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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1889
Page
7
Receipts and quotes for rye flour Graham flour oatmeal barley millseed and cottonseed meal show a dull steady to quiet market amid varied old and new crop receipts. Prices range from 63 65 cents for No 1 New York rye to 1450 1600 per ton for sack spring and up to 2850 2400 per ton for new meal to arrive.
Receipts list today show butter 658 pkgs 204 boxes oleo 2193 cheese 1969 boxes eggs 1 bbl 803 cases beans 2757 bbls potatoes 11 cars sweet potatoes 710 bbls hay 34 cars straw 8 cars. Quotes cover butter dairy sales New York Chicago and Cincinnati markets with seasonal demand. cheese and eggs steady to easy. beans and potatoes firm with wide price ranges. hay and straw markets quiet to steady.
Trade stays steady with no new features or changes reported. Market activity is muted as buyers and sellers transact at established prices.
Wholesale fruit prices show a quiet steady market with good supply. Apples list varied lots from $1 to $3 per unit for several varieties including Kings and Baldwins. Oranges demand fair with Florida stock and mandarins scarce. box prices around 350 to 400 for large counts. Grapes and cranberries mixed demand with notable price ranges for Cape and Almeria varieties.
Snow & Co scheduled for Friday sale 1500 bbis Almeria grapes 1500 boxes Florida oranges 500 cases Valencia oranges. HepHarris & Co sold Florida oranges at 1 3742 2 80 per unit, lemons 1 2 874, tangerines 32 8772 6 00 per box and 2 3734 3 30 half box, grapefruit 2 80 3 374% P box and 3 6242 4 3742 bbl, mandarins 2 25 4 1214 per box and 0c 2 26 for half boxes, navels 3 8742.
The Coventry passed Gibraltar Doo 4 with 400 boxes Messina oranges 6000 boxes Messina lemons 2700 boxes Palermo oranges and 6300 boxes Palermo lemons. The Tordenskjold due Dec 18 with Banes bananas for Seaverns Co. The Marmion due Dec 20 with Jamaica bananas for Boston Fruit Co. The Napier sailed from Messina Dec 14 with 2000 boxes Messina oranges and 2000 boxes Messina lemons.
Receipts show tallow 38 pkgs and lard 1781 pkgs with pork products in steady demand at varied prices. New York pork quiet at 10 75 to 9 25 per barrel. beef strong and tierced beef slow. lard softer in Chicago and city markets. fresh beef supply large, demand not very active, with multiple cuts priced across regions.
Market notes show cattle steady to higher in Kansas City with steers around 3410 and stockers 240 to 300. hogs weak with heavies near 3474 and 355 for mediums and lights. sheep steady at 315 to 440. Cincinnati reports hogs barely steady. Chicago cattle receipts 7000 with steady shipments and hogs 25000 receipts, steady, with varied prices for heavies, mediums, and lights.
New York cotton trading quiet with quotes for uplands and Gulf standards and futures opening steady. Liverpool reports a dull market with middling around 55d and 8000 bales traded as American shipments and stock levels are updated across ports in the United States and Britain.
The Oll Market listing shows closing times for certificates on Dec 16 and Dec 17 1889 with highs and lows for Dec 17 and Dec 27, including shipment figures and refined gallon measures. It records averages since the 1st and totals for shipments, plus charter data and miscellaneous prices.
Sugar receipts total 350 bbls and 785 bags versus 179 bbls and 1897 bags last year. Raw sugars quiet with Cuba refining at 54 5% sc and 96 test. Refined sugars steady with demand at old prices and grains quoted for Pulverized and Granulated grades. Molasses receipts 259 bbls and 53 puncheons. market quiet and steady with New Orleans sales at 40 48c for quality.
New York reports a steady market with HIGH WINES noted. Peoria sees a firm and unchanged whiskey market at 103 with spirits at Chicago at 102. St Louis whiskey sells at 102. San Antonio notes a quiet whiskey market with limited activity.
Turpentine closed at 4354 44 4c with resin at 12242 25 and tar at 250. Petroleum closed at 7.80c with RSW at 7.50c and cases at 70c. Coffee Rio market in New York is quiet with fair cargoes at 19 4c per pound.
Market notes from Watertown Union show supply levels across cattle sheep and hogs. Prices range from common cattle at 4c to 6Yec per lb and sheep and lambs trading around 4c to 6c per lb, with several lots sold by J A Hathaway S Hammond and W W Austin and others. Sheep and lamb demand remains firm with buyers for good flocks.
Shipping list records a broad mix of goods consigned to and from Liverpool including casks of caustic soda bleaching powder and steel wire frames. Also listed are walnuts wool bales raw sugar and various textiles and chemical products from firms such as Kidder Peabody Jere Abbott and Colman Mead with many firms noted to supply or receive items.
Export ledger dated December 17 1889 details cargoes for ships including Laburnum Yarmouth Water Witch Cephalonia and Emma B with items such as flour cornmeal beef lard bacon and cheese. It records numerous boxes cases sacks barrels and tonnage across ports including Liverpool NS Port au Prince Barrington NL and Liverpool Eng with extensive freight details and quantities.
London and Liverpool reports show wheat steady to firm with quiet corn demand. Receipts reach 160 000 and 64 000 centals for wheat and corn respectively, with exports to Britain and the Continent. prices quoted for mixed American corn and various wheat grades, and weather noted as warm in England and cloudy in Liverpool.
Albany NY and Milwaukee WI merchants visit with footwear firms including G W R George Cincinnati and Meinhard Bros in Detroit area showing active trade. Buyers from Jones Amoe Md G W R George and others attend shoe goods market in a regional commercial listing.
Historic timetable lists departures from Boston passenger station on Causeway Street toward Troy Albany Buffalo Chicago and St Louis with multiple daily express and accommodation trains. Includes stop patterns for Cambridge Barite and other towns with times and notes on through tickets via Hoosac Tunnel route office and Boston station. JOHN ADAMS Genl Supt.
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