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Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Jul 15, 1886

Page

3

Boston Money Market and Bond Market Report July 14

The Boston money and general markets show a weakening clearing house rate while good business paper yields 4.4 to 6 percent and manufacturing paper at 3.4 to 4 percent. Call loans with collateral range 5 to 6 percent. New York funds sell near par to a 6 cent premium per $1000. Treasury notes and various national banks are noted with rising stock activity and Bell Telephone leading gains with an extra dividend declared for August.

Mechanics’ Mill Company Fall River Boylston Insurance Company Bowker Fertilizer Company The Insurance Company of North America Savings Bank Wareham Bell Telephone Company

Money market and stock wrap from New York trading day

New York July 14 money on call ranges 14 29 last loan 2 closing at 2 asked Prime mercantile paper 4 5 bar silver 955g Market steady Sterling exchanges active at unchanged quotes actual business 4 563 4 87 for 60 day bills 488 4 584 for demand Government bonds quiet with 49 4 higher Railroad bonds dull yet firm Stock market dull and listless after 2 15 pm opening prices higher but closed steady Transactions in railroad bonds 1 383 500 and overall tone firmer than past four days Final prices show advances Readouts include St Paul golds up 1 5 Northwestern 531 at 112 Hocking Valley firsts 88 Delaware & Hudson Pennsylvania division coupons2 142 Denver & Rio Grande 214 111% Erie seconds 11059 Indiana Bloomington & Western 631 90 Nickel Plate trust receipts 1 98 Richmond & Danville consols 414 117% Peoria & Western firsts 4 100 North Missouri firsts 1 119 Also lower: New York Susquehanna & Western firsts coupon 80 Central Pacific firsts 11334 Richmond & Allegheny trust receipts 2 75 Texas Central sinking funds 78k Total shares 153 133.

Boston New York London Treasury Department First National Bank of Sprague W.T H. W. Fairweather George S. Brooks First National Bank of Bell New England Erie Telephone Atchison Chicago, Burlington & Northern Chicago & Eastern Illinois Boston & Albany Chicago West Michigan Flint Flint & Pere Marquette Lowa Falls Sioux City Metropolitan Union Pacific Rutland Atlantic & Pacific Oregon Transcontinental Eastern Illinois Ions Falls Pere Marquette Burlington & Quincy Vie Chicago & Atlantic Cable Potter Marquette, Houghton & Ostonagon Marquette Cleveland & Canton Cleveland Mexico Arthur Sewall Sewall New York & New England Erie Worcester, Nashua & Rochester Boston & Lowell Boston & Maine Old Colony Cambridge Horse Railroad Charles River Stighland Cambridge Metropolitan and Highland Middlesex St. Jo & Council Cheage Burlington & Northern Oregon Ogdensburg Bell Telephone Bell Telephone Company Forbes Philadelphia New Haven Sterling Exchanges St. Paul Northwestern Sinking Fund Hocking Valley Delaware & Hudson Pennyylvania Division Denver & Rio Grande Consol Indiana, Bloomington & Western Nickel Plate Richmond & Danville Peoria & Western North Missouri New York, Susquehanna & Western Central Pacific Richmond & Allegheny Trust Texas Central Sinking Funds

Prices of Store Cattle and Hides From Western Markets

Prices for cattle, hogs, sheep, and hides are listed with ranges for Western and Eastern markets. Western cattle and calves show firmer cow prices while spring lambs fall. hogs stay firm with steady demand for Northern stock. Veal calves bring strong prices. horse market remains active with exports and shipments to Liverpool noted.

New Kinkin Railroading and rail promotions travel on sale

The Canadian Pacific plans a commercial train with dining sleeping and sample cars to display goods at key stops including Winnipeg and Port Moody to serve Victoria and Westminster. Prominent rail executives add promotions and earnings updates amid industry changes and traffic news.

New Kinkin Canadian Pacific Winnipeg Port Moody Victoria Westminster Montreal Detroit River

Insolvencies and assignments reported in multiple cities

A stream of insolvencies and assignments is recorded including George A. Monroe of South Boston creditors’ claims totaling about 28967 with assets of 2700. creditors may receive around 60 cents on the dollar. Other notices include J G Wells Co Hartford offering 25 cents on the dollar, L J Perkins Son Portland making assignment, and numerous individuals in Portland Holyoke Hanover Cynthiana Williams and other towns likewise insolvent or assigned. Unknown totals and dates accompany these notices, with various small debts and assets listed across several states.

