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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1891
Page
7
The wholesale dry goods market reports light jobber stocks with steady distribution and active demand for specialties. Cotton goods prices hold, exports steady with 34,653 packages valued at $1,848,099 shipped since January, and prints and ginghams in demand while print cloths weaken.
Daily receipts, elevator stocks, and visible grain supply detailed for March 2 1891 with figures for malt, hops, No 2 white oats and rail lines. Chicago and Minneapolis markets show futures, prices, and export clearances alongside car inspections and weather effects on winter wheat belt crops.
The report shows flour demand improving slightly but still limited to immediate-use lots. Prices range for fine to patent flour from Minnesota and Wisconsin brands, with export grades quoted FOB. Rye flour and cornmeal markets are steadier, with bag meal around $1 3 1/32 and barrel meal $2 76 2 80 per barrel. Oatmeal prices hold near $6 45 6 76 for cut and rolled, and $6 6 25 per barrel for ground.
Receipts for 1890 show hogs at 10 to 11 cents for choice lamb and mutton firm with 9 to 14 cents for choice veal. Pork and smoked meats steady but quiet. lard prices changed with quiet demand. New York tallow steady at 41 1 16 cents. Chicago markets firmer and close steady. Hog run moderate with improved outside buying.
Kansas City cattle to 10 cents higher with steers at 4 5, cows 2 to 3, bulls 1 75 to 3, hogs 3 30 to 3 69, porkers 3 15 to 8 40. St Louis hogs up 10 cents, Yorks 3 50 to 3 60, Peoria hogs 32 355, Cincinnati hogs 3 25 to 3 80, Chicago cattle 5 5 40, hogs 3 40 to 3 75, sheep 4 50 to 6 10. receipts listed for several markets including 11 000 cattle and 30 000 hogs in Chicago.
The butter market remains strong but receipts hold up. Prices span 22 to 34 cents for various creamery grades with Western and New York markets firm. eggs and poultry show quiet improvements, beans and potatoes steady amid moderate demand. hay and straw prices ease slightly while frozen stock stays strong.
Moderate demand keeps truck traffic steady as prices for spinach, cabbage, onions, kale, carrots and beets are given. Notable quotes include native spinach at 50 cents bush and Valencia onions at 375 per case. Southern cabbage 225 per barrel and Ohio onions 4 dollars per barrel feature among items.
Readable items show pricing for Andrews yellows and other vegetables. Listings include bbl and bush box prices for cabbages, cucumbers, celery, cauliflower, leeks, and hot bed dandelions. Florida string beans sell at 2.50 per crate.
Receipts for Florida fruit totaled 2335 pkgs versus 2919 pkgs last year with fair demand. Prices quoted include Bright and Russets at 2 50 per 3 P box, Tala mandarins at 4 per box, Navel oranges 3 per box, and grapefruit 3 75 per box. Mediterranean fruit trade steady with Palermo lemons 2 toe 75 per box and Messina oranges 2 3 26 box. Apple prices listed across several varieties, cranberries quiet, Almeria grapes no bbls, and assorted nuts and dried fruits detailed. Strawberries in limited Florida trade at 40 50c per quart.
The steamer Effective arrives with 5500 boxes and 1600 half boxes Messina oranges and 3300 boxes Palermo lemons. The steamer Prior passed Gibraltar Feb 19 for Boston with 2300 boxes and 600 half boxes Messine oranges and 1500 boxes Messina emons. The steamer Efficient sailed from Palermo Feb 24 for Boston with 13750 boxes oranges and 10750 boxes lemons. The Savannah steamer due today has 6230 boxes Florida oranges. The steamer Ethelred is due next Thursday with Jamaica bananas to the Boston Fruit Company.
Messrs. H. Harris & Co. sold fruit with Florida oranges at 1 3 30 per box, Navels at 1 8742 3 25 per box, tangerines 1 3742 2 00 per half box, mandelins 1 256 per half box, grapefruit 1 3742 2 62 and 5 50 per barrel.
