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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1889
Page
7
Commercial matters show flour dull and rye flour slow while corn and oatmeal stay firm. Butter, oleomargarine, cheese, eggs, and potatoes hold steady or fair demand with various quiet or unchanged readings across meats, beans, fruit, and sugars in a broad price and demand survey.
Fall River reports production 175000 pieces deliveries 175000 stock none sales 166000 spot 12000 futures 164000 with future sales into July. Prices 4c for 64x64s and 39 16c for 60x56s. Market firm and active. Providence pens cloth market closes very firm with stock on hand cleaned up 64x64s at 4c and 56x60s at 39 16c. Total weekly sales 11500 pieces.
Farnum Reardon & Co report wheat resold at a 2 cent advance with premium room for shipping, while visible supply is seen shrinking from 800,000 to 1,500,000 bushels. Corn remains dull though February and April trades occur. overall closing steady with minor shifts in New York and St Louis futures. Local houses increased activity Friday and continued today.
The week’s flour receipts total 14 147 bbls and 12 377 sacks, down from last year. grain receipts include cottonseed meal 2024 bush, corn 85 620 bush, wheat 9 020 bush, oats 64 300 bush, barley 19 730 bush, malt 21 350 bush, hops 226 bales. Last year’s totals are listed. Visible supply is expected to fall 1 260 000 bush. Inspections show 38 cars across several grain grades and the market remains quiet and dull.
Boston passenger station on Causeway Street lists winter schedule for Hoosac Tunnel Route. Daily express and local departures to Albany Troy Binghamton Chicago via Niagara Falls with various sleeping and parlor cars. Also signs for Ayer Junction Belmont Cambridge Concord Fitchburg Gardner Greenfield Brattleboro Nashua North Adams Shelburne Falls Union Square Somerville Waltham Watertown Worcester and more with Sundays and certain weekday limitations. Office in Boston provides through tickets and timetable details.
The note reports firm miller quotes with steady or higher prices for winter wheat flours and mixed grain markets. New York and Chicago receipts are large while demand varies. oats and rye show dull to steady trading. prices for milled products and farm grains are listed across many regions and mills.
Receipts show 9290 packages and 2611 boxes of butter this week, with no major change from last year. prices steady across Western Vermont and Eastern creamery quotes. Oleomargarine receipts 2995 packages, demand quiet at steady prices. cheese receipts 8293 pounds with steady demand, while eggs show high supply and large held stock with no notable shift.
Eastern extra and other grades quoted from 13 to 19 cents per unit across eggs beans and potatoes. Receipts vary from 39 to 424 units weekly with prices steady to dull. Poultry and game show steady demand for higher quality, while hay, oranges, lemons, cranberries, and other produce move at jobbing prices with limited high grade supply.
Provisions in Chicago closed higher than Spenie while trading remained lighter than recent days. Markets show a tentative rally view after a break, with buyers cautious at current prices. Reports cover pork, lard, and beef with weekly receipts, prices in several hubs, and regional demand notes.
The notice lists prices for Marrow squash and turban squash at 45 per ton, Hubbard 55 per ton, Savoy cabbage 75 cents per barrel, cabbage 60 to 75 cents per barrel, red cabbage 2 per barrel, onions 120 to 140 per barrel, beets 40 to 50 cents per bush, carrots 75 cents per barrel, lettuce 50 to 60 cents per bush, turnips 49 cents per box, white French turnips 1.25 per dozen, St Andrews 70 cents per barrel, radishes and turnips 40 cents per dozen, long 1 per dozen, celery 4.5 per box, parsnips 50 cents per bush, spinach 50 to 60 cents per bush or box, native dandelions 2.25 per bush, Norfolk spinach 2 per barrel, parsley 2 per bush.
Savannah boats bring 3700 boxes of oranges expected Monday. Palermo fruit sold at auction colors lemons at 1 and oranges at 146 155 per box. Snow & Co to auction 1000 boxes Florida oranges 200 boxes Almeria grapes 125 bags nuts Monday. Receipts 4504 barrels apples. last year 6854 barrels. Liverpool fruit quality fair, demand improving with upward price tendency. Baldwins 64 2494d to 7 8ed. common to good $1 to 1 25. Hubbardston $1 25 to 1 50. King $1 25 to 1 25. sweet $1 2. Tallman prwts $2 to 2 25 per barrel. greenings 87c to 1. Grapes common to good $3 50 to 5 00.
The steamer Victoria left Palermo on January 18 carrying 5900 boxes Palermo oranges 3100 boxes Palermo lemons and 3500 boxes Naples oranges for Boston. The steamer Picana departed Palermo January 22 bound for Boston with 5500 boxes Mesina oranges 1000 boxes Messina lemons 7900 boxes Palermo oranges and 6400 boxes Palermo lemons.
