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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1891
Page
7
Boots and shoes demand grows slowly amid buyer caution as leather markets stay firm. Rough and finished leathers hold steady with firm prices while belt knife splits, calfskins, and gloveware see steady demand. grain and beef hides show cautious shifts.
The Grain Trade reports receipts today across cotton seed meal corn wheat oats millet barley hops peas and more with total 49 cars inspected including 7 wheat 22 corn and 18 oats. Chicago markets show weak opening then firm close on government data and strong outside buying. Minneapolis and St Louis prices rise with oats and corn firmer. steam yellow corn sells at 74 to 76 cents per bushel and No 3 white oats around 60 to 66 cents per bushel.
Hides for Buenos Ayres and Montevideo hold at 13440 with sparse demand. New York sold around 18,000 Buenos Ayres hides near 13 1/2c but price not disclosed. Domestic hides weak with brokers offering Ohio by at 7c as Chicago cools. leather outlook remains flat. Rubber demand fair yet inactive, buyers limited to near term needs. Para prices rise to 38 at Island fine, with exchange around 182d. Various rubber grades priced from 35c to 95c depending on origin and quality.
The week brought poor weather and weak demand for horses in the city market. Over fifty carloads of Western stock arrived, with common grades selling low while drivers and heavy draft horses held steadier value. Multiple auctions and dealers reported varied results, including high prices for select Maine stock and private sales of elite pairings, amid broadly softer activity.
The report notes rye trading quietly with bids around 50b and 95 to 98 cents for various six and two rowed grades. Millfeed remains steady with sack spring bran at 24 to 25 dollars and winter at 24 75. Middlings run 23 to 26 per ton, cottonseed meal steady at 25 50 to 25 76 ton to arrive and 26 5 on spot. rye feed at 24 per ton.
Receipts listed with scattered figures show flour demand firm and prices strong. Quoted prices include fine to patent flours from $3 425 to $5 75 and Canadian imports at $4 25 to $5 60 per quantity. Meal and oatmeal markets also firm with bag and barrel price ranges noted.
Receipts list various pork products and lard figures with steady pork prices and fair demand for fresh beef. Lambs remain steady, mutton and veal trade muted with slight declines, while the New York tallow market and Chicago provisions trend higher on day.
Kansas City and St Louis hog markets opened firmer with prices fluctuating in the 3 30 to 3 60 range for various packer and feeder categories. Cattle receipts in Chicago at 13 000 show natives weak at 3 95 to 4 55 while hogs move higher with prime weights around 3 65 to 3 80 and mixed lots near 3 50 to 3 60. sheep receipts reach 14 000 with prices around 5 65 to 6 10 for western and Texas lambs.
The report outlines firm butter and cheese markets with light stocks and steady pricing across Eastern, Western, and international markets. It lists prices for butter, cheese, eggs, poultry, beans, potatoes, sweet potatoes, and hay, noting regional firming in New York and Baltimore, buoyant St. Albans, and mixed activity in Liverpool and London cables.
A dense OCR style ledger of produce prices including spinach 50c bush, Southern $150 2 bbl Beather cabbage 2 225 P bbl kale $1 Pb native onions $4 75 65 bbl Vilencie onions $3 75 case Southern 3c P bunch Denia onions $1 P crate Ohio onions $450. Lettuce oz turnips Andrews yellows $1 bbl White Cape Cape $125 150 per parsley $1752 bush turban squash $250 Abbl marrow squash $560 bbl native Hubbard $30 35 P ton Western Hubbard $50 ton radishes long 400% dog round 40 60c P doz arsnips bush box cabbage $1 red $2 bb avoy cabbage $1 bbl 3 cucumbers hot house 10 15c Sans native foley Sf box cauliflower $150% doz leek 76c Florida string beans crate ok green peas 850 4 Hot-bed dandelions $150 bush Native beet greens $150 P bush North Carolina asparagus $5 6 P doz
The report notes 5823 pigs in receipts versus none last year and steady Florida orange prices with fair demand. Fancy oranges are scarce. Prices quoted include Brights 250 3 25 P box Russets 250 3 P box fancy 84 5 P box tangerines 5 6 PP box 2 250 half box mandarins 4 box and 2 275 half-box Navel oranges are
The piece details current prices and trade levels for citrus and fruit items including grapes, lemons, Palermo oranges, Messina cranes, Staasie oranges, apples, cranberries, Cape Cod cranberries, and coconuts. It notes receipts for apples and cranberries, regional demand in Maine and New Hampshire, and general market firmness with varying counts and box prices.
