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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1889
Page
7
The report details opening, high, low, and closing figures for Wheat Corn and Oats futures at Boston C8 Williams & Co for April through July, with New York and Minneapolis quotes for cash and on track prices and St Louis closing futures. Major entities include C8 Williams & Co Boston, New York, Minneapolis, St Louis.
The market notes steady demand for seasonable goods with corn scarce for packing in Hartford county and lobster packing starting in the East but not yet large quantities. Prices are quoted for apples through hops and other can goods, with early June and sifted June peas described as scarce and sold at full prices.
John E. Welsh reports carload grain prices for domestic four quotations and mixed oats. Receipts today include 15 carloads of various oats and corn at St Louis and Chicago. Spot markets are quiet with prices steady to weaker, while New York and Detroit show firmer or steady tendencies in wheat and oats against muted demand.
Receipts show butter up from last year with quiet demand for lower grades. Western and Vermont creamery and dairy quotations quoted with prices for oils and oleomargarine, eggs, cheese, beans, potatoes, poultry, hay, straw, and truck items. markets mixed steady to dull across regions with firm New York and Baltimore notes, and Portland prices omitted.
Pork and pork products receipts listed: 36 barrels of pork, 5 tierces of lard, 1 barrel and 1 tun hams, 66 barrels and 150 tierces, bacon 639 boxes, dressed hogs none, preserved meats none. Same day last year shows 26 barrels of pork.
Meat prices and supplies remain largely unchanged from the last report. New York-Pork and Chicago markets show mixed activity with beef and lard varying by region, while overall demand stays steady and receipts of tongues and corned beef remain light.
Stock Yards Kansas City receipts 3969 cattle market lower with shippers 3.40 to 4.20 natives 1.90 to 3.20 mixed butchers 1.88 to 2.60 stockers 3.15 to 3.25. Hogs receipts 6599 market strong heavies 4.50 to 4.60 medium and lights 4.50 to 4.57 pigs 4.55 to 4.60. Sheep receipts 1857 market weak 1.85 to 4.50. St Louis hogs fairly steady 4.60 to 4.70. Peoria quiet 4.65 to 4.85. Cincinnati hogs stronger 4.00 to 4.90. Chicago cattle receipts 13 000 shipments 4000 slow lower beeves 4.40 to 4.50 steers 3.25 to 4.10 stockers and feeders 2.40 to 3.70 cows bulls mixed 1.75 to 3.15 Texas cattle 2.50 to 3.75. Hogs receipts 15 500 shipments 6500 strong mixed heavy 4.70 to 4.90 light 4.76 to 4.65 ships 3.60 to 4.60. Sheep receipts 7000 shipments 500 strong natives 4.56 to 6.40 Western counted 4.90 to 5.40 Texans 4.70 to 5.29 lambs 3.4 to 7.52.
The Schweigaard and Ditmarschen are due with bananas for WW & CR Noyes and the Boston Fruit Co. The Viking sails for Seaverns & Co with Baracoa bananas. Naranja carries 2750 cases Va page cranes to Boston after Gibraltar pass. Aberlady Bay ships Palermo oranges and lemons to Boston, March 27 to April 6. Wallachia and North Angela load oranges and lemons for Boston. Fruit market reports dull to steady with quoted prices on oranges lemons and other produce.
Cotton markets show steady to firm tones in New York and Liverpool. Prices in New York uplands range from 8c to 10%c with futures opening firm and closing higher. Liverpool spot bids are steady with middling uplands at 5 15-16d and sales around 10,000 bales, including 7300 American, while futures advance in early and late trading. A broad set of market reports covers regional receipts, stocks, and exports across Augusta, Galveston, New Orleans, Mobile, Savannah, Charleston, Wilmington, Norfolk, West Point, Philadelphia, Baltimore, New York, Cincinnati, St Louis, Louisville, and overall trade activity.
The record lists ports to Great Britain 21 750 exports to France 1 024 to the Continent 16 573 and stock at all United States ports 464 356.
Sugar receipts and market notes show firm prices and quiet trading with various grades quoted. New York and Cuba prices are listed for raw and refined sugars, while oil and cottonseed oil certificates reflect recent market moves and a large Standard Oil deal.
The update records varied outputs with 25 barrels today and 54 barrels last year, alongside added items like 8 casks 6 bags and 560 pigs. Prices show little change across sectors with New York trade quiet, whiskey steady at 103 dollars, turpentine rosin tar and petroleum pricing listed in cents and dollars.
A good line of cattle offered by dealers at Brighton yards sold for home slaughter with prices generally sustained at grades. Notable sales include WG Townsend 8 cattle at 475 and BS Hastings 2 cattle at 115. Monroe, Farrell McFlynn and others reported multiple steer lots with averages around 1100 to 1250 lbs and prices from 414 to 490 dollars.
Shipping notice lists Demerara sugar and Montevideo wool orders. J W Williams Storage imports include Bark Imacos 65G6L bags sugar for R C Cushman & Co and Bark Anna 659 bales wool for Baring Bros & Co. Also mentions 3000 dry hides order.
Export items listed for two steamers Cephalonia and Iowa clearing April 12 and 15 1889. The Cephalonia carries cotton bacon beef apples crates lard organs leather cheese etc totaling numerous consignments. The Iowa carries organs lard beef corn hogs leather copper ore oil crates and various miscellaneous goods.
London and Liverpool spot markets show wheat and corn largely quiet with modest firmness in futures. American corn prices mixed for April to September, Paris prices steady for April to May, and London quotations list steady positions for wheat and flour with various feed stuffs.
Time tables show local and through service between all stations. Trains to Albany and the West depart Boston at 11 00 a m with drawing room cars and dining Worcester to New Haven. 4 00 p m Bailey Limited Express with drawing room cars electric light dining Worcester to New Haven. 11 60 p m daily with sleeping car. Tickets and accommodations available at 232 Washington Street or Kneeland Street Boston. A S Hanson Gen Pass Agt
Rail timetable lists departures from Kneeland Street and Park Square stations to Buzzards Bay Bourne Brewster Cataumet and more with round trips at 8.15 and 4.15 pm, various other stops, and daily and Sunday patterns. Providence Division shown with New York Shore Line and local stops, many times across the day.
A dense roster lists Western Division train departures from Boston stations to Alton Bay Rochester and Farmington with numerous stops including Andover Dover Danvers Exeter Great Falls and Melrose among many others plus Sunday trains to Dover Haverhill Lawrence Manchester Lowell Medford Portland Bangor and Lewiston with afternoon and evening slots shown.
A jumbled OCR shows scattered train times for Amesbury Beverly Biddeford Great Falls Rochester Newburyport Salem Swampscott Lynn and other towns. Entries list varying departure times and routes including ports, branches, and special services with inconsistent formatting.
The notice lists through service from Boston to many towns including Tilton Laconia Meredith Plymouth Weir a and St Johnsbury with multiple daily departures and remarks on other routes such as Passumpsic Division Northern RR and Montreal Boston Air Line. Local services from Boston cover Manchester Concord Keene Nashua and Lowell with extensive listed times and branch connections.
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