Stock Yards Kansas City reports cattle receipts at 900 with steady demand and prices ranging from 150 to 315 dollars. Hogs receipts 3484, demand active. heavies 435 to 455, mediums and lights 435 to 460. Sheep steady at 245 to 425. St Louis shows hogs steady with Yorkers 465 to 480, mixed packers 460 to 470, butchers to extra 470 to 480. Peoria reports weak hogs at 450 to 475. Cincinnati hogs steady. common and light 495, packing and butchers 465 to 485. Chicago cattle receipts 1200, steady, best beeves 440 to 465, steers 290 to 435, stockers 225 to 240, cows 145 to 300. Texas steers 235 to 350. Hogs in Chicago receipts 11,000, shipments 4500, stronger. mixed 460 to 480, heavy 465 to 877?4, light 465 to 500, pigs 330 to 500. Sheep receipts 1500, Western corn-fed 440 to 765, Texans 340 to 440, lambs 506 to 650.
Sugar receipts for the week totaled 1153 barrels and 20 902 bags, versus 1924 barrels and other goods in the prior year. Sugar markets show quiet steady demand with Cuba and Havana prices described as fair to good refining and nominal quotations, while molasses receipts were 272 barrels and 49 hhds.
Receipts in Boston for the past week total 22 813 bales. New York quiet at 9 1 2 c for mid dl ing uplands, 9 1 2 c for low middling, 8 16 c for good ordinary and 6 c for ordinary. Sales 157 bales. Futures opened quiet and closed barely steady. Liverpool spot cotton dull with varying d ranges and 8 000 bales sold. Other markets show mixed receipts, exports, and stock with generally steady to dull quotes. Consolidated one day receipts 25 611 with stocks at all U S ports around 912 611.
Tallow receipts for the week 553 barrels 2 tierces and 2 bags up from 231 barrels 11 tierces last year. Prices show easy demand with City rendered at 54.5 percent and country 44.2 percent. New York whiskey steady at 103 dollars Cincinnati and St Louis also at 103. Turpentine and petroleum quotes: New York turpentine 45.4 cents, resin 1105 dollars and tar nominal, petroleum 6.55 to 7.16 cents with RSW 7.10 and cases 9.10 cents.
Shipping ledger lists schooner Blue Jacket with salted herring. brig Hattie M Bain with salt. steamer Aguan with coffee bananas and fruit. Bark Levant with ox hides. various firms including Baring Bros & Co and J S Morgan & Co handling hides and wool. Entries cover Grand Turk Jamaica Rosario Montevideo Salt Day stations with multiple cargoes and quantities.
A dated export log lists the BH Rose of Kalifax and Crest Line schooner cargos from Buenos Ayres Halifax and Glasgow. It details lumber hardware lemons oranges butter nails paint medicine books and many other goods with quantities including 1 2 25 14 15 250 and 10 000 plus units across multiple vessels and ports.
Receipts dated January 26 1889 list shipments for Boston Albany Grand Junction Boston Providence Old Colony New York & New Laget Fitchburg Boston & Maine and related lines. Entries include bales cotton flour corn oats wool tea sugar bacon butter eggs leather and other commodities with quantities and transport modes such as bales barrels sacks cars and rolls.
Foreign markets report steady wheat with better sentiment in London cargoes and firmer wheat futures. Liverpool notes steady or dull conditions for breadstuffs with mixed corn, and futures for January to June shown. Antwerp and Paris also reflect steady wheat and dull French markets.
Notice proclaims Godfrey Morse of Boston duly appointed administrator of the estate of George Henderson late of Boston Suffolk County deceased. He has given bonds as required and all creditors must exhibit claims and all debtors must pay to Admr Godfrey Morse Boston January 7 1889.
Rail schedule lists trains to New Haven Hartford via Springfield Worcester and New London Providence with daily service including Sundays. Through Parlor or Sleeping Cars available on all departures. Agents and times noted for T Hempstead and station agents.
Rail services from Fitchburg Depot Boston offer daytime and nightly express trains with parlor and sleeping cars to stations including Winchendon Jaffrey Peterboro and Rutland. Connections at Rutland link to Saratoga and Delaware Hudson routes. sleeper car service to Rutland Burlington and St Albans with Montreal connections. tickets at 228 Washington Street Boston. July 11 1838.
The notice lists time tables and routes for Boston and Albany R R passengers. It details daily and Sunday service to Albany Syracuse Rochester Buffalo Detroit Chicago Cleveland Toledo and other points with vestibuled and dining cars and sleeping accommodations. Tickets and car reservations are available at 282 Washington street and Kneeland street Boston stations.
Metropolitan timetable lists daily and Sunday departure times from Ashmont and Central Station to Newport and regional stops including Middleboro Brockton Easton Weymouth Plymouth and more. It notes additional trains and Friday Tuesday Friday only services with various morning afternoon and evening departures.
Cape Cod division timetables list ferry and bus times for Buzzards Bay Barns Barnstable Bourne Brewster Cataumet Chatham Cottage City Fairhaven Falmouth Hyannis Harwich Monument Beach Mattapoisett Nantucket Provincetown Sandwich Wellfleet West Barnstable Woods Hole Wareham Yarmouth with inconsistent AM and PM times and weekday notes indicating Nantucket service only on certain days.
Providence Division shows outbound trains from Leave Park Square Station to New York via Shore Line at 10am and 11.30pm with many intermediate stops including Attleboro Boston Riverside and Jamaica Plain areas and Sunday special timings. The dense timetable lists numerous stations such as Beadville Roxbury Sharon Heights and Newport along with varying weekend and holiday patterns and service frequencies.
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