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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1889
Page
7
The market report lists metals and teas as firm or steady while grains and fats show varied activity. Coffee flour corn meal oats rye butter eggs and pork topics appear with mixed demand, noting some items in dull or quiet markets and others in fair or good demand.
In Fall River and Providence the print cloth market showed a steady to firm tone. Production and deliveries reached 165000 pieces, with 66000 sold and 43000 future. Prices quoted 315-16 for 64x64s and 37-16 for 60x56s, with stocks totaling 137000 64 squares and 6000 56x60s remaining.
The Chicago option market reports a quiet wheat session with narrow price moves. Traders anticipate bearish pressure as receipts rise and supplies exceed demand, while corn and oats show weakness from large arrivals and free selling in the West. Refined by regional quotes and futures in Minneapolis New York St Louis and Duluth endings.
The metal market remains robust for American pig iron with steady demand and full prior prices. Buyers report satisfactory weekly volume, potential gains from higher production, and several Pennsylvania furnaces restarting. Prices at ports hold firm though store sales exceed them, while foreign pig iron remains high but with limited demand. Bar iron steadies on expected Western mill price rises, and plate and structural iron face strong demand with ample orders. rails are less active.
Most new business is for small orders and rumors of large contracts persist. August or September copper delivery at Eastern mills runs 28, with 2750 for later orders. Lake ingot and rand costs hold at 12 and 10 1/10 cents. London spots at 42 and futures at 41 5s. Calumet & Hecla looms over prices, while consumption remains limited and production climbs risk a price drop. Tin spot around 20 to 20.10 cents, larger lots 19.80 cents. London up to 89 10s spot, 90 futures, later down. Lead remains firm near 4c with NY sales at 3.90–4c and shelters at 5.05–5.10c per lb.
Market notes show raw sugar purchases limited both locally and in New York with large receipts boosting port stocks. Refined sugar sells at discounts while demand remains sluggish. Rio and Santos coffee rise, with Brazil stock and imports totaling over 419,000 bags versus 310,168 last year. Spices and teas hold steady, Formosas and Japans priced, rice market dull with limited sales, and California fruit crops rising with large raisin and prune outputs likely to push prices lower.
Carload receipts show 6 cars of grain today with 3330 bushels flour and 4980 sacks. year ago 3145 bushels and 3300 sacks. Prices for new wheat flours range from fine at 35 to 35 cents per pound to winter patent at 5 26 to 6 00, Canada export lines at 4 75 to 5 40 fob. No major market changes observed as buyers operate only due to supply constraints.
Receipts and shipments for wheat corn oats and rye show lower or weaker markets in St Louis and Chicago with mixed elevator quotes. No 2 red and white wheat ranges. New York No 2 and No 3 oats and wheat prices cited. rye flour and meal steady. cottonseed meal quiet with moderate demand. malt and hops markets quiet with small changes noted.
Today’s receipts list butter 1734 pkgs and cheese 195 boxes with eggs 1238 cases. Beans 226 bbls potatoes 3 cars hay 18 cars straw 8 cars. last year butter 1019 pkgs cheese 270 boxes eggs 6 boxes beans 461 bbls potatoes 10 cars hay 10 cars straw 4 cars. Market notes butter scarce, prices firm, quality variable. Eggs firm for choice jets, oats and other items described with regional price ranges.
The demand remains quiet and prices show no change, a typical condition for Saturdays. No notable shifts in supply or transportation costs are observed, and market activity appears subdued as traders wait for the next week.
The market shows steady to firm demand for apples pears citrus and berries with sizable supplies. Jerseys and Norfolks price per barrel reach 2 50 to 3 00 while gold即时 lessee and Delaware peaches move at 1 50 per basket. Messina Palermo lemons and Valencia oranges hold firm. watermelons bananas and grapes show quiet or steady activity amid ample supply.
The steamer Tordenskjold arrives Thursday with Baracoa bananas for Seaverns Co. The Hertha inbound for WW & C K Noyes carries Baracoa bananas. The Norfolk boat due Monday lists 500 bags peanuts 850 packages cantaloupes 500 packages peas 2210 packages grapes 150 barrels sweet potatoes and 9500 watermelons. The Chymea passed Gibraltar July 23 bound for Kosten with 300 half boxes Palermo oranges 1300 boxes Palermo lemons 1000 boxes Naples oranges and 700 boxes Naples lemons.
A brief item notes Snow & Co conducting a fruit sale on Saturday with one car load of Gros fruit sold.
Notes list runes sold at 55 cents to a dollar ten per unit and Bartlett pears at 210 dollars. Snow & Co schedules a Monday sale at 11 am offering four varieties of California fruit including pears peaches plums and nectarines.
