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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1889
Page
7
The report shows mixed grain activity with Detroit and Chicago receipts and dull markets for oats and rye. Wheat prices advance in New York and Minneapolis futures while St Louis and Toledo mark firmer or lower readings, with oats, cornmeal, and milks feed markets described as quiet or dull.
Butter prices hold at 28 29c for choice creamery, with 29c as top today. Western and Vermont creamery quotes range 25 29c, 28 29c respectively, while eggs and beans show soft demand and steady to firm levels. Prices for potatoes, poultry, and hay remain under steady or quiet pressure as receipts rise.
The market shows ample supply with limited activity. Quoted items include Marrow squash at 50 dollars per ton Turban squash 50 dollars per ton Hubbard squash 70 dollars per ton Savoy cabbage 76290 cents per barrel Red cabbage 2 dollars per barrel Onions 1 dollar per 126 units.
Bermuda onions two dollars per crate. Spanish onions one hundred fifty dollars per crate. Beets forty to fifty cents per bush. Carrots seventy five cents per bush. Lettuce seventy five cents to one dollar per bush. Turnips forty cents per box. White French turnips one dollar twenty five cents. Radishes and turnips fifty cents per dozen. Celery seven to eight dollars per box. Parsnips fifty cents per bush. Spinach fifty to sixty cents per bush box. Native dandelions one hundred fifty dollars per bush. Norfolk spinach two dollars sixty cents per barrel. Kale fifty cents per barrel. Parsley two twenty five dollars per bush.
In Chicago provisions were weak on heavy receipts of hogs yet buying was strong. Pork prices steady with export demand noted. various cuts priced from 16 50 to 18 00. Lard and beef markets show quiet or firmer tones across multiple cities including New York and St Louis.
The market for apples shows weak demand with prices for common to good at 1.25 dollars and higher grades up to 2.25 dollars per barrel. Export totals for the past week reach 32,123 barrels with season figures at 1,184,215 barrels, while grapes and citrus hold firm prices and steady demand. Cranberries trade slowly with $7 to $8 per barrel for choice and $1.75 to $2.50 per case for fair to good. Sea sonally, bananas and mandarins are listed with varied box prices. oranges and lemons show steady quotes across Messina and Palermo goods.
The steamer Peconic is due with 7250 boxes Messina oranges and 2100 boxes Messina lemons. The steamer Victoria arrives Feb 23 with 5900 boxes Palermo oranges 3100 Palermo lemons and 3500 Naples oranges. The steamer Picqua due Feb 11 with 5500 Messina oranges 1000 Messina lemons 7300 Palermo oranges 6400 Palermo lemons. The steamer Hondo is due Feb 14 with Jamaica fruits for the Boston Fruit Company.
H Harris & Co auctions 3000 boxes Florida oranges 750 cases Valencia oranges and 25 boxes figs. Snow & Co auctions 400 cases eggs 300 bags California beans and 1000 boxes Florida oranges.
Raw sugar demand quiet with prices unchanged across Cuba Manila LOlilos and Javas. Refined sugars firm with small supply and varied grades. pulverized to confectioners and standard A values listed. Molasses shows fair demand and steady market across Porto Rico New Orleans Cienfuegos and boiling grades.
In New York cotton eases to 101-16c for mids, 99-16c for low middling, 83-16c for ordinary. sales total 9377 bales. Futures open quiet and close steady. March through December figures shown, Liverpool spot quiet with middling uplands at 5 1/2 to 6 7/16d and abundant receipts and exports in other markets.
Great Britain 5430 coastwise 380 sales 500 stock 38264. Memphis Net receipts 6133 gross 7013 shipments 5814 sales 2050 stock 116988. Savannah quiet mid 91ec with net receipts 4796 gross 4796 sales 700 stock 3667. Charleston quiet mid 10c net receipts 1430 gross 1430 sales 300 stock 28726. Wilmington dull nominal mid 9%4c receipts 434 gross 434 stock 6816. Norfolk steady with exports to Great Britain 885 coastwise 1847 sales 868 stock 46157. West Point exports 4500. Philadelphia frin mid 93c receipts 97 gross 197 stock 16567. Baltimore nominal mid 101ee receipts 27 gross 307 exports to Great Britain 4012 coastwise 200 sales 1200 stock 16405. New York large totals receipts 638 gross 12025 exports to Great Britain 23419 continent 7128 stock 233498. Cincinnati steady mid 93c receipts 901 gross 901 shipments 2122 stock 11533. St Louis quiet mid 9%4c receipts 852 gross 1215 shipments 1857 stock 71991. Louisville mid 9%4¢ firm. Consolidated three days 46956 receipts exports to GB 40947 to Continent 17 ? France 9415 stock at all US ports.
Stock Yards Kansas City steady to firm with cattle at 150 to 420 dollars and hogs 4 35 to 4 65. St Louis firm hogs 4 60 to 4 80. Peoria slightly easier 4 50 to 4 75. Cincinnati softer 4 00 to 4 75. Chicago cattle receipts 12 000 with clout for good quality, cattle 3 4 80. lambs 5 60 to 6 60. sheep firm 2 45 to 3 00.
Tallow prices in New York steady at around 5 to 6 cents with out of town packages noted. Turpentine and petroleum markets show closes around 47 to 55 cents for turpentine and 6.55 to 7.15 dollars for petroleum. Coffee in Rio and New York markets dull to fair. Whiskey markets in the West steady around 103 dollars.
The list records cargo receipts for Boston and Albany Boston Providence Grand Junction New York and New England Fitchburg Old Colony Boston and Maine Eastern West Western divisions and two named lines. Items include vast totals of cotton wool flour corn oats lard butter eggs pork bacon sugar tea coffee and leather among others with hundreds of bales and bbls and many cars and rolls noted.
Steamer Capulet from Hamburg reports 11 cases woollen goods. Stone and Downer 294 bala ratiang. ER Van Deusen and Son 15 cases.
A lantern of orders from Antwerp to Yarmouth and Cornish ports shows glassware gin potash sugar and blooms. herring, potatoes, apples, and turnips shipped from BEAVER HARBOR and MATANZAS. Steamer and schooner cargoes include oranges, boxes, rosin, oil, cotton, lumber, and seafood all consigned to firms in Boston Savannah and Halifax.
London cargoes and markets show wheat firm and corn steady amid snowfall. Prices quoted for California wheat and Walla Walla. Paris and Antwerp prices noted, Liverpool spot wheat quiet, corn in demand, provisions mixed with pork and bacon trading.
Notice of annual stockholders meeting for the State Street Exchange to be held February 20 1889 at 11 o clock forenoon in Boston room 13 No 53 State street to transact business and other matters. Francis L Hayes Clerk. Thorndike Company annual meeting at No 10 Summer street office of treasurer February 12 at 1 30 a m Ped er Olsen Clerk.
The readable lines show a jumble of times and phrases such as 11.20 am 2.35, 5.20, 6.12, 7.10 and 12.02 with scattered references to Morrison Square and other vague markers. No coherent event or structure is evident beyond scattered timetable-like entries.
Cape Cod division lists departures from Kneeland Street Station and stops including Bourne Bournevale Brewster Cataumet Chatham Falmouth Hyannis Harwich Monument Beach Mattapoisett Marion Nantucket Provincetown Sandwich Wellfleet Wellfleet Wareham and Yarmouth with morning 8.15 am and afternoon 4.15 pm windows. Nantucket runs Mondays Tuesdays Thursdays and Saturdays only.
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