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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1891
Page
7
The leather market shows steady prices with cautious buying and strong export demand for splits grain and sole leather. Rubber remains firm with rising prices under syndicate control and expectations of higher Para prices.
The Grain Trade reports receipts for today with totals for cotton seed meal corn wheat oats millet barley and rye. It covers market activity in Chicago New York St Louis Minneapolis and on track prices for futures and spot sales for No 2 red winter No 1 hard No 2 Northern and various oat and corn grades with bid asks and close ranges. Wheat fell then recovered with mixed signals from the Pacific coast rains and Liverpool cables.
An OCR fragment lists various items with prices or codes tied to regions such as Congo Madagascar Mozambique Sierra Leone and others. The items include small ball soft ball hake red ball and resembles a catalog or market ledger with inconsistent punctuation and Old World spellings.
Receipts are sufficient and demand remains tepid as many acclimated horses hit the market. Prices mirror last week with heavy drafts at 175 to 260 per head and family horses up to 260. Multiple stables report varied sales from 40 to 300, including carloads and mules selling at 300.
Receipts show flour at 4186 barrels and 1604 sacks with oats and cornmeal in small lots. Prices range for Minnesota Wisconsin brands and export firmer options, while patent varieties and meal sales move slowly in a quiet market.
Pork holds steady with fair demand while smoked meats firm and lard remains in moderate demand at steady prices. Fresh beef quiet due to light supplies. lambs and mutton show modest activity. veal steady with choice prices around 10 1 2 c. New York tallow steady near 4 4 c. Chicago provision market weak amid heavy receipts and packer selling.
Cattle steady with steers at 4480 dollars and cows at 2375 dollars. Butchers stock, stockers and feeders around 2663 dollars. Bulls and mixed traded, hogs at 160 dollars per hundredweight. Volume and exact items partially unreadable.
Steady or higher quotes across St Louis Chicago Peoria Cincinnati and New York markets for hogs cattle and pigs. Receipts heavy with widespread steady to lower pr ices on hogs and mixed packers while butter cheese and egg markets show firm tones with Western and Eastern regions reflecting demand shifts. Welfare of meat and dairy product prices noted alongside tabled commodity values in the latest market report.
Florida fruit receipts reach 3601 packages up from 109 last year as market stays steady though quiet. Prices quoted include oranges at 2.75 to 3.50 per box, Russets 2.50, mandarins 4.25, Valencia oranges 3.50 to 4, grapefruit 2.50, lemons and Messina offerings, apples firm with varied varieties, cranberries weak, Almeria grapes, assorted nuts, and dried apples with several grade ranges.
The Powhattan passed Gibraltar January 26 with 16000 boxes oranges 8760 boxes lemons 7100 boxes and 700 half boxes pene oranges and 2500 boxes lemons for Boston. Effective cleared Gibraltar February 5 for Boston with 5500 boxes and 1600 half boxes Messina oranges 3300 boxes Palermo lemons. Ethelred due today with bananas for Boston Fruit Co. Savannah boat due yesterday with 5740 boxes Florida oranges. Norfolk boat due today with 530 pigs truck and 275 bags peanuts. Prior bound for Boston with 2300 boxes and 500 half boxes Messina oranges 1500 boxes Messina lemons.
At the London wool sale 15000 bales were offered with most decline in lower quality wools though some types held firm. American buyers purchased 800 bales. NSW 4700 bales scoured prices listed. Queensland 3000 bales scoured and greasy. Melbourne Victoria 3800 bales with mixed prices. New Zealand Tasmania 1300 bales scoured prices given.
The report lists bale counts and prices for South Australia West Australia the Cape of Good Hope and Natal. Entries mention scoured and greasy statuses with prices in pence and shillings such as 1700 bales at 10d 1s 2d, 19 bales at 9d 6d, and 900 bales at 10s 7d 4d.
The New York spot cotton market remained quiet at 9 7/8 cents for middling uplands. Sales reached 149 bales with stock at 130,187 bales. futures opened steady and closed dull as prices moved through February and March contracts. Liverpool fair steady at 41 5 16d for middling upland with 7,000 bales traded and 5,400 American. receipts 28,000 bales, 19,200 American. Consolidated five day receipts total 89,040 bales with exports to Great Britain 52,088, to the Continent 36,624, stock unclear. Real-time market notes include varied bid values across regions from Augusta to Philadelphia.
In Fall River Mass on February 11 the print cloth market remained quiet and firm with moderate business. Activity focused on odd lots and prices listed include 31 to 16 cents for 64x64s8 and 25 1/2 cents for 60x56s.
Sugar refining quotes show a range of products from pulverized to extra fine with March delivery at 7 to 7.5 cents per pound and April at about 4.5 to 4.64 dollars per 100 pounds. Revere and wholesale prices are listed, raw sugar remains strong, and molasses demand is fair with domestic sales 30 to 38 cents per gallon noted. Sugar in Havana markets reported at 83 0.544 to 30744 gold per quintal.
The Peoria whiskey market stands firm at 115 dollars while the Cincinnati and St Louis markets stay steady at 114 dollars. The report notes stable prices across these key markets with no immediate changes expected.
New York market figures show turpentine at 4042 41c with resin 4242 145 and tar 260. Petroleum closes at 7.10c with KSW 750c and cases at 9 65c.
F W Prescott and Co at 54 Devonshire Street advertise crude and refined cotton seed oil details. Closing times set for February with shipments totals and refined price at 7.50 cents per gallon. Information includes average figures since the first of the month and totals for February 8.
London reports quiet wheat and corn markets with firmer American and Danish corn. Liverpool spot wheat holds higher while Paris sees firm wheat and flour. Manchester notes poor India China demand, looms stoppage rising, and mixed results for export yarns, cloth dull, and leather markets steady in places.
Boston Post correspondent George J Fox reports on live stock volumes at Watertown and Brighton markets. The dataset lists cattle sheep veals swine and totals by state with arrivals at yards, cars over roads, and beef pricing ranges from prime to third quality. Prices for store cattle include working oxen and pair of cows.
Brighton and Watertown yards show steady cattle demand with Western stock dominating. New milch cows and springers fetch strong prices while veal calves and lambs trade actively. exports to London and Liverpool noted with steady to weakening trends in some beef prices.
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