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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 1891
Page
7
The weekly leather market shows steady prices but subdued demand, with foreign and domestic hides trading cautiously. Boots and shoes face unsatisfactory conditions as manufacturers seek lower costs, while exports and foreign demand support prices. various leather grades and related goods display mixed activity from wax grades to finished calfskins.
A week of active trading saw heavier receipts across stables with no rush in Moses Colman & Son’s yard. Many horses changed hands including twenty head from Canada mainly drivers. Prices reached high sums as A. W. Davis received a carload of fine drivers from Michigan.
At Walker's Bazaar a fair trade disposed of fifty head of acclimated horses and some saddle horses, prices from 25 to 160 dollars. Isburgh & Co. sold about eighty five head, including roadsters and family horses, with top prices to 300 dollars. Hum & Co. moved two car loads of heavy stock plus drivers. Combination Sale Stable moved six car loads with sales from 90 to 250 dollars. Welch & Hall shipped six car loads West, with prices 90 to 200 dollars. Russell & Drew saw solid demand for drivers at 125 to 300 dollars. International Horse Exchange reported business chunks from 85 to 230 dollars per head and drivers 156 to 200 dollars. Edgar Snow & Co. special sale 225 to 410 dollars, general sale 110 to 200 dollars.
A quiet trade in small flour lots shows prices unchanged. Best spring wheat patents in round lots offered at 5 75 per barrel. Quotations include fine through common at 4 25, extra and seconds 4 4 90, Minnesota bakers' clear 4 75 5 25, winter clear 4 85 5 40, winter patent 5 30 5 70, spring patent 5 40 6. Canada export flour at 4 75 4 80, Canada superior for export at 5 60 fob. Rye flour patents 4 75 5, straight 4 50 4 75. Cornmeal steady with bag meal 1 24 1 26 and barrel meal 2 65 2 70. Oatmeal steady at 6 45 6 76 cut and rolled and 6 6 25 bbl ground.
The notice details meat prices and trading conditions: pork steady, lard in strong demand, fresh beef steady with light trade, abundant supplies. Lambs at 10c, mutton around 8 8 40 for choice, fair yearling demand at 10 11c. New York tallow quiet, Chicago market generally steady with a slight pork advance, packers as free sellers. Prices listed for May contracts and various cuts.
Kansas City market reports show cattle prices steady with large sales. Shipping steers bring about 4 4 85, native cows 2 3 40, stockers 2 50 3 67, packers 3 15 3 40, heaviest 3 20 3 45, light pigs 2 75 0 and Yorkers 3 10 3 15. total 13 508 head, weaker overall. Peoria hog market opened steady with ongoing sales.
Range figures show hogs and cattle trading steady to higher across major markets. Yorkers and packers quoted near mid thirties to low forties. Chicago receipts reach 13 000 cattle and 40 000 hogs with varied bids for steers cows and lambs, while Cincinnati and St Louis report higher hog prices and steady to higher packer quotes.
Today's receipts list butter beans hay potatoes poultry and vegetables with butter and cheese markets described as steady though quiet overall. Prices across regions from New York Chicago Baltimore and Liverpool reflect firm creamery and cheddar values while oats and eggs show mixed activity amid light supplies.
The Florida fruit market shows quiet steady receipts with prices for engths and mandarins, navels and grapefruits. Mediterranean goods like Palermo and Messina citrus hold steady, apples show firm demand with varied regional varieties priced, cranberries light, nuts and almonds listed with multiple price points.
The steamer Effective passed Gibraltar Fen for Boston carrying 5500 boxes and 1600 half boxes Messina oranges and 3300 boxes Palermo lemons. The steamer Prior heads to Boston with 2300 boxes and 500 half boxes Messina oranges and 1500 boxes Messina lemons. The Ethelwold arrived with bananas for the Boston Fruit Company. The Savannah boat arrived with 6760 boxes oranges, and the Norfolk boat yesterday with 500 bags peanuts and 976 barrels truck. The Herman Winter arrived yesterday with 974 boxes oranges.
The New York spot cotton market remained dull at 9 cents for middling uplands with no sales and stock at 129,572 bales. Futures opened quiet and easy and closed steady as sales reached 146,500 bales.
New Orleans Easy mid 8 to 15-16 cents and Mobile Easy mid 13-16 cents lead a range of regional prices. Savannah weak mid 8 c and Wilmington Quigg mid Bic contrast with quiet Charleston and dull Philadelphia and Baltimore nominal rates. Consolidated net receipts for five days total 82,832 bales with exports to Great Britain at 89,1763 and to the Continent 29,989.
Refined sugar prices remain firm with unchanged levels across multiple grades including granulated, fine, and beet, while raw sugar holds steady. In London, cane prices steady though beet shows slow downward drift. New Orleans molasses demand remains strong with Porto Rico and Barbados quotes varying by quality.
The Peoria whiskey market remains firm at 115 dollars while Cincinnati and St. Louis markets hold steady at 114 dollars. Prices in these key markets show stability with no changes announced by vendors, signaling cautious demand and steady supply across the region.
Turpentine quoted at 40 42 41 cents with resin at 14 44 5 cents and tar at 2 6 0 dollars. Petroleum closed at 7.10 cents with KSW at 750 cents and cases at 9 65 cents.
In New York yesterday pig iron was reported quiet and nominal while lead remained steady. Tin showed less activity but firming prices with straits at 1990 dollars. tin plates were firm and in fair demand. Spelter was neglected.
London reports cargoes off the coast with wheat strong and corn firmer, while Mark Lane shows Englis h wheat firm but not active. Liverpool spot wheat firm, Paris wheat and flour steady, Manchester notes a dull market with slow demand for India and China and steady prices for production and cloth.
At London wool sales on February 18 135400 bales were offered with good attendance. Better classes sold briskly while inferior sorts moved fairly and ross-breds remained keenly sought. Prices firmed with West Australia par with prior rates as French German and American buyers participated.
CF W Prescott & Co of 54 Devonshire Street lists closing and opening times for pipe line certificates and notes shipments with figures. It covers refined oil prices per gallon and cotton seed oil certificates, followed by the print cloth market report from Fall River with price levels. The Watertown and Brighton news item provides livestock market totals, arrivals at yards, car counts by railroad, beef and cattle prices, store cattle figures, sheep and lamb prices, and hides and pelts values, concluding with late sales at Brighton.
Arrivals included 1890 Western sheep 50 cattle 110 store pigs 60 calves with trade fair but not brisk. Prices for oxen, cows, and calves varied by seller, with strong activity in milk cows and veals. Export shipments of cattle to London and Liverpool noted, while sheep and hog markets showed steady or mixed demand at Watertown and Brighton yards.
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