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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1888
Page
7
The column lists hog prices and meat stock levels in Chicago with January 1888 and 1887 figures. It includes pork and lard stocks, dressed hogs, and various cut weights, plus January to June futures for Wheat Corn Oats and Pork with opening, highest, lowest and closing values.
Market reports show flour and corn markets muted with few sales for small lots. Prices for various grades of flour, winter and spring patents, corn, oats, and rye hold to firm or slightly easier tones with limited futures activity and steady spot demand.
Barter market remains steady with firm tone and full prices on choice creameries. Receipts are light and demand is solid for fine creameries. various butter and cheese grades quoted with receivers’ prices and higher jobbing levels noted. Soil and grain items show limited movement as reports indicate quiet trade and stable hay and potato values.
The report lists numerous fruit and poultry quotes including rose varieties from Houlton and Uc bush, Hebrons, and Speeds bush with prices around 90 to 860 Y bush. It covers turkeys, chickens, fowls, ducks, quail, grouse, carrots, cabbage, onions, beets, squash, Hubbard, turban, lettuce, parsnips, turnips, celery and spinach with dollar-per-bushel or per-ton figures and market notes on demand and quiet markets.
Butter and cheese in New York unchanged. Rgs dull. Eastern firsts 22c, Western 21c. Liverpool cheese market lower at 593.
The Cincinnati Price Current notes hog movement enlarging in the West led by Chicago with total packing near 250,000 hogs, and a year‑to‑date total of 4,995,000. It lists regional packings, prices for hams and various pork cuts, and confirms firm fresh beef and steady lamb and veal markets with specific price ranges.
The sugar market shows steady prices with no reported sales. Raw sugar ranges from 53 16 to 55 16e, with refined and pulverized varieties quoted from 7 to 7 6c, and overall wholesale granulated around 7 1/4c. Molasses quotes include Ponce Porto Rico at 35c per gallon and Cienfuegos at 22c. Cottonseed oil certificates opened at 32 1/4c and closed at 32c.
New York February 4 reports show flour receipts 27 150 pkgs exports 6785 bbls and sacks BOOO with prices mostly unchanged and steady demand. Notable ranges include Western extra and Minnesota patent grades around 4 40 to 6 00 per bbl and 4 65 to 5 00 for fancy white wheat. Cornmeal rye and barley show subdued activity with No 2 spring at about 90 to 94 cents and No 2 red around 89 to 91 cents. overall trading remains light with limited export interest.
Across Detroit Cincinnati Toledo St Louis and Chicago markets on February 4, various commodities showed firm to quiet trends. Wheat and oats held steady to higher, with pork, lard, and beef adjusting modestly. barrels of flour and corn saw mixed movements while petroleum and sugar faced subdued demand. Havana sugar and molasses markets remained weak with steady freight costs and recurring US demand signals.
Cotton markets show New York spot at 1056 cents per pound for middling uplands with 10 5 for low middlings and 93 16 for good ordinary. Sales total 78 bales. Futures ranges quoted for February through December with mixed bid and asked prices. Liverpool futures steady with several period spreads. Domestic market receipts and stocks listed across Augusta to Consolidated totals.
Fall River report on print cloth markets shows weekly totals with production 175000 pieces deliveries 173000 stock 5000 pieces 60x56 1000 pieces 64x64 4000 pieces last week stock 3000 pieces sales 228000 pieces odd 86000 pieces 64x64 142000 pieces spot 29000 pieces futures 199000 pieces. Sales for weekly delivery list February 155000 pieces March 131000 pieces April 35000 pieces May 2000 pieces June 6000 pieces. Rice 4c for 64s 34cc nominal for 60x66s. Market firm and active.
