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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1887
Page
7
Trade notes show prices for Cape Cod goods with fair to good quality at 10 to 11 dollars per barrel. Country dark varieties quoted at 7 to 9 dollars per barrel. Also listed are Jersey crates priced at 3 dollars.
The pork market remains firm with good demand at advance prices. Fresh beef also shows firmness and fair trade, while other fresh meats are unchanged. The winter packing season ended with totals by region and year comparisons, and week marketing is more active for hogs with western packing at 140,000 versus 110,000 last year.
The weekly imports into continental ports reach 60 000 bales. Cotton in sight rises by 15 215 bales versus 1886 and 229 951 bales versus 1885, with a 204 927 bale drop versus 1884. Pipeline certificates and oil prices noted, refined oil 6 1 2 percent per gallon. Sugar prices firm with varying grades and confections. Molasses prices steady for cargo lots including Porto Rico and Cuba varieties.
New York reports a firm cotton market with sales of 486 bales. Upland grades show ordinary at 6 15 16 to 6 1 6 cents, good ordinary 8 5 16 cents, low middling 9 3 16 cents, middling 9 14 16 cents. Orleans ordinary 7 1 16 cents, good ordinary on offer.
Market notes from multiple cities show mixed gains and steady to higher prices. Wheat rises in Cincinnati and Chicago while corn and oats firm, flour costs hold, and inland receipts reach tens of thousands of bushels. Prices for pork, lard, and bacon show strength in St Louis and Chicago with solid demand.
Market notes from St Louis Peoria Kansas City Chicago show hogs higher with mixed packers up to 6 75 to 6 90. cattle steady to higher for shipping steers 3 50 to 6 60 and calves. Receipts listed for each city with totals. sheep steady with natives and Western lambs priced.
Fall River reports weekly cloth production 175000 pieces deliveries 176000 stock 64000 sales 106000 spot 63000 and future 43000 with prices 5 percent. Market dull and steady. Providence market weaker prices down 1/16 to 35s for 64s and 56x60s 1/2. Weekly sales total 26000 pieces with multiple lots detailed and stocks 47000 64s and 1400 66x60s.
Net receipts and gross values show mixed activity in Augusta Galveston New Orleans Mobile Memphis Savannah Charleston Wilmington Norfolk Philadelphia Baltimore New York Cincinnati St Louis and Louisville. Exports to Great Britain and to the continent feature in several ports with overall firm to very firm tone and sizable stocks across the United States ports.
London markets show wheat prices rising on shipments while corn remains firm as Paris and Liverpool note steady or firm prices. California wheat quoted at 34s nearly due, with March options at 7s 8d to 7s 10d. Havana sugar demand weak but improves late. prices steady to higher for various lines as trade adjusts to abroad news.
A Havana and Matanzas warehouse shows 200 395,000 bags and 7500 hhds on hand. Receipts include 1350 boxes, 81,000 bags and 2000 hhds. Exports for the week total 599 boxes, 6000 bags and 1300 hhds, with 28,000 bags and B53 hhds sent to the United States.
A lengthy 1887 Liverpool report lists shipments of hide cuttings, flax, pig iron, tin plates, woollens, glassware, earthenware, textiles, machinery, and foodstuffs from multiple firms. Names include Baring Bros & Co, Washburn Moon, Phelps Dodge, J B Moors, Shepard Norwell, Jordan Marsh, and others with quantities and varieties spanning steel, indigo, paper stock, sugar, and oranges. The document notes cargoes arriving by sea and by express, detailing ships and consignors.
The list records shipments dated March 5 1887 from Halifax Nova Scotia with cargoes including flour cornmeal hardware piping leather and tobacco. Cardenas Cuba and Surinam DG also report vessels carrying molasses salmon beef and flour among other goods. Ships Latona Bonhomie and Mareca-D are noted with their cargoes and destinations Antwerp via Baltimore.
