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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1889
Page
7
The report lists quotes for peaches at 1.25, plums at 1.50, Bartlett pears at 2.80 per case, and bananas steady with Jamaica at 2.25 per bunch, Baracoa at 1.50 per bunch, 1.125 for red, and Port Limons at 1.75 per bunch, indicating a buoyant market.
Large attendance signals rising interest in California fruit sales at Harris & Co with about 200 buyers. Prices cited for pears and peaches show fine quality though some lines were ripe, with various lots priced per case or box and upcoming auctions noted by Snow & Co including 502 boxes and 166 half boxes of Bartlett pears plus other fruits slated for Friday.
The Bergenseren arrives with a cargo of Baracoa bananas for W W & C R Noyes. Olympia passes Tarifa July 23 bound for Boston with 300 half boxes Palermo oranges and 13 300 boxes Palermo lemons. Miranda docks with Jamaica bananas for the Boston Fruit Company. Viking due next Monday with Banes bananas for Seaverns Co. Norfolk boat due Friday with 1100 pkgs apples 800 pkgs cantaloupes 200 pkgs pears 650 pkgs grapes 500 bbis potatoes 650 pkgs squash and 200 pkgs tomatoes.
The run lists a seven car load of potatoes, two cars of melons, and one car of peaches.
C E Morrison & Co announces the first car of Norfolk watermelons for the season will be received on Friday. The shipment marks the start of the seasonal melon trade handled by the Norfolk dealer.
Trade is quiet with quotes for onions including Egyptian onions at 150 per crate Malta 250 per basket native onions 50 cents per bush and 40 cents per box. Beets 2 cents per bunch Carrots 2 cents per bunch 60 cents per box Lettuce 50 cents per box Turnips 3 cents Long Island yellow turnips 150 per barrel Native cucumbers 1 dollar 100 count Parsley 50 cents per bush Cranberry beans 75 cents shell beans 75 cents per bush Native wax beans 1 dollar per bush Green corn lice dot Norfolk tomatoes 1 dollar per crate Providence 2 dollars half-bush Native 5 dollars per bush Native cabbage 1 3 per 100 count Native peas 1 dollar per bush Florida marrow squash 1 dollar per barrel Norfolk lots 1 dollar per barrel Native marrow squash 1.50 per barrel Summer squash 2 cents each Crook-neck squash 2 cents each Cauliflowers quiet at 1 dollar per dozen Florida peppers 2.50 per crate natives 1 dollar per bush Jersey tomatoes 75 cents to 1 dollar per basket
Receipts today show tallow 19 pkgs, beef 210 bbls, pork 80 bbls, lard 2453 pkgs, hams 83 bbls, bacon 1279 boxes. Last year’s figures list tallow 32 pkgs and lard 418 pkgs. pork demand remains quiet with steady prices, and lard in fair demand at easy prices. Across markets in New York, Chicago, St Louis, and Cincinnati, pork, lard, hams, and various cuts show firm or mixed trends with quoted prices for mess and short cuts, pressed ham, and bacon ranges.
In Kansas City stockyards cattle receipts reach 2030 with strong demand for shipping steers at 350 to 390, cows 175 to 215, stockers 210 to 230, and range cattle 210 to 260. hog receipts 5442 show lower market with heavies 405 to 415 and pigs 427 to 444. sheep 450 to 480 steady. Cincinnati hogs in demand, Chicago cattle receipts 12,000 with beeves 410 to 445, steers 330 to 425, hogs 430 to 455, sheep 6000 steady. Continuous receipts and shipments reflect mixed trends across the markets.
Sugar market quiet and steady with today’s receipts 110 bbls vs 58 bbls last year and 13,055 bags. Refined sugars show steady demand with various grades priced. raw sugars moderately active in New York, with refined rates steady and quiet. Molasses receipts 42 bbls and 32 hhds. market firm and unchanged with prices across Porto Rico, New Orleans, Cienfuegos, and black strap grades.
In New York cotton the market opens steady with 686 bales sold. Upland and Gulf categories show a range from ordinary to middling grades with prices from 8 1 8 to 11 3 4 cents. Futures begin quiet and close firm as traders assess early demand.
On and after June 17 1889 trains depart Boston passenger station Causeway Street for the West. Morning and afternoon options include accommodations for Troy Albany and Buffalo, with express, night, and parlor car services. The timetable lists numerous daily and Sunday departures to key towns including Ayer Junction Brattleboro Cambridge Fitchburg Gardner Greenfield Hoosick Falls and Johnsonville along with connections to Chicago St Louis and Buffalo via multiple rail lines.
Liverpool closes with 64,700 bales and steady tones across markets. American sales reach 5,300 bales while receipts total 2,000 for the period. Futures open dull, end firm, with coastal exports and stock tallies reported for Augusta, Galveston, New Orleans, Mobile, Memphis, Savannah, Charleston, Wilmington, Norfolk, Philadelphia, Baltimore, New York, Cincinnati, St Louis, Louisville, and Great Britain.
Certificates filed for pipeline and cottonseed oil trades show activity in late July 1889. Records indicate opening times, highest and lowest values, and closing statuses on July 24 to July 26, with entries noting certificates and market figures.
Turpentine closed at 39.42 dollars per 100 pounds with rosin at 11.44 and tar at 3.00. Petroleum closed at 7.60 cents, with RSW at 7.40 and cases at 9.30. Coffee Rio in New York dull with 174 cents. Whiskey markets in Chicago St Louis and Cincinnati firm at 102 dollars.
Shipping ledger from July 25 1889 records cargoes for Jamaica and Halifax. Lists steamer Miranda with pineapples cocoanuts and bananas for Hoston Fruit Co. and Halifax steamer with salmon mackerel eggs canned goods and lobster by multiple firms including Atwood Barclay J McKinnon Amos Keyes lf C Howe E Runsell and others.
Export ledger from July 25 1889 records shipments from Buenos Ayres, St John New Brunswick, Baddeck and Digby Annapolis, plus Liverpool and Bombay routes. Items include pine, cornmeal, flour, kerosene, oil, household goods, meal, hard pine, oats, beef, bacon, butter, cheese, beef, pork, tobacco, hides, leather, wheels, machinery, and various freight quantities. Notable consignments: Jos A Ropes kerosene cases to Bombay. Norseman and Catalonia steamers clearing July dates. broad array of goods with numerous tonnages and package counts.
Market notes from London and Liverpool show firm wheat in London and Paris with firm spot wheat in Liverpool. Prices quoted for No 1 California wheat for August at 7s 4d and other months varying. Antwerp and Paris prices cited. miscellaneous grains and provisions listed, including corn, peas, pork, bacon and lard, with modest demand and some price shifts.
The listing shows passenger train times from Boston Causeway to numerous New England destinations including Portland Amesbury Beverly Biddeford Great Falls Hampton Lynn and Salem with trains running variously in morning afternoon and evening slots. It mentions connections to Newburyport North Conway Portsmouth Rockport Gloucester Swampscott Marblehead and other points and notes Boston Haymarket as the station and the routes via Saugus and South Reading branches.
Readable segments show a dense list of stop names and times including Keene Peterboro Hillsboro Willsboro Concord Nashua Stoneham Woburn Winchester and Concord Mass plus multiple via routes and late evening departures. Montreal is listed with a 7 pm time.
Readable fragments show bus times for towns including Northampton Hadley Amherst Belchertown Bondsville Ware Gilbertville Barre Rutland Oakdale West Boylston Worcester Clinton Berile Hudson Sudbury Rockbottom Wayland Weston Waltham Waverley Belmont with multiple morning and afternoon departures listed.
Time table lists Boston to Manchester Concord Weare and Nashua area train departures from Causeway Street and related lines including Manchester No Weare Concord Portsmouth and Suncook Valley. Notable stops include Hooksett Suncook Pittsfield Nashua and local Nashua Concord between 7.30 am and 5.30 pm with Sunday runs and varied afternoon schedules. White Mountain Division follows.
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