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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1888
Page
7
Fish prices firm while flour remains quiet and corn eases. Oats steady, cornmeal and barley hold firm, rye quiet, oatmeal steady, rye flour dull, and millseed very quiet. Butter and cheese show steady to fair demand. Beans, hay, poultry, pork, beef, lambs, veals, sugars and molasses vary, with Florida oranges and cranberries remaining firm and other items mostly steady or quiet.
Mackerel sales are slow as prices stay high with a few bulls eye barrels at 15 dollars. Codfish demand is firm with unchanged prices, while barretted herring and boxed herring show small surrivals. Canned fish is strong, bloaters and frozen herring selling around 75c to 1 dollar. Mail advices from the Columbia River cite a proposed 128 dollars per dozen by salmon packers, potentially raising packing costs to about 167 1/2 to 170 dollars per dozen after freight, risking lower consumption and river packing slowdown, with Alaska likely to gain market share if enforced. Receipts for week ending Jan 20 1888 listed mackerel, herring, codfish, and other dried and canned goods with varied quantities and prices from Boston Fish Bureau. The North Shore reports abundant fine herring along the shoreline weights above 46 pounds per hundred.
The FLOUR market stays quiet with spring patents at 5 540. Winter patents steady amid moderate demand. Cornmeal quiet but steady with unchanged prices. Corn market very quiet and easier. steamer yellow on track at 64 to 66 per bushel. OATMEAL quiet with fine at 54 and cut at 62. No 2 white oats on track at 43 1/4 to 44 1/2 cents. Various oats, corn, and wheat quotations listed. inspections show steady activity. Bran, middlings, and linseed meal priced for spring and winter. PAULEY and MALY markets quiet with mixed-row canadas and state prices given. Hors and oats markets show diverse quotes across Old and New York boards.
Article discusses domestic flour quotations, covering both wholesale and jobbing prices to represent carload lots and range pricing. Readers learn how market values vary by quantity and grade across domestic supply channels.
Burrer market steady with prices near last quotes. Fresh ladle packed and imitation creamery goods move well, while northern creameries stay quiet. Butter grades range from Western 30 31c to Vermont 27 29c with several other regional prices, egg market quiet, beans and grass seeds active, and potatoes moving with cold weather.
Chicago markets show butter steady with light receipts and scarce extras, cheese steady, eggs lower. Western firsts quoted 18e and 24 2412c, Westerns 23 24½c. Liverpool cheese quiet but firm at 60s 6d, last year 63s. Demand active for choice creamer butter. New York markets quiet and unchanged on butter and cheese. Beans steady, dried apples quiet.
APPLYS quiet and steady as cold weather dampens demand. Crandberries firm in light supply with Cape Cod choices quoted firm. grape market dull with Catawbas and Malagas listed. Oranges and related fruits show varied pricing on Palermo Messina and Valencia boxes. peanuts and nuts mostly steady with mixed high and low bids.
Old quotations show pork in fair demand with firm rates for long cuts at 17 50 to 18 00 and backs 18 25 to 18 50. Beef is steady with extra plate and family beef at 8 50 to 8 90 per pound and various cuts. Fresh beef and lamb markets stay firm. lambs and mutton in good demand with fancy lambs at 10 0 10 5? per head and regional veal pricing noted.
PIPE LINE CERTIFICATES closed 3 pm Jan 19 at 90¢, opened 10 am Jan 20 at 90144¢, high 9114.6, low 8942c, closing 3 pm Jan 20 1887. SUGAR market dull and unchanged with prices steady. No sales today. raw sugar 53-16 to 55-16c, centrigugals 96, Manila 4% to 10c, Java Nos 10-11, refined sugar higher for granulated at 7c, pulverized 7%, powdered 5y, confectioners 7c, standard 7c. Belmont A 6% to 7c, yellow 5% to 5sc. Wholesale grocers price 7% to 7sc for granulated. MOLASSES new crop Ponce 85¢, Cienfuegos 22c, Barbadoes 26c. SURPENTINE AND VETROLEUM New York.
Rail routes listed for Boston and Maine and Maine Central and related lines. Services include Augusta Haymarket and Causeway stations, connections to Eastport Calais St John N B Halifax Portland steamer, with departures at 8 30 am 12 30 pm 7 pm and varying midpoints and lines to Lewiston Manchester Concord North Conway Portland and other hubs. Regular weekly Tuesday Friday service to Rockland Castine Southwest and Bar Harbor from Portland.