George A. Monroe Broadway Boston Mary O. Monroe J.G. Wells & Co Crockery Hartford Conn L. J. Perkins & Son Portland Joan C. Olson J. Buonaguide Hanover N. H John Donthus Holyoke H. Blake General Teader Mellon Penn R. Rk Shepard William Eckhard Baltimore Harris New Haven

Market summary of flour and grain prices and provisions

The report shows firm demand for flour with Wisconsin and Minnesota spring patents at around 5.10 to 5.35 per bbl, winter wheat patents near 5.30, and strong roller flour with New York to Ohio markets in the 4.60s per bbl. Oats, cornmeal, rye flour, oatmeal, and bran offer steady or varied quotes, with butter, cheese, eggs, beans, peas, and fresh potatoes also detailed. metals and pork measures indicate steady copper, steel rails, and hog products. overall activity is moderate with several price ranges noted across regions and goods.

Timothy Norfolk Wisconsin Minnesota New York Michigan Ohio Indiana St. Louis Ilinois Vermont Nova Scotia Canada Iyo Goa Materi Jcbanze Boston Idec

Mixed commodities market dampened demand stifles coal and oils

The report shows no improvement in anthracite demand with quiet retail trade and moderate bituminous sales. gas coals shipping actively. Cotton spot trade firm with firmer prices, while various chemicals, drugs, oils, and marine products display mixed activity and stiffening or steady pricing across leather, hides, raisins, and fruit markets amid subdued freight and steady foreign rates.

Market Report Shows Steady Oils and Sugars With Firm Prices

Sperm and whale oils are in fair demand at prior levels. Cotton seed oil firm with crude 27 29c, refined summer yellow 31 36c, winter yellow 40 42c per gallon. Refined petroleum light demand, 64 6%c for 110 to 120 test, high test 8. %4c. Case oil selling at 5c per gallon in cargo lots. Naphtha unchanged at 110 llc per gallon. Seeds: grass seeds mostly slight losses, Western clover 93, 10tc, New York at 10W 11le, timothy 195 2 10 Y bush, red top 22 2 2 we. Flaxseed little changed. Sugar: raw sugar firm, refining 47 4, centrifugal 54 5c. Recent sales of various muscovado and centrifugal sugars with many hundreds of pounds per shipment at mixed prices. Refined sugar in demand. cut leaf 5c, cubes 6c, powdered 6 1 2c, granulated 65 ife, coffee crushed 47 4614c. Woul there continues strong demand domestically and abroad with firm advancing prices.

Brighton Watertown Western Canada F Gosselyn Brigston Whipple & Farnham T Hanley Combs & Farrar W Ricker J G Hight M Rogers L M Richards New England M Richards Weiler P Libby F M Rogers J C Libby W Fisther FS Kimball Breck & Weod J Y Keazer Exstern Road Chase & Kenfield Farrow M G Flanders Libby & Son D McCarthy Grassers RE French & Co Breck & Wood Itv Uplands Gulf Sicily Assarcetica Salsoda Gambier Nova Scotia London Muscatel Valencia Sultana California Turkey Citron Virginia Wilmington Palermo Messina Liverpool Glasgow Antwerp Australasia Melbourne Sydney Adelaide Brisbane Wellington Auckland Baltimore Boston New York Philadelphia Manila St. John’s Muscovado Naquabo Muscovado Minnesota Kentucky Rio Enbes Uniteda Long Island Lara City Lake Silesian Toledo St. Louis Detroit Bush Chicago Wisconsin Michigan Milwaukee

Market Report Hits Global Grain and Provisions

NEW YORK July 14 Flour weak with higher exports, wheat and corn mixed as receipts and exports shift. Prices quoted for No 2 and winter wheats, Minnesota and Southern stocks vary. Rye, barley, and oats move differently across multiple regions with mixed futures. Cotton and sugar markets show quiet activity alongside steady pork, lard, and beef values.

Cattle Market Mixed Results in Chicago Trade

Cattle receipts totaled 10 309 with about 3 000 shipments and an overall drop in prices. Shipping steers ranged from 350 to 1 350 pounds with various dollar figures reported, hogs receipts 17 600 with higher prices on rough and mixed lots, sheep receipts 3 500 with natives and Texans priced, lambs noted with limited detail. Nearly 4 900 cattle through Texas were received, markets lower across the board.

