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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1889
Page
7
The report shows little activity with steady to quiet demand across cheese eggs beans potatoes and poultry. Prices vary by region with Northern cheese at 124c and eggs around 14 16c for Eastern stock and 14 15c for West varieties. Receipts and cold weather influence supply and trade remains subdued in several items.
The market shows quiet demand with ample supply. Quotations include Mar row squash 60 per ton, turban squash 60 per ton, Hubbard 70 per ton, Savoy cabbage 75 to 90 cents per barrel, cabbage 50 to 60 cents per barrel, red cabbage 2 dollars per barrel, onions 1.125 per barrel, Havana onions 2 per crate, Bermuda onions 2 per crate, Spanish onions 1.50 per crate, beets 40 to 50 cents per bush, carrots 1 per barrel, lettuce 50 cents per bush, turnips 40 cents per box, white French turnips 1.125, St Andrews 70 cents per barrel, radishes/turnips 50 cents per dozen, long 1 per dozen, celery 8 per box, parsnips 50 cents per bush, spinach 50 to 60 cents per bush box, native dandelions 1.25 per bush, Norfolk spinach 1.75 per barrel, kale 50 cents per barrel, parsley 2.25 per bush.
Trade mixed with firm to higher prices across Kansas City St Louis Cincinnati and Chicago cattle and hog markets. Receipts at Kansas City 1414 cattle 5651 hogs reflect steady to higher drift. Chicago reports 10000 cattle and 10500 hogs with gains for heavy and light hogs. Cattle values range steers 3.40 to 3.60 per hundredweight and hogs 4.30 to 4.60 at various yards.
Provisions in Chicago opened higher but dull with a late spurt from local shorts. Cash trade was good, lard and wheat covered, and a tentative market for higher levels Monday. Detailed bid and ask notations show mixed prices across February to June, with pork, lard, hams, bacon and other products in varying demand and firm to steady for most items. Export demand appears strong, home use subdued, and prices listed for long cuts, backs, lean ends, and various pork products.
Western steam, $720.50. fierces city, $680. Continent, $750. South America, $8 10 8 20. Chicago provisions quiet. Pork $11 15 11 20, Lard $6 75 677%. Short rib side $585 5 95. Dry salted shoulders $5 25 537%. Short clear $6 12%2 6 25. St. Louis provisions firmer. Pork $1175, Lard $660 655. Dry salt meats shoulders $5 5 12%, longs and ribs $6.05, short clear $625. Bacon shoulders $625, longs and ribs $666 7 87%, short clear $7 705. Hams $10 sir. Cincinnati pork quiet at $1150. Lard stronger at $665. Bulk meats bacon stronger. Receipts: week 499 bbls corned beef, tongues 102 bbls. Fresh beef receipts 146 cars. market well supplied, trade quiet. Prices: choice steers 74 4 74cc per lb, good steers 64 2 7c, lambs 9 11lc, common 7 8c, mutton 6c, veal 9 24 10c.
Week receipts reach 3790 barrels versus 7501 last year as demand remains dull and on hand supply stays high. Baldwins and Greenings apples priced around 1.25 to 1.50 per barrel, Grapes vary with New York Catawbas at 2 to 3 cents, Messina lemons 2 to 3.25 per box, Valencia and Florida oranges quoted, and cranberries steady at 8 to 9 per barrel with 5 to 7 for fair to good.
The steamer Peconiches arrived with 7250 boxes of Messina oranges 2100 boxes Messina lemons 3700 boxes Catania oranges and 200 boxes Catania lemons. The steamer Trinacria left Catania with 2800 boxes oranges and 700 boxes lemons bound for Boston and sailed from Palermo on 31.
H Harris & Co will auction off 3068 boxes Sorrento oranges 135 boxes Sorrento lemons 6704 boxes Palermo oranges and 3125 boxes Palermo lemons. The tow boat leaves Long Wharf at 9 and 10 o clock and returns at 11 15 and 11 45 a m. Snow & Co will auction 250 cases Western held eggs 1 lot choice limed exes 1 lot medium pickles 100 bbls Almeria grapes 1000 boxes Florida oranges and 500 bags peanuts on Monday.
