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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1889
Page
7
Market dull with receipts today none versus last year none. Quotations show six rowed Canada at 96c and 1 dollar, six rowed State 90 95c, two rowed State 80 85c. Good to choice hops from 1888 New York 18 23c, common to good 1887 New York 8 12c. old lots nominal 6 8c.
Receipts today list butter 7598 pkgs and other dairy goods. last year’s figures are lower in many items. Butter markets trend down with buyers waiting for concessions. creameries offer 17 to 18 cents for various grades, while Eastern and Northern markets show mixed firmness. Potatoes, hay, and straw receive steady to light demand amid ample supplies.
The day before a holiday brings quiet demand with posted prices for produce. Listings include onions from Bermuda and Egyptian varieties, beets, carrots, lettuce, turnips, radishes, cucumbers, rhubarb, parsley, asparagus, wax beans, tomatoes, cabbage, peas, squash, and cauliflower with per unit, crate, or bushel quotes. Many items show small changes while others hold steady as buyers wait.
The steamer Miranda is due Friday carrying a load of bananas for the Boston Fruit Company. Port officials anticipate smooth customs and quick unloading as ships schedule tight timetables.
A shipment of lemons totaling 13 880 boxes and 2100 boxes of Palermo oranges arrived. The steamer Ponca sailed from Palermo to Boston on July 2 and the steamer Howick departed Palermo for Boston on June 25.
Snow & Co announces an auction Friday offering 752 boxes of California Royal apricots. The sale date and quantity are listed, with no additional terms provided in the notice.
Receipts show tallow 21 bbis beef 02 bbis pork 38 bbis lard 687 pkgs hams 8 bbis preserved meats 2 cases bacon 2409 boxes. Current pork and lard markets show steady to firm prices with varied regional quotes for long cuts, backs and shoulders, smoked meats and fresh ribs. New York and Chicago reports reflect weak pork and quiet beef. lard mostly steady. overall beef and dry salt meats in varied demand across cities.
Cattle receipts at Kansas City show strong markets with ranges for ship shows and native cows. Heavies bring 3 90 to 4 25, medium and lights 4 10 to 4 32, stockers and feeders steady. hogs mix $4 25 to 4 42, heavies $3 90 to 4 25, pigs $4 2 1 4 2 5. Cincinnati hogs stronger. Chicago receipts heavy beef and cattle values. Texas cattle around 2 36. Sheep receipts 5 000 slow. natives to 4 75, Westerns 3 30 to 3 90, Texans 3 4, lambs 4 75 to 5 70.
Sugar receipts 6106 bags today vs 357 last year. demand quiet. Cuba refining 744c, Javas 8 8c, Manila 6 6c, Molasses sugar 87-88c, $450 per quin tal. Refined sugars steady with firm prices. pulverized 9c, granulated 9 1 4c, standard A 8 3 4c. New York market firm, Havana molasses sugar at 862' per quintal.
In New York cotton prices held firm with 1617 bales traded across uplands and middling grades, market futures opening and closing steady. Liverpool listings show steady to quiet futures with demand fair, American bale totals around 9900 to 12000, receipts 4000, with steady to quiet closes across months from July to September.
New York market notes show turpentine closing at 37 percent with rosin at 110 to 112 percent and tar at 225. Petroleum closed at 7.30 cents with RSW at 7.20 cents and cases at 9.10. Coffee Rio quiet with fair car at 15 percent. Whiskey markets in St Louis Chicago Cincinnati steady at 102 dollars.
At London and ports cargoes off coast and passage markets show wheat firmer while corn remains quiet. Mark Lane reports wheat firm and flour slow as English and French markets ease slightly. Paris wheat quiet. Liverpool spot wheat steady and corn firm. Futures in Liverpool quiet for wheat, corn futures firm with California wheat prices listed for July August and September.
At Paris, wheat and flour flow with July quotes: wheat 39:3, flour 34. In Liverpool trading July 3 1 pm breadstuffs wheat steady poor demand corn firm, ironclad quotations for winter and spring wheats. Manchester notes slight improvement not shown, demand slow, stock high, eastern demand poor, production down in Blackburn and Darwen, yarns and cloths prices varied, imports from South America steady.
Import ledger entry listing ships and cargos with destinations Carthagena Messina Palermo and Cienfuegos, Beam River Ettrick logs sugar and mahogany, multiple firms and cargo types including sugar bags oil seeds and lime juice. Names include Bark Mattea Bark George Davis JS Shapleigh Emery & Co and Brunel port calls.
Export items freighted from Antwerp Rosario Newcastle Fredericton Halifax and Charlottetown include Hermann Unity Rialto Sir Lillie Bell Worcester and more. Goods cover bacon lumber flour cornmeal soap beers oysters tropical goods and thousands of boxes bales and cases across Atlantic routes.
Weekly market data from Watertown and Brighton by George J. Fox for week ending July 3, 1889. Prices for cattle, sheep, veals, hogs and hides, with arrivals at Watertown and Brighton yards, including shipments to Liverpool and Chicago figures, and notes on veal, slaughter hogs, dairy cows, and market tone.
A dense schedule lists trains from Boston and several suburbs to Ashcroft Baltimore Blackstone Danbury Dorchester Cable Street and many others with numerous daily and Sunday departures including links to New York via the Air Line and Norwich Line. The Woonenocket Division appears at the end.
Trains leave Boston Causeway Street for the west. A 30 am accommodation serves Troy and Albany. A 60 am express with parlor car serves Troy Albany and Binghamton. Sleeping car available for passengers to Wisconsin.
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