The steamer Efficient passed Gibraltar March 2 for Boston with 18780 boxes oranges and 10750 boxes lemons. The steamer James Turpie sailed from Palermo March 4 with 16000 boxes Palermo oranges and 8000 boxes lemons for Boston due March 17. The steamer Ethelwold arrived with Jamaica bananas for Boston. Andrea Lovico sailed from Palermo Jan 21 with 7000 boxes Palermo oranges and 3400 boxes lemons for Boston. The steamer Bowden due March 13 with jamaica bananas for Boston. The Norfolk boat due Friday has 1500 bags peanuts and 1600 pkgs truck.
On the steamer Ethelwold yesterday bananas sold in lots labeled Golden Vails with prices listed: 2 bunches at 180 dollars? 8 hands at 120 dollars, No 2s at 80 cents, No 3s at 45 cents.
Commodities report shows steady to firm tone in Liverpool and U S spot markets for middling uplands. Prices and futures form noted with sales totals, receipts, and stocks, highlighting American origin shares and regional quotes across Galveston New Orleans Savannah and other ports.
At Antwerp on March 11 a fair at tendance accompanied wool sales of 1800 bales. Prices for Buenos Ayres offerings reached 185 francs per 100 kilos for 647 bales and Montevideo sold 446 bales at 105225 francs, with antevideo wools 15 centimes below January levels.
Market notes show sugar refined and raw prices largely unchanged amid light demand. Reports from 1890 indicate refined sugar distribution by Trust and non trust, with daily refinery output around 22,748 bbls for the Trust and 10,845 bbls for non trust, plus dividend activity and New Orleans molasses at moderate demand.
Market notes from LF Prescott & Co at 64 Devonshire Street show closing activity for pipe line certificates and cotton seed oil certificates with mixed movement. Falls in print cloths noted in Fall River with 60,000 pieces sold at a discount. Havana sugar market reports centrifugal sales and prices in old per quintal. Whiskey market in Peoria remains firm.
Market bulletin records firmer quotes at $115 in Cincinnati and St Louis. Turpentine in New York quoted at 41 4 1 4 percent with resin at 1 55 160 and tar at 2. Petroleum closed at 7.10 cents with KSW at 7.35 and cases at 9.50 cents.
London reports quiet cargoes and firm wheat with strong American corn on the passage. Liverpool notes steady corn and firmer cheese, with varied wheat prices and pork and lard steadiness. Manchester's Guardian commercial view cites shrinking inquiry, impractical orders, modest yarn demand, and cautious optimism from South American traders.
For the week ending March 14, 1880, the Watertown market reports live stock totals, cattle, calves, sheep, and hog prices. Western cattle led demand with high prices while export cattle shipments to Liverpool and Glasgow rise. arrivals at Watertown and Brighton yards show larger cattle and sheep runs from Maine New York and Vermont. prices vary by grade with calves and milch cows in moderate demand and a sizable cattle export trade noted.
Stockyard scene details from Watertown and Brighton describing hogs cattle sheep and calves with prices per hundredweight and per head. Includes buyers like Ward Kidwell Breck and Monroe, yard totals 3453 cattle and 6924 sheep and lambs, prices 4 to 7 cents per pound and $38 to $50 for calves, and notes on demand and market direction.
Shipping list details extensive imports and exports dated March 11 1891. Fayal Azorkes Brig Carib carries pine and spruce lumber. Pavonia steamer clears March 6 with a large cargo including oxide paste books wax silk goods meat and textiles. Port Antonio and Boston Fruit Co consignments list bananas melons cucumbers tomatoes coconuts pumpkins and other produce aboard the Ethelwold and Ethelwold arrived at Jamaica trade port with numerous crates and bunches.
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