Sugar refiners show strength with steady demand and unchanged prices including American Sugar Refining and Revere quotes for granulated and refined grades. Raw sugar remains steady while molasses in New Orleans shows moderate demand and mixed foreign grades. Receipts tally at 1160 hhds as markets list multiple regional prices in cents per pound and gallon ranges.
The New York spot market held at 8 15 16 cents for middling uplands with 404 bales sold and total stock at 135,662. Futures opened and closed steady with a large sale of 109,000 bales reported. The Liverpool market eased with 7,000 bales traded and American deliveries at 5,100.
Fall River reports a steady print cloth market with moderate demand. Prices posted include 3c for 64x64s and 29-16 25sc for 60x56s.
The report notes the Peoria whiskey market holding at $115 while Cincinnati and St Louis markets stay firm at $114. Distillers maintain stable pricing across three key hubs.
Turpentine quoted at 40 percent while resin goes to 145 dollars 150 cents and tar at 2 dollars 60 cents. Petroleum closes at 7.10 cents with KS W at 7.50 cents and cases at 9.65 cents.
The New York iron market remained quiet with copper and lead showing nominal activity. Domestic lead quoted at 4.30 cents, tin dull at 19.80 cents, tin plates steady, and spelter holding firm in a calm trading day.
Havana reports a late Saturday sale of 11 000 bags centrifugal sugar by a sugar firm. Details on price or buyer are not provided in the fragmented note.
Report notes 96 to 96 percent polarization and 3.26 gold per quintal as figures referenced in the brief.
Cargoes off the coast show wheat firm and corn steady while on passage wheat is firm and corn steadier. Mark Lane reports English and foreign wheat firm with American and Danubian corn firmer. flour and country markets firm. Liverpool spot wheat very firm, corn steadier. Futures for wheat and corn rise with March California wheat at 78 10 4d and April 7s 11d.
Shipping list details cargoes from Antwerp Hamburg London Palermo Yarmouth NS Progreso and Buenos Aires aboard multiple steamers and vessels. Items include window glass wine cement coffee sugar wool hemp leather silk ore and numerous crates bales cases and boxes with company names such as Baring Bros Co J B Moors Co E A Adams Co and Phelps Bros & Co.
Fragmentary 1891 freight list mentions Norfolk steamer service and mixed cargo items including bales heads shooks and various boxes plus bedding and farm goods. Details are incomplete with many garbled words and quantities.
England leads shipments into Boston port for the week ended February 27 1891 with goods and commodities arriving from the United Kingdom and related markets. Details cover various imports and trading activity shaping 1891 regional commerce.
A Winchester and Lincoln field trip describes blustery winter scenery along Mystic Pond and Mount Pisgah ledges. The writer notes crow, hawk and blue jay sightings, Creepers and Chickadees in mutual signaling, a fox track near Kendal Green, and a flock of Bluebirds in a sunny riparian cutting.
The organizers promise first chance at tickets at fixed rates, with rates higher than now but stable. The course will be resurveyed and marked, and other agreements aim to insure better races and improved accommodations for reporters and spectators.
Representatives of Harvard and Yale Colleges agreed to conduct the next five intercollegiate races on the Thames River at New London as in the past. After a conference with the local Board of Trade a fair disposition was shown. Two thirds of the observation train will be controlled by the two crews with undergraduates and alumni of the colleges involved.
The Rev Dr Phil lips Brooks addressed a large audience at St Pauls Church at noon, urging a life devoted to religion as true freedom. He said true liberty comes through service to others, citing Jesus and the cross as the symbol of faith, and he urged listeners to live unselfishly for the city and for humanity.
The brigantine Louisa Corpel of Yarmouth lost both masts during a February gale east of the Bahamas. The crew of seven were rescued by the Norwegian bark Galathea and landed in Boston yesterday. Captain Parry of Coipel recounts the disaster and thanks Galathea’s crew for saving them.
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