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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1888
Page
7
Cranesberries and Cape Cod fruits show moderate demand with varied quotations. Florida oranges steady with fair movement. Palermo and Messina citrus priced per box or case. Valencia and other oranges listed with regular and large case prices. hogs online at 60 per case for jobbing.
The Fork market remains steady with quiet demand. Long cuts to backs and pork products are listed in stable ranges, while fresh beef and muttons show quiet activity with price stability. Lambs, veals, and Eastern mutton offer varied but steady quotes reflecting size and cut differences.
Miscellaneous market notes show pipelines closing February 16 and 17 with prices and percent changes. Sugar markets display steady raw prices, refined demand, and varied grades. cottonseed oil certificates opened at 5 and closed at 5. Butte, Montana? No, New York and London price quotes for tallow, turpentine, rosin, tar, and petroleum are listed with closing figures and ranges.
New York reports flour receipts and prices with Minnesota patent and winter wheat values, while Chicago St Louis and Milwaukee show mixed wheat, corn, and flour activity. Prices for pork, lard, bacon, and butter vary by city as shipments rise and demand remains quiet in several regions.
Al J Alin Asher & Co notes a sluggish cotton certificates market with early Feb gains erased as demand wanes. South orders give brief upticks before prices retreat amid adverse abroad and domestic advice. Plantations show little interest in a rise. weekly movement heavy. Mart receipts reach 18,000 versus 10,000 last year.
From Sept 1 to date US year to date stocks 4,769,000 vs 4,664,000 last year. Exports today 3,805,000, same time last year 3,339,000 bales. New York futures opened quiet with mixed bid and ask. Liverpool futures closed firm and weekly stats show American stock at 852,000 and afloat at 217,000.
.St. Louis hogs mostly 4.75 to 5.50 with mixed packers softer 5.40 to 5.50 Peoria hogs quiet and softer 4.75 to 5.55 Kansas City hogs steady with 8,000 receipts Chicago cattle steady to strong with choices 6.75, beef supplies heavy hogs 5.05 to 5.35. sheep natives 3.50 to 5.50 Western 4.75 to 5.30 Texans 3.80 to 4.75 lambs 5.60 to 6.10.
Foreign markets report from London and Liverpool dated February seventeenth shows wheat quiet to dull amid mixed demand, with American corn weaker locally and flour quiet. Prices listed for winter and spring wheats, club wheat lower, and various corn quotations. receipts noted, Paris and Antwerp trends described. overall market activity in breadstuffs steady to firm in places.
Imported cargoes listed from Fort Fortune Bay to Glasgow and other ports include schooner W D Daisley with 600 bbls frozen herring and various goods aboard. Steamer Scandinavian carrying pig iron, bricks, wool, dry goods, potatoes, paper stock, tobacco pipes, and many items from multiple firms. The long manifest names dozens of companies such as Waldo Bros, J B Moors & Co, Jordan Marsh Co, Baring Bros & Co, Shepard Norwell & Co, and others, with quantities ranging from sacks of potatoes to cases of dry goods and steel plates.
A dated cargo summary lists exports of palm oil gum monkey skins parrots and monkeys with names John F Brooks and EXPORTS on February 17 1888. It details brig Water Witch at Hayti and shipments from Lockport NS and Lunenburg NL including flour pork codfish mackerel alewives kerosene oil nails candles matches rope oakum shingles lumber and various ship supplies and trading goods for several vessels and ports.
A condensed ledger lists February 17 1888 receipts for Boston and Albany Boston and Providence Fitchburg and other lines. It records cotton wool flour corn oats malt grease butter cheese eggs beans leather hides and various cargo counts including bales bbls sacks and cases. Major entries include cotton wool flour corn oats and lard across multiple railroads with numerous itemized quantities.
A table presents total receipts at the port for all shipment points with in transit goods, comparing current totals with the seven day period ending previous week. Details cover principal staple commodities and aggregate figures across all destinations.
Directory of sales agents and firms across multiple cities including Baltimore Bloomington Chicago Cleveland Columbus Detroit New York Norfolk Greenville Easton Fayetteville Muskegon New York Pittsburg Salt Lake City St Louis Scranton Toledo Topeka and Washington with agent names and associated firms such as Pretzfelder Kline & Co Phelps Dodge Palmer Gore Schwab Laws Co Cady Childs Groff Pitts Adams Bellows Carnahan Eschmerter Auerbach Adler Schafer Nettleton Payne Cohen and others, indicating broad dealer coverage and commercial representation.
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