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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1888
Page
7
Hides, wool, flour, corn, oats and many staples show quiet to steady trading. Prices for rye, butter, eggs, beef, pork, lard and sugar move modestly with some items firmer or in steady demand as truck activity remains active. Several meats and produce brands indicate stable to modest shifts in supply and price.
The leather market remains varied with dull demand for sole and rough leathers while finished leather holds steady or improved in places. Buyers favor low prices for wax and hip leathers. boot grain shows moderate demand. calfskins and dry hides are weak or large stockpiles persist. prices quoted across various categories for hemlock, rough splits, and West kip remain firm or modestly reduced.
A careful canvass of the wool market notes quiet conditions and slow receipts from the new clip. Prices vary by region with scarce Michigan fleeces and steady California demand. London sales show stiffening prices and strong competition among buyers.
A dense listing of fleece and wool prices across regions including Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, New York, New Hampshire, Maine, Georgia, Kentucky, Texas, Oregon, Washington and various wools such as carpet, clothing, and combing. Market values are given per weight unit with numerous grades and quality markers.
New York wool buyers show interest but hesitate on future commitments. Texas arrivals move quickly as sales continue to rise, while Western clips prompt local trade by lower bids. Colorado opens with 80 000 pounds sold at 9 to 14 cents. San Angelo sales average 18c with 200 000 pounds sold. Montana shearing delayed by storms. Louisville sees quieter trade and softer top prices.
The report covers flour and grain market activity with bids and quotes across grades. It notes a quiet spot flour market, light futures, and varied prices for mill products and exports, alongside receipts and shipments in New York and Chicago. It includes corn and oats pricing, sale notes, and call board bids, indicating weak to easy conditions in several regions.
Sales figures show varying car trades across June and July with multiple car counts and prices, followed by extensive commodity price quotes across New York Chicago and St Louis. The report lists inspections on corn oats and wheat products, plus grain flour and cottonseed whole markets with steady to firm trends and export options.
Butter receipts are heavy and demand since week start is quiet. Western creameries trade around 20.4 21c per lb with large lots hard to move. Northern creameries hold 22c asks. Imitation creameries steady. various regional creamery prices listed. Cheese and beans markets also show quiet demand. prices for various grades steady. Poultry and pork markets show moderate activity with price ranges noted across regions.
The market shows steady tone with apples cleaned up at 55 50 per 50 gubbl. Palermo oranges 6 7 per box, Palermo lemons 5 7 per box, Messina fruits varied, strawberries fair supply with demand for choice Dightons and Long Islands. Bananas from two ships sold varied by size, coconuts priced privately.
The steamer Gwent is due June 23 from Bara coa carrying bananas for Seaverna and Co. The steamer Berjenseren is due June 25 from Jamaica with bananas for the Boston Fruit Company.
The report lists current quotations for assorted vegetables and produce. Items include new marrow squash at 2 dollars per barrel, asparagus 75 cents per dozen, Long Island green peas at 250 dollars per 4 percent barrel, Florida tomatoes at 2 260 per crate, and various onions cabbages beets carrots and beets with prices ranging from a few cents to several dollars per unit or crate.
Market items list shows lettuce 40 cents per box turnips new flat rhubarb and cucumbers priced per crate with various counts. Norfolk boat due Friday carries cabbage beans squash tomatoes peas and potatoes in designated crate and barrel quantities.
Raw sugar firm with Muscovados and centrifs up 1-16e. Refined sugars active at firm prices. pulverized 8¢, powdered 12c, granulated 67Se. Molasses prices firm and quiet trade. Porto Rico and Mayaguez grades show steady quotes. New York steady at 1l4c for 50 test.
Allan Asher & Co reports Liverpool buyers remain active as August contract rumors loom. Locally short interest has covered, bears retreat, leaving a dull market while carriers accept 6 percent premium for stock. New York prices steady with mids 9 5 16c, 10 1 6c for various grades. futures opened steady, closed quiet.
Stock Yards Kansas City reports slow demand with steers $5 60 to $5 70, cows $4 50 to $5 00, hogs $5 25 to $5 60. St Louis hogs steady at $5 20 to $5 40, Peoria $5 30 to $6 65, Cincinnati dull $4 50 to $5 75. Chicago cattle $3 74 to $4 90, hogs $5 40 to $6 70, sheep $2 50 to $4 25. receipts totals vary by market.
The report shows mixed commodity pricing with steady tones in some markets and unsettled conditions in others. Turpentine and resin markets in New York list specific prices, while Cincinnati and Chicago report steady levels around historical figures. Five Line Certificates indicate closing values for June 21 1888 with opening and intraday highs and lows.
The list details ship cargoes at Baracoa and Hull including Balder with bananas and coconuts, Wulfato with coffee and various goods. Firms mentioned include Baring Bros & Co and Brown & Co with extensive consignments of textiles, paper stock, iron, rags, and chemicals, plus shipments of glassware, china, and pigments.
A dated inventory lists varied cargos including rails, bales wool, hides, casks, mdse, timber, wire rods, and linens from Baring Bros & Co and other firms. Entries note quantities such as 255 bags, 104 do, 1 qr casks whiskey, 7 pkgs moise, 1078 bolls wire rods, and 13,139 bunches bananas with fruit shipments from Porto Antonio Jamaica to Boston Fruit Co.
Shipping list dated June 21 1888 records cargoes from Windsor Great Village Cave Island and Digby Nova Scotia and Liverpool England aboard schooners and steamers including Portland Libbies Irene Pavonia JookS Michigan and Michigan with flour cornmeal bacon beef oils leather cottons oil cake and various hardware and miscellaneous goods in bulk totals list hundreds of barrels sacks cases bales and boxes with items such as 405 bbls flour 125 bbls cornmeal 500 lobster empties and 1872 boxes bacon among others.
London and Liverpool market notes show wheat quiet to steady with mixed futures. Prices at Liverpool for wheat and corn hold, with cargo sales and walling on track, while Paris Antwerp and Marks Lane report quiet or unchanged levels across grains and provisions.
Detailed receipts from multiple railroads including Boston & Albany and Old Colony show large inventories of cotton wool flour oats malt feed grease tallow eggs leather hides and boxes of butter and cheese. Also listed are shipments by seas and various divisions with bales sacks barrels and tons of commodities across lines. Specific quantities and item types include bales of cotton wool and leather various bbls and sacks of grains and oils as well as eggs tea coffee sugar and butter across numerous railroad segments.
Adamson and Co manufactures glue sand paper emery cloth and other supplies as listed. The page highlights highest prices for glue stock damage cattle tails and related items with firm quotes and market notes from the trade ledger.
The Boston Probate Court issues notices for Bridget Reed Ezra H Baker Thomas Mullen Charles Hickling Julia Keleher Mary Welch George Griggs Inniah Bostom and others. Executors administrators and heirs must appear by July 9 1888 and publish weekly notices in the Boston Post.
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