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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1889
Page
7
The heaviest horse weighed 1650 lbs with prices from 275 dollars. Trade at H and E Snow's stable was moderate. First class horses met fair demand. Arrivals included 3 carloads from Western, with 3 carloads sold. Some buyers anticipated arrivals on recommendations.
London wool sales opened with a good turnout as 3053 bales were sold. Prices were solid for scoured wool and greasy grades with several figures provided. mohair sale set for February 27 and skins sales planned for March 7 and 8.
The market reports weak demand for pig iron and steady to easy pricing across metals. Copper and tin hold modest activity, while steel rails rise in contracted tonnage and plate iron stays steady. various regional prices and ship points indicate cautious buying for spring and summer needs.
Receipts and exports rise with steady to easy pricing for corn oats rye and flour products. Chicago and New York show mixed bids and calls for No 2 and No 3 grades while futures remain active. Rainy demand steadies, with spot and futures quotes reflecting regional variations in steamer yellow and mixed prices.
Market notes show quiet demand and steady to unchanged tones for butter cheese eggs and related dairy goods. Western and Vermont creamery figures, along with New York and Cincinnati bids, reflect stable wholesale prices and limited movement across regions.
150 doz wild pigeons stall fed at $250 275 doz. Hay and straw markets show smaller hay yields but ample supply and quiet trade. Rye straw unchanged. Prices: choice best hay $19, fair to good $16 17, eastern fine $12 15, poor to ordinary $14 15. East swale $10 11, rye straw $18 19 00, oat straw $10 11.
The listing shows no price changes. Quoted items include mar row squash at 60 per ton, Hubbard squash 70 per ton, various onions at up to 2 per crate, beets 40 to 50 cents per bush, lettuce 60 cents per bush, celery 8 dollars per box, spinach 60 cents per bush, and assorted greens with other per bush or per crate quotes.
Reovirons report weak opening in hogs with a slow downtrend expected. Lard shows slight strength but overall prices edge lower in March futures and spot markets. Quote ranges for pork, lard, and beef reflect cautious demand across Chicago, St Louis, Cincinnati, and New York with steady to dull activity in cold storage and fresh meat sectors.
Apples show a subdued demand with steady pricing across Baldwins Tallman sweets Greenings and related varieties. Grapes oranges lemons and cranberries all appear quiet or steady at listed jobbing prices for various grades and box or case sizes. Bananas move slowly with sales in the 1 25 to 2 50 range.
The Peconic is due February 23 carrying 250 boxes Messina oranges 2100 boxes Messina lemons 3700 boxes Catania oranges and 200 boxes Catania lemons. The Trinacria departed Catania with 2800 boxes oranges and 700 boxes lemons bound for Boston sailing from Palermo on the 31st. Marmion is due February 21 with Jamaica bananas for the Boston Fruit Company.
H Harris & Co sold Florida oranges at auction today with a total of 13712 dollars and 3 1242 P box. Valencias brought 455 dollars per large case.
Cotton prices in New York steady with middling uplands at 10 1 16c and limited sales 412 bales. Liverpool spot quiet with limited demand at 59 16d for middling uplands and 5 2d for low middlings. futures opened steady and closed firm with multiple contract bindings.
Consolidated net receipts for five days total 68 569 with exports to Great Britain 36 611 France 2 385 and the Continent 22 622. Stock at all United States ports stands at 871 175.
The report covers stockyards in Kansas City Chicago Peoria Cincinnati and Stur, noting cattle receipts around 3971 at Kansas City and 11 000 in Chicago with slow trade and lower prices. Hogs show steady to lower trends with heavy to light ranges from about 4 30 to 4 57 across markets. Sheep receipts around 6000 with steady to firm prices and corn fed lamb values near 4 90.
Raw sugar prices show steady demand with Cuba, Manila, Java and other varieties quoted. Refined sugars in fair demand with standard and fancy grades listed. molasses demand steady with prices across Porto Rico and New Orleans markets.
The report notes quiet mixed price actions across staples. Tallow, coffee, whiskey, turpentine, rosin, and petroleum show minimal shifts with specific bid offers, price levels, and regional quotations recorded in New York and related markets.
The week ends February 20 1889 reports live stock totals with cattle sheep and swine numbers. It notes export demand and strong butchers trade, with total cattle around 3800 head, many for meat use. Prices vary by class from store cattle to fat hogs and milch cows, and Maine arrivals supplement Cambridge and Watertown yard sales.
Nearly 1000 cattle from the West arrived at Brighton Yards with hundreds sent to slaughterhouses. Trade held to last week's prices as buyers in Chicago and western markets move cattle directly, cutting agent profits. Sample sales included Monroe beeves at various weights and prices, and late arrivals show milch cows, working oxen, and springers selling from $30 to $120 per head as agents and buyers adjust to current demand.
The steamship Delta carries 687000 pounds logwood and 795 bags coffee for Boston Dyewood Co. Hugo Rainer & Co. At Placentia Bay Newfoundland schooner Crest of the Wave brings 840 barrels frozen herrings and 40 barrels salt herrings aboard Delong & Seaman.
A compiled list details freight receipts by railroads Boston & Albany Grand Junction Boston & Providence Old Colony New York & New England Witchburg Boston & Maine divisions and Lowell System. Items include bales cotton flour corn beef pork eggs butter lard cheese and leather totals for February 20 1889.
London reports firming for wheat and dearer corn with active off coast cargoes. Mark Lane buyers few as foreign grain softens. Paris quiet for wheat while Liverpool sees steady corn and dull wheat futures with mixed American corn prices. Prices show slight gains in wheat and uneven shifts in related commodities.
Trains depart Fitchburg Depot for Winchendon Jaffrey Peterboro Marlboro Keene St. Albans Montreal and more with connections at Rutland and White River Junction and a night express with Wagner Palace Sleeping Car to Rutland Burlington and St. Albans. Tickets at 228 Washington Street Boston. July 11 1885.
Boston and Albany Railroad time tables list local and through trains to Albany and west. Morning departures include 8:30 a m and 9:06 a m with connections to Syracuse Rochester Buffalo Detroit Chicago and Cleveland via major routes. Evening options include 7:00 p m 9:00 p m and 11:00 p m with vestibuled Wagner cars and dining service Worcester to New Haven. Sleeping car service to Albany runs daily except Saturday.
Cape Cod division timetable lists departure and return times from Kneeland Street Station to multiple stops including Bourne Barns Stabe Brewster Cataumet Chat ham Cottage City Fairhaven Hyannis Harwich Monument Beach Mattapoisett Nantucket Provincetown Sandwich Saxamore So Yarmouth Tremont Wellfleet West Barnstable Woods Hall Wareham and Warmouth with morning around 8 15 am and afternoon 4 15 pm or 3 30 pm. Nantucket run only Mondays Tuesdays Thursdays and Saturdays via Woods Hall.
Fragmented OCR lists trains, times, and stops across multiple routes including Providence Division. Readable items mention Park Square Station to New York lines, Attleboro and Readville sections, and numerous Sunday schedules with many times and destination points.
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