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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1889
Page
7
Market reports show steady to firm bids for steamer and corn products, with New York and Milwaukee receipts and exports varying. Wheat and oats fluctuate: New York and Chicago quotes rise while Detroit and St Louis show mixed activity, and rye and barley hold quiet or steady levels.
Wholesale butter supplies are limited with steady prices and firm export demand. Cremeries show varied quotes from 18 29c with outside values for top lots. northern and western grades range 15 29c with odds of slight concessions. Egg and cheese markets also hold steady while beans trade at firmer, higher figures.
Grain and seed prices steady with wide regional quotes for timothy clover and red top. Potatoes remain tight for Houlton Hebrons while Burbanks dull. sweet potatoes steady. game and poultry markets show mixed demand and varied prices across regions.
Trade notes show a steady market with numerous produce items priced per ton, barrel, crate, or bush. Included are squash, cabbage, onions, beets, carrots, lettuce, turnips, radishes, celery, spinach, kale, parsley, and a Norfolk boat due Friday carrying 450 packages.
Chicago traders opened strong with local shorts buying, then long pork and other sellers pressed the market lower toward the close. Cudahy Singer Wright and others liquidated pork and ribs while Armour and Cudahy sold from the opening. The report notes an expected bulge in hogs and lower prices ahead. Prices for pork cuts and lard show varied quotes across March to July futures and regional points including New York and St Louis.
Stock Yards Kansas City receipts 2194 slow market. hogs 7330 firm and active with heavies 452 472. Pigs and mixed options around 34 3242 4 57. Sheep steady at 3 25 4 30. Peoria hogs firmer 450 475. St Louis hogs firmer 450 470 to 470 4 8744. Cincinnati hogs active steady 4 485. Chicago cattle receipts 9500. cattle strong, steer 304, beves 425 440. Hogs 16500 receipts opened higher then closed lower. mixed 460 480, heavy 455 485, light 460 485. Sheep receipts 9500, natives 326 500, Western cornfed 435 475. L imo, laibs 4906 20.
The steamer Aguan delivers bananas for Boston Fruit Company with No 1s at 140 dollars per 8 hands and No 2s at 75 cents. Apples show better demand for choice lots but no market improvement. Various citrus and berries quotes follow, with Messina lemons at 243 25, Valencia oranges 350 400, Florida oranges choice 3 4 per box, cranberries scarce.
Trade is quiet with sales at 9 10 per barrel for choice and 5 8 for fair to good. case price 175 2 00. Grapes Almeria in small supply at 6 8. Dried apples demand quiet. evaporated fancy 6 7%2c good to choice 542 6c. sun dried 3 4c. Strawberries from last steamer sold at 40 75c per quart.
The Lorenzo D Baker is due March but with Jamaica fruits for the Boston Fruit Company. The Effective, through Gibraltar Feb 22, carries 9600 boxes Mesina oranges 800 boxes Messina lemons 12100 boxes Palermo oranges 5900 boxes Palermo lemons and is due Boston about March 10. Trinacria due March 18 after Gibraltar March 2 carries 1000 boxes Palermo oranges 300 boxes Palermo lemons 1200 boxes Messina oranges 2800 boxes Catania oranges 700 boxes Catania lemons and 4250 cases Valencia oranges. Wallachia now loading at Palermo for Boston. Edwin passed Gibraltar March 2 to Boston with 3050 cases Messina oranges 1800 boxes Messina lemons 11900 boxes Palermo lemons 12200 boxes Palermo oranges.
Harris & Co conducted an auction today selling Valencia oranges. Regulars brought 290 dollars plus a per hundred rate of 3 75, large grades fetched 3 40 per hundred, and extra large offered at 4 50 per 500 P case.
Sugar markets show firm refined prices with a quiet trade in raw sugars. Cuba and Manila consignments vary from fair to good quality with cent price ranges, while Havana demand rises and molasses stays strong. New York reports no notable changes in overall sugar markets.
New York cotton markets show middling uplands around 103-16c and low middling near 9.5c with steady futures opening and close. Liverpool spot steadies at 5 1 1 6d for middling uplands and 5 4 4d for low middlings as sales reach 15 000 bales.
