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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1888
Page
7
The market remains quiet but steady across flour and corn products with mixed trade views. Prices for fine, superfine, and patent flours hold near quoted levels while cornmeal and oats show cautious demand. steamed yellow corn and various oats grades move within narrow bands, with bid and ask ranges listed for March and year shipments.
The butter market remains steady with limited trade as receipts stay small. Quotations cover Western creameries through Vermont and New York, with low grades and jobbing prices slightly higher. cheese and eggs show a quiet, steady tone, while beans seeds and hay report firm or steady movement amid modest demand.
The market notes a steady price trend with a large arrival of foreign potatoes expected late week about the 16th, totaling around 12,000 bags. Listed prices cover multiple potato varieties, turkeys, chickens, fowls, ducks, geese, rabbits, onions, cabbage, beets, squash, turnips, and celery, with regional and seasonal variations noted.
The Elgin market reports butter at 29 cents and Western creamery extra at 26 cents with eggs firm at 24 cents. New York shows butter quiet at 25 to 29 cents, Western creamery and cheese unchanged, eggs easier. Liverpool cheese quoted at 58 shillings 6 pence, vs 64 shillings 6 pence the previous year.
The steamer Mississippi arrives from Mediterranean ports with 554 Valencia oranges 1000 Messina oranges 800 Messina lemons 2900 Palermo oranges and 4900 Palermo lemons. Hi Harris & Co plan an auction on Wednesday offering 1000 boxes Florida oranges. Prices quoted for various fruit and Apple market notes accompany the farming goods report.
The pork market remains steady with quiet movement. Prices for lard ham and dressed hogs are firm, with ranges for long cuts up to 18 dollars and various pork products listed. Beef and lamb quotes follow, showing general market steadiness across fresh beef, plate meats, and mutton, with specific price points for cuts and grades.
Pipeline certificates show closing 3 pm Feb 13 and 3 pm Feb 14 with highs and lows. Sugar markets steady with refined varieties and prices listed. molasses offered as Ponce Porto Rico at 42c per gallon. cottonseed oil certificates opened at 8 1 4c and closed at 30 1 2c with highs and lows noted. Tallow and turpentine markets reported in New York and London with petroleum settled at 67 7 8c and resin values cited.
Reports from New York and Chicago show mixed grain and commodity activity. Flour and wheat receipts and exports vary while prices range with dull to steady demand. rye, corn, oats, and barley show subdued movements. fuels, meats, and oils also noted with modest shifts across markets.
Circulation of grain prices shows wheat at varying levels: No 1 hard 76% to 78 percent, No 1 Northern around 76 cents, No 2 Northern about 73 to 74 cents, and white wheat at 85 cents. Corn ranges lower with No 2 around 61 to 66 cents, oats mixed near 33 to 44 cents, rye around 60 cents, barley lower around 74 to 75 cents. Provisions held steady in places, pork around 14 to 15 dollars, lard and alk meats steady, receipts and shipments listed for multiple markets including Minneapolis Detroit Milwaukee Cincinnati Toledo Baltimore Philadelphia and Duluth.
Allan Asher & Co notes a dull market with few features, small outside selling from New Orleans, and a narrow four to five points fluctuation. Port receipts and exports are detailed, with New York futures opening steady before closing steady. spot New York dull at 10 11 16 cents middling. Regional quotes show mixed, mostly steady prices across ports.
Across St Louis Kansas City and Chicago markets buyers held mixed tone as hog sales varied by weight and region. Cattle and sheep saw steady to strong prices with notable highs for fancy steers and native lambs amid sizable receipts and shipments.
London and Liverpool cargo and price reports show wheat firm with dull shipments, corn steady and market quiet amid a France holiday. Liverpool bids No 1 California at 63 9d, No 2 at 63 6d, corn at 48 10d. Wheat and flour prices hold as a thaw or snow affects the trade.
At the London wool sales on February 14, French and German buyers secured most lots with American buyers limited to minor greasy offerings. Good wools held steady while some inferior lots sold 14d below opening. Notable lots include Victoria and New South Wales grades with varied scoured and greasy prices.
A detailed 19th century shipping record lists imports and exports across Demerara and Savannah. Items include 2440 bags sugar from Demerara, 6256 packages fruit from Palermo, 150 boxes fruit from Debert & Betnban, oranges, hides, cotton, lumber, and rosin among numerous firms such as Goseler & co AS & J Brown & co Billings & Eaton Conant & Bean J H Blanchard and others engaging steamer Gate City and Missis sippi trade routes. The long ledger records quantities by vessel, consignor, and destination, reflecting broad interport commerce.
A compact record of export goods from Jamaica Cuba and Glasgow dated February 14 1888 listing ships steamboats schooners and steamers with cargo including flour lumber hardware nails boilers and foodstuffs plus miscellaneous items such as seeds, spices, tools, and metals. Key vessels include Lorenzo D Baker, May O Neil, Dominion, and Siberian with cargo detailed per ship across multiple ports.
A detailed ledger lists February 14 1888 receipts for multiple railroads including Boston and Albany Grand Junction Boston Providence Old Colony New York and New England Fitchburg Boston and Maine Eastern Western Lowell and Maine. It itemizes cot ton wool flour corn oats barley hay lumber leather and various meats and goods with quantities. Entities include multiple railroad names stock items and quantities showing broad commodity movement across rail lines.
City of Boston announces a public hearing by the Committee on Underground Wires at City Hall Room 24 on Thursday February 16 at 3 p m. Nathan G Smith chairman reports the session to consider granting rights for laying electric wires underground.
The Committee on Ordinances will hold a public hearing in the Common Council Chamber City Hall Boston on Wednesday the 15th at 7 30 p m to hear petitioners and others interested in the proposed repeal of the ordinance regulating preaching on the Common. William Power Wilson.
The South Cove Corporation will hold its annual meeting at No 19 Milk Street Boston on Saturday February 18 1883 at noon to elect a board of directors and address lawful business. Clerk Crocker notes Boston February 10 1888.
Notices announce issued insolvency warrants and creditor meetings for John H. Gigi Samuel S Young Nathan L Allen in Suffolk and Cambridge. Assignees A W Boardman and WM F Hutchins set meetings in Court of Insolvency with creditors urged to prove claims and object to accounts.
Navy Department invites sealed proposals to furnish material labor and erect sixteen 16 inch gun lathes at the Washington Navy Yard. Bids due March 1 1888 in duplicate, with details from the Bureau of Ordnance. Secretary reserves right to reject any or all bids.
Train and boat timetable notices outline baggage check procedures at the Old State House and list numerous weekday and Sunday train departures and returns to Boston and points in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Officials GEO L. Connor and J. R. Kendrick are cited as general agents.
Rail timetable for Monday May 30 1897 outlines departures from Boston to New York Shore Line Fast Express and New York Line Mail with various return times. Additional services include Steamboat Saintonington Line from New York and Providence connections to Pawtucket Attleboro and Roxbury areas with adjustments on Mondays Wednesdays and Thursdays.
Train times for Marlboro, Southboro, Northboro, Clinton, Fitchburg and Boston routes listed with departure and return windows. Includes Sunday trains to Newton Lower Falls, Wellesley Hills, Newton Highlands, Brookline and intercity connections. notes on special trains and general agents Hanson and Gallup.
Weather note from Miller's Falls area near Brattleboro records a light morning change with mist and a temp near freezing. Forecast calls for gradual clearing, light winds, and afternoon sun potential.
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