Sugar market shows quiet demand for raw sugars with firm prices for refined grades. Havana and Matanzas stocks tallied at 431 boxes, 252,000 bags, 2,200 hhds. weekly receipts 77,000 bags and 1,100 hhds. exports 184 boxes, 32,000 bags, 184 hhds to the United States. Molasses demand quiet at old prices with varied regional quotes.
New York cotton prices hover around 100 cents for middling uplands with values at 9 1/16 to 9 9/16 cents for various grades and 378 bales sold. Liverpool spot firm at 5 5d for middling uplands and 5 9 16d for low middlings, with 7,000 bales traded and many American receipts. Futures opened quiet and closed steady in both markets. U.S. and global market tone remains steady with broad regional reports showing mixed receipts, exports, and stock levels.
Consolidated Net receipts for one day total 17,707 with exports to Great Britain 11,260 and stock at all U S ports 840,223. Yesterday’s Friday figures show consolidated Net receipts for seven days totaling 101,329 with exports to Great Britain 66,278 to France 6,665 and to the Continent 38,865. Stock at all United States ports stands at 41,230.
Weekly receipts total 393 bbls 877 tierces and 20 bags, previous year 117 tierces and 13 bags. Market is well supplied with quiet demand. City rendered 5 4c, country 4 5c, rough 2 4c, grease 2% 4c. New York quiet steady coffee Rio stronger 177sc. Cincinnati whiskey $103 Chicago $103 Peoria $104 St Louis $103. Turpentine 47%4c rosin 105 110 petroleum 1.90 7.25c RSW 7.10c.
A detailed ledger of shipments lists Eudora sailing from Cebu with 21 667 bags sugar and hemp orders to London merchants. Steamers Borderer and numerous firms including Baring Bros and co J B Moors and co and Wood & co handle steel wool rags cement coffee gum and sugar consignments. Also recorded are sugar and hemp routings via London with dozens of firms trading across coffee indigo wool and paper stock to multiple destinations including Placencia Bay and Ponce with herring molasses and oyster products noted.
A dense import list from the Halifax steamer Carroll and others includes lumber, hardware, ice cream freezers, spice, chalk, pump condensers, wire, oils, foodstuffs, clothing, musical instruments, nails, kerosene, machinery, wagons, chairs, printing material, and vast lumber measures. Other entries note Kinburn at Buenos Ayres and Ismir ships with sails, lumber, and duck. Additional Melbourne items cover cans, tools, rope, tobacco, roofing slate, kerosene, machinery, nails, axes, wagons, and agricultural gear.
The Boston & Albany, Boston & Providence, Old Colony, New York & New England, Fitchburg and Boston & Maine railroads report shipments for February 1889. Cotton, wool, flour, corn, oats, malt, barley, feed, tallow, grease, bacon, butter, eggs, beans, potatoes, leather, hides, timber, tea, cheese, tea and various goods are listed with numerous bales, boxes, barrels, cars, and half-chests transferred among Grand Junction and other lines.
A freight list records numerous items shipped and stored, including wool, cornmeal, butter, eggs, leather, apples, hay, potatoes, tobacco, and lumber, across the Boston and Maine Western Division, Lowell System, ixpress, and Sea routes. Entries specify quantities such as 6897 sides, 125 bbls cornmeal, 240 bbls cornmeal, 14 tons bran, and 14,230 bush oats, with multiple car loads, bales, tubs, bags, and cases noted for each commodity. The data reflects variedweights and packaging, revealing extensive trade in agricultural and manufactured products.
London and Liverpool report cargo clearance rapid, wheat prices firmer, corn scarce bids weak. Paris wheat firm, English and French markets quiet. Liverpool spot wheat firm, futures steady. prices for California wheat and mixed American corn listed. breadstuffs mixed with steady to firm tones and modest demand.
Sealed proposals due March 19 1889 seek home standard blankets linens towels and clothing for the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. Goods include woollen blankets caps shirts sheets yarn and hospital bedsteads with delivery to branches in Ohio Wisconsin and Virginia. Bids may be rejected and payment depends on Congress funding for 1890.
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