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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1890
Page
7
The article notes manufacturers maintaining advances despite small profit margins while factories stay busy and orders are shipped promptly. It highlights strong demand from leading jobbing sections as an unusual early-season signal of healthy national supply and demand at major distributing points.
Demand for Western buff hides remains modest with buyers holding firm on prices. Large future deliveries hang over the market as orders from prior sales work through. Buff hides near 5 1/2 to 5 3/4 cents, 5c seen as low. seconds and B grades about 4 1/2 to 5 1/4c. New England hides dull at cow 6 1/2 to 7c. Calfskins inactive. South American cargo deliveries pressuring Montevideo and Buenos Ayres at about 13c. Foreign hides quiet.
The wheat market weakened with a sharp price break after a brief morning rally. Chicago prices closed near panic lows as liquidation grew, with futures dropping to the bottom of earlier ranges. Corn and oats faced mixed moves, while overseas markets showed decline, and curb and New York figures reflected overall weakness.
Pork and Pork Products market remains steady with active small-scale trade. Long cuts at 13 1350, backs 13 25 18 76, lean ends 13 13 50. fresh ribs and sausages noted. Fresh beef remains firm as supply tightens, prime steers 7 4 8c and various cuts priced, with overall seller’s market and rising prices. Tallow quiet at 4% to 4 1/6c city rendered, 4% to 4 1/6c country.
Market reports show slow hog trading in Cincinnati with prices around 290 to 296 per 36d, Peoria hogs easing near 325, St Louis noting Yorkers lower at 320 to 330, while Chicago cattle and hogs move lower or steady. Cattle shipments in Chicago total 4,000 with prime exports around 490 to 560, hog receipts near 38,000 with prices 345 to 375 for various weights. Kansas City reports mixed cattle and hog trading, with steers around 500 to 460 and hogs firm to higher near 330 to 370.
Daily receipts show butter 2940 pkgs oleo 850 pkgs cheese 906 boxes eggs 528 cases beans 1267 bbls potatoes 19 cars sweet potatoes 159 bbls hay 28 cars straw 3 cars. Prices quoted for butter and cheese vary by region with Western and Eastern creameries, New York firmness, and Liverpool London activity. eggs and beans show firm to quiet demand. potatoes and sweet potatoes steady amid cold weather. grass seeds and hay stable. poultry and game mixed, with better feeling in cold weather markets.
Market note lists various produce with prices per unit or bundle. Items include onions in Malta and Ohio at 250 to 350 per basket or barrel, carrots at 76 cents per bush, beets 60 cents per bush, lettuce 50 to 60 cents per head, turnips, yellows and natives with caps and bbl prices, cabbage around 5 to 7 dollars per hundred count, cucumbers 15 cents each, pumpkins 75 cents per barrel, celery and cauliflower priced, spinach, radish, squash, and other greens shown with assorted unit measures. Total box quantity noted as 5604500 P box.
Oranges and lemons show steady to ample supply with mixed demand. Mediterranean and Jamaica fruit markets reflect steady to full prices for Palermo and Messina lemons, Jamaicans selling barrel and box lots at full value. Apple receipts high with prices steady. many varieties quoted, dried apples and cranberries noted. nuts and grapes show modest demand with several price points for Conords Isabellas and Catawbas.
Snow and Co wires today denying reports of heavy frost damage to Valencia and Sicily crops. The cable states that such claims are untrue and are not supported by current conditions.
Snow and Co sold Florida oranges today at 225 300 per box for brights and 175 per box for russets.
The Bowden sails from Jamaica with bananas for Boston Fruit Co. The Norfolk boat Friday carries 40 bals truck and 800 bags peanuts. Pyndal brings 2400 boxes Messina oranges and 4700 boxes Messina lemons for 3200. Pawnee departed Palermo Nov 28 with 2000 boxes Messina oranges and 3200 lemons for Boston. Napier holds 1200 boxes Catania lemons. Ethelred due Dec 10 or 11 with Jamaica bananas for Boston. Savannah boat Monday has 5814 boxes oranges. AC Lombard’s Sons reports Liverpool market firmer with Maine Baldwins at 20 22s. Sugar demand steady. refined prices listed. Raw sugars quiet. Molasses prices steady with regional variations.
New York spot market shows dull demand with middling uplands at 97-16c and sales of 146 bales, stock 63,044 bales. Liverpool reports large supply with steady to firm futures, and five day consolidated receipts total 168,638 with exports to Britain 51,410 and stock 681,309.
The print cloth market in Fall River was quoted at 31 16 2 8 cents for 64s with about 20,000 pieces spots sold at that hour.
IHE OIL MARKET reports closing and opening times for pipeline certificates with Dec 2 and Dec 3 dates. Turpentine and petroleum prices in New York show turpentine at 30 to 39 14¢, resin at 1 45 to 1 50, tar at 2 60. petroleum at 7¢ with RSW at 7.30¢ and cases at 0.40¢.
BRIGHTON AND WATERTOWN, report for Boston Post by George J. Fox. Week ending Dec 3, 1890, stock arrivals and prices at Watertown and Brighton yards. Cattle, sheep, lambs, hogs, hides, tallow, and store cattle values listed. Export trade notes. heavy hog slaughter by Psquire & Co. and rising cattle prices. shipments to Liverpool and English steamers. Many named buyers and sellers, with detailed yard sales and prices for numerous cattle and sheep lots.
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