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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1888
Page
8
A condensed market roundup lists varied commodity moves with many items steady quiet or mixed. Butter and eggs dull or firm, cornmeal lower, pork active, lard firm, potatoes good demand, oranges grapes and apples in play, oats easier, hay firm, cottonseed meal and stez notes, and several grains showing dull to steady trends.
The pig iron market remains steady with demand moderate. Expected 1889 deliveries price tiers echo No 1X foundry at $18, No 2 at $17, gray forge at $16. Western markets show more activity. southern forge irons active while Bessemer pits slow. Steel rails, nails, and copper trade show mixed firmness amid cautious buyers.
London wool sales drawn strong attendance as buyers bid for scoured and greasy lots. Prices rose on desirable grades while overall offerings reached 10 686 bales from regions including Victoria New South Wales Queensland South Australia New Zealand Cape of Good Hope and Natal with diverse per pound rates noted.
Prices for cold rolled copper, tin London quotation, tin plates and charcoal coke, lead sheet and pipe, and zinc, with variations in a sequence of unit costs and brand references. Includes 100.108 tin London, 625 coke for IC, 475 coke terne, and 7%4c sheet lead among listed items.
The Milwaukee market is quiet with dull activity across grains and malts. Quotations show steady spot and ship markets for barley, millfeed, middlings, and bran while cottonseed meal and hops remain subdued with modest price ranges and older stock prices noted.
Chicago provisions opened weak then firmed on local shorts buying. Armour heavy selling dominated closing at bottom prices. Pork and lard markets show strong demand and varied prices across pork products and byproducts with New York and St Louis benchmarks noted.
The first Norfolk spinach shipments arrive with sales at 1 dollar per bush. Demand remains quiet at revised figures. Market includes marrow squash 1 per bushel, turban squash 1.50 per barrel, Bay State turban 1.50, Hubbard types 1.25 to 1.26 per barrel, Savoy cabbage 0.50 per bushel, red cabbage 1.50 per barrel, onions 1.20 to 1.40 per barrel, Spanish onions 0.75 per crate, beets 0.40, carrots 0.50, lettuce 0.25, turnips 0.40 per box, cauliflowers 1.25 per dozen, celery 2.40 per box, parsnips 0.60, spinach 0.40 per bush, pumpkins 1 per barrel.
The steamer L D Baker is due here on December 6 carrying a cargo of bananas for the Boston Fruit Company.
The sale of the Bedford cargo continues after today with Messina lemons at 150 to 400, Palermo lemons at 140 to 125, and Palermo oranges at 150 to 200 per box. Apples show abundant supply and quiet trade with varied prices. weekly and seasonal export totals across Boston New York Montreal Halifax Liverpool Glasgow London Hull Hamburg and other ports are provided, with total shipments for the week 32,227 barrels and season totaling 131,877 barrels. Grape prices hold steady with Catawbas 2 to 4 8c, Concords 2 to 4 2c, Isabellas 1 4 to 2c. Oranges and lemons demand fair, with Jamaica and Florida varieties priced per box or barrel. Cranberries sell steadily from 3 6 to 6 6 50 per barrel and 1 75 to 2 00 per case. Nut markets unchanged with Virginia peanuts 6 4 to 6 4c per pound, pecans 6 8c, chestnuts and hickory nuts listed by size and region.
In New York cotton remains quiet with middling uplands at 9 9/16 cents and low middling at 9 1/2 cents while good ordinary sits at 9 3/4 and ordinary at 9 1/4. Sales total 115 bales as futures open and close steady. Liverpool and other markets show steady to easy tones with extensive port receipts and mixed stock levels across major cities including New York, Savannah, New Orleans and Baltimore.
Market updates from St Louis Peoria Stock Yards Kansas City and Chicago show hogs steady to mixed with prices around 5 dollars, cattle steady to active with steers 155 to 275, heifers and cows varied. hog receipts high in Chicago and Cincinnati with declines noted. sheep steady with natives and western flocks around 3 to 4 dollars, lambs up to 20 dollars.
Sugar markets show firm conditions across raw and refined grades with varied quotations for Cuba Manila Javas and refined powders. Havana bag lots and centrifugal sales wrap at $368.4 per quintal as molasses remains firm on old quotas and steady demand in New York and Belmont markets.
A brief market note records varied sugar prices and demand. Fancy Ponce Porto Rico sells at 88 40c per gallon, Porto Rico common to choice 28 33c, Cienfuegos 23 27c, with New Orleans showing fairly active demand for foreign nominal shipments to New York.
The report notes small tallow supply with good demand and mixed quotes for rendered fat. New York markets show steady activity with quiet demand across city and 60,000 pounds traded. Coffee from New York to Rio weak, fair cargoes at 17 cents. Whiskey markets vary by city, with no major changes. Chicago quotes at 120 dollars. Turpentine and petroleum figures in New York show closing prices and ranges, with resin and RSW costs listed.
The record lists schooner cargoes from St Joan and St John New Brunswick including broom corn, pig iron, pitch, iron, and other goods. Liverpool bound steamer Palestine cleared Nov 30 with a large shipment of organs, corn, grease, lard, bacon, cotton, flour, apples, slaves, beef, cattle, organ material, rubber goods, flax, domestics and more.
Detailed list of shipments from CrPub Pier to Charlottetown Halifax and ports across Nova Scotia Prince Edward Island and Maine including J W Geldert J & Newson American Net and Twine co 2 trunks 4 chairs and hundreds of cases eggs butter potatoes mackerel lobsters herring and other provisions. Multiple ships US and UK steamer lines with consignments to Beaman Bowles Clark Goodacre D H Greenough Tucker Thompson and many more. Notes London Liverpool and Margaree entries reflect vast commodity flows of wool oil tea wine and dry goods to and from merchants and firms listed.
A compact market item listing numerous lots including apples pollock herrin furs eggs duck fish clams dulce hens mackerel halibut tongues sounds and related wholesalers Adams Bros Batchelder Webber Barclay Co and F Clements F Clem ents JG Hall and associates. The entry records quantities such as bbls boxes crates and cases for multiple vendors.
Bus timetable lists stops from Kneeland Street Station to Wellfleet and Woods Hall with morning departures around 8.15 am and afternoon runs around 4.15 pm. Some towns show variations such as Mondays to Saturdays for Nantucket and different via routes.
The text lists multiple times like 5pm and 6.30 with place names Edgeville Foxboro Forest Hills and NOR. It reads as an incomplete timetable or timetable-like data lacking coherent events or context, making a definitive summary challenging.
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