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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1889
Page
7
Prices across butter cheese oats and vegetables remain steady with receivers’ quotes for butter and creamery products largely unchanged. The report lists Western Vermont and Eastern creamery bids, along with current jobbing rates and note of quiet trade in Chicago and Baltimore markets.
The market remains unchanged from last quote with weights and prices for vegetables and produce. Items include marrow squash at 60 per ton, Savoy cabbage at 90 cents per barrel, Bermuda onions at 175 per crate, Spanish onions at 125 per crate, beets 25 cents per bushel, carrots 125 per barrel, lettuce 50 to 65 cents per bushel, turnips 40 cents per box, celery 11 per box, parsnips 25 cents per bush, spinach 125 per barrel, rhubarb 9 cents per bunch, parsley 14 per bush, and other listed greens.
A broker describes the pork deal and the ongoing market pressures. Reports show opening and closing prices for pork and lard across Chicago and other centers with receipts, demand, and varying quotes for cuts, hams, and bacon.
Stock Yards Kansas City receipts 2829 cattle slow weak prices cattle cows and mixed butchers. Hogs receipts 8149 market steady heavies medium lights pigs and sows. Sheep firm at 380 to 460. Peoria hogs steady 460 to 480. St Louis market steady Yorkers mixed packers butchers to extra 475 485. Cincinnati hogs dull lower common and light 4.40 to 4.80. Chicago cattle receipts 11000 shipments 6000 steady beeves 425 440 steers 310 410 and feeders 220 340 cows bulls mixed 140 324 Texas steers 3350. Hogs receipts 18500 shipments 8000 strong mixed 465 480 heavy 465 485 hebt 465 495 ships 350 460. Sheep receipts 6000 shipments 2000 strong natives 350 to 460 lambs 450 560.
Demand steady for apples with receipts 1244 bbls, last year 712 bbls. Quoted prices show Bald wins 125 150 per bbl, russets 175 200, Tallman sweets 150 175, greenings 126 per bbl. Liverpool Boston prices, Oranges and Lemons firm, Messina and Palermo fruit prices listed. Cranberries quiet with varied pricing, Dried apples quotations shown.
The steamer Lorenzo D Baker is due March 30 with Jamaica fruits for the Boston Fruit Company. The steamer North Britain sailed from Palermo March 11 for Boston, passing Gibraltar March 16 with 8050 boxes Messina oranges, 2500 boxes Messina lemons, 9300 boxes Palermo lemons and 8400 boxes Palermo oranges.
H Harris and Co conducted an auction with Florida oranges selling at 150 dollars per box of 3 75 and Valencias at 350 dollars per box of 3 62 percent.
In New York cotton prices hold steady with middling uplands at 10 1 4 cents and sales totaling 660 bales. futures opened quiet and closed firm with mixed closing quotes for March 27. Liverpool spot cotton remains steady at 5 11 16d for middling uplands and 6 4d for low middlings with 10 000 bales traded