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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1890
Page
7
Southern and Northern lumber markets hold firm with strong demand for hard pine, cypress, and shingles. Prices listed for floors, rafters, and box stock, with rising outlook for spring trade and limited clapboard supply. sal es of Western pine and whitewood steady, while barley and cottonseed meal receipts show mixed activity.
John Welsh at 206 State Street reports carload grain prices with receipts today totaling 6140 barrels and 4900 sacks. Market remains quiet with mixed shipments across New York Chicago St Louis and Minneapolis districts. No 2 red wheat and steamer yellow corn cited among active trades. overall demand steady to quiet with several price quotes across bread and patent grades.
Today receipts list butter 1603 pkgs 560 boxes oleo 203 pkgs cheese 538 boxes eggs 33 bbls 2530 cases beans 599 bbls potatoes 64 cars sweet potatoes 155 bbls hay 57 cars straw 2 cars. Butter market steady to dull with large creamery butter under 20c selling slowly. varied quotes for creamery and imitation creamery across Elgin Chicago New York and other markets. eggs and cheese show mixed movements with overall softer dairy tones. beans, potatoes, and produce markets show steady to quiet demand with multiple regional price ranges. oranges citrus and other fruits mixed, and poultry, game, and nuts with varied demand. overall market tone cautious with ample supplies in many items.
Fair demand exists with prices steady as supply remains ample. Western onions run 4.50 to 4.75 per barrel, Valencia 3.26 to 3.50 per large case, Havana crates 2.50, Key West 2.50. Beets, carrots, lettuce, radishes, and cabbage show varied small-quantity pricing. Florida cucumbers and tomatoes move at 2 to 2.50 per crate. Bermuda tomatoes 1 per small crate. Florida string beans 1.50 to 3.00 per crate. green peas 2.50 per crate.
Prue market shows steady prices for apples with no change noted. Demand is not very active and holders remain firm. Baldwins and other varieties quoted in wholesale ranges. greenings and Mediterranean fruits show mixed activity with scarce choice lots and generally lower Messina and Palermo sales. Valencia oranges quiet with good supply and 360 count priced around $3.50.
H Harris & Co auctioned the Olympia cargo today with Palermo lemons at 2 10 3 40, Mes sina lemons at 2 15 8 25, Palermo oranges at 1 15 3 65 per box, and Valencia oranges at 2 55 6 50 per regular case and 3 10 4 60 for 714 counts.
Steamers Glen Tanar Fitzroy Columbia Bernard and Savannah linked to Boston via Gibraltar or Palermo. Cargoes include Messina Palermo and Catania oranges and lemons with thousands of boxes. Bernard to carry Jamaica bananas for Boston Fruit Company. Travel dates range Feb 9 through Feb 21 with arrivals expected Friday and Thursday.
Receipts show tallow 124 pkgs, pork 180 bbls and bacon 1779 boxes with other meats listed. Prices across cities report steady or firmer lard and pork products, with mixed beef and veal quotes. New York shows firm pork values and steady tallow, while Chicago and St Louis note quiet to unchanged trade.
Cotton markets show quiet activity in New York with sales of 213 bales. Opening and closing quotations listed for various grades, including middling and low middling ranges, amid steady to quiet futures. Regional figures follow for Galveston, New Orleans, Mobile, Memphis, and Savannah showing receipts, exports, stocks, and price notes.
Consolidated four day net receipts total 41 571 exports to Great Britain 29 597 to the Continent 29 932 stock at all United States ports 587 600. Port totals include Charleston Wilmington Norfolk West Point Philadelphia Baltimore New York Cincinnati St Louis and Louisville with varied net receipts gross shipments and stocks. Oil certificates and crude runs figures show closing prices and refinery activity for Feb 24 25 1889.
Sugar and molasses markets show firm, steady prices with mixed regional notes. Cuba and Manila sugars quoted with refined grades steady. wholesale granulated sugar at 6.56 cents. Havana and New York prices steady. molasses receipts and regional whiskey prices in Peoria Chicago St Louis Cincinnati noted as stable around 102 dollars.
Turpentine closed at 44 cents with rosin at 125 dollars and tar at 225. petroleum closed at 7.75 cents with RSW at 7.50 and cases at 9.70. Coffee in New York is quiet and steady with Rio fair cargoes at 20 cents.
Report by George J. Fox with prices for market beef store cattle sheep and lambs and hogs. Includes quantities at Watertown Union Market and notes on supply demand lent season and prices for various grades and animal types with multiple seller entries and averages.
February 25, 1890 Montevideo imports list shows Brown bros & co with 16,600 dry hides and Velrichs & co with 20,000 dry hides. Hart 6090 and Baring bros & co 3442 copies reference dry kips and other hides in trade, indicating ongoing export imports and stocking.
Shipping ledger itemizes export goods from Port au Prince Yarmouth Glasgow Liverpool Liverpool and Antwerp routes. Includes oil, paints, beer, nails, tallow, pine and shingles, hardware, canned goods, fruit, meat, textiles, and machinery with quantities such as 80 barrels oil 350,365 feet pine 100,000 spruce shingles and 316 bales of various goods across multiple ports and steamers.
London and Liverpool cargoes show wheat steady while corn remains quiet but firm. Quantities arriving include 1 cargo of wheat and 1 of corn with sales pending, Lake Mark Lane reports quiet markets in wheat and country sites, and Liverpool notes steady spot wheat with weaker corn. Imports for the week list wheat 127,000 quarters and corn 221,000 quarters.
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