Chicago Texas

Emery Hodges Letter on Wheat Market Quieting

A late private despatch from Emery & Hodges at 28 State Street reports wheat markets steady in the morning with shorts covering and a dull close. Damage to crops appears overestimated by market trends, weather in Fargo Jamestown and Nebraska is cool, rain expected in the South Platte. Receipts today include wheat 103 corn 4739 canal 9800 oats 94. tomorrow’s estimates: wheat 83 corn 64 oats 107.

Emery & Hodges State Street Fargo Jamestown Nebraska South Platte

Wheat Market Reports From Chicago and New York

Special despatches from Chicago and New York describe wheat trading with August at 79c, weak due to large traders staying out and broad selling by night traders. Bearish sentiment amid gains from bullish outside news, including a smaller winter wheat flow and a predicted subpar English crop, with New York export demand strong but overall market ending near 79 to 79 ¼ cents.

Clark & Ward Chicago Messrs Devonshire Street C.S. Lee Brewer & Wilkins Congress Street Dunn & Co New York

Imports at Boston and surrounding ports amid vast cargo listings

A sprawling OCR led inventory lists schooners and steamers loading coal lumber and glass at Boston Parersboro Windsor and Antwerp. Numerous firms including R G Norris J B Moors and Lambert Pros ship goods from Norway Liverpool and locally. The tally catalogs crates, casks, bales, and cases of glass, salt, machinery, wool, and hardware with dozens of named firms and items across multiple ports.

Boston Parersboro Clementsport Bessie Warson Windsor Leatherbe G Hall & Co Trapani Maiden City Antwerp de Ruyter G Norris & Cco Sherburne Moors & Co Naylor & Co Hayes & Co Hill Sons & Co Igots Steel Norway Steel & Tronco Alzetine Schibach& Co Horace Partidge & Co Lambert Bros Liverpool Eng Norseman Nicholson, Frost & Co Rogers & Co Adams & Cars Read & Barton Clark, Sawyer & Co Washburn & Moon Bres & Co Drexel, Morgan & Co Bickle Jere Abbott & Co Baring Bros & Co E & F King & Co Wing & Ewins H Waibaum & Co Richard Briggs Baing Bros & Co Leigh & Co Doll & Richards Houghton & Dutton Cumner, Jones & Co Conton Jones & Co Webb Cate

Foreign Exports Shipment Listings From Multiple Ports

A fragmented OCR listing enumerates exports and cargoes from ports including CAYENNE ANNAPOLIS LOCKPORT PORT ANTONIO HALIFAX PICTOU PORE HAWKSBURY CHARLOTTETOWN ANTWERP NEW YORK LONDON. The items include schooner cargoes of flour, codfish, mackerel, tobacco, lumber, nails, oil, butter, beef, pork, beer, hardware, and other goods with quantities such as 620 bbl flour 210 pbbis four 80 sacks milfeed 32,084 feet lumber and 30 pikes. steamer and vessel cargos across multiple regions.

Cayenne Annapolis Lockport Port Antonio Jam Halifax Pictou Hawksbury Charlottetown Pei Merrimie Moise Antwerp New York de Ruyter London Eng

Staple Cargo Totals From Multiple Railroads Across 1797

A readerable fragment lists freight items by railroad line including Boston and Albany Boston and Providence Old Colony New York and New England Fitchburg Boston and Maine Eastern Western and Lowell divisions. Items cover cotton wool flour corn oats meat butter cheese eggs and leather among others with varying unit counts such as bales bbls cases sacks and cars. The jumble of quantities suggests a summary of commodities moved or stored per line without a single coherent headline event.

Boston & Albany Grand Junction Railroad Boston & Providence Railroad Old Colony Railroad New York & New England Railroad Fitchburg Bates Boston & Maine Railroad Tumber Boston & Maine Rairona Boston & Lowell Railroad Il Prob Cde CNG Ccota

Total Receipts of Staple Products July 14 At This Port

The table shows today’s total receipts of the principal Staples at this port from all shipment points including in transit, compared with the same day last year. The figures cover commodities arriving from various sources and reflect current market activity.

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