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Newspaper

Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Jan 17, 1890

Page

7

Wool Market Trends and Receipts in Eastern Markets

Wool trade shows dull demand for Texas California wools while Ohio Michigan slippage persists. pulled wools hold with minor gains in some grades. Detailed weekly sales figures list vast tonnages by territory and grade with prices ranging across the standard scale. Receipts and imports on the year accompany market activity across Boston, New York, Chicago, and St Louis, with prices for wool, carpet wool, and related goods noted.

GO@ESec Texas California Ohio Michigan London Antwerp

Market Brief Dairy and Poultry Receipts and Prices

Receipts today list butter 984 pkgs and 1540 nkzs oleo with 4490 cheese boxes and 29 bbl eggs across 1501 cases. Hens 165 bbls potatoes 18 cars, hay 43 cars, straw 4 cars. same day last year shows substantial drops. Butter market dull with warm weather depressing activity. outside prices for creamery graded at 24 25c, lower grades quiet at 20 23c. Dairy fruits show mixed New York and Chicago quotations. cheese steady with Northerns at 10 24 10 4c. Eggs and beans markets modest with steady to firm demand. poultry steady with fair demand for chickens and fowls. turkeys 14 16c, other fowl steady.

St Louis New York Chicago Louis Canada Michigan Maine Houlton Hebrons Aroostook Hebrons Aroostook Vermont New Brunswick Nova Scotia Prince Edward Island East Swale Timothy West North Pale Red Top Jersey P Minnesota Wisconsin Canada Superior Canada Roller City City Mill Minnesota Straicht York Northern Astern Steandy East Creamery Western Elgin Liverpool New Graopshire California Lima Choice Canada

Trade prices list for vegetables at sie sale

Trade is quiet at sie prices for onions Western onions 503 95 per barrel reces 760 box carrots 50 cents per box lettuce 50 cents per dozen radishes 35 to 40 cents per dozen turnips 35 cents per box white cape 125 per barrel St Andrews 90 cents per barrel parsley 1 per bush cabbage 1.25 per barrel Savoy cabbage 1.25 per barrel red cabbage 2 per barrel parsnips 50 to 60 cents per box squash narrow 80 cents turban 30 Hubbard 30 per ton spinach 50 cents per bush Southern spinach 7 cents 31 per bush kale 75 cents per barrel native dandelions 1.25 to 1.50 per bush celery 2.40 per box

White Cape St Andrews

Fruit Market Report Details Steady Prices Across Varieties

The market shows a steady position with firm prices for choice apples and firm demand for dried fruit and nuts. Wholesale apple quotes cover Kings and Michigan greenings. Valencia oranges and lemons are tight with firm prices, while Florida oranges and mandarins hold steady. Cranberries, dried apples, and various nuts show quiet demand but stable pricing across bulk lots.

Kings Baldwins Michigan Michigan Tasman Sweets Eastern Tasmans Valencia Palermo Messina Florida Almeria Dark Cape

Steamers Arriving With Large Orange and Lemon Cargoes

Multiple ships including Napier Howick Michigan Istrian Frutera Scythia Pontiac and Naranja carry Valencia Messina Palermo fruit. Cargo totals show thousands of boxes and cases of oranges and lemons destined for Boston New York Seaverns Snow Brown Morrison Morrison Co and others with dates Jan 18 19 22.

Napier Howick Michigan Valencia Seaverns & Co Snow & Co AS & J Brown & Co He Istrian C Lawrence & Co Frutera Gibraltar Boston Scythia C E Morrison & Co Pontiac Palermo New York

Valencia and Florida orange auction prices mixed

Harris & Co sold Valencia oranges at 8.75 per 4 25 regular case and 4.3742 475 for large cases. Snow & Co reported Florida oranges at 150.3 6242 and Valencias at 3.508 410 for 420 count and 4.62424 487 for 714 count, plus Almeria grapes at 5.25 850 per barrel.

H Harris & Co Snow & Co Florida Almeria

Market summary of Kansas City St Louis Chicago hog and cattle prices

Cattle and hog markets show mixed movement across cities. Kansas City reports lower cattle and higher hogs with steer prices around 3.25 to 3.60 and hogs from 3.52 to 3.65. St Louis notes firmer Yorkers and weaker packers. Chicago sees steady to higher cattle with steers near 4.75 to 8.75 and hogs advancing to around 3.50 to 3.78, with sheep firm near 4.80 to 5.69.

