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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1886
Page
7
The page notes firm demand for iron and tin, with copper and pork steady. Grains show mixed activity. wheat, oats, and corn prices listed alongside New York and Chicago stock totals. Flour and molasses prices follow with various export values and recent closing quotes.
The article reports firmer American pig iron with large orders for next year. No 1 N at 20 dollars, No 2 X at 1850 dollars, and steady foreign pig iron quotes. It notes strong mills, rising prices ahead, and a light Southern iron market with good demand for bar iron and plate.
The flour market shows a firmer tone with top grades up 5 to 10 cents. Corn holds steady except steamer mixed up 11 cents. Oats are mostly firm with No 2 white and No 3 oats 14 cents lower. Cash No 2 white oats quoted 38 34 cents. after hours 27 00 bushels February at 40 5 cents. Closing bids and offers for cash No 2 white oats around 38 34 cents.
The butter market remains steady with on call bids of 27¢ from Western creamery and 28¢ firsts. New York shows 26 to 27.2¢, Chicago reports aved sales at old quotations. Cheese in Chicago and New York steady. Liverpool quotes 65s for cheese. Eggs firm in Chicago and New York. beans mostly unchanged. Poultry supplies vary with North turkeys light and Western ducks plentiful. Prices for butter and dairy products listed as receivers’ wholesale quotes with some higher marks.
Virginia extra yellow potatoes at 1 per p? bbl. extra Jersey 2.0225. Cabbdace truck native 100 S4 5. St Andrew turnips 90c per bbl. Cape Coddo 1 25 per bbl. Marrow squash 1 p bbl. turban squash 1 25a 50. hubbard squash 25 80 per ton. Onions P bbl 2 25. carrots P bush. Lettuce 40 50c per dozen. celery 2 50 3 00 per box. spinach 2i bush. Cape cranberries 6 50 7 00 per bbl. country do 4 50 5 00. Tallow city rendered 4 14 4 14c. country 3 54 4e. rough 1 2a 2 44c. oleo margarine creamery dc.
Apples in moderate demand with steady shipping. pears steady. cranberries well sold and firm at quotations. Grapes unchanged. Peanuts quiet. hickory nuts firm. dried apples firm. New York dried apples steady in fair demand. evaporated goods mixed prices. Various apple varieties and pears priced, with grapes and other fruits listed. arrivals generally in bad condition.
Pork and lard stay steady with two good demand. hams unchanged. Fresh beer quiet, prices steady. Lambs in fair demand with steady prices. veals and muttons quiet and unchanged. Beef and pork cuts listed with varied prices including extra prime pork and many fresh meat categories.
Liverpool futures opened firm and closed steady across multiple front months with December to August spreads listed. Spot uplands and Orleans firm locally, receipts 31,000 bales. sales 83,000 bales. New York spot closed firm for mid uplands, low mid, and grades. futures opened firm and then market closed strong with bids and asks shown. Also PIPE LINE CERTIFICATES figures and refined oil, sugar, molasses price levels and wholesale grocers’ rate notes.
New York markets show varied grain and commodity activity with mixed receipts and exports. Wheat futures range with No 2 spring around 90 cents, No 1 red near 98 cents, and western wheat prices up to 4 5 0 per barrel for flour related products, while rye, corn, oats, and other staples post modest moves. Southern markets quiet with rye flour steady, and petroleum and pork trends noted across cities Cincinnati and Toledo with price shifts.
Commodity prices drift in early December trading with wheat easing at St Louis while corn dips and oats firm. Provisions firm to higher, whiskey steady, and receipts show sizable wheat and corn stocks moving through Chicago and Milwaukee exchanges. London sales and Liverpool cargo lists appear in market roundups.
Cattle receipts 7000 with steady shipments around 5000. Heifers at 5.10 to 5.30, steer values 3.00 to 3.50, cows and bulls 1.50 to 2.00. Texas cows near 3.50. Hogs receipts 47,000 with best higher, rough and mixed 3.00 to 3.40, lights around 3.80 to 4.00, sows and others 2.40 to 3.20. Sheep receipts 600 with natives 2.40 to 4.85, Western 2.50 to 3.50, Texans 2.25 to 3.25, lambs 3.75 to 4.90.
The report lists net receipts and gross values for ports including Augusta Galveston New Orleans Mobile Memphis Savannah Charleston Wilmington Norfolk Philadelphia Baltimore New York Cincinnati St Louis Louisville and Consolidated totals. Exports to Great Britain France and the continent are noted with stock levels and market tones varying from firm to strong to quiet across ports.
A list of cargo movements and shipboard goods at multiple Canadian and English ports including Bear River, Clementport, Fowey, and Weymouth, with vessels such as Muriel, Gold, Adelia, Nellie Crosby, Borderer, and Elva C Conrad. Items include wood, piling, mackerel, eggs, potatoes, apples, vegetables, berries, cases, bale and casks, assorted goods, and supplies. notable consignors include Delong & Seaman, Cutler Bros & Co, Gossler & Co, and Baring Bros & Co.
The document lists cargo and quantities for vessels at various ports including Liverpool Nova Scotia CDA Schiff Sch. PDAKIA Africa Bark Clotilde with flour lard pork butter beef cheese and more. Cape Verde Islands Bark Lillian B Jones cargo such as beef pork lobsters bread butter and dried goods. Receipts 18386 show Boston & Albany Railroad and Grand Junction Railroad freight including cotton flour cornmeal oats and lumber. includes transportation timetables and routes with manytimes and stations referenced.
A fragmented freight list records cargo by railroad lines including Boston & Providence, Old Colony, New York & New England, Fitchburg, Boston & Maine Eastern and Western Divisions, Boston & Lowell, and others. Entries specify bales cotton wool tea boxes coffee sugar molasses hides leather skins and numerous bbls and cases with varying quantities, reflecting large interstate goods movement.
Passenger timetable from Causeway Street lists multiple daily departures from Boston to Albany Chicago St Louis Troy and other points with various accommodation, express and sleeping car options. The long schedule covers morning and evening runs, connections, and the New York Central and West Shore routes, with numerous stop points and return times noted.
Picked up OCR timetable notes showing train routes and returns between Boston Providence and surrounding towns with varied times, a Monday to Saturday pattern and notes about Shore Line connections and Mansfield detention rules. Contains many inconsistent figures and partial lines reflecting a historical rail schedule document.
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