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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1887
Page
7
Commodity notes report leather quiet and hides dull while corn and rye steady firm prices. Butter moves slowly and cheese remains quiet but strong with good bean demand and firm grass seeds. Exports from Atlantic ports for the week ending December 24 1887 list United Kingdom and continental totals, followed by four week totals and detailed flour and grain prices across varieties.
Leather and hides markets report quiet trade with small orders and uneven demand. Finished leather steady to slight gains in some grades, calfskins firmer, rough leather steady, and exports valued at 64852 dollars. Prices for hemlock, buffalo, and various hides listed with regional variations and small lot sales expected in January.
The market reports weak immediate demand with buyers scarce in town as holiday shutdowns reduce trade. Factories remain busy with orders, especially in rubber goods and women’s grain items, while shipments compare with prior years and expect a post holiday pickup.
Market notes firm flour prices with several 1000 barrel sales at 50 to 50 dollars per barrel. Freight-rate increases push millers to raise prices. Northwestern Milling reports 6,616,700 barrels annual flour output. wheat receipts 45,577,190 bushels, shipments 12,837,700. Corn and oats markets show firmness and steady pricing with various futures and spot quotes.
The butter market closes quiet with small lots and no forced sales. Creameries fetch full figures for Western creamery products. long dairies and imitation varieties steady. Cheese firm. eggs and beans steady to easy. grass seeds and hay in demand. Potatoes receipts large, prices easing. poultry and game volumes mixed with steady to firm prices.
In Culcere butter and cheese unchanged New York butter and cheese steady and quiet Eggs 3 easier at 23 24c Dried apples dull cans steady The Liverpool market unchanged at 58s
Trade remains quiet with steady demand for select apples and firm cranberries. Prices show Choice No 1 Bala at 250, greening at 175 to 225, spitz 238, Baldwins 250 per barrel, Cape Cod cranberries at 1000 per barrel for dark, 79 per barrel for light, Jamaica bananas at 126 225, and Orlando area oranges with limited improvement due to abundant foreign fruit.
A historic price list shows box and bag prices for oranges lemons and olives from Jamaica Florida Palermo and Messina including Valencia and Mesina varieties. Nuts list Virginia hand picked walnuts almonds pecans cover several dealers with per pound or per box quotes and dried apples prices for various product grades.
Allan Asher & Co report cotton certificates held firm awaiting fresh demand. New York futures opened quiet and closed steady with December at 10.60 cents and March around 10.78. Spot Upland middling at 10 9-16 cents. Liverpool and U.S. port activity cited with varying stocks and arrivals. Consolidated U.S. port stocks total 1,047,051 bales with six day exports nearing 160,281.
The market for raw sugar remains quiet with prices steady and no reported sales. Raw sugar grades show limited movement with refining at 53-16, 6b-16c, and central values around 96 test. Refined sugar stays firm with granulated at 7c and pulverized at 75c. Molasses quotes include Ponce at 35c per gallon and Cienfuegos at 22c.
New York December 20 reports show flour receipts 39 416 pkgs exports 6381 bbls and 32 777 sacks with steady to brisk sales for various grades including Minnesota extra and city mill extra. Wheat receipts 22 000 bush exports 66 bush and spot sales 121 000 bush with No 2 red and No 1 white listed and prices noted across elevator and steamer delivery.
Commodity prices show little movement with United firm on petroleum and turpentine. beef, pork, lard and butter steady to firm. Grain, flour, and various meats report quiet to moderate activity across Chicago Toledo Minneapolis and Milwaukee markets with receipts and shipments listed.
Hogs steady with Yorkers at 520 to 560, mixed packers 520 to 660, butchers 565 to 576. Peoria hogs mostly 480 to 565. receipts 450, shipments 75. Chicago cattle on receipts 9060 shipments 5000 steady. cattle 525 to 575, good 290 to 300, stockers 150 to 300, Texas cattle 175 to 275. Hogs receipts 13,000 shipments 10,000 strong. values 615 to 555, light 490 to 525, heavy 540 to 585, ships 340 to 470. Sheep receipts 3500, 1500 strong. butchers 350 to 550, inferior to good 84 to 75, Western 350 to 510, Texans 250 to 376, lambs 450 to 600.
Liverpool market reports show wheat firm with fair demand and mixed corn steady on December 20 and Spot wheat firmer with corn firm on December 29. Prices include winter wheat 6s 8d to 6s 11d, spring wheat 6s 6d to 6s 10d, club wheat 6s 11d to 7s, and corn around 48 1/4d to 44d. Provisions hold steady or higher. lard up to 40s 3d. London notes hardening wheat on passage and mixed American corn at 25s 6d. Paris reports wheat and flour firm.
The report lists cargo and consignments from ships Gothenburg and Linaria arriving at Antwerp and Halifax. Items include steel billets and sheets, iron and steel goods, moise and rags, paper stock, window glass, india rubber shoes, plate glass, beans and potatoes, with consignors Naylor & Co Wellington & Co Baring Bros & Co Moise J B Moors & Co, Washburn Moon Manufacturing Co and others. The Linaria carries four bush potatoes and is charted with 8 G Kimball as consignor/agent.
A detailed cargo list from Liverpool and other ports records items aboard ships cleared Dec 27 to Dec 29 1887. It includes wheat apples leather tallow canned goods beef lard oil cake and various staples. Newfoundland and Antiguan destinations add flour meal oats beer and hardware. London steamer cargo features cheese canned beef mops timber and machinery among thousands of units.
Receipts list from multiple railroads dated December 29 1887 detailing staple items such as cotton wool flour corn oats malt feed bacon lard butter eggs leather hides and various bulk goods by Boston & Albany Grand Junction Boston & Providence Old Colony New York & New England Fitchburg and other lines. The tallies include bales barrels chests sacks and cars reflecting regional commodity movements and inventory sums.
Train schedule listing Fitchburg line departures from Boston on November 13 1887. Includes services to Troy Albany Rotterdam Junction Chicago St Louis via Niagara Falls Wabash Western and other branches with multiple daily times and Sun adjustments.
Local schedule details for passengers from Boston station Kneeland Street to Springfield Pittsfield Albany and the West with multiple daily departures and connections at Pittsfield Chatham Palmer Worcester New Haven and other points. Dining and drawing room cars are listed on select trains.
Old Colony issues baggage check orders for travelers from Boston hotels to destinations. From Dec 26 1887 weekday trains run Boston to New York via Fall River Line with numerous schedules to Ashmont Barnstable Hyannis and coastal towns. return trips listed with times and interlining notes.
Daily and Sunday timetable details list train departure times from Boston and connections to Norwood Hyde Park Readville Woonsocket Needham and routes to New York Philadelphia and New London with pickup stops and through services including Pullman and dining car notes.
Train arrangement from Boston to New York and return operates with multiple daily departures and varying times. The schedule lists stations, times, and special notes for lines including Shore Line Mail and connections through towns like Providence and Stonington, with Sunday and weekday adjustments.
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