Kansas City St Louis Hoys Chicago Texas

Market Receipts and Pork Prices Reported in National Totals

Receipts show tallow 7 pkgs beef none pork 34 bbls lard 356 pkgs hams 25 bbls 135 tierces preserved meats none bacon 583 boxes. Last year: tallow 10S pkgs pork 92 bbls lard 4985 pkgs hams 138 bbls 4 tierces bacon 836 boxes. Pork market notes demand firm with quotes for various cuts and products across multiple cities including New York Chicago St Louis Cincinnati and more, with prices for lard and pork products listed.

New York Western Chicago St Louis Cincinnati

New York Cotton Market Steady With Mixed Futures

In New York the cotton market remained steady as sales reached 351 bales with uplands to middling grades ranging from 7 4 to 10 1 2 cents. Futures opened steady and closed steady while a detailed table shows opening and closing prices for Jan and Feb contracts, plus extensive U S port receipts and stocks. Alice In Liverpool reports middling uplands at 513 16d with 8000 bales sold and 6000 bales American. receipts 3000 bales with 2600 American. Port markets across Augusta Galveston New Orleans and others show mixed activity and firm to quiet tones with mid 10c levels in most centers.

New York Pee Fe Liverpool Auzube ANGUS Seledt S Ss Oos Augusta Mid Lc Galveston New Orleans Great Britain Continent Memphis Imd Ldec Savannah Coastwise Charleston Wilmington Norfolk West Point Philadelphia Baltimore Cincinnati St Louis Louisville France United States

Sugar and Molasses Prices and Receipts Report

Sugar receipts today total 175 barrels and 7302 bags with last year matching figures. Raw sugars hold firm. refined demand steady at old prices, with various grades and regions quoted from Cuba to Belmont A. Molasses receipts reach 70 barrels, 208 jars and 2 puncheons. market quiet but steady, New Orleans sales noted and New York-New Orleans lots described as weak.

Cuba Manilas ODO Sau New York New Orleans Ponce Cienfuegos Barbados

Whiskey Market Reports Across Midwestern Cities

In Peoria whiskey holds at 103 dollars and spirits at 105. Chicago notes a quiet market at 102. St Louis reports whiskey at 102. Cincinnati shows whiskey unchanged at 102.

Peoria Chicago St Louis Cincinnati

Turpentine and Petroleum Market Quotes in New York

Turpentine closed at 4342 a 44c with rosin at 120 1 2242 and tar at 210 while petroleum closed at 7.80c with RSW at 7.50c and cases at 9.70c Coffee New York Rio is dull and easy with fair cargoes at 19 4¢.

New York Rio

Imports and Exports Jan 16 1890 Matanzas and Liverpool

Import records show Steamer Beta 5700 bringing sugar for Nash Spaulding & Co. Exports list multiple items from Barrington NL to St Thomas DWI and Liverpool including flour beef lard codfish oysters apples butter boats and wood products with extensive quantities and varieties.

Matanzas Nash, Spaulding & Co Barrington Will Liverpool Eng Catalonia

Foreign Markets Hold Steady Amid Wheat and Corn Trade

London reports wheat and corn prices steady with limited activity. Cargoes arriving and awaiting sales, Russian wheat quiet, near term demand for near delivery corn. Liverpool notes downward trend in wheat, steady corn, mild English weather. Paris fares show steady wheat and quiet flour markets. Prices listed for January to June futures and assorted goods including pork, bacon, lard, cheese.

London Mark Lane Liverpool England California Paris

DUSTON A A JACKSON GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT

DUSTON figures include A A Jackson as general superintendent, Howard named GA Kendall as general passenger agent, and Agt. Gen'ral Manager role noted in the roster. The fragment lists key officials in the transportation or railway administration.

Fitchburg Railroad Passenger Schedules From Boston Station

Fitchburg railroad schedule lists daily and Sunday trains from Causeway Street Boston to Troy Albany and west with sleeping cars to Chicago via Niagara Falls and Milwaukee. The timetable includes numerous local routes such as Belmont Waverley Cambridge Brattleboro Fitchburg Gardner Greenfield and Worcester with through tickets to all points West available at Hoosac Tunnel route office and Boston stations. John Adams, Gen Supt.

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