Today's provision receipts show tallow 33 packages, lard 1718 packages, bacon 82 boxes, with pork and beef scarce. Last year’s figures are higher for many items, but overall market remains steady with minimal changes since the previous report. New York prices list tallow and pork at several quoted rates while Chicago and St Louis report dull or easier conditions across mess, lard, and short rib markets.
Market reports show weak cattle, lower hog prices, and steady sheep. Kansas City receipts 2156 cattle, 2109 hogs. shipping steers 3.35 to 4.05, heavies in Chicago 4.25 to 4.55, beeves 3.50 to 4.60. Cincinnati hogs steady 3.75 to 4.60. sheep steady 3.75 to 5.00. lambs up to 6.00.
In New York cotton activity remained firm with 759 bales traded. Prices for varieties ranged from 83-16c to 119-16c middling, while futures opened and closed dull. The day’s table lists opening and closing quotes for futures through May, with yesterday’s close noted, and broad market figures from Augusta to Consolidated, including net receipts, stocks, and export movements across major ports.
Turpentine and petroleum markets show limited movement in New York trading. Turpentine closes 40 1?2 41 2 percent with rosin at 105 1 10 and tar at 3. petroleum closes 7.60 cents, RS W 7.40 cents, cases 9.30 cents.
Shipping notices list Hattie H Barbour with 3000 barrels salt at Curacao under control of George E Downes. At Barbados the bark Egeria arrives with 999 holds 15 tierces sugar. PISAGUA reports the ship Independence carrying 8760 bags nitrate of soda 385 bales white wool 5 bales black wool for Hemenway Brown.
Shipping column listing exports from several ports including Smyrna Halifax Port Antonio and RMouth Nova Scotia. Commodities include flour meal refined petroleum toilet paper hardware furniture sewing machines leather and more with quantities such as 125 bbis flour 75 bbis cornmeal and 10 756 feet lumber and 20 000 shingles.
London and Liverpool price reports show mixed wheat activity with quiet markets in most regions and some firmness in Liverpool spot wheat. Quotations list winter wheat around 6s 1 1/4d to 7s 6d, mixed American corn near 4s 2d, pork and lard shifts, cheese up, and general holiday closures affecting trading.
A list names buyers and representatives in multiple cities including Atlanta Catlettsburgh Charleston Chicago Corsicana Grand Rapids Macon Newark New Orleans Omaha Philadelphia St. Minn Topeka Wichita with firms such as GH & A W Force Selz Schwab Kellogg Johnson Chase Stover and others. The item reads as a trade network roster of agents and firms across states.
Annual meeting of the stockholders will be held at the treasurer office No. 100 Sumner street Boston on Tuesday the 1 percent day of August at 1 o'clock p m Ped er Olsen Clerk Boston Aug 2 1889
A warrant in insolvency issued against the estate of James G Webber of Chelsea Suffolk. Debtor prohibited from paying debts or transferring property. A creditors meeting to prove debts and appoint assignees will be held September 6 1889 at 2 PM in the Court Room Probate Building Court Square Boston Suffolk. John B Fitzvyatrick Deputy Sheriff Messenger.
Concord railroad timetable details Boston to Merrimac Valley via Boston and Lowell Railroad Causeway Street station list departure times and routes. includes trains leaving Boston for multiple destinations on the Merrimac Valley Line as of July 1 1889.
Fitchburg Railroad timetable lists daily Boston to the West departures from Causeway Street with multiple trains to Troy Albany Chicago St Louis and more. Includes nights and Sunday variations plus special routes via Niagara Falls Erie Boston Line and Michigan Central Wabash railways. John Adams General Superintendent.
LOGAL TRAIN SERVICE 1 A DIVISIO trains depart Boston Station for a Workingmen's train.
A dense list of train departures from Boston Causeway Street and surrounding stations to coastal towns and inland points including Portland Amesbury Beverly Biddeford Great Falls Hampton Epswich Lynn Salem Newburyport Rockport Gloucester Swampscott Marblehead North Conway Portsmouth York Harbor Beach and more. The timetable shows dozens of daily times across multiple branches with morning midday and evening slots and notes branches via Saugus and South Reading.
Trains depart from Boston for Keene Peterboro Hillsboro and other towns with listed times 8 30am 3pm and 1pm through Concord Wilton Milford Amherst Greenfield Nashua and more daily and Sunday services including many hourly departures and special via Bedford Concord and Reformatory Station.
Train times list for Central Massachusetts towns including Clinton Berlin Hudson South Sudbury Wayland Weston Waverley Belmont and Belmont to Northampton with Sunday departures. Signatures James T. Furber and D J Flanders publish as General Manager and General Passenger and Ticket Agent.
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