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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1891
Page
7
Market reportage notes steady, cautious activity across fabrics, dry goods and woolen sectors. Agents and jobbers report busy orders, improved trade in prints and dress textiles, and a notable New York sale of Saxony cassimeres with limited enthusiasm but some price gains.
In the January 19 1891 grain report receipts include seed meal, malt, and various wheats and peas with totals around 16 000 to 70 000 bushels. Inspections totaled 72 cars, chiefly wheat, corn, and oats, with a No 2 white oats stock list and no major prices given except Chicago May wheat opening near 94 1/2 cents and steady to lower closes.
The report details prices and openings for corn oats rye and barley across Chicago Saint Louis and New York markets with May openings for corn and oats. It notes bid and ask ranges for No 2 white and No 3 white oats and clipped oats, as well as millfeed and cottonseed meal values and terms for delivery.
Receipts show flour by the barrel and sacks with totals of 2215 barrels and 6649 sacks. Prices quoted cover fine through patent grades, with Minnesota and Wisconsin brands and export options, plus a steady rye flour and fair meal demand. Oatmeal values are listed for cut rolled and ground forms.
The pork market remains steady with fair demand for pork products. Lard shows active demand and firm prices. Fresh beef demand is steady with limited supplies and firm prices. Mutton unchanged and selling fairly well at 7 4 2 for best. Lambs quiet with fancy at 10c and poor to good at 5 9c, while veal remains in moderate demand with prices around 10c.
Kansas City markets show cattle mostly steady with steers around 3.90 to 4.75, cows to 3.05 and stockers up to 3.65, bulls to 3.10. Hogs steady to 6c higher, heavies 3.25 to 3.60, Yorkers 3.25 to 3.30, pigs 2.55 to 2.95. Sheep steady around 3.20 to 3.46, packers up to 3.50. Chicago cattle steady with primes near 5.54, hogs active and higher at 3.45 to 3.75, sheep steady with Westerns 4.25 to 4.65.
The butter market remains firm for fresh stock with limited supply and moderate demand. Prices quoted: creamery extras 27 28c Western, 28 29c Northern, dairy 23 24c. Cheese steady at 9 10c Northern, 9 10c Western. Eggs firm under light supply. Western firsts 27c, Eastern extras 28c. Poultry firm. Western turkeys 14c, spring chickens 13 14c, fowls 9 11c. Hay and straw steady with large receipts. prime hay 14 15 per ton, seed stock potatoes in Maine, straw rye 17 60 18.
Sugar market remains strong with steady or unchanged prices across refiners. American Sugar Refining quot es ranges include cube 6½c, granulated 6¾c, and confectioners A 6c. Revere and Belmont prices noted. raw sugar demand fair and prices strong with Cuba refining at 4½c and 42c for centifugals. New Orleans molasses trade steady around 37–38c for fancy and 35–40c for good to choice.
Report lists fluctuating prices for spinach onions celery and a wide range of produce. Items include spinach 90c per bush, native onions $1.75 to $2.00 per crate equivalence, cabbages around $1.25 per unit, cucumbers 10 to 15c each, tomatoes and squash priced per crate or bush, and other greens like dandelions and leeks at several cents to a dollar per unit.
Florida fruit trade shows steady prices and fair demand with receipts totalling 8315 boxes for oranges and 634 barrels for apples. Pairing forward, Navel oranges fetch 2 50 to 3 50 per box while grapes and cranberries hold modest ranges. lemons, Messina and Palermo varieties command 1 75 to 3 75 per box.
The steamer Alexandria is bound here with 4400 cases Valencia oranges. The steamer Ethelred is due on Thursday pargate of Jamaica bananas to the Boston rail Co.
The New York spot market was quiet and steady with 373 bales sold and 115,763 bales in stock. Futures opened steady and closed steady as sales reached 124,400 bales. Liverpool prices favored buyers with 8,000 bales sold and 16,000 receipts, 13,100 American, futures closed steady while various U S and international markets showed mixed tones across cities including Galveston, New Orleans, Mobile, Savannah, Charleston, Wilmington, Norfolk, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Cincinnati, St Louis, and Louisville. Consolidated three day receipts reached 59,608 bales with exports to Great Britain 40,889 and France 8,649, stock at 918,435 bales.
Weekly import values at Boston port for January 16 1891 list England Scotland Germany Italy and Australia goods including dry goods iron paper stock oils wines spirits fruit potatoes books and leather. Also Boston and Charles exports cover oils brooms bread stuffs carriages cotton manufactures drugs fruits and beef cheese pork fish vegetables preserved meats and machinery with detailed tonnages and values.
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