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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1887
Page
7
Listing of fresh beef and lamb prices with varied cuts and weights, plus a recap of the week’s exports by bacon pork and chains. Also notes regional export totals to New York Philadelphia Baltimore and other markets with weekly and cumulative figures through March 1886.
Butter is steady or unchanged across St Louis New York Philadelphia Chicago and Cincinnati with light supplies and fair to good demand in several regions. Cheese stays firm while eggs soften on large receipts. various regional bids and on call quotes appear, including Western and Eastern creamery prices and state factory figures.
Market notes show apples firm with unchanged prices and light cranberry supply. Jersey crates sell at 275 300 per crate while strawberries bring about 26 cents. Freight cargo on steamer Ruperra reported in New York with varied fruit values and Valencia oranges at 85 6 per box. The Chiarnia to ship in New York March 18 with detailed prices for apples nuts dried fruit and foreign fruits including Messina lemons and Malaga grapes.
In Liverpool, cotton futures opened and closed firm with varying March to September quotes ranging from 5 238-64d to 6 82-64d. The spot market opened active and hardening at 565-16 5 6d for middling uplands and Orleans. Sales totaled 15,000 bales with 10,000...
American receipts total 1200 bales. New York spot closes firm with middling uplands at 9 15 16c and low middling 9 9 16c. Futures open firm with mixed bids and asks for March through December. Market closes steady. Sugar, molasses, and refined oils quoted with firm prices and specific grades cited.
The report notes March 1 market action for flour and wheat across New York Milwaukee Cincinnati Toledo Chicago St Louis Detroit with receipts exports and varied price levels. Key figures include No 2 spring 2c, No 1 red 98 1/4c, No 2 red 91 1/4 91 1/4c, and Chicago No 2 spring 75 73 77 4c, with flour values around 2 0 to 8 10 per bbl and pork and lard activity changing across hubs.
Chicago reports lower hogs and cattle with slow trade and mixed lots. St Louis, Kansas City, and Peoria show varied hog prices and notable receipts and shipments as buyers adjust to market conditions. Cattle and sheep receipts expand with softer demand and mixed price levels across regional yards.
Augusta net receipts 230 gross 200 sales 26 steady. Galveston net receipts 335 gross 335 exports coastwise 2962 sales 579 stock 51012 firm mid 95 16 c e. New Orleans net receipts 4107 gross 4176 exports to continent 1829 sales 8000 stock 263957 firm mid 9 le c.
In London on March 17 prices for wheat remain quiet but steady while corn eases. Cargoes off the coast show two corn shipments awaiting sale and three wheat sold with more awaiting. Markets in Mark Lane and Paris stay firm. Liverpool reports wheat and corn easing with hard frost across England.
Corn, wheat and peas show dull demand with mixed Western corn at 4s 3d. Winter and spring wheats hold around 7s 3d to 7s 4d and 7s 9d. Pork and bacon prices steady, lard firmer, cheese and tallow steady. London, Liverpool, Antwerp notes reflect firm country markets and futures gains. sugar in Havana trend shows sales at high value.
A detailed ship cargo list from the Norseman entering Liverpool includes buffalo hides, indigo, sample goods, oranges, tin plates, steel blooms, machinery, beewax, paper stock, and varied mdse from multiple firms led by Baring Bros and co and JS Morgan & co. Names of consignors and totals appear with numerous consignments and box counts. The long roster ends with an order for SAGUA and a separate entry for Morris Wilson with 830 bags sugar.
A March 10 1887 notice from the Department of the Interior invites sealed bids in St. Louis and New York for beef bacon flour beef and other essentials and for transportation to Indian agencies. Bids due April 12 1887 and May 3 1887 with details on quantities schedules and required government forms.
A dense ledger noting quantities of lumber leather hides skins pelts wool bales grain butter eggs apples potatoes hay and other commodities by routes including Boston and Maine Western Division Boston and Lowell Railroads Express and Sea shipments. Entries list bales bags cases bbls tubs rounds and car counts among assorted goods across multiple consignments.
Transfers cover Huntington avenue Dorchester Jamaica Plain Charlestown and more. Notable moves include Dexter to Drisko 8000 dollars and Abe to Oppenheimer 4200 dollars with mortgage back, plus multiple parcels on Beacon Charles and Downing streets.
George C Freeman to Chelsea Savings Bank mortgage on land and buildings Wal nuts Chelsea March 4 55. George Francis Davenport to Rollin H Allen mortgage on land and buildings No 20 Dwight Street March 4 1000. William H White et al to Rollin H Allen mortgage on land and buildings northwesterly side Auburn Street March 4 600. Francis W P Learned to Rollin H Allen mortgage on land and buildings southerly Omerson Street South Boston March 4 200. Luke Morris to Charles H Johnston mortgage on land and buildings southeasterly side new street Walk Hill Street West Roxbury March 5 600. Thomas E Piccot to Workingmen's Cooperative Bank mortgage on land and buildings easterly side Hewlett Street Roslindale March 5 600. John F Farrington to Ansel F Gurney side of Broadway South Boston March 5 300.
The Signal Office invites sealed bids for several classes of articles for 1887. Dates run April 18 to April 23 for stationery telegraph supplies paper drafting material and other items. Bids must use specified envelopes and include article class. The right to reject any bids is reserved.
Boston trains depart from 9 Causeway Street for North Adams and West via Albany and the West with multiple daily options including sleeping cars to Chicago and Albany. Stops include Ayer Junction Belmont and Waverley Cambridge Concord Fitchburg Gardner Greenfield Marlboro Hudson and Maynard Nashua North Leominster Saratoga Troy Union Square Somerville Waltham Watertown Winchendon Worcester and more. Sunday and weekday variants noted with through tickets sold at 250 Washington Street Boston. John Adams, J Whitmore, and J. R. Watson signoff.
The Boston and Providence Railroad publishes a Monday February 28 1887 timetable updating departures to New York Shore Line services and connections. Services include Shore Line Fast Express and Shore Line Mail from Boston, various return options, direct routes to Needham Norwood and Woonsocket divisions, with Sunday adjustments and Mansfield detentions noted.
A dense listing of Old Colony and Cape Cod Division train times includes Ashment, Barnstable, Braintree, Brockton, Provincetown, Cohasset, Hingham, Nantucket, Newport, New Bedford, Taunton, Fall River, and more. The schedule covers weekday, weekend, and return trips with multiple departures and connections, notes on via Brockton or Taunton, and manager J. R. Kendrick's sign-off.
Sunday trains leave Boston for Newton Lower Falls Newton Highlands and Wellesley Hills with multiple departures at 8 30 AM 10 05 AM 12 45 PM 5 30 PM 7 15 PM and 9 45 PM and returns at 9 00 AM 12 05 PM 1 15 PM 6 05 PM 8 45 AM. Brookline routes listed with return times. Local time tables available at stations and 232 Washington Street Boston.
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