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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1888
Page
7
Market notes reveal firm grass seeds and timothy prices, varied potato quotes from Dundee to New York, and cautious trade due to cold weather. Imports of European seed and Scotch stocks affect future shipments while poultry and hay markets show steadier demand.
In New York prices for butter and cheese hold steady along with types. Eastern firsts 23cc, Western 2342514¢. Beans and dried apples show steady demand. Liverpool cheese market remains at 58s.
Fruit prices remain steady in Liverpool with good demand for sound fruit while poor fruit sells slowly. New York Valencia prices range from 4 60 to 5 50 per case, with other brands 3 70 to 4 50. Receipts for February end show apples 31 456 bbls and cranberries 2449 crates, Florida oranges 21 237 boxes. 1887 totals were lower. Apples quiet with ample supply. cranberries firm. Florida oranges in light supply with full prices.
The report lists February receipts of pork 2155 barrels, beef 347 barrels, fresh beef 609 cars, lard 6577 tierces, 3653 cases and 13927 pigs, hams 1476 barrels and 802 tierces, bacon 11271 boxes, tallow 1183 barrels and 4 tierces, grease 3072 barrels and 35 packages, tongues 105 barrels, preserved meats 13645 cases, live hogs 91535, dressed hogs 2434. For 1887 the figures show pork 1454 barrels, beef 1814 barrels, fresh beef 608 cars, lard 4824 tierces, 2941 cases and 8036 packages, hams 205 barrels and 718 tierces, bacon 20836 boxes, tallow 1996 barrels, grease 1678 barrels and 2453 pigs, preserved meats 1057 boxes, live hogs 617038, dressed hogs 1824. Since Jan 1 the year 1888 shows beef, lard, hams, tallow, grease, tongues, and preserved meats with movements noted. prices for long cuts, short cuts, backs, and several pork and beef products are given as steady or improved, with beef prices ranging around 7.5 to 8.5 dollars per unit and various hog and veal markets cited. Overall, a fair movement at steady prices is reported with improved sentiment for fresh beef and a favorable outlook.
Pipe line certificates show closing at 8 pm February 28 and opening at 10 am February 29 with multiple figures. Sugar market reads steady with raw sugar sales of 175 hhds Cienfuegos 87 to 90 test at 414 16e and refined demand quiet with granulated at 6i ac.
Refined sugar prices for pulverized powdered and granulated forms appear with various percentages and factory grades. Molasses from Porto Rico listed with cost, tallow quoted steady with city and country rates. New York turpentine closes at 40 percent. petroleum at 67 percent with resins and tar figures. London tallow at 35 shillings. market activity noted as fair.
Reports show flour receipts and exports totaling thousands of barrels and bales with prices for common to fine wheat and flour grades across New York Chicago St Louis Milwaukee Minneapolis Cincinnati Toledo Detroit Baltimore Philadelphia and Duluth. Steel and other commodities mixed as grains hold steady amid quiet trade.
New York spot cotton closes easy at 1042c middling with 106 bales sold. Futures open steady with bids around 10.46 to 10.72 for various months. Liverpool spot unchanged with uplands at 65 9 16d and Orleans 56 5 16d. futures listed from 532-64d to 6 37-64d. US port stocks and receipts across Galveston to New York reflect steady to quiet demand.
In St Louis hogs traded mixed to lower with Yorkers at 490 to 515 dollars and butchers 550 to 585. Kansas City receipts around 6000 hogs, Peoria steady with most sold 490 to 550, Chicago cattle receipts 9000 and hogs 14000, markets dull and lower with steers 320 to 400 and hogs 510 to 540 for average mixes.
A fragment lists 4000 shipments with strong natives and lambs. Prices shown include Westerns at 3 75 and 5 40, Texans at 3 40 and 4 75, totaling 562 lambs.
Beerbohm notes cargoes off the coast while wheat prices edge higher and corn holds firm. Paris wheat and flour steady as Liverpool queues for goods, California wheat bids rise, and river markets show steady to dull activity with mixed Western corn priced at 4s 8d.
A ledger style shipping list shows schooners Sidney G Hopper Lookout Jennie Seaverns Fred P Fry and Carthaginian with cargos including mdse sugar herring pig iron and paper stock. Rail lines Grand Junction Boston & Maine Fitchburg Old Colony and New York and New England appear with large quantities of potatoes flour cotton wool and other goods.
A detailed shipping and trade roundup listing cargoes from Lunenburg to Havana Lisbon Liverpool and more. Items include flour cornmeal oakum lard beef pork and oils on schooners brigs steamers and barks with quantities noted for each port and vessel.
A list of commodities shipped or received shows quantities of cotton wool flour corn oats malt barley feed lard bacon pork butter oleo eggs beans hay lumber leather hides and skins along with bale and case counts dated February 29 1888 for the Boston and Maine Railroad area.
A garbled OCR fragment lists various goods and units such as skins bales and hides bales with numbers and broken phrases. No coherent article context or complete details are available to define an event or identity.
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