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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1890
Page
7
The report notes mixed stability across commodities with dry goods quiet and wool steady. Cotton and corn markets ease, flour dull, eggs and beans steady, poultry similar, and hay and potatoes firm or higher in places. Citrus items show quiet to slow movement while grapes and nuts show steady or firm demand amid small supplies.
The dry goods trade reports moderate wholesale demand and quiet next season orders. Retail growth is strong with heavy holiday fabric movement and brisk overcoat business. woollens show limited activity amid a money stringency. Shipping data and grain markets follow with mixed results across all sectors.
The wool market remains largely steady with small lot trade and slight declines from peak levels. Buyers seek large lots at low prices while tight money eases, and territory wools move slowly. California Oregon Texas wools see moderate demand with prices near prior levels. Michigan and Ohio grades show mixed quotes.
The cotton market shows active speculation yet wide fluctuations with a broad decline in prices on Saturday. Liverpool and New York trade move lower as confidence weakens amid a soft spot market and a troubling financial backdrop.
Interior movement grows while New York stock falls to 48789 bales from 90336 last year and 120131 in 1883. Excessive crop expected to depress prices despite favorable features. Weekly cotton port receipts end Friday at 241318 bales, up from prior weeks, with Sept 1 totals at 3440570 against 3364803 last year, up 75767.
Chicago provisions opened strong on reports of easy finances as shorts covered, then prices eased. Open, high, low, and close quotes show mixed moves across lard, short ribs, and pork futures. Receipts listed: tallow 165 pkgs, beef 100 bbls, pork 115 bbls, lard 348 pkgs, hams 13 bbis, preserved meats 742 cases, grease 23 bbls, bacon 842 boxes.
The produce trade shows firm butter and eggs with quiet activity across dairy items. Butter demand remains steady. Western creameries show frosty defects and prices range from 18 to 28 cents. Eggs hold firm with mixed regional quotes. beans, potatoes, and hay show steady to quiet trade amid ample supply and cooler demand.
The market shows ample truck and quiet demand with prices for onions and vegetables: Valencia onions $14 per crate, Ohio onions $3.35 to $4.50 per barrel, pickles and yellows 75 cents per unit, beets 60 cents per bush, lettuce 50 to 60 cents, turnips and cabbage varying, Hubbard and Western Hubbard prices around $20 per ton, cucumbers listed as hot house, many items priced per bush, box, or barrel.
HE FRUIT TRADE. Florida fruits show good supply and fair demand for choice oranges while tangerines mandarins and grape fruit are quiet. Med lemons Palermo Messina and other lemons priced per box and basket. apples and dried fruits listed with steady prices. Nuts, cranberries, popcorn, and grapes priced with regional variations and noted demand.
The steamer Lyndal passed Gibraltar Dec 5 with 2400 boxes Messina oranges and 4700 boxes Messina lemons for Boston. The Pawnee passed Gibraltar Dec 4 with 2000 boxes Messina oranges and 3200 boxes Messina lemons for Boston. Napier sailed from Palermo Dec 2 with fruit for New York. The Ethelred due Dec 10 with Jamaica bananas for Boston. The Savannah boat Tuesday has 2970 boxes oranges. Snow Co and Harms Co reported varied prices for oranges, grapes, mandarins, tangerines, tokay grapes, and other fruit in recent sales.
Sugar demand is fair with steady prices across varieties. Weavote quotes loaf and cube sugars near 7 cents, powders around 6.4 to 7 cents, and refined grades from 5% to 6 cents. Raw sugars quiet with fair refining at 4 to 5.8 cents, Manilas and Iloilos listed. Wholesale price for Tuesday, Dec 8, is 6 1/2 cents. New York market unchanged. London beet sugar steady with December and January quotes. Molasses demand fair at steady prices with Porto Rico, Barbados, Cienfuegos, and New Orleans grades listed.
The New York spot market shows steady prices for middling uplands at 9 9 16 cents and futures opening and closing steady amid sales of 394 bales and a 55 240 bale stock. Liverpool buyers report quiet prices with good middlings around 5 7 16 pence and 10 000 bales traded. Consolidated three-day receipts reach 80 757, exports to Britain 5 378, to France 5 715, to the Continent 41 144, stock at 691 453.
The Fall River market opened quietly with prices slipping to three cents flat. Both spot sales and contracts were made at that price amid moderate demand.
At the London wool sale of December 8, twelve thousand twenty bales were offered with steady prices. Demand was spirited for desirable parcels, especially good New South Wales and Victorian combing merinos, while scoured lots and lighter grades showed varied activity. Strong demand persisted for Cape of Good Hope and Natal selections, with overall market tone favoring sellers and best rates held across the series.
Description notes goods from West Australia and Cape of Good Hope and Natal. It lists 15 bales greasy 6%4d, 2300 bales scoured at 942d 1s 8%2d, with scoured locks and pieces priced 1s 1d, and 444 da 1s detailing grease content and lot conditions.
Turpentine closed at 3842 39c with resin at 145 147 percent and tar at 260. Petroleum closed at 7c with ASW at 7.25c and cases at 9.30c.
Detailing cargo aboard the Scythia and Venetian ships from Liverpool to Boston with numerous consignments including earthenware, steel, textiles, machinery, wines, furniture, books, and groceries. Named shippers include Abram French & co, Stone & Downer, Brown Bros & co, J H Pray Sons & co, and Houghton & Dutton. totals cover crates, bales, cases, and boxes of diverse merchandise. Also lists consignments of grapes, tin, coal, tools, and liquor with multiple firms and partners across Hurry & Co. and affiliates in Boston and London.
A dense ledger lists cargos and merchandise including machinery, bales, and crates bound for various firms such as Laring Bros & Co, John L Whiting & Son, Thayer & Lincoln, Woonsocket Machinery Co, Wadsworth Howland & Co, Stone & Downer, J H O Rourke, Williston & Knight Co, Fennobros & Child, F A Leigh & Co, Riley & Gray, Murray & Livingstone, Crocker Bros & Sanborn, and Thos Leyland. Entries specify quantities in cases, bales, pkgs, bags, and boxes, with destinations across Maine, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland ports and companies, including steamship movements and imports of steel, coal, soda, wool, and potatoes.
The steamer Siberian cleared Glasgow on December 3 carrying a large consignment including 621 head of cattle 18 573 sacks of flour 58 952 ths cheese 518 boxes of hams 2317 packages and 1050 pails of lard 295 barrels of apples 45 cases mattresses 50 tierces beef 74 barrels oil 10 doctuted 89 casks asbestos 3 cases granite 379 boils handles 6 packages duck 6 do effects 1 case machinery 1 crate stone 1000 staves 100 cases cunneg beef and other items as listed.
Foreign markets report firm prices for wheat and corn with steady English and American flour, quiet yet firm breadstuffs in Liverpool, and frosty English weather. Quoted rates show winter wheat at 7s 41d, spring wheat at 7s 7d, mixed American corn at 1s 4s 4d, and other staples like peas pork bacon and cheese with varied movements. The note highlights dining car meals on Shore Line trains as a contrasting detail.
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