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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1891
Page
7
The weekly wholesale grocery trade shows activity with firmer prices in refined sugar and coffee, especially teas and coffees, while wheat dulls and corn oats hold steady. Sugar demand is up but expected activity may ease toward April. coffee markets firm with Maracaibo cargoes and Rio exports rising, and teas show strong activity with notable buys.
The grain market summary for Saturday evening January 10, 1891 shows receipts totaling multiple commodities. Cottonseed meal and corn appear with recorded bushels and values, alongside oats and other grains, with the day’s inspections noted in incomplete OCR lines.
The week’s receipts show flour, meal and oatmeal totals with price ranges for various grades. Demand is firm for flour, with exports and feed sales sustaining high prices. meal and oatmeal markets remain strong with minor adjustments anticipated early next week.
The article lists weekly and daily receipts for 1891 and 1890 across pork beef lard ham and other items with figures in various units. It also notes Chicago market weakening due to large hot receipts and packer selling, plus prices for pork products lard and tongues and exports demand.
Receipt of favorable foreign news raised demand slightly, but high holder asks curtail weekly business. Centrifugal sugar quoted 2 dollars 37 4 percent per hundredweight in Havana warehoused stocks about 28 boxes, 826,000 bags, 100 hhds. receipts 54,000 bags. exports 6,700 bags to the United States. Freights quiet.
Prices for meats and fats are listed with varied figures. Fresh ribs seven cents, sausages seven to seven and a quarter, bolognas six to six and a half cents. Beef quotes for different cuts range from four to eight cents per pound, with steer values around seven to eight cents. Tallow and eastern market notes show quieter demand, with city tallow at four and a half to four and three quarters cents and country at four and four and a quarter cents.
Hogs steady to strong with prime and heavy weights quoted high. Cattle receipts in Chicago and Kansas City show steady to strong trends. lambs and sheep mixed with Western and native grades. Hogs in New York market quoted at 3.30 to 3.40, mixed packers 3.20 to 3.55, butchers up to 3.60. Receipts totals listed for yesterday and current day across markets.
Market report lists butter cheese eggs beans potatoes hay straw poultry and various vegetables with current receipts and quotes from New York Baltimore and Liverpool markets. Notable items include butter and cheese firm, eggs large receipts with softer prices, steady potato demand, and mixed poultry prices favoring buyers. Regional and international quotes cover beans peas grass seeds hay straw and vegetables with emphasized firm or steady values across regions.
Florida fruit reports show Saturday orange receipts at 747 boxes compared with 585 boxes a year ago. Throughout the past week demand remained steady, with prices steady as well, reflecting improved supply and consumer appetite for the citrus.
Prices quoted for oranges and apples vary widely with boxes and half-boxs. Mediterranean fruits show Palermo and Messina varieties at 2 50 to 4 75 per box, lemons and oranges listed with count sizes, and cranberry receipts low. Apple receipts 1000 bils vs 1097 last year. demand steady with diverse varieties priced from 1 50 to 4 75 per unit. Cranberries limited stock with Cape Cod choice at 12 a barrel and fair at 9 to 11 per barrel. Grapes and pineapples offered with common lots and Havana red pine prices, indicating active trading in fresh fruit market.
The steamer Peconic passed Gibraltar December 22 for Boston with 3300 boxes Messina oranges 12300 boxes Palermo oranges 1300 boxes Messina lemons and 8100 boxes Palermo lemons. Edwin jammed Gibraltar December 23 for Boston with 2900 boxes Messina oranges 11200 boxes Palermo oranges 6300 boxes Palermo lemons and 1300 boxes Messina. Iroquois for New York due last Saturday has 895 boxes Florida oranges foroston. SEB for New York due January 13 has 2900 boxes oranges for Boston.
The steamer Ethel sold Jamaica bananas on Saturday at 1125 dollars per No 1 bunch, 80 cents for No 8, 60 cents for No 2, and 40 cents for No 3 lots.
Business report shows quiet demand for raisins with steady prune and dried fruit prices. Quoted ranges cover figs corn, citron, dates, nuts including peanuts walnuts almonds and cashews, with assorted prices per pound and per bushel across California and foreign sources.
In Fall River Mass and Providence RI on January 10 the weekly print cloth report shows production at 200000 pieces and deliveries at 257000 while stock reaches 539000 and sales total 114000. Market prices stand at 215-16c for 64x648 and 244 25sc for 60x56s with dull demand noted at 3c for 64x64s and 244c for 66x60s. weekly sales include 9000 pieces 64x64s extra spots at 8c, plus 6000 pieces 64x64s seconds spots at 2 13-16c. Manufacturers hold 300000 pieces 64x64 and 29000 pieces 56x60s.
A London sale at the commercial rooms shows 126 207 Cape of Good Hope and Natal skins and 42 584 common Cape of Good Hope and Natal skins plus 2250 bales of Australian and New Zealand woolled skins. Attendance was good and demand fair. Prices varied with quality and region.
LFW Prescott & Co reports pipeline certificates with details on closing dates and shipment figures. Notable figures include 13 percent values, 17,900 and 88,959 shipments, and refined oil at 7.40 cents per gallon. St Louis and Chicago whiskey markets steadier at 114, Cincinnati active and firm at 114.
Turpentine quoted at 38442 38 3 8 percent with resin at 140 145 and tar at 260 while petroleum closed at 7.05 cents with RSW at 7.40 cents and cases at 9.45 cents.
Imports at London and Liverpool show shipments including iron, wool, cellulose, wood pulp, cement, wool bales, oils, and beer from firms such as Baring Bros Co and J A Hayes Co. Exports from Halifax and Liverpool detail hardware, cotton goods, food staples, machinery, and livestock carried on steamers Halifax Palestine and Maringo with extensive cargo lists.
Jan 10 London and Liverpool reports show wheat firm with weak demand and firm corn. Prices listed: winter wheat 7s 6d, spring 7s 8d, mixed American corn higher, pork 54s 6d, lard 31s 8d, cheese 50s. Futures dull for wheat, active for corn as shorts cover.
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