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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1889
Page
7
Factories are resuming work on spring orders while Lynn manufacturers suffer heavy losses of patterns and articles delaying production. Other makers recover and may benefit from the misfortune. Men’s boots remain in demand though women’s goods lag. Holiday slipper trade is active with encouraging reports from the South and West, sustaining general optimism.
The demand for foreign hides remains moderate with small lots bought by tanners. No major price changes as the market stays weak and stocks are large in the US and abroad. Western sheep hides show limited sales at various shipment points while New England hides move slowly. Tanned skins stay firm and in demand.
The market remains in a farm position with New Zealand Para at 73c and old at 77 80c, coarse new 5c and old 56c. Manufacturers have been buying but now cover immediate needs. demand for rubber boots and shoes remains strong.
The report from John E. Welsh at 206 State Street lists carload grain inspections and varied flour receipts. It covers wheat oats corn rye buckwheat and related products with prices for fine and patent flour, export grades, and regional market notes across St Louis Chicago New York and Milwaukee areas.
Receipts today list butter 2040 pkus and 1854 boxes with oleo 785 pkgs cheese 62 boxes eggs 1009 cases beans 2031 pkis potatoes 56 cars hay 47 cars straw 4 cars. Last year butter 943 pkgs 1403 boxes leo 18943 pkgs cheese 1737 boxes eggs 151 bis beans 843 bbls potatoes 19 cars hay 43 cars straw 7 cars. Butter demand is not very active but steady with crude prices firm.
Western creameries show tight supply with firmer markets and higher prices likely. Quotes cover butter creamery extra to firsts, dairy and cheese trends, eggs steady to firm, beans and poultry cautious, with potatoes and produce prices and truck market activity noted.
Market report shows steady prices for choice apples with high demand and plentiful common fruit. Citrus receipts are liberal for Florida oranges and Florida lemons, with fair to quiet demand on mandarins and Palermo lemons. grapes and cranberries show firm to steady pricing and limited supply for certain lots.
Liverpool market reports steady demand with prices higher on average. Quoted levels show Maine firsts at 15s 17d and seconds at 15s 3d in holiday trade as the range remains stable.
Snow and Co announce an auction Friday featuring 1060 boxes Almeria grapes and 1000 boxes Florida oranges. The corrected HAO Harris and Co report lists Florida oranges at 50 cents, navels at 2 dollars 62 cents, tangerines at 4 dollars 508 per box and 2 dollars 25 3 12 percent per half box, mandarins at 1 dollar 75 2 05 per half box, grapefruit 74 cents per box and 2 dollars 50 per box and 3 dollars 3 26 per barrel, Valencia oranges at 3 dollars 122 3 55 per box, Almeria grapes at 2 dollars 37 12 5 62 percent per barrel.
The Coventry reported at Gibraltar Dee 4 with 400 boxes Messina oranges 6000 boxes Messina lemons 2700 boxes Palermo oranges and 6300 boxes Palermo lemons. Tordenskjold due about Dec 18 with Banes bananas for Seaverns Co. Flamborough due Dec 12 with Jamaica bananas for Boston Fruit. Napier left Palermo Nov 28 with mixed oranges and lemons for Boston. Norfolk boat due Friday with 650 bags peanuts and 225 boxes oranges.
The record lists rations received: tallow 15 packages, beef 50 bushels, pork 156 bushels, lard 389 packages, hams 10 bushels, and preserved meats.
The report shows no new features in the provision market with a steady overall outlook from last year. New York Tallow remains quiet at $2 per package with pork and beef prices fluctuating. lard and dry salted meats show muted activity while cut meats demand remains solid with 60,000 tbs pickled bellies sold.
Kansas City reports slow cattle trade with steers to 325 380 dollars and cows to 140 240, while hogs rise to 350 360 and sheep hold at 315 440. Cincinnati sees hogs active 3 60, 8 985043 65. Chicago notes slow cattle and slower hogs with beeves 5 25 6 10 and hogs 3 45 3 70. receipts and shipments listed for each market.
In New York cotton shows firm tone with 74 bales traded on uplands and various grades quoted from good ordinary to middling. Futures opened steady and closed barely steady. Liverpool market reported easy middling and US port data show mixed receipts, exports, and stocks across Augusta to New Orleans with overall steady to dull tones.
Sugar receipts today total 2372 bags and 639 mats with last year’s figures at 25 barrels and 60 bags. Raw sugars hold firm with varied regional quotes including Cuba refining at 64 cents and Javas and Manila types listed. Refined sugars also firm amid steady demand while molasses receipts amount to 78 barrels and six puncheons. New York reports a quiet, steady market across raw and refined sugars.
Opened 2 pm with shipments and averages shown. Closing bids 3 pm Dec 10 1889 and Dec 11 for renewals. Listed values include 110 158 and 47 618 for refined and total outputs, with certificates and charters noted.
A quiet trade shows whiskey at 102 dollars in Chicago and St Louis. Peoria asks ten dollars per hundredweight on whiskey while spirits run 1 O65. Market remains unchanged and calm with whiskey at 1 in wait conditions.
Coffee in New York to Rio remains firm with active trade and fair cargoes at 19 percent sc. Turpentine in New York closed at 45 and rosin at 15 120 with tar at 250. petroleum closed at 7.80 with RSW at 7.50 and cases at 9.70 cents.
Do rags 5564 boxes window glass Haring Brot & co. 15 quarter casks cin 50 octaves do J D Richards & Sons-335 bales rags 118 do flax waste J B Moors & co-97 do bagging International Bank of London-62 casks grease C W Geiler- 30 crank pins 40 bars steel 3 bd!srings 726 coils wire rods 64 casks salt 510 cases cocoa 17 do chocolate 550 sacks beans 11 cases marble 1 do playing cards 15 bbls potash 8 cases cutlery 395 do slate pencils 194 bales rags 6 do wax 4 pkgs grind stones 1 do tron wheels 1 case machine pieces order. PORT DE PAIX. Steamer Caroline Miller-&90, 000 ths logwood Hugo hainer & co. GEORGE TOWN, PEL Sch Jubilee-3914 bush potatoes order. CHARLOTTETOWN, PEI. Sch Sarah R Putnam- 20 bags potatoes George Rockwell-3372 bush potatoes order, GEORGE TOWN, PEI. Sch Pleasantville-4749 bush potatoes order. MONTAGUE, PEL. Sch Hector-4700 bush potatoes 175 do turnips 10 do carrots J N Rourke.
Shipping list details Mundane exports from Parrsboro and Maitland Nova Scotia to Liverpool England. Catalogs cargoes on steamers Catalonia and latestine cleared Dec 6 and 6 with vast tonnage including leather cheese cornmeal lard beef apples tobacco and a wide range of goods and implements.
Report from the Boston Post tallies week ending December with live stock at market. Prices for beef cattle sheep and lambs show firm to advancing trends as western imports increase. Export trades to England and Germany rise while local store cattle and milch cows remain mixed in demand.
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