The notices report certificates for pipe lines and cottonseed oil with closures and openings across March 6 and 7, 1889. Records show opening times at 10am and 3pm, with marked highs and lows on March 7, and overall status of closed items noted for March 6.
Market report notes quiet steady conditions with tallow prices in several regions and coffee, whiskey, turpentine and petroleum markets listed. New York tallow shows strength with city sales around 49 to 16 cents. coffee from New York to Rio firm at 19 cents. whiskey firm at $1.03 in Chicago and peers. turpentine and resin prices mixed with petroleum around 7.25 cents and related cases. sugar and syrup show moderate demand for old sugar tubs smallcakes at quoted cents.
Halifax NS reports on Steamer Carroll with 5 cases eggs Charles Conrad 100 boxes tin plates 8 boxes frozen eels 792 bales wood pulp. ILOILO lists Ruby 36925 mats sugar 5322 bales hemp. Jamaica steamer Action 211 bags coffee bananas. Guantanamo brig Echo 5067 bags sugar. Trade totals show multiple commodities moving through Halifax Iloilo Jamaica and Guantanamo with several firms named.
Export items listed for March 7, 1889 at Lockport and Liverpool Nova Scotia and Glasgow Scotland. Cargoes include brig Varuna with beef cornmeal lard and kerosene among others, schooner Ellen M Golder with molasses and hogsheads, bark Ella lumber and various goods, steamer Prussian with wheat peas and butter tubs, and Kingston Jamaica via New York with printing material and paper.
Record of March 7 1889 shipments listing cotton and wool bales flour barrels corn oats cottonseed meal malt feed grease bacon tallow butter eggs beans and related goods in transit. Includes quantities for bales, barrels, bush and cases with multiple products.
A long OCR list records freight across multiple railroads and transport modes. It details bales, boxes, casks, bbls, sides, and other units for commodities such as cotton, wool, lumber, leather, hogsheads, and butter, across Boston and Providence, Grand Junction, Old Colony, New York and New England, Fitchburg, Boston and Maine divisions, and other lines. It shows volumes by item and railroad, including cars of potatoes, hay, leather, lumber, and numerous baked, canned, and agricultural goods.
Market notes from London and Liverpool dated March 7 describe cargo movements and prices for wheat and corn. Wheat arrivals and sales are listed alongside steady or quiet quotations in Liverpool and Paris, with futures steady for wheat and mixed American corn. Prices for breadstuffs and provisions are given, including pork, bacon, lard, cheese, and tallow, with regional market tone described as quiet or firm.
A list of boot and shoe buyers across multiple cities led by L Krause in Allentown and J A Lawrence in Baltimore. The notes name numerous firms and representatives including Graham Jr in Louisville, Belknap in Cleveland, and Smith in Chicago, detailing a wide network of footwear merchants.
The 1889 timetable lists Boston and New England rail departures from Boston Station foot of Summer Street with frequent weekday trains to Axshcrott Dorchester Spencer and many points including New York Norwich and Willimantic. Sunday and Woonstown divisions note specific departures and returns with Boston Albany and Air Line routes.
Special notice instructs passengers with Fall River Line Shore Line and Stonington Line tickets that baggage will be checked from hotel or residence in Boston to their destination. Orders to call for baggage may be left at No 3 Old Station.
A dense OCR style timetable lists departures and stops across many towns including Ashmont Brockton Cohasset Quincy Rockland and Taunton with multiple daily times on weekdays Sundays and notes about via Taunton Brockton or Abington plus references to special services. The fragmentary record also mentions additional trains and Friday or Tuesday only services.
Disarrayed timetable lists bus times for Buzzards Bay Bourne Brewster Cataumet Chatham Cottage City Fairhaven Hyannis Harwich Monument Beach Mattapoisett Marion Nantucket Provincetown Sandwich Savamore South Yarmouth Tremont Wellfleet Woods Hole and others with 8.15 am and 4.15 pm patterns and various anomalies.
Providence Division lists frequent trains to New York Shore Line and many suburban stops including Attleboro Canton Junction Dedham Readville Roxbury Hyde Park Jamaica Plain and Mansfield with sixteen weekday and four Sunday trains and notes on Sundays service and connections. It also references Newport New London New Bedford Fall River and Newport via Fall River with additional trains to be found in Central Division timetables.
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