Hogs steady in St Louis with light weights selling around 490 to 520 dollars and mixed packers 615 to 650. Peoria notes lighter hogs at 480 to 550 while Kansas City sees steady hogs with 4000 estimated receipts. Chicago reports cattle market strength for good types, weaker for others, with hogs totaling 14 000 receipts and varying prices, and sheep markets improving with natives around 8 5 to 20 dollars and Texans 3 to 4. Lambs reach 4 75 to 6 25.
Foreign markets report from London during Feb 4 to 12 shows wheat and corn trading with some clarity in cargoes, upward price tendency, and mixed cargo dynamics. California and Australian wheat prices quoted. Paris and Liverpool markets firm or steady. breadstuffs, pork, bacon, and cheese noted with quiet demand and stable to firm prices.
A detailed ledger style listing shipments on the steamers Cephalonia Kansas and multiple consignors, including BW Jones Wood Pollard Co and Bar ing Bros Co, with hundreds of items such as tin plates, cotton, woollens, earthenware, machinery, oranges, potatoes, and citrus. Names of firms and consignments dominate, reflecting a broad array of goods imported and exported from Liverpool and adjacent ports.
The Milanese cleared Jun 31 with 8 boxes organ stock and 469 rolls leather among 27 crates of woodenware plus 657 books 13 causes 712 cases and 6000 staves. Goods from Lunenburg and Halifax include molasses schooner cargo coffee steel liquor boxes electric goods and more with crates barrels bbls and crates noted across multiple vessels.
Inventory of shipments across multiple rail lines and express and sea routes listing cotton, wool, flour, corn, lard, butter, bacon, eggs, leather, hides, and other staples. Totals appear per railroad including Boston & Albany, Grand Junction, Providence, Old Colony, New York & New England, Fitchburg, Isoston & Maine Eastern Division, Boston & Maine Western and Lowell System, with additional by express and by sea.
The report lists receipts for February 4 1888 and 1887 across commodities including cotton sugarbales wool molasses flour butter cornmeal oleo oatmeal eggs oats wheat beans barley apples malt potatoes hay peas tallow lumber beef leather pork lard cases hams tongue presed meats dry hides grease hides bacon skins dressed hogs tea coffee sugar pelts birds and more with quantity figures varying by item and year. Names of commodities and yearly totals appear in dense tabular form.
The annual meeting of the Boston Wharf Company stockholders will be at Young's Hotel Court Square Boston on Tuesday Feb 7 1888 at 2 30 PM. Boston Jan 28 1888 Ashburn A C Was ae os annual meeting Boylston Market Association room 681 Mason Building Boston Monday Feb 6 1888 11 AM A F Freeman Clerk pro tem Jan 27 1888 Copartners Two Notices G W Bent Co dissolved by mutual consent Bent Morse Webster 10 Charlestown St Jan 1 1588
Local time tables for the Boston and Albany Railroad show hourly departures from Boston and connections to Pittsfield Albany and the West. Listings include through tickets, dining and drawing room cars to New York, and numerous intermediate stops with varied daily and Sunday service. End signatures: A. H. Hanson and H. J. Gallup.
Train schedule and fares for Fitchburg Railroad routes from Boston Passenger Station Causeway Street to Troy Albany Rotterdam Junction and the West. Includes express and sleeping car options to Chicago via Niagara Falls and Wabash Western Railway, various local stops and daily/Sunday times with numerous times and prices.
On and after Monday May 30 87 trains run Weston to New Work Shore Line Fast Express 194m time, with returns. New Work Shore Line Mail Sunday times 1 pm and 11 pm returns. New York Steamboat Stonington Line 6.30 pm Sundays excepted with returns 5 pm. Providence and Pawtucket and other routes listed with multiple daily departures and returns, including special Friday rates and Wednesday adjustments.
Long, dense timetable extracts train and return times for numerous routes from Boston to destinations including Hyannis Mashpee Nantucket and Plymouth via multiple lines. Includes baggage handling notes, office address for calls, specific weekday and Sunday departures and returns, and names GEO. L. CONNOR and R. KENDRICK as general agents.
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