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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1891
Page
7
Hardwoods show moderate activity and stable values while weather affects buying. Lumber prices vary by grade with spruce and pine markets quiet to modest. cargo and car spruce quotes range from 13 50 to 16 dollars, boards and boxes mixed.
Fairford Rift Flooring praised as durable pine flooring with no slivers or splinters. Seaboard Lumber Co of Boston advertises for inquiries, noting steady demand in Southern pine and cypress lumber, ongoing orders from 100,000 to 260,000 feet, steady receipts of 543,000 feet, and various price quotes for floorings and timbers.
The report lists fragile Chicago and Minneapolis grain figures with detailed March June July price points for wheat, corn, oats, rye, barley, and millfeed. It notes firm Western markets, higher shipping prices, on track and delivered prices, and varying bids for No 1 hard and No 2 Northern wheat, with marginal changes in oats and corn and cautious demand signals across commodities.
The flour market remains moderate and steady with varied exports and futures. Prices range from 25 to 60 for different grades, with fine, extra, and patent lines listed. rye flour demand focuses on select patent lots, and cornmeal stays firm with bag and barrel meal sales noted. Oatmeal shows steady demand and pricing for cut, rolled, and ground forms.
The report lists receipts of pork, beef, lard, hams, bacon, and tallow with prices. Pork steady and in fair demand. smoked meats firm. lard quiet. Fresh beef dealers receive better prices for choice cuts while supplies stay light. Lambs steady at 10 11¢, mutton firm at 8 3 4 to 9 4 c, veal unchanged at 10 11 c. Chicago markets show stronger provisions early as hog stocks were below expectations and hogs were under estimates. some selling by longs as prices rose.
Stock and provisions stocks in Chicago shown for February and March 1891. Cattle and hog markets quoted at Kansas City and Chicago with receipts and shipments detailed. Prices range from steers to cows and feeders, hogs and sheep, reflecting steady to slightly higher tones across markets and active, varied demand.
The daily receipts feature firmer butter with Western creamery and New York extra pricing. Elgin creamery goods are strong, cheese steady, eggs quiet but firm, beans and peas steady, poultry active, and potatoes and hay markets mixed with moderate truck trade. Notable prices include Western creamery extras around 88 86c, New York creamery 27c, and various rose and potato quotations across New York, Vermont, and New England markets.
Florida fruits show receipts down from last year with steady trade and prices. Bright oranges at 3 box 250, tangerines 5 per 6 pack, navel oranges 3 26 per 4 pack, grapefruit 5 6 per barrel. Palermo lemons 2 75 per 8 box, Messina oranges 2 3 25 per box, Valencia oranges 3 50 4 714 per case. Apples receipts 363 boxes, high prices, King 6 56 6, Green 4 75, Baldwins 4 25, Hubbard 3 50, staples around 3 to 4.25. Cranberries quiet with Cane Cod 12 per bbl, Almeria grapes at 12 per bbl. Nuts quoted with Virginia nuts 3 5c, shelled 4 7c, walnuts 10 14c, almonds 14 14 30c, cocoanuts 30 36 per 1000. Strawberries: Florida berries 40 50c per quart.
The steamer Prior passed Gibraltar Feb 19 for Boston with 2300 boxes and 500 half boxes pacesian 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 arrived with 6230 boxes Florida oranges. The Ethelred is due next Thursday with Jamaica bananas for the Boston Fruit Company. The Savannah boat due today carries 6230 boxes oranges.
The New York spot cotton market shows dull activity at 8%c for middling uplands with stock at 138,563 bales. Futures opened steady and closed dull yet steady, with sales totaling 132,300 bales and prices fluctuating between approximate opening and closing levels though exact figures are partially garbled.
Market reports show selling pressure and varied quotes across ports. Closing prices ranged from quiet mid eights to steady elevated levels with 18 000 bales receipts and 56 4 bales exported to Great Britain, 39 517 moved to the Continent.
Fall River reports a quiet, steady print cloth market with moderate demand as manufacturers buy cotton due to low prices. Sugar prices remain strong with refined and raw grades listed, including American Sugar Refing Company rates for various forms and April delivery bonds. Molasses prices vary by origin with moderate demand in New Orleans and diverse foreign grades quoted.
CF W Prescott Co at 54 Devonshire Street notes closing times for pipe line certificates and oil market activity. Opening and closing times set for March 2 and 3 with prices and averages listed. Cotton seed oil certificates show Peorian market at 115, plus firm St Louis market at 11.
Turpentine quoted at 41440 with resin at 1.66 and tar at 260. Petroleum closes at 7.10 with K5 W at 7.600 and cases at 9.66.
London and Liverpool reports show wheat and corn firmer on passage with cargoes arriving and sold. At Mark Lane wheat quiet. English country markets firm while French markets are generally clearer. Liverpool spot wheat quiet but firm, corn steady. prices listed for winter and spring wheat, club wheat, and various corn grades. Weather described as windy in England. Provisions steady with pork, bacon, lard, tallow, and cheese priced. Receipts totaled 97,000 centals including 22,000 American. corn receipts 26,200 centals.
Data shows live stock values across sheep cattle and lambs swine with weekly totals and state breakdowns. Prices list beef ranges from 5 to 7 plus per hundredweight, cattle by quality, hog prices by age, sheep and veal calves priced per head, hides and tallow noted, with road-car counts and Western stock context.
Charlestown New Hampshire buyers attended as G D Hooper presented lambs averaging 115 percent of body weight, fatted on Hooper estate. Sixty five lambs weighed 6250 pounds. A W Farnham sold a small lot of sheep and lambs at 4 4. C P Breck sold 31 lambs average 80 pounds at 5 2. W W Bayley sold 200 sheep average 85 pounds at 54 40 percent.
A detailed ledger of imports recording Pavonia cargoes in Liverpool with 1054 bolls of wool bars and plates steel and various goods from Brown Bros Co and others. Items include wool bales machinery leather flax gloves mohair silk cottons wine and tin plates with numerous firms listed and quantities noted, totaling vast consignments for the era.
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