday departures with numerous times for Attleboro Canton Junction Readville Oxbury Roslindale Hyde Park Mansfield Taunton New Bedford Newport New London and other stops, noting weekday sixteen and Sunday four trains from Providence and referencing Central Division for additional trains.
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