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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1891
Page
7
Markets show no major improvement in boots and shoes as demand remains unsettled with higher grain and buff goods costs. Leather trades stay firm with strong export movement supporting prices, while rubber footwear prices loom as crude rubber costs rise and firms hesitate to raise near term.
The Grain Trade notes receipts for 1891 and 1890 across corn wheat oats and barley with total 67 car loads including 20 wheat 26 corn 20 oats and 1 buckwheat car. Chicago market opened strong then weakened on large offerings and London fears. May and July futures drifted lower while spot yellow corn and oats remained firm in western markets.
Market report shows flour and meal trade with steady demand for small lots. Prices vary by grade from fine to patent, with Minnesota and Wisconsin brands quoted between 4.25 and 5.70 per bushel, export lines higher. Rye flour and meal markets steady, bag meal at 1.28–1.30 per 100 pounds and barrel meal at 2.75–2.80, oatmeal firm around 6.45 for rd cut and 6.25 for ground.
The commodity table shows fresh beef pork lard and hogs with steady or firm prices. Beef and pork demand is fair, mutton and veal quiet but steady, tallow and rib markets listed, with Chicago provisions firmer and New York tallow quiet. Receipts of hogs exceed estimates this week, influencing price movements.
Kansas City and other markets show cattle and hog prices mixed to weak with receipts up. Chicago hogs steady to slightly higher, cattle slower with steers and cows varying by grade. Ohio and St Louis report mixed results. Peoria and Cincinnati show hogs softening or steady, with livestock volumes crossing thousands.
The butter market remains firm with light supply and solid demand. Western creamery extras sell at 26 28c, New York Eastern creamery at 27 21c, Chicago steady. Cheese is strong with evidence of further price increases. Northern 10%2 11c, Western 9 10c. Potatoes and poultry steady. hay and grain markets show ease for buyers.
The listing shows truck demand in line with prior prices for a range of produce. Spinach at 80c bush, Southern cucumber at $1.25 to $1.50 per barrel, Southern cabbage $2 to $2.25 per barrel, kale 75c to $1 per barrel, native onions $4.25 to $5 per barrel, Valencia onions $3.75 per case, Denia onions $1 crate, Ohio onions $4 per barrel, carrots 75c per bush, beets 60 to 76c per bush, lettuce 50 to 60c per head, turnips and yellow varieties with varied pricing, savoy and red cabbage priced per barrel or box, cucumbers $0.10 to $0.15 each, celery $1.50 per box, cauliflower $1.50 to $2 per dozen, leeks 75c per bush, Florida string beans $2.50 per crate, hot-bed dandelions $2 per bush, native beet greens $1.75 per bush.
Florida fruits show steady demand at unchanged prices with various box and half-box quotes for oranges grapefruit mandarins and lemons. Mediterranean and New England fruits circulate with high prices for citrus, apples and cranberries. Nuts dried fruits and early strawberries arrive, with Florida strawberries selling at 1.25 per quart and crates at 50 to 75 cents per quart.
The steamer Effective passed Gibraltar Feb 6 en route to Boston with 6500 boxes and 1600 half boxes Messina oranges and 330 boxes Palermo lemons. The steamer Prior heads to Boston with 2300 boxes and 500 half boxes Messina oranges and 1500 boxes Messina lemons. The steamer Efficient is loading at Mediterranean ports for Boston. The Leon is due today with Jamaica bananas for the Boston Fruit Company. The Norfolk boat due today carries 800 bags peanuts 1650 barrels truck and 10 boxes oranges. The Savannah boat due Friday brings 6380 boxes Florida oranges.
Messrs Harris and Co sold Florida oranges navels tangerines TANdaTnes and grape fruit in various box and half box quantities with prices listed per box. The figures reflect multiple transactions including P designated lots and partial box quantities.
Fall River reports a 1 16 cent decline in print cloths with 5000 pieces sold at the new price. Current quotations show 3 cents for 64x648 and 25 cents for 60x56s.
At London wool sales 14 000 bales offered with strong demand for Cape of Good Hope and Natal scoureds. First class lambs wool sought, inferior grades softening for buyers. United States purchases estimated at 16 000 bales. Prices in listed markets across New South Wales Queensland Melbourne Victoria New Zealand South Australia Cape of Good Hope and Natal with varying rates for scoured locks and pieces greasy and other grades.
The refined sugar market shows firmness with unchanged prices. The American Sugar Refining Company quotes cuts and crystals, powders, granulated, and specialty sugars with varied cents per pound. Raw sugar remains strong but quiet. molasses prices in New Orleans and foreign grades are listed with ranges in 30 to 40 cents per gallon.
The report notes closing and opening times for pipe line and cotton seed oil certificates, with figures for crude runs shipments and averages. It also lists refined oil at 7.50 cents per gallon and mentions whiskey markets firm at $115 in Peoria and $114 in Cincinnati and St. Louis.
Turpentine quoted at 40 percent, resin at $142.44 to $147.00, tar at $2.60, while petroleum closed at 7.10 cents, with KSW at 7.50 cents and cases at 9.66 cents.
Beerbohm notes cargoes off coast contain wheat only, with firmer prices on passage and at Mark Lane. Wheat futures rise, California prices listed. Paris markets firm and English county markets dearer. Manchester Guardian notes dull market yet some buying, irregular demand, and declines in prices for home yarns and fabrics amid steadier heavy goods.
Market report from Boston Post via George J. Fox for week ending Feb 2, 1801. Includes totals for sheep and swine at market, arrivals at Watertown and Brighton yards, cars over roads, market beef prices from prime to third quality, and store cattle prices such as working oxen and cows with calves.
The report covers cattle hogs sheep and veal prices across Maine New Hampshire Vermont and Massachusetts with shipments and sales at Watertown Brighton and Boston yards. Western cattle and hogs remain steady firm demand for dressed pork persists while lambs and veal calves show varied movement and note seasonal effects from Lent.
A detailed ledger lists sales by Grimes and Westen, P. W. Thomson, W. Melloy, Artin and Chandler, L C. Abby Son, 1. I. Hen, and I. Meloy. Items include oxen pairs, milch cows, springer, young calves, and milch cow prices per head or per cwt. Notable entries mention a pair of 5 year olds, a 6 ft 8 in pair, and a working ox pair bought by Colonel Harwood of Littleton.
Market reports a shortage of quality drive and draft horses with high prices for good drivers and big horses. Sales vary across barns with prices from 8 to 225 per head, crowds of buyers, and several stables noting fair or slow weeks amid steady to rising interest in drivers and draft stock.
Catalog of goods loaded for Liverpool London and Caribbean ports including earthenware crates iron bars wine moise leather tin plates machinery periodicals worsteds and hardware from multiple firms such as Jones McDuffee Stratton Houghton Dutton Koopman Brown & Co and Jordan Marsh with substantial steel and tin plate consignments and sugar hides and cocoa for international destinations. The list names dozens of companies and items with quantities across the Atlantic trade routes.
A dense ledger of shipments listed by port and date includes Hayti port items such as carriage harness white pine lumber pork and codfish with counts. Hull England New York steamship cargoes show shooks oil desks and beel liver and oil. St John NB and Surinam DG brig Rocky Glen logistics list whiskey pig iron flour beef and preserved goods across multiple consignments.
Horatio Harris & Co seeks consignments and conducts auctions at No 227 State Steel for general goods and merchandise. The firm operates as auctioneers and commission merchants offering appraisal and sale services.
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