Passengers may have baggage checked from hotel or residence to Boston and onward to destinations. Calls for baggage at No. 3 Old State House. Schedules list weekday trains to New York and Fall River Line departures, with numerous stops including Ashmont Beaintree Hyannis and Plymouth. Return times and regional stops are shown amid extensive, dense timetable figures.
The notice lists train and boat connections for Weymouth Hingham Cohasset Scituate Marshfield Duxbury Plymouth and nearby stations. It provides arrival and return times to Plymouth Marshfield Cohasset Hingham Newport Taunton New Bedford Middleboro and other points with notes on special arrangements Fridays and specific train arrivals. Names GEO L Connor and J R Kendrick are included as general pass agents.
Turpentine settled at 4144 with rosin at 10744 up 112 percent, while tar remained nominal. Petroleum finished at T 714c with RSW at 7 percent and cases at 984c, reflecting varied demand and price activity across the market.
Reports from trade centers detail flour receipts and exports across New York, Chicago, St Louis, and Minneapolis with prices for white and Minnesota extras. Wheat and corn futures show varied demand, with notable prices for No 2 spring, No 1 hard, and No 2 red. rye, barley, oats, and provisions also cited.
The New York cotton market opened steady with bid and ask quotes across July and other months, while prices closed weak on the day. Upland middling held around 105 cents, with low middlings near 10 cents and goods ordinary around 7 to 9 cents. Weekly statistics show sizable U S and export activity, with total stocks at ports around 258 thousand bales.
The report shows stocks at Liverpool at 177,293 with 707,000 in the corresponding week last year. American afloat stocks for Great Britain are 820,000 this period versus 300,000 and 220,000 in the previous year and prior figures.
Kansas City reports hogs up five cents with large receipts and shipments. Peoria notes hogs softer than yesterday with steady sale ranges. St Louis shows hogs mostly lower, speeds varied by packers. Chicago records cattle and hogs with steady to lower prices, light to heavy classes, and notable receipts and shipments across categories. Sheep and lamb values mixed with regional differences.
London markets show wheat quiet to very steady with firm corn in places while Paris and Antwerp see wheat weakness and mixed demand. Liverpool port prices list California wheat at 42s to 42s 9d and various grain, pork, cheese, tallow, and laids steady or easier in late trading.
A detailed listing from Glasgow and Liverpool shows steamer Carthagenian with 735 bales of paving stock, pig iron, bricks, dry goods, paper hangings, and machinery among shipments. Numerous firms including Baring Bros & Co, Jordan, Marsh & Co, and Snow & Co appear with commodities such as oats, potatoes, granite, glass, hardware, and caustic soda. The long ledger notes diverse consignments to and from multiple merchants and ships, reflecting extensive mid 19th century trade activity.
Shipping inventory from Canning Nova Scotia lists cargo aboard steamship Norsemiles bound for Liverpool including flour and lard cases, tobacco sacks, oil cake sacks, oatmeal, gas burners, books, fancy goods, wood and hardware, personal effects, machinery, woollen dress, leather, tallow, cheese, grease, cotton waste, beef, hops, organs, fresh beef, staves, apples, potash, earthenware, woodwork, lard, and flour among 8355 barrels of flour and 76 cases plus numerous sacks and boxes.
A dense ledger of freight totals from multiple railroads including Boston & Albany Boston & Providence Old Colony New York & New England and Fitchburg with hundreds of items such as bales of cotton wool flour oats corn malt butter cheese hides pork eggs and leather. The piece also contains scattered timetable data and fare notes for Shore Line and regional connections with implied schedules and return times.
Total receipts at the port for principal staples across all shipment points are listed, including commodities in transit. The table also shows the seven day totals, highlighting recent movement and overall accumulation for the period.
A dense list of train depart times from Boston stations to towns including Alton Bay Rochester Farmington Andover and many others. Night and Sunday trains listed with numerous stops such as Merrimac North Andover Revere Salem Gloucester Rockport Ipswich and Wolfeboro. Notices indicate workingmen trains and branch services with station details and two officials signatures.
City and Freight Office listed with Causeway Street Boston station, schedules for Tilton Laconia Lake Village Weirs Meredith Ashland Plymouth Warren Haverhill Woodsville and other points on Passumpsic and Northern divisions with morning and evening departures to Montreal St Johnsbury White River Junction and local Boston to Manchester Nashua and Lowell routes. Sleeping and parlor cars noted. stations and agents Mell en and Storer provide timetable information.
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