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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1890
Page
7
Wheat and corn markets show higher readings in New York and Chicago with steady demand. Receipts across St Louis Chicago and Chicago and Chicago indicate modest demand and firm prices, while oats and rye present steady or unchanged quotes. Rice and barley hold quiet with minor fluctuations.
The report lists prices for West Indies and Nova Scotia hebrons and New Brunswick varieties, plus Scotch magnum and silver dollars at varied bids. It notes quiet demand for sweet potatoes with Jersey extras at 375 to 400 per barrel and Floridas at 250, hay and straw markets with steady to dull activity, and grass seeds with nominal pricing.
Market quotes show onions at 4 50 to 4 75 per barrel and Western onions at 4 4 25 per barrel. Beets 85 cents per box, lettuce 50 cents per dozen, radishes 35 to 40 cents per dozen, turnips 85 cents per box, cucumbers 2 to 2 50 per crate, Florida tomatoes 2 50 to 3 50 per crate, Bermuda tomatoes 1 small crate, Florida string beans 1 50 to 3 per crate. Vendors quote assorted prices for cabbage, parsnips, squash, spinach, kale, celery, and other produce.
Apples show steady wholesale ranges with No 1s at 3 50 to 3 75 and No 2s at 2 50 to 3 00 while Northern Spies reach 3 4. Mediterranean lemons and oranges vary with supply adequate but demand muted. Florida fruit remains uneven with Indian Rivers scarce, mandarins steady, and strawberries in good supply. Cranberries tighten as New Jersey dominates, nuts weakly active with low peanut and pecan quotes. Dried apples hold firm across evaporated and sun dried varieties.
At H Harris and Co auction sale today Floridian oranges sold at 1.12 per box, lemons at 1.12 per box, tangerines at 1.55 per box, mandarins at 2.3742 per box and 2.60 per half box, and grapefruit at 1.25 per box and 1.75 per box and 1.62 per barrel.
Receipts list butter, oleo, cheese, beans, potatoes, hay, straw, and more with totals for today. Comparisons show last year’s figures, butter and beans higher today in parts, while butter market quotes Western and New York creamery prices and varied dairy offers. Multiple cities report quiet to steady demand, with prices held firm in many grade categories and jobbing prices typically 1 to 2 cents higher.
The Glen Tanar passed Gibraltar February 9 with 5000 boxes Messina oranges 1400 boxes Messina lemons 6800 boxes Palermo oranges 8700 boxes Palermo lemons destined for Boston. Olympia left Valencia February 4 bound for Boston with 3500 Valencia oranges 4000 Messina lemons 5500 Palermo oranges 6100 Palermo lemons. Fitzroy with Palermo Messina fruit passed Gibraltar at 15 for Boston. Columbia has 8000 Catania oranges 300 Catania lemons for Boston sailing from Palermo by the 19. Norfolk boat due Friday has 30 boxes 140 bags peanuts and 1875 barrels.
Receipts list tallow pork lard hams bacon preserved meats and other goods. Prices for various meat products across New York Cincinnati Chicago St Louis and Nation markets show steady demand especially for pork and hams while beef remains dull and lard steady. Fresh beef and lambs command steady to full prices with regional variation in meats and tonnage reported.
Kansas City cattle markets show steady firm prices with steers at 335, cows around 176 to 190, stockers and feeders up to 835, and mixed stockers at 280. Hogs trade firm with 6547 head, heavies near 370, mediums and lights around 382 to 243. York figures not fully clear.
Market notes from St Louis and Cincinnati show hogs firm with Yorkers at 3 75 to 3 90, packers up 5 cents, butchers steady. Cincinnati reports hogs in good demand at 8 60 to 4 00, receipts 1120. Chicago cattle receipts 12,000 with steers 3 40 to 4 40, beeves 4 60 to 4 90. Hog receipts 24,000 with mixed to 4 05, sheep 3 50 to 5 90. Western corn fed lambs 4 80 to 5 70.
New York cotton is steady with sales of 108 bales for uplands and Gulf varieties. Opening and closing quotations show futures steady to quiet, with prices at 11.19 cents to 11.80 cents for various grades. Liverpool market steady at 6 1-16d for middling uplands while U.S. ports report mixed receipts and steady to firm prices across cities.
Sugar receipts show 580 bbls and 1500 bags today versus 159 bbls a year ago led by raw sugars firm on fair to good refining. Quotes cover Cuba Javas Manila oils and refined grades with pulverized granulated confectioners standard and extra grades. New Orleans and New York raws and refineds show steady to firm demand and prices, with labeled gal and boiling grades and regional market tone.
In Peoria the whiskey market stays firm at 103 with ice at 105. Chicago reports a strong market at 102 while St Louis sells whiskey at 102. Cincinnati shows a steady whiskey market at 102.
Turpentine in New York closed at 44c with rosin at 125 and tar at 225 while petroleum closed at 7.75c with RSW at 7.50c and cases at 9.70c Coffee in New York Rio quiet and higher with fair cargoes at 20c
Shipping ledger lists numerous consignments from Palestine to Liverpool including worsteds clocks linens and fabrics by multiple firms. Items span flax rags machinery salt soda ash bleaching powder and various casks drums barrels and sacks with quantities noted. entries include firms like Stone Downer Norton Fessenden Soule Crinner Jones Murray Leecase Hill Clarke and others alongside cargoes of potatoes apples turnips and produce.
Cargoes included Sch Star 4.5 bbis four and 150 sacks shorts 260 sacks feed from Picketis Wharf. Antwerp via Baltimore 2131 sacks asbestos 61L tierces oil cake 20 bales wool waste. Serica cleared Feb 14 with 80 cases chair stock 174 bbis crease 17212 bush corn 50 crates farming machinery 600 boxes starch 50 bull hides 16 presses 2348 oak lumber 625 tierces lard 27,877 sacks frour 25 barrels trimmings 1000 pails lard and other items.
Foreign markets show wheat and corn firmer or steady with mixed American corn quoted. Liverpool product prices rise for wheat, corn, and pork while cheese, lard, and tallow hold. California wheat futures listed for February to July with varied prices.
A vintage advertisement touts Dr Bull's Cough Syrup as true as steel and as reliable as a mariners compass. It proclaims Salvation Oil as a premier pain destroyer with a 25 cent price point.
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