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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1888
Page
7
Flour quiet and corn dull with oats firmer. Oatmeal quiet and rye easy. Millseed firm and butter in good condition. Eggs in good demand and lard active. Beefs steady and pork firm. Poultry dull while hay and rye straw firm. Sugar refined higher, molasses steady, oranges firm, lemons fair demand.
London wool sales report a robust demand with Continental buyers dominant. Total offered 13 908 bales from regions including Victoria New South Wales Queensland South Australia New Zealand Cape of Good Hope and Natal with varied prices for scoured greasy and locks and pieces.
Wheat demand from commission houses and foreign accounts kept buyers active while local traders supplied the market. corn rose briefly on light Saturday receipts, oats dull, and pork prices steady to weak. Official hog receipts showed 17,040 yesterday with 19,000 forecast today. no afternoon CBT session in July and August.
New York demand remains steady with cautious buyers and limited fresh orders. Montana forecasts a record wool clip with high quality, while Michigan and Oregon show active sales at modest prices. Exports to France Germany and Belgium rise from Buenos Ayres data, Texas market unchanged, Portland receipts indicate accumulating stock due to slow selling.
The market is uneven with discrimination close and little competition interior. Quotations range from 14 to 16 1/6 cents for heavy to choice hogs with 16 1/6 cents asked for the most desirable. Some interior buyers have secured higher prices after a recent advance.
The fish market reports a continued small mackerel supply with prices varying by type and region. Block Island tinkers fetch 750 to 800 per barrel while Cape Shore mackerel sell at 12 per barrel. New England catches and Halifax cargoes are noted with prices around 12 to 13 per barrel for plain and rimmed varieties.
The market for flour and corn is described as quiet and dull with limited change. Spot quotations cover fine to millers grades, with steady to lower tones in Chicago St Louis Minneapolis and Milwaukee. New York and Detroit show modest activity, while rail and lake deliveries influence No 2 and No 1 stocks and futures remain subdued.
The report lists last call bids with No 1 white at 46 47c and No 2 white 44c, plus No 1 mixed 42c. Settling price 43 1/2c. First call sales include 8 cars July No 2 white at 42 3/4c. New York receipts total 117,000 bush shipments 145,000 bush. Chicago and Milwaukee notes accompany.
Receipts remain large as butter, eggs, and poultry hold steady wholesale prices. New York and Chicago show firm demand at old levels while export orders keep cheddar and cheese prices firm. grains and seeds move modestly with mixed regional quotes and robbing adjustments.
The steamer Welhaven is due from Baracoa with bananas for WW and C R Noyes. The steamer Ydun is due from Baracoa July 2 with bananas for Seaverns and Co.
Apples hold at 1150 half-bbl crate as crates clean up slowly. Palermo lemons and Messina oranges priced by box, Valencia oranges at 8.10 per case. Strawberries show steady movement with near and fancy lots highlighted. Gooseberries and cherries active with firm prices for certain berries. Watermelons move at 20 and 16 to 18 cents for sizes. California fruit sale set for next Monday with 97 peach crates 3 plum crates and 325 Bartlett pear boxes.
The note lists a load of 320 crates tomatoes 8 crates cucumbers 136 barrels squash 48 barrels pineapples due Monday. Quotations cover New marrow squash Asparo us native green peas Bush Savannah tomatoes Mississippi Norfolk cabbage Baltimore Long Island prices and more with multiple per crate or per barrel rates.
The listing shows beets at 25 cents per dozen and 50 cents per crate for squash. Lettuce at 40 cents per box, turnips and rhubarb priced per bunch, radishes 4 cents per pound, and cucumbers varying from 2 to 4 dollars per crate or hundred counts. Prices apply to Long Island and Southern areas.
Provisions and lard quotes show steady demand for pork products and firm prices across markets. Includes detailed prices for long cuts, shoulders, backs, hams, lard, and beef by city and port, with notes on market tone and recent changes.
Kansas City cattle receipts show numbers around 2998 with cows near 1385 and heavy hogs at 545 to 555. hog receipts about 9049 while pigs sell around 530. Cincinnati hogs steady at 4 55 to 5 80. Chicago cattle slow weaker at 150 to 325 for cows and stockers, hogs 5 46 to 6 56, lambs 1 3 per head.
Sugars remain quiet at firm prices with Cuba fair to good refining at 41 3 16 to 41 6 16 cents per pound and centrifs 96 test at 59 16 cents. Manila and Java sugars quoted higher with refined and soft sugar prices firm. pulverized 7 to 7 2 cents, granulated 6 16 1 16 cents, confectioners' A 6 1 2 cents.
Wholesale grocers' price today for granulated sugar is 7 cents. New York market firm with white extra C at 5.94 cents and standard A at 6 cents. Mosses market quiet but firm, with ranges for Porto Rico and Cienfuegos grades and Mayaguez boiling grades around 20 to 28 cents per pound. 50 test basis.
Quiet demand across items with marginal quotes for tallow coffee and whiskey. Turpentine and rosin prices show firm to nominal levels. petroleum and related notes cite modest shifts. Line certificates close times noted for June 28 29, 1888 with price ranges and daily highs and lows.
Import record from Barbados lists Bark Addie H Cann-707 with 26 tierces sugar and 40 puncheons molasses aboard, handled by W Li Greeley & co. Also notes Rio Grande do Sul cargo of Sih Clara J Wilbur-17 valued at $31 dry hides with Brown Bros & co. and Trapani cargo New York-755 salt and Brig Aklar-4740 bags sugar with a junk order.
Shipping list items from the Steamer Roman Venetian and Yarmouth bound for Liverpool and Yarmouth with flour, lard, beef, cotton, leather, oil, canned goods, and various goods. Havana cargo includes Bark Nereid with coke and related shipments.
Inventory shows Boston & Albany Grand Junction Boston & Providence Old Colony New York & New England Fitchburg Boston & Maine divisions and express and sea shipments listing bales wool flour corn oats malt grease butter cheese eggs sugar potatoes and leather in hundreds of units. Strong entities include railroad names and item totals across multiple lines.
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