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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1890
Page
7
Fall River market shows dull cloth and steady prices, wheat and corn quotations mixed across Chicago and New York with futures closing near prior levels. Wool receipts listed, and extensive wool and merchandize trade names appear with rail connections and various brokers noted.
The report lists carload grain prices and flour receipts across New York Chicago St Louis and Canada with quotes for wheat corn oats rye and buckwheat, plus butter cheese eggs and meats markets. It notes steady or higher tone in several grains, varying by grade and region, and outlines receipts and exports for the period.
Receipts of domestic wool reached 2991 bales versus 2819 a year ago. foreign imports 1521 bales, down from 6106. Total weekly sales 1,659,400 pounds, domestic 1,263,900 and foreign 39500. Market shows moderate demand, no activity in many domestic wools, prices steady but tone weak. Outlook remains quiet with some concession but limited, and a larger spring demand expected for light weights as new clip arrives.
The market remains steady with fair demand across vegetables and fruits. Quoted ranges include onions at 4 50 to 4 75 per barrel, beans and peas at 1 50 to 3 50 per crate, cabbage up to 2 50 per crate, and varied prices for beets lettuce radishes turnips and other staples. Fruit sections show steady or quiet activity with prices for apples Valencias Sicily lemons Florida oranges grapes and cranberries, with notes on smaller receipts and wholesale pricing.
The Glen Tanar passed Gibraltar Feb 9 with 5000 Messina oranges 1400 Messina lemons 6800 Palermo oranges and 8700 Palermo lemons and 5000 boxes. The Fitzroy passed Gibraltar Feb 15 for Boston with 5500 Messina oranges 800 Messina lemons 6500 Palermo oranges and 11000 Palermo lemons. Columbia sailed from Palermo Feb 21 with 3000 Catania oranges 300 Catania lemons 6000 Messina oranges 4000 Messina lemons 8300 Palermo oranges and 10200 Palermo lemons for Boston. Bernard arrived with Jamaica bananas for the Boston Fruit Company. The Norfolk boat due Friday has 75 boxes Orange 125 bags peanuts and 1075 pigs. The Savannah boat due Monday has 2100 boxes oranges.
Receipts today show tallow 10 pkgs beef 1 bbl pork 186 lard 63 pkgs hams none preserved meats 20 cases bacon 365 boxes. Last year same day tallow 40 pkgs beef 1 bbl pork 132 bbls lard 677 pkgs hams 3 bbls bacon 4 boxes preserved meats 1000 cases. Hams steady with fair demand pork steady, lard firm with good demand.
Kansas City cattle and hog prices show firming and losses across categories with receipts around 1 000. Chicago reports steady to strong cattle and hogs with beeves up to 490 and hogs from 380 to 405, while St Louis and Peoria note softer hogs and mixed packers. Sheep activity slower with steady to lower quotes.
In New York cotton, quotes show steady to quiet trade with 182 bales moving at various class levels from uplands to Gulf ordinary. Opening and closing quotations listed for futures through Feb 27 show minor fluctuations. Liverpool and other U S markets report steady to quiet conditions with mixed regional receipts and sales. Signals indicate overall subdued activity across futures and cash markets.
Sugar receipts total 4400 bags, raw sugars steady with quotes for Cuba fines, Javas Nos 10 to 11, and refining grades. refined sugars in fair demand. Molasses receipts 70 bbls and 35 bhds, market quiet and unchanged with New Orleans prices and assorted grades quoted.
Peoria reports whiskey at 1083 and spirits at 105. Chicago shows a firm market at 102. St Louis sells whiskey at 102. Cincinnati notes whiskey unchanged at 102.
Turpentine closed at 43.432 cents, rosin 125 dollars, tar 225, petroleum at 7.65 cents, Rio 7.50 cents, and cases 9.70 cents. Coffee Rio remains firm with fair car movement noted. VCG reference appears.
Imports at Liverpool and Fort Dan Fortunes Bay list steamer Istrian cargoes including rags lace goods machinery woollens and glass in bulk. Entries name Cushman Bros Co Neal Morse de Sace Water Power Co Jones McDuffee Stratton Warren Blanchard and many others with dozens of cases bags crates bales and packages of merchandise such as ore leather wool sugar butter onions cocoa butter and various chemicals. Descriptions mix cargo details with shipper names and quantities for multiple firms and locations across the port trade.
Export voyage notes list ships and cargoes across St Pierre Mig Placentra NF with four twenty dories seven tons anthracite coal. St John NB Speedwell 625 barrels cornmeal fifty barrels beet. London via Baltimore Oran more six bags dextrine. Havana Cuba Lark Fantee 754 tons coke.
London reports two cargoes arrived and one sold with two pending sales. wheat steady, corn quiet as ships pass coastward. Liverpool notes quiet but steady wheat, dull corn. futures firm for wheat and firmer for corn. Prices shown for February and May, with Paris and Antwerp steady.
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