A lengthy ledger lists March 5 1835 receipts for Boston and Albany Boston Maine and others showing cotton wool flour corn oats wheat malt millfeed pork lard sugar butter oleo eggs leather hides and more across Grand Junction Providence Old Colony New York and New England Fitchburg and Boston and Lowell lines with bales bbls sacks cases cars and tubs recorded.
Birmingham Alabama to Canton Ohio and many cities listed show boot and shoe buyers visiting from firms such as Rich Pa Canton O J D Frank Am Cincinnati O W HH Laws of WH H Laws Co A C McLaughlin Selz Schwab Yo Cincinnati O George M Daum J H Laws Co Am Charleston S C M C O Neill D O Neill & Sona Craw Des Moines W B Bentley Lancaster Penn A W Shaub Shaub & Bro Craw Massillon O D T Frank Pa Norfolk Va G R Whitehurst Poe O J S Rodgers Dewey Rogers Wabash Ind E J Bechtel USA
Boston and Maine announces January 1 1887 through train services on both divisions with schedules from Haymarket and Causeway Street stations. Key routes include Augusta Bangor Portland Halifax St John and Manchester North Conway Lewiston and Portland connections with multiple daily departures and steamship links from Portland.
Trains depart Boston Haymarket for Alton BRay Rochester Farmington Andover and many other termini with varied times listed for weekdays and Sunday services. The dense timetable includes Boston area connections to Haverhill Lawrence Newburyport Medford and more with multiple daily departures and late evening trains.
Train schedule lists departures from Boston station at Causeway Street to Amesbury and numerous surrounding stops including Beverly Chelsea Dover Everett Salem Lynn Newburyport and others with various times across weekday and Sunday runs. Fares and service notes reference Pullman cars on Portland and Bangor trains and officials James T. Furber and D. J. Flanders as general managers and agents.
Through service from Boston on Causeway Street with long list of connections to Pilton Laconia Lake Village and more Train times include 5 30 am 7 pm and 5 50 am with various branches and local stops along White Mountain and Northern divisions Parlor cars to Bilont MontreAl and sleeper cars to MontreAl via Central Vermont and Passumpsie railways Official notices list stations Mansfield College and various agents Mellene and Storer with timetable details for local and through trains including Sundays and holidays
Timetables listing weekday departures from Boston to New York via Fall River Line with returns, plus services to Ashmont Hyannis Braintree Marshfield Wareham Cohasset South Weymouth Nantucket and more. Includes note on boat connections and variants by day and destination.
The notice outlines daily and Sunday train times for multiple branches including New Work Shore Line Fast Express, Shore Line Mail, and Steamboat Stonington Line with departures from Boston and arrivals at Providence and other towns. It specifies starting Monday February 28 1887 and lists numerous departure and return times across towns such as Pawtucket Attleboro Mansfield East Foxboro Dedham Roxbury Stoughton Canton and more with occasional weekend adjustments and detentions dependent on the Shore Line connection.
Geo W Storer assistant general passenger agent and C B Mellen general superintendent announce seasonal train schedules starting Monday February 21 1887. Trains depart Beaton for Jefferson Way Stations Hudson Rockbottom South Sudbury Wayland Weston Belmont Waverley and Waltham with morning and afternoon runs including express services and Sunday timings.
Rail timetable lists departures from Boston South Station Gleay Street to Troy Albany and the West. Daily Chicago and St. Louis sleeping cars, express and local trains with numerous stopping points and through tickets via Hoosac Tunnel Route. Through ticket office at 250 Washington Street Boston. Gens: John Adams J Whitemore J R Watson.
Local time tables show all divisions’ times for Boston and Albany line. Tickets to Springfield, Pittsfield, Albany and the West available at stations and 232 Washington Street Boston. Through and sleeping car services listed with departures from Boston and connections to New York, Springfield, Worcester, Marlboro, Framingham, and more. Details include Sunday and return schedules for Newton Lower Falls, Newton Highlands, Brookline, and East of Worcester.
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