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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1889
Page
7
The report shows St Louis and Chicago receipts of thousands of barrels and bushels with exports and shipments varying. Prices for wheat corn and rye shift mildly as markets stay quiet and steady amid higher freight and export activity.
Receipts list butter cheese eggs beans potatoes and other products with measured stock. Market notes report quiet trade for creamery and dairy butter, scarce choice brands, steady prices, and varied wholesale jobbing levels for canned and fresh goods across Chicago New York Elgin and Liverpool markets.
The market remains steady with quiet trade for game and poultry. Grouse and woodcock quoted around 86 to 90 dollars per pair, ducks at 70 to 80 cents, teal 50 cents, pin-tail 26 to 80 cents, and quail at 2 dollars per dozen. Potatoes firm with varied regional prices, sweet potatoes quiet, hay and straw over supplied with buyers in command and prime hay around 17 to 18 dollars per ton.
The notice lists wholesale prices for onions, beets, carrots, lettuce, radishes, turnips, cabbage types, parsley, parsnips, pumpkins, squash, hubbard squash, spinach, and celery. Quantities include crates and boxes with prices ranging from 35c to $2.40 per box and up to $25 per ton for hubbard.
Wholesale fruit prices show steady demand for apples with various varieties listed from Kings to Michigan greens. Oranges and lemons are well supplied with Florida orange trade fair and mandarins selling slowly. grapefruit and tangerines priced per box, with Malaga and Valencia lemons and Jamaica oranges noted. Grapes and cranberries priced, with Cape berries and country berries described by quality and volume.
Snow and Co will sell at auction on Friday if delivery arrives. The catalog lists 1500 boxes Almeria grapes 1500 boxes Florida oranges 500 cases Valencia oranges and 1500 bags Scotch potatoes.
The Coventry passed Gibraltar on December 4 carrying 400 boxes Messina oranges 6000 boxes Messina lemons 2700 boxes Palermo oranges and 6300 boxes Palermo lemons. Tordenskjold due with Banes bananas for Seaverns Co Marmion due Thursday with Jamaica bananas for Boston Fruit Napier sailed from Messina December 14 with 2000 boxes Messina oranges and 2000 boxes Messina lemons.
Receipts show tallow and lard volumes with tallow 26 packages, lard 3456 packages, hams 29 barrels, bacon 774 boxes. Pork prices firm with brisk demand. various cuts quoted from 10 to 13 dollars per hundredweight and more for prime grades. New York and Chicago markets report mixed firmness in pork and lard, with beef also steady and provisions unchanged.
Kansas City reports steady cattle with steer prices around 380 to 415 and hogs strong led by heavies at 347 to 365. Cincinnati hogs firm with prices near 360s, Chicago cattle steady to strong with beeves 285 to 525 and hogs 350 to 370, sheep steady around 315 to 340.
Upland cotton prices across grades show steady to firm levels with middling at 10 1 4 c and 9 1 2 c for various staples. Futures opened and closed steady amid mixed regional receipts and stocks, while Liverpool and other ports report varying sales and exports.
Sugar receipts were flat with no gains from last year while raw sugars stayed quiet. Refined sugars edged down with steady demand, listing prices for pulverized to confectioners grades. New York quotations showed little change, while molasses receipts remained nil and prices varied by grade. The Oll Market notes closing prices and line certificates for Dec 17 1889 with estimates and openings listed.
Peoria reports firm steady for whiskey at 10 percent with spirits at 1. Chicago notes unchanged market at 102. St Louis lists whiskey at 102. Cincinnati reports whiskey steady at 102.
New York quotes show turpentine closing at 43 34 a unit with rosin at 12 50 to 12 75 and tar at 25 00. petroleum closes at 7 80 cents with RSW at 7 50 and cases at 9 70. Coffee with New York market notes Kio steady with easy shipments and fair cargoes at 19 ½ cents.
Market figures show cattle and sheep movements at Watertown yards with arrivals of cattle 2 727 veals 2 . Prices for market beef range from 4 26 to 6 50 with various quality grades listed. Store cattle prices indicated but not fully shown in the fragment.
A lengthy Maine cattle and veal market roundup notes beef and store cattle, oxen and milch cows sold by Libby of Oakland and Chilbrick, Tratton, McIntire, Walker, Ricker, Hall, Libby, and Randall & Hanson. Veal prices average 6 cents per pound, with many lots around 110 to 140 pounds.
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