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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1891
Page
7
The week shows firmer prices for corn and oats and firmer meat and butter, while cheese eggs and sugar hold. Lumber demand remains fair with many buyers on the market. spruce mills report strong orders, steady prices, and cautious buyers. Cargo lumber and boards show modest activity with several price points for random and cargo lots.
The report notes a firm market with limited stock of clapboards. Prices quoted include clears and extras for spruce and pine, with extras around 33 to 35 dollars and clears near 33 to 34 dollars. Shingle prices are firmer, with reported extras at 3 to 3.50 and clears at about 2.75 to 3 dollars. second clears range 2.20 to 2.40, and extra No 1 around 3.40.
Market notes show firm to rising beef and veal prices, with modest demand for choice mutton and steady veal. Chicago provisions strengthened while hog futures softened, exports of lard and bacon ample. Regional cattle and hog quotes vary. Kansas City and St Louis reports indicate steady to strong cattle, mixed hog trends, and steady to higher sheep prices amid brisk receipts.
Butter and cheese markets remain firm with limited supply. Western creamery and Northern creamery extras rise to 28 34c, while New York and Chicago prices stay firm. egg and poultry markets show steady or cautious demand, with fresh killed stock prices holding and frozen stock weaker. Potatoes, beans, and hay keep prices steady to easier amid ample offerings.
A list of quoted prices for vegetables and produce including spinach at 60 cents, cabbage and Savoy cabbage at 1 dollar per barrel, onions in several varieties from Mexico to Valencia, kale and lettuce prices, carrots at 75 cents per bush, radishes, beans, squash, asparagus and other items with varied units and regional names, reflecting a fair quota based buying market.
Florida fruit receipts show 817 packages vs 2314 last year with steady demand. Prices for Bright oranges and various citrus vary by box size. Valencia and Palermo offerings listed. Apples receipts 384 barrels with firm prices. Cranberries modest. Nuts and dried fruits priced per standard boxes and counts. Florida strawberries sold in trade lots at 15 to 25 cents per quart.
The steamer Efficient arrived with 13 750 boxes oranges and 10 750 boxes lemons for Boston due March 17. The steamer James Turpie sailed from Palermo March 4 with 16 000 boxes Palermo oranges and 8 000 boxes lemons for Boston due March 26. The steamer Ethelwold due next Thursday with Jamaica bananas for the Boston Fruit Company. The Andrea Lovico sailed from Palermo Jan 21 with 7 000 boxes Palermo oranges and 8 400 boxes lemons for Boston. The steamer Bowden due here on the 13th with Jamaica bananas for the Boston Fruit Company. The Savannah boat due here today has 5 320 boxes Florida oranges.
Masars H Harris and Company sold fruit with Florida oranges priced at 1 50 per box, savele at 26 3 3744 per box, Langarlien at 2 62 per box, mandelines at 2 1244 per half box, and ate fruit at 2 37 4 2 6244 per box.
The New York spot cotton market remained quiet at 814-16 cents for middling uplands. Sales totaled 194 bales while outstanding stock stood at 147,188 bales. Futures opened easy and d.
Market activity shows sales of 64 200 bales with futures quiet and varied bids. Liverpool spot quotes ease at 43 18 for uplands while regional markets report mixed tones with Memphis and New Orleans steady to easy and several months from March to August showing narrow ranges. Consolidated receipts total 774 bales with exports to Britain and the Continent substantial.
Antwerp on March 10 notes 2450 bales offered with good attendance. Trade was moderate as prices fell about 6 percent from January. The present series closes Friday. Orient consignments include Buenos Ayres 892 bales at 75 155 francs per 100 kilos, Entre Rios 137 bales at 105 210 francs, Australian 85 bales at 150 825 francs.
Refined sugar stays unchanged as market remains firm and demand fair. Prices for American Sugar Refining Ge Company's products listed for cut leaf, crushed, granulated, and fine forms with various per pound quotes. London beet sugar steady with March April quotes, and Puerto Rico and foreign markets show mixed activity. Print cloth and Havana sugar sectors noted as steady or quiet with securities and petroleum markets listed.
London and Liverpool market notes from March 10 show wheat and corn firm in places but not actively traded. Wheat quiet at Mark Lane, English markets quiet while French markets trend upward. Liverpool receipts 149,000 cwt with 39,000 American. prices steady to firmer across winter and spring wheats, California averages higher, mixed American corn firmer. Provisions follow with pork steady, bacon higher, lard up, cheese firmer.
Crude shipments and charter data for March 1890 to March 1391 show line certificate activity with closing times listed at 3 pm on March 9 and 10. Financial figures include multiple totals and per gallon rates, alongside cotton seed oil certificate openings and closings.
Wood and Bidwell sold 100 sheep at an average five dollars and four cents per head, with a 5 4?6c margin. H Bandwell sold lambs at six and a half cents. F S Kimbalis offered yearlings around seventy pounds at about six dollars and forty cents. P Breok also sold lambs and yearlings averaging about sixty nine shillings.
A dense OCR led list of imports and exports dated March 10 1801 spanning London Liverpool Demerara Ponce Fort Liberty Yarmouth NS Glasgow and Carlsbad. It records steamer cargoes including cocoa butter casks cement wool tea and sugar and varied goods from many firms such as Baring Bros Co Lovet Downer and Morgan Davis Co. Also notes a Carlsbad Spruce Salt ad for a medicinal import with Eisner and Mendelson Co. as sole agents.
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