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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1889
Page
7
Flour and corn hold steady to firm while oats and rye show strength. Cottonseed meal, malt, and various meats show slow or dull demand, with apples, oranges, lemons, and grapes present in mixed fashion. Pork products active and fresh meats largely unchanged amid quiet truck activity.
The Fall River market for print cloth remained unchanged at 311 16e for spot 64s as few contracts were made.
The Option Markets note a firmer early tone for wheat, later giving way to heavy selling by locals and the Northwest with a soft close. Corn softens on cooler dry weather and weak Dec sentiment. Wool prices show mixed firmness with strong Ohio Michigan fine delaine and California spring wool activity, amid widespread buyer demand for certain lots. Wheat futures in New York and St Louis show mixed closes with December around 78-84 cents and May near 88 cents.
Weekly wool receipts show 6226 domestic bales and 1001 foreign bales, with total sales around 4.01 million pounds. Prices remain low though demand holds. Michigan fleeces sell near 37 to 10.5c, Ohio delaine around 35-36c, and imports from New Zealand and Montevideo show limited profit margins for importers. The Boston wood market mirrors cautious optimism, with steady demand and no strong price gains expected.
A detailed price and receipt summary for flour and grain across New York, Chicago, St Louis, and other hubs. It lists carload inspections, receipts, exports, and current quotes for flour, corn, oats, rye flour, buckwheat, and more, noting light demand and steady or mixed movement across markets. major entities include John E. Welsh at 206 State Street and multiple grain exchanges.
Receipts and prices for oats rye barley millfeed cottonseed meal malt and hops shown. Oats priced 5 to 5.70 a bushel with weak demand. rye receipts none. barley very quiet with mixed six and two row quotes. millfeed steady with sack prices around 14.50 to 15.75 per ton. cottonseed meal 23.40 to 24.00 per ton for December. malt quiet with Canadian and state varieties listed. hops market dull with old New York quotations.
Receipts show butter, oleo and cheese volumes with Western creamery quotes at 27 28c, Northern 26 25c, and lower grades 20 23c. eggs and beans markets mixed with strong lard and pork demand. Regional notes cite quiet rus and firm beef prices with varied pork products and fruit markets, including apples, oranges, and grapes.
Market report shows steady supply and quiet trade with prices for vegetables listed by the box and barrel. Items include onions from several regions priced from 35 to 275 per barrel, beets 75 cents per box, carrots 40 cents per box, lettuce 50 to 75 cents per head, cabbage prices around 75 cents to 1 dollar, and diverse produce such as spinach and cauliflower priced per box or per ton.
Receipts are smaller with ample supply and steady demand only for choice lots. Common lots move slowly while Kings sweets fetch 250 to 350, Western mixed 2 to 60, Ken Davis 250 to 275, greenings at 2.5 to 2 50, Snow 8 to 3 60, Baldwins No 1s at 2. Independent market notes indicate no new features beyond price ranges.
Snow and Co to auction Friday 1250 crates Almeria grapes and 1000 boxes Florida oranges. Local buyers may bid on fresh supply from the firm’s city sale.
The Coventry sailed past Gibraltar on December 4 carrying 400 boxes Messina oranges 6000 boxes Messina lemons 2700 boxes Palermo oranges and 6300 boxes Palermo lemons. Tordenskjold due about December 18 with Banes bananas for Seaverns Co Bouperouse due with Jamaica bananas for Boston Fruit. Norfolk boat due Friday with 650 bags peanuts and 225 boxes oranges.
Kansas City markets report steady cattle with various class prices, hogs stronger with heavies and mids closing higher, and sheep near 3.25 to 4.40. Cincinnati hogs active and firm with varied packing prices. Chicago duller on cattle with lower yields, hogs slow and mixed prices, sheep easing late with diverse regional quotes.
New York cotton holds firm with quiet sales of 90 bales and futures opening steady and closing steady. Opening and closing quotes show December at 5 35-64 to 5 37-64 and December-January around 6 30-64 to 5 37-64, with various calendar spreads drifting within narrow ranges. Regional trade shows mixed activity with Augusta, Galveston, New Orleans, and Mobile posting net receipts, exports, and stock changes as markets hold steady to firm across spaces.
Consolidated six day totals show net receipts 204 211 with exports to Great Britain 106 909 France 19 660 and a common total for other regions 43 567. Stock at all United States ports 02 515 amid varied regional results across river and coastal markets.
Sugar receipts show 3221 bags today vs 50 barrels and 3250 bags a year ago, with raw sugars steady at old prices. Cuba and Manila sugars quoted with varying tests and polarizations, refined sugars steady with firm prices, and wholesale granulated at 7.4 cents. New York raw sugars dull, Havana quiet, molasses receipts and modest sales across New Orleans and Caribbean ports.
Peoria reports a firm and unchanged whiskey market at 10 5 percent with spirits at 31 05. Chicago notes a steady market at 102 and St Louis confirms whiskey unchanged at 102 with similar tones in Pernali.
Turpentine closed at 450 ac with rosin 115 120 and tar 250. Petroleum quoted at 7.80c per unit with RSW 7.50c and cases 9.70c. Rio shipment prices firm.
Ledger of goods shipped or received at port with names of consignors and buyers. Items include glass plate, bleaching powder, olive oil, wine and iron wares. Firms listed: Sherburne Turner & Co Baring Bros & Co Freeman Wight James Skinner Thayer Lincoln Kidder Peabody Stoddard Lovering F A Leigh Riley & Gray Morey & Co Stoddard Lovering & Co J A W Bird Co March Bros Fierce & Co Baring Bros & Co Hibernian Nickerson & Baxter J ts Moors Shepard Norwell Elizabeth Martin A S Marsh W H Ford K H White C F Hovey John Strachan.
Large consignments from Honolulu to Havana and Atlantic provinces include 275 boxes of flour 170 sacks of feed 425 half oats 18 cornmeal 25 pork and 20 half barrels beer. In Liverpool and Bridgewater shipments list lard coal petroleum machinery and timber alongside personal effects and household goods. A steamer Norseman clears with 628 tierces lard organs beef and lumber, reflecting vast intercity and international trade activity.
London and Liverpool markets show wheat and corn quiet but firm with mixed American corn and distant futures steady. Wheat prices in Liverpool firm, Paris slow on wheat and flour. English and French markets largely quiet amid frosty weather.
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