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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1889
Page
7
The article notes projected annual coal production might not match last year’s tonnage due to mild weather and high spring stocks. Through late June, shipments rose weekly while tide water stock differed little from 1888, with June-July prices roughly flat, keeping trade pace near the prior year.
Market desk reports constant firm tone with flour and grain prices for carload lots. Widespread receipts total 50 cars across wheat, corn, oats and rye, with No 2 red, mixed and white classes varying. New York and Chicago markets show mixed activity while oats demand remains light. rye and Graham flour steady to quiet.
Liverpool New York Chicago Eggs Beans Poultry Potatoes and Hay market notes show firm prices steady demand and limited supply. Details cover cheddar exports eggs hand picked peas beans and regional ranges for Jersey potatoes Maryland and Carolina sweet potatoes and general market tone.
Receipts show butter 5663 pkgs oleo 520 pkgs cheese 1216 boxes eggs 10 bbls 2343 cases cans none potatoes 3 cars hay 12 cars traw 1 car. Last year butter 270 pkgs. oleo 1054 pkgs. cheese 462 boxes. fi zs 1 box. beans 31 bbls. potatoes 15 cars. hay 10 cars. straw pears. Market notes: butter quiet overall, scarce except choicest lots with fair demand. common grades large supply. Prices unchanged. oleomargarine quiet. cheese market shows better sentiment, steady prices.
The market shows ample supply and fair demand with quotes on produce including onions for 14c per bunch, $1.50 per crate for Egyptian onions, 75c per bush for beets, 50c per box for carrots and lettuce, 60 to 75c per box for yellow onions, $1 per bush for native cucumbers, 25c per bush for parsley, 75c per bush for beans, 50c per box for green corn, $3 to 4 per 100 for native cabbage, and various prices for squash, peppers, celery, and other items. Native peas sell at $1 per bush. Flor ida marrow squash and native marrow squash priced per barrel, with summer and crook-neck varieties noted as selling at beach or per each.
Market news shows broad fruit supply with steady demand and mixed prices across items. Apples demand fair. oranges lemons pears peaches cantaloupes and berries all listed with varied quotes from Messina to Virginia brands, with regional supplies from Virginia, North Carolina, and Delaware.
The steamer Tordenskjold is due Thursday with Baracoa bananas for Seayerns & Co. The steamer Hertha is due with Baracoa bananas to W W.&C K Noyes. The Olympia has arrived with 300 half-boxes Palermo oranges and 18 300 boxes Palermo lemons, 1000 boxes Naples oranges and 700 boxes Naples lemons and will likely sell Friday.
At the California Fruit Union sale today Prunes sold 95c to 1 36 per box Pears fetched 1 65 to 2 50 per box Two cars will be sold Wednesday including 600 boxes of fancy pears Snow & Co sale Bartlett pears brought 3 50 to 3 55 Tokay grapes 3 75 half case Muscat grapes 85c to 1 90 half case 125 per case Gross prunes 1 30 to 1 40 peaches 1 275 The same sell 1 car of California fruits Wednesday.
Receipts show tallow 39 pkgs and lard 418 pkgs with bacon 807 boxes. year-ago figures list pork 1 barrel and hams 100 barrels. Markets indicate steady to firm tone across cities with New York hogs quiet, lard rising, and beef, pork, and dry salted meats showing mixed moves. Prices cited for pork, lard, and bellies range from 6 to 12 dollars, with regional quotes from Chicago St Louis Cincinnati and Baron markets.
Market rounds report steady to firmer tones across major centers. Kansas City receipts include cattle at 325 to 275, hogs 4.10 to 4.30, sheep 3.42. Cincinnati hogs higher at 3.50 to 4.60. Chicago cattle 4.30 to 4.50, hogs 4.30 to 4.65, sheep 3.80 to 4.35 with varied stocker and feeder lots and regional price spreads.
Railroads announce where to buy tickets and book sleeping or parlor car accommodations. City office at 242 Washington Street and Kneeland Street station in Boston handle sales and reservations.
Sugar receipts today total 35 barrels and 120 hogsheads, down from 50 barrels last year. Demand steady. refined and granulated sugars largely unchanged with mixed regional quotes. Molasses receipts today none, last year 40 barrels. market quiet and unchanged. New York foreigns neglected, New Orleans dull amid flat overall market.
Cotton markets show quiet, steady tones with upland and Gulf grades quoted. Futures opened and closed quiet in New York. Liverpool and other ports report modest demand and mixed middling to low middling levels.
Turpentine closed around 40 to 41 1 2 cents with rosin at 105 to 110, and tar at 33. Petroleum finished at 7 60 cents with RSW at 7 40 and cases at 9 30 cents. Coffee in New York shows Rio quiet with fair car movement around 184 cents. Whiskey markets report no change in Western regions.
Reported for the Boston Post by George J Fox the Watertown union live stock market shows mixed activity with cattle sheep and swine prices. Western dealers urge a 4 cent advance but market remains dull with cattle sold at assessed rates and lambs and hides listed at various per unit prices.
Liverpool cargo list shows Abram French & co and Clark Sawyer & co handling earthenware nails tin plates and casks of wine. J M Jones & co and Brown Bros & co provide tin plates steel and earthenware. Numerous firms supply textiles, leather, glass, musical goods, oil paintings, machinery, and miscellaneous goods in a dense ship manifest.
An extensive ledger notes shipments and consignments from many firms including Ditson Carl Schoenhof Frost Adams Shoninger Moses Co Davis Pitts Co and more. It lists packages cases crates bales casks and boxes of textiles leather machinery tin plates earthenware soap and various goods with numerous firms and partners such as Jordan Marsh Co Noyes Bros Pope Mfg Co and W L Ross.
Shipping ledger from Montevideo Halifax Moncton Yarmouth Melbourne Bridgewater Barbados and more details exports on Barketta Stewart Fury Samar L P Churchill and other vessels. Quantities include lumber flour cornmeal cases meats lard hardware and canned goods with numerous box and case counts across ports.
London and Liverpool market notes show wheat prices firm with limited corn offers. Baltic and Paris reports list steady or firmer wheat, corn values, and variable flour prices. Receipts show substantial U.S. grain arrivals. weather showery in England. futures quotes for August through January provided.
A fragment lists footwear buyers visiting Atlanta Chicago and Charleston. Names associated with firms include G H and A W Force Catlettsburgh Ky carpenter M C ONeill of DO’Neill Sons and AC McLauchlan of Selz Schwab Co.
In a Brooklyn letter to the Portland Globe a correspondent recounts a case of chronic cough and wasting treated with Murdock's Liquid Food and nutrition rather than arsenic or other drugs. The patient reportedly improved rapidly after May 20, with restored appetite, weight gain, stopped expectoration, and restored activity, prompting claims that nutrition can outpace toxic remedies in severe illness.
Sealed proposals for filling at Marine Park South Boston 200000 or 400000 cubic yards will be received by the Park Commissioners Boston until 2 p.m. Friday August 30 1889. Bids on blank forms with full name and address, signed, must include word and figure prices and be accompanied by a $1000 certified check. Plans and contract forms available after August 16 at City Engineer Office City Hall Boston. The Park Commissioners may reject any or all bids. BENJAMIN DEAN ISAAC FENNO.
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