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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1889
Page
7
The report shows wool firm and steady while leather improves and hides stay quiet. Farm items like corn, Graham, cornmeal and oats vary from dull to easy, with flour firmer and rye quiet. Livestock such as poultry, pork, beef and lambs stay steady or quiet, and produce like butter, eggs and fruit show mixed stability.
James & Abbot Lumber at 4 Liberty Square reports a quiet steady print cloth market on June 13 with 64 by 64 spots at 3 percent. Sales in Providence and other markets are at 37 cents half off, pressuring local prices as Fall River manufacturers resist further reductions. Local sales remain light and overall weekly business is moderate.
Weekly wool receipts total 6614 bales and bags with over 3,000,000 lbs traded. Western and seaboard markets show quiet tones despite high activity in foreign grades, as Ohio Michigan Utah and California report varied price ranges for new clips and combing wool. Domestic and foreign grades move on speculation amid limited old stock and rising new clip demand.
The leather market shows improvement but demand outside crop leather is unchanged. Prices hold steady with a potential turning point. finished leather moves slowly with some grades ticking upward while overall demand stays quiet at steady prices. Wax and hip leather are steady with light demand. No 1s quoted 11 12c and No 2s at 10 1/2c. sales of heavy wax are described but not completed.
The market notes fair demand for grain and calfskins, steady to firm prices for hemock and split leathers, and quiet activity for hides. Buff leather remains quiet, rough leather steady, and crop leather in good demand with stocks reduced. Quoted ranges cover hemlock, buff, green salted hides, calfskins, and various country skins with modest activity across regions.
Wheat futures rose sharply to near the day’s top as Northwest drought fears and later scattered rains sparked shorts to cover. Curb wheat led gains before closing near the top, while corn stayed steady and pork and lard showed mixed moves. Minneapolis, New York, St Louis, and Duluth prices and receipts for wheat, corn, and oats are listed with closing values.
John E. Welsh reports carload grain inspections and flour receipts. Prices for flour and wheat rise on firmer tone as buyers seek goods. Regional markets in New York Chicago St Louis show mixed activity with higher No 2 red and various patent grades listed.
The bulletin notes unsettled conditions in corn with 13 920 bushels received. New York and Chicago receipts to 164 000 and 176 000 bushels respectively with weaker demand. Oats futures ease. No 2 whites around 34 to 36 cents and futures quiet. Cottonseed meal steady. malt and hops markets dull with light demand.
Receipts today 8408 pkgs of butter up from 7359 last year while prices ease. Western creameries demand extra pay over 18c. firsts and extra firsts weak at 16 17c. Omaha and Chicago markets show large receipts with easy prices for choice and Western dairies. Cheese and eggs steady with varying regional pricing. beans and seeds steady. potatoes and poultry mixed with modest demand. Overall, markets are well supplied with northern dairies and many items hold steady or ease.
The market is well supplied with most lots and a steady trade. String beans arrive in poor condition with lower prices. choice tomatoes show strong demand amid larger supply. Parsnips are out of the market. spinach and beet greens plentiful. peas in good demand. squash sells readily. Savannah beans finished. North Carolina and Norfolk arrivals begin. Onions and radishes in good demand. Price quotes include bunch onions ic per bunch, Bermuda onions 75c per crate, Egyptian onions 2 per crate, beets 25c per bush, native beets 24 3c per bunch, new carrots 60c per bag.
Lettuce, turnips, radishes, cucumbers and more listed with prices from 75c per box to $3 4 per barrel. Norfolk boat due Friday with cabbage beans and peas. fruit receipts show apples and oranges with varying jobbing prices. Cotton markets in New York and Liverpool noted, with futures steady and regional summaries across Augusta, Galveston, New Orleans and other ports.
Blake and Ripley to auction on Friday two cars of California fruit including 853 boxes apricots 17 boxes peaches and 1417 boxes cherries. H Harris and Co auctioneers. Snow and Co to auction Friday 2802 cases Valencia oranges and 250 cases Egyptian onions.
The Victoria docks next Saturday with Baracoa bananas for Seaverns & Co. Timor, already past Gibraltar June 5, carries Mesina oranges Messina lemons Palermo oranges and Palermo lemons destined for Boston. Coila due about Tuesday with Samana bananas for Bay State Fruit Co. Miranda arrived with Jamaica bananas for Boston Fruit Co and will sell Friday. Brunel sailed from Palermo May 30 with fruit for Boston.
Pork and pork products receipts listed for today include 350 bbls of pork and 82 bbls of hams with varied prices for long and short cuts, backs, lean ends and sausages. New York prices show steady pork and weak lard with mixed beef notes. Chicago and Cincinnati markets report quiet or dull turnover. overall demand for hams, smoked meats and lard is described as steady to good in places.
Stock Yards Kansas City reports weak cattle receipts 2142 with prices for native cows and mixed butchers. Hogs receipts 12982 push higher with heavies 4.12 to 4.40 and pigs 4.17 to 4.25. Cincinnati hogs ease, Chicago cattle slow to steady, hogs mixed 4.20 to 4.60, sheep steady around 3.25 to 4.10.
Sugar-Receipts today 2996 bbls, last year 128 bbls 93 bhds. Market quiet and firm with higher prices asked. Quotations for Cuba refined sugars and molasses receipts noted with firm demands and various grades priced. New York raw sugars held firm with refined firm and slight advances on hard sugars.
Day last year with 10 barrels 1259 birds 124 tierces and 202 puncheons noted. Fancy Ponce Porto Rico 45c per gallon Porto Rico 37 48c New Orleans 46 47c Cienfuegos 33 35c black strap 15c. Boiling trades 50 30 30%2c. New York trade dull at firm prices.
Turpentine closed at 38.14 cents with resin at 10.7 to 11.0 cents and tar at 2.10 dollars. Petroleum closed at 7.10 cents with RSW at 6.90 cents and cases at 8.80 cents. Coffee New York Rio dull with fair cargoes. Whiskey markets in Chicago St Louis and Cincinnati quoted at 102 dollars.
Detailed list of cargo and consignments arriving and departing from Jamaica Liverpool Valencia and Yarmouth including steamer Miranda Bostonian Norseman and Valencia with cocoanuts bananas mangoes pineapples tin plates bleaching powders sailcloth and a wide range of packaged goods. Names of import houses banks brokers and shipping agents such as Boston Fruit Co Bank of British North America Baring Bros J B Moors & co Drexel Morgan & co and Walker Stetson & Sawyer appear along with numerous cargo items and quantities.
Items listed from Digby and Annapolis Nova Scotia include piano glassware road wagon hardware shoes egg carriers and more aboard the New Brunswick. At St Pierre Mich Guinea Dexter schooner cargo includes beans crackers flour clothing and groceries with numerous shipping goods and implements. Sydney New South Wales cargoes aboard Bark Tillie Baker feature carriage bolts nails tobacco rosin plaster canned oysters kerosene oil and agricultural implements among others.
OCR shows inventories aboard ships from Liverpool and London with items including nails, cases, hardware, machinery, leather, lumber, canned goods, and beef. Notable ships include Roman cleared June 10 from Liverwoor, Borderer cleared June 8 from London, and Samaria cleared June 7 from Liverpoo l, detailing ballast like tobacco, cotton, and foodstuffs among extensive case counts.
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