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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1887
Page
7
Prices for sheep and lambs, hogs, veal calves, and hides listed by market class. Details include lots, extra, and per head or per pound rates, plus notes on cattle and sheep classifications and market scope from Brighton.
Trade centers report mixed activity with exports and sales in several commodities. Wheat and corn prices vary across Chicago Minneapolis Detroit Milwaukee Cincinnati St Louis with receipts, shipments, and export trade cited. pork and lard levels move moderately while oils and sugars show firm or steady tones.
The Daily Commercial Bulletin notes a restricted week due to two holidays with fair movement in some first-hand goods. Staple cotton goods stay firm, while men’s wear woollens, flannels, and blankets are quietly selling. Foreign and dark prints are quiet.
Kansas City hog prices firmer with most sales at 460 to 475 and receipts about 5500 yesterday. Chicago cattle receipts around 8000 with slow shipments. steers 335 to 450, stockers 2 to 3.40, cows and bulls 170 to 300. Hog receipts about 1000. shipments 6000. prices 5 to 5.35. Sheep receipts 40,000. steady. natives 3.4 to 4.25, Westerns 3.4 to 3.5, Texans 2.60 to 4.375, lambs 1.25 to 1.40 per head.
Augusta Net receipts 7 gross 7 with mid 10 to 16 cents. New Orleans receipts 149 gross 249 exports coastwise 2366 sales 100 stock 73306. Mobile 6 receipts, stock 462. Savannah stock 1109. Charleston 6 receipts, stock 567. Philadelphia stock 14794. New York receipts 1557, sales 2493, stock 158306. Cincinnati two days receipts 196, shipments 50, stock 7319. St Louis 83 receipts, shipments 138, stock 8136. Consolidated four days receipts 388 exports 3267 to Britain and 3646 to the continent, total U S ports stock 258947.
Cargoes off the coast with four arrived since last report and three sold, eight awaiting sale. Wheat and corn markets quiet in Liverpool and Paris, good Danubian and Australian wheat prices listed, California wheat shipments noted, English crops backward but improving conditions forecast.
At Liverpool July 5 12 30 p m bread stuffs wheat dull with poor demand receipts three days 221 000 centals 128 000 American corn dull with poor demand receipts 2 400 centals winter wheat steady six shillings to six shillings nine pence club wheat easier seven shillings eight pence six pence. Provisions pork steady six pounds six shillings bacon thirty eight shillings six pence cheese unchanged forty seven shillings tallow steady two pounds twenty eight shillings six pence lard firmer thirty four shillings six pence.
London reports show uneven wool trading with crossbred demand strong for greasy wool and scoured wool less active. Sales across regions include Victoria 4300 bales scoured at various prices, New South Wales 3300 bales, Queensland 300, South Australia 1100, New Zealand 1600, Swan River 76, and Cape of Good Hope Natal 1800 bales.
Shipping ledger shows multiple vessels loading and unloading at ports including Grand Manan Fredericton Caplin Demerara Glasgow London Accra and Liverpool with items such as herrings mackerel pickled cod dry fish railroad ties palm oil parrots palm oil and various goods. Notable entries include schooner AJ Franklin brig Orloff bark Lizzie Curry steamer New Brunswick and Carl Konow with cargoes ranging from fish and fruit to pig iron and machinery.
Shipping cargoes from Meteghan Nova Scotia Yarmouth and Liverpool list schooners and steamers with items including aerons boxes hardware pearline printed cards marble sewing machines lobster and fruit. Pavonia and Pavonia cargoes include beef soap medicines printed sheets wheat flour tobacco bacon tallow bark staves and miscellaneous goods. Sackville Edward reports meal and retingdoll with other entries.
Detailed post lists staple movements by multiple railroads including Boston & Albany Providence Old Colony and New York & New England. Entries cover wool flour oats malt feed butter eggs lumber leather hides and numerous other goods with quantities and carloads or bales noted. The compilation presents a snapshot of commodities moved via rail in mid 1887 across regional lines.
A sparsely worded item lists buyers from multiple cities and firms including Atchison Kansas Greensfelder Chicago Florheim Murphy St Louis Adler Keet in Springfield and Salt Lake City and Savannah with various company names. The fragment mentions Deutsch Bros Greensfelder Florsheim Murphy Adler Keet and Rowe among others.
Railroads notice lists schedule changes for Boston and Maine trains with departures from Augusta Haymarket square Causeway Street Portland Lewiston Manchester North Conway Portland line and connections to Maine Central Grand Trunk and Knox Lincoln railways at Haymarket Square and Causeway Street stations with various AM and PM times and routes to St John Halifax Calais and other points including Portland and Lewiston and Manchester Concord North Conway and last port services.
Western Division schedule shows trains leaving Boston Station at Haymarket Square for Alton Bay Rochester and Farmington with many intermediate stops including Dover Andover Exeter Lawrence Malden Medford Melrose Salem Wilmington and Biddeford. Sunday trains run until late evening with multiple departures from Dover Haverhill Lowell Medford Portland Reading and Way Stations.
A dense OCR of train schedules lists departures and arrivals for Boston routes to Amesbury Beverly Chelsea Dover Haverhill Lynn Newburyport Salem Oak Island and other towns. It notes city ticket office 806 Washington Street and mentions Pullman cars on Portland and Bangor trains along with two named officials.
Boston passenger station schedules for July 5 1887 list departures to North Adams Troy Albany and the West with multiple daily trains including express services to Chicago and sleeping cars. Timetable includes connections at Ayer Junction Belmont Concord Nashua Saratoga and Worcester with through tickets available at 250 Washington Street Boston. John Adams George Supt J Whitmore Tr Steel Manager J R Watson Gen Pass Agent.
The notice lists May 30 1887 timetable changes for Boston and Providence routes with trains to New York Shore Line Sea Line and various intermediate stops. It records daily and weekend schedules, return times, and special notes on departure and arrival times, plus adjustments on specific weekdays and holiday patterns.
Schedule notes for New York and New England trains to Boston including weekly times for many routes and the Woonsocket division. Details cover departures from Boston and connections to Norwich Line and City of Worcester steamer service, with station stops and special notes on Sunday trains and express services.
Boston station on Causeway Street and 218 Washington Street ticket office list through service from Boston to Tilton Laconia Lake Village Weirs Meredith Ashland Plymouth Franklin Lebanon White River Junction and more with morning and evening departures and parlor and sleeping cars to Montreal plus local Boston Manchester Concord Keene Nashua and Lowell connections along with numerous branch stops and rates.
A partial OCR timetable lists train times for Lawrence and nearby stations including Woburn, Arlington and Billerica. It cites local stops, intercity connections, and notes general routing by GEO. W. Storer, General Passenger Agent.
The notice outlines extensive 1887 schedules for Central Massachusetts railroad lines with departure and arrival times, station lists from Boston to Springfield and beyond, express and local services, Sunday trains, and through tickets sales at 232 Washington street Boston. It names GEO. W. MELLEN and A. B. HANSON as general agents and provides contact details.
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