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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1889
Page
7
The report lists a range of leather and hide prices by grade and region. Western and East kip, calfskins, green salted hides, Brighton and New England categories feature prices per pound or per yard, with variations for best limes, trimmed skins, and dry flint grades across West No 1 and No 2.
Chicago prices show mixed action with early outside orders to sell May wheat but local demand keeps the market from a big drop. The market moves up briefly on short covering and then steadies with Chicago and New York futures showing varied quotes for wheat corn and oats across several exchanges. receipts and shipments are noted in multiple cities.
A detailed monthly grain and flour market summary lists prices, receipts, and tonnage. It covers flour, corn, wheat, oats, rye, millfeed, and malt with regional quotations from New York, Chicago, Milwaukee, and St Louis, noting market firmness and varied demand. The report includes February receipts, year-ago comparisons, and current spot prices for bin samples and export loads.
Butter receipts for the month total 37 181 pkgs and 10 159 boxes versus last year 38 547 pkgs and 12 301 boxes with steady demand. Prices mostly 26 28c, outside creameries at 30c, few high quality creameries matching that level. Lemons of imitations and Western, Vermont and Eastern creameries show varied but mostly steady quotes, with Liverpool improving and New York, Chicago, Cincinnati, and Baltimore trade notes. Eggs, beans, and cheese markets show mixed activity with generally steady to quiet demand and slight price adjustments.
Receipts show 1526 barrels against 1410 last year and light six receipts with stocks sold up. Game and poultry demand steady with various prices for venison grouse quail and fowl. Hay and straw receipts for the month total 1118 cars hay and 120 cars straw with prices ranging for different grades and types.
Market report lists Marrow squash and turban gnssh at 60 per ton while Hubbard and avoy cabbage fetch 70 and 75 to 90 cents per barrel. Other items include onions 1 to 2 dollars per barrel, Bermuda onions 2 dollars per crate, cabbage 85 cents per barrel, radishes and turnips at various prices, lettuce 50 to 75 cents per bunch, and kale parsley and spinach offered with unit prices.
Hog receipts for Friday estimated at 25 000 with pork and lard quotes and district prices shown. Market remains steady with light changes in pork, lard, hams, and bacon. New York, Chicago, and Cincinnati notes included on pork, lard and beef futures and local trade activity for fresh meats and by products.
Cattle receipts at Kansas City 2320 with mixed butchers and stockers selling up to 3124 dollars. hog receipts 7933 with heavies at 435 to 445 and pigs around 430 to 437. sheep receipts 724 strong at 275 to 450. Chicago hogs 440 to 465 for mixed and heavy, 450 to 485 for pigs. cattle at Chicago steady with bees 3355, stockers 215 to 335, cows 175 to 310. St Louis hogs firm 450 to 465. Peoria hogs firmer 440 to 460. Cincinnati hogs 375 to 475 with receipts 2880 and shipments 1500.
The next steamer with bananas for Boston Fruit Company is due midweek. The steamer Effective carries 9600 Messina oranges 800 Messina lemons 12100 Palermo oranges and 5900 Palermo lemons and is due in Boston around March 10. The steamer Trinacria with 1000 Palermo oranges 300 Palermo lemons 1200 Messina oranges 2800 Catania oranges and 700 Catania lemons left Gibraltar Feb 22 and is due March 7 at this port.
Apple prices remain flat with scarce fancy lots and steady Boston and Liverpool quotes. Oranges and lemons market is well supplied with steady prices. Messina, Palermo, Valencia and Florida fruit lots listed with practical box and case figures.
H Harris & Co auctioned Palermo lemons at 85 cents per half box and 60 cents per case, Palermo oranges at 70 cents and 4.35 per box, Messina lemons 87 and 44 cents with high value items, Valencia oranges 2.95 to 3.75 per case by size. Snow & Co to auction Friday at 1 pm with 621 cases Valencia oranges 200 cases held eggs and 26 half-bbls pickles.
Sugar and molasses receipts for the past month show 17 706 bbls 2 hhds 100 boxes 96 643 bags and 21 667 mats versus last year totals. refined sugars are firm with various prices for Cuban Manila Java and confectioners’ grades. Molasses receipts of 2738 bbls 474 hhds 269 tierces and 743 puncheons are steady. prices for Fancy Ponce Porto Rico Porto Rico New Orleans and other grades are listed, with New York trade described as dull at steady prices.
New York cotton steadies at 103 16 for middling uplands and 9 4 for low middling with 231 bales sold. Futures opened quiet and closed firm. Liverpool spot quiet with 55d middling uplands and 67 16d low middlings. U S and world market reports show mixed receipts, stocks, and prices across multiple ports.
Tallow and turpentine markets show quiet steady and weak conditions. New York reports weak sales and firm Rio coffee with Chicago Cincinnati and St Louis whiskey at 103 dollars.
A dated inventory lists shipments and receipts for multiple railroads including Boston & Albany, Grand Junction, Boston & Providence, Old Colony, New York & New England, Fitchburg, and Boston & Maine. The long record shows volumes of cotton, wool, flour, corn, oats, barley, feed, lard, butter, eggs, tea, coffee, leather, and various bales and boxes across February 28, 1889.
A detailed list of goods imported and exported via Halifax Nova Scotia and Liverpool England including salmon fish biscuits tea apples wood pulp sugar firearms notables like Carlton Seaman and Delong with Seaman, and shipments of oranges bleaching powders and machinery. Bales of wool and salt loads appear alongside vessels Steamer Carroll and Steamer Halifax with numerous mercantile firms and consignees.
A condensed ship cargo list from Hull and Halifax detailing exports to various ports. Hull via New York on the Buffalo includes machinery leather cages rubber goods paint brass lamps salted skins waste lard and personal effects. Halifax reports the C W Redmond carry flour kerosene turpentine walnut linens and more. Martinique via Camden lists herring fish lobsters beef mackerel parlor organ bacon and other goods. Liverpool shipment on the Roman contains pork beef tongues nuts apples cheese butter and various cargo items including lard and hardware components.
Foreign markets report wheat quiet but firm and corn steady with cargoes sold and awaiting sales. Paris and Antwerp show firm prices. Liverpool breadstuffs list steady to firm with pork and lard stable. Mixed American corn for August priced at 88 ll%gd, various wheat futures quoted.
Boston and New England lines publish winter timetable corrections with daily departures from Boston to Ashcroft Baltimore Blackstone Danbury Dorchester Endicott Fishkill Manchester Mattapan Milford New York Philadelphia Providence and more. Sunday and Woon socket divisions listed with departures and returns, plus express trains to New York via Air Line and Norwich Line connections.
February 4 1889 timetable lists local and through service between stations. Trains from Boston to Albany Syracuse Rochester Buffalo Detroit Chicago via Michigan Central and Lake Shore routes. Sleeping and drawing room cars are noted with connections to Hartford New Haven and New York.
SPECIAL NOTICE passengers holding tickets via Fall River Line Shore Line and Stonington Line must not have baggage checked from hotel or residence in Boston to destination. Orders to call for baggage may be left at No 3 Old State.
A dense OCR of suburban to Boston area train times lists departures for Ashmont, Braintree, Bridgewater, Cohasset, Hingham, East Weymouth, Weymouth, Fall River, Nantasket routes, with varied weekday and Sunday slots. It notes multiple through lines, via Brockton Taunton and Taunton connections, plus special annotations for Fridays and Tuesdays.
The schedule lists town names including Barnstable Bourne Brewster Chatham Cottage City Fairhaven Harwich Hyannis Nantucket Provincetown and Wellfleet with daily or weekday service times. Timings mainly show 8 15 am and 4 15 pm windows, with special notes for Mondays Tuesdays Thursdays Saturdays for Nantucket and occasional variations.
The timetable lists trains from Providence Division via St Helena to New York Shore Line with varied departure times, plus numerous intermediate stops including Attleboro Canton Junction Dedham Hyde Park and Taunton. It notes Sunday patterns and references alternate lines and divisions for extra trains.
Ten dividends of two dollars per share will be paid at the treasurer's office located at 50 State St, Room 81, starting March 11. Henry F Spencer serves as treasurer.
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