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Newspaper

Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Dec 20, 1889

Page

7

Grain and Flour Markets across New York Chicago and St Louis

Export prices for flour and patents hover at 450 to 490 fob with mild demand. New York receipts include 21 831 pkgs exports 11 452 bbls and 1948 sacks with steady to dull activity. Wheat quotes show No 2 red 85 87c elevator, 86 87%c afloat, No 1 Northern 92 98c, No 1 hard 96 96 3 4c. Corn and oats markets quote mixed track prices and quiet to dull activity. Receipts and shipments outlined for Chicago St Louis and New York with steady to weaker trends and various grade quotations. Poultry, meats and produce prices listed with broad ranges, reflecting a quiet market and moderate demand.

New York City Mills Minnesota St Louis Chicago inNew York White State Canada Michigan

Market Report on Butter Cheese Eggs and Beans

Receipts today show butter 4727 pkgs 898 boxes oleo 205 pkgs cheese 685 boxes eggs 6386 cases beans 534 bbls potatoes 10 cars sweet potatoes 0 cars straw 3 cars. Butter demand dull with large receipts and few sales. Western creameries and firsts steady to weak with varying prices. Northern creamery 25 26c and other grades listed. Cheese and eggs mixed with quiet trade. New York Chicago and Liverpool quotes provided. beans market described as ample with easy prices.

New York Bush Newark Vermont California Lima Choice Canada Houlton Hebrons Houlton Rose Aroostook Hebrons Aroo Nova Scotia New Brunswick Jersey Chicago Liverpool Western Elgin Eastern New Hampshire Prince Edward Island Michigan Canadas York Eneer

Market Update from Local Produce Stand

The market shows weak activity with ample supply and steady prices. Items listed include onions 75¢ per bush and $1 per bush for parsley, cabbage varieties at $1 per box or bush, beets 75¢ per box, carrots 40¢ per box, lettuce 50 to 75¢ per dozen, and a range of greens and roots priced per box, bush, or bundle.

White Cape St Andrews

Market Report On Apples Bananas Oranges And Grapes Prices

The report notes a steady fruit market with large supply and small receipts and unchanged prices for apples. Bananas arrival from the Tordenskjold prompts sales at various prices. Valencia oranges are scarce with expected larger supply next week, Malaga lemons scarce, and Florida oranges abundant but in fair condition with quiet trade. Grapes and other fruits show steady or modest activity with specific price points for different sizes and varieties.

Kings Ben Davis Baldwins Michigan Michigan Tasman Astern Valencia Malaga Palermo Messina Florida Almeria

Apple Cable. Market Firm Under Light Offerings

Liverpool market shows firmness as demand remains modest for choice stock while common shares stay dull and weak under light supply.

Apple Cable Liverpool

Fruit Auction Aims Friday Sale of Multiple Commodities

Snow & Co plans a Friday auction with 1500 bbis Almeria grapes 1500 boxes Florida oranges 500 cases alencia oranges and 1500 bags Scotch potatoes subject to arrival. H Harris Co also schedules Friday sale offering 1000 boxes Florida oranges 229 cases Valencis oranges and 63 bbis Almeria grapes, contingent on delivery.

Snow & Co Almeria Florida H Harris Co

Fruit cargoes and sailings reported for several ships

The Coventry is due with 400 boxes Messina oranges 5640 boxes Messina lemons 8700 boxes Palermo oranges and 6300 boxes Palermo lemons. Marmion is due with Jamaica Bananas for the Boston Fruit Company. Napier sailed from Messina Dec 14 with 2000 boxes Messina oranges and 2000 boxes Messina lemons. The Norfolk boat due Friday has 600 bags peanuts and 250 boxes oranges.

Coventry Boston Fruit Company Napier Messina Norfolk

Meat Market Receipts And Prices From Various Cities

The report lists today’s receipts and prices for tallow lard hams bacon and preserved meats with figures for beef pork and other specialties. Prices for long cuts short cuts hacks lean ends and pork products are given along with regional quotes for New York Chicago St Louis and Cincinnati amid steady to firm demand and sales.

New York Chicago St Louis Cincinnati

Meat market report and prices for lambs and mutton

The market notes lambs mostly heavy and firm with steady demand for muttons. Veals are dull and plentiful. Prices quoted include choice lambs at 9 to 10 cents, muttons around 7 to 8 cents, and Brighton and Eastern lots varying by quality. Tallow remains steady with city renders at about 4 1 4 cents and country lots near 4 cents.

Chicago Brighton New York

Hog and cattle markets in Kansas City and Chicago summaries

Kansas City market reports show cattle receipts 3078 with firm prices for shipping steers 315 to 440, native cows 145 to 225, mixed stock 180 to 275, stockers 250 to 315. hogs 7838 active with heavies 355 to 574, mediums 350 to 374, Yorkers 5742 to 60, sheep 1222 strong at 315 to 345. Cincinnati hogs lower, receipts 4700, prices 3.65 to 3.60 for common and light. Chicago cattle receipts 11000, shipments 4000, steady beeves 275 to 320, Texas cattle 220 to 335. hogs receipts 2600, shipments 6000, active to higher with heavies 350 to 377, lights 350 to 375, ships 335. sheep receipts 500, shipments 2500, closing lower at 336 to 526.

Kansas City Cincinnati Chicago Texas

Cotton markets mix quiet and steady in New York and Liverpool

New York cotton trades quietly with 238 bales sold and a range of middling to low mid prices for uplands and Gulf marks. Futures opened and closed steady as Liverpool reports easy middlings and steady futures across several delivery months amid robust world port stocks and shipments.

New York Ness Augusta Galveston New Orleans Continent Mobile Memphis Savannah Charleston Wilmington Norfolk West Point Philadelphia Baltimore Great Britain Cincinnati St Louis Louisville France United States

Oil Market Pipeline Certificates And Refined Oil Rates

Market data shows opening and closing times for pipeline certificates on December 18 1889 and December 19 with figures for highest prices and volumes. Charter details include crude runs shipments and averages since inception with refined oil priced per gallon and cottonseed oil certificates data.

F. W. Prescott & Co Devonshire Street Meee

Sugar and Molasses Markets Steady Across Regions

Raw sugars are quiet with Cuba quotes and Manila Lalios and Javas listed in mixed grades. Refined sugars show steady demand with standard A and Belmon t A prices and wholesale granulated at seven cents. Molasses receipts are nil with New Orleans sales around 40 48 cents per gallon and varying grades from Ponce to Barbados. Whiskey markets stay firm in Peoria Chicago St Louis Cincinnati at about 102 dollars.

Cuba Belmont New York New Orleans Ponce Cienfuegos Barbados Peoria Chicago St Louis Cincinnati

Markets Mixed in Quiet Trade for Turpentine and Petroleum

Commodity notes show New York and Rio markets quiet with steady cargoes. Turpentine closes near 43 to 44 cents, rosin at 122 to 125, tar around 250, while petroleum trades at 7.80 cents with resin and solvent values noted.

New York Rio

Imports Dec 19 1889 Bahamas Cuba Yarmouth and Charlottetown cargoes

A maritime cargo listing notes steamer Tordenskjold delivering 5000 bunches bananas from Ranes Cuba. Yarmouth Nova Scotia reports 4 bags turnips 10 bales duck 10 drums fish 5 boxes, eggs, apples, and rails. Several firms handle fish, potatoes, and goods. brig Lucy W Snow carries 9319 goat skins from Goree, and ships Lad Lettie M Hardy and Grenada carry 4000 and 3770 bush potatoes respectively.

RANES Cuba Tordenskjold Seaverns & Co Yarmouth Yarmonuth John G Hall & Co Eyes of Clements J H McMillen & Co American Express Co Goree Wca Lucy W Snow C Butman Charlottetown Pei Lettie M Hardy Grenada

Steamer Hibernian Brings Bulk Freight to Atlantic Ports

Glasgow to Bridgewater Shelburne Liverpool Antwerp St Johns Sydney report a steady stream of cargo including oatmeal bush wheat cheese beef tallow grease ink oysters and various shipping goods. Multiple schooners and steamers including Maggie Smith Willie Mc Gowan and Chicago are listed with quantities of coal oil cake flour and hardware across Atlantic and Newfoundland ports.

Glasgow Scot Hibernian Bridgewater Maggie Smith Shelburne Liverpool Willie McGowan Antwerp Bel Baltimore Chicago ST Joans Sydney Stanley Mac

Historic cargo list from Liverpool and Newfoundland ports

A detailed ledger of goods loaded and stored at Liverpool England and St Johns Newfoundland aboard ships Istrian Sch Idalia and Progress. Items include flour, oats, cornmeal, hides, leather, tobacco, cotton, lard, bacon, beef, pork, oil, lumber, machinery, and various hardware.

Liverpool Eng Istrian ST Johns ST John Sch

Foreign Markets Report From London and Liverpool

Cargoes off the coast show wheat firm while corn remains quiet in London markets. Liverpool sees firm spot wheat with poor demand, mixed American corn firmer, and various grain and meat prices steady or easing. December futures for wheat and corn listed with multiple delivery months.

London Mark Lane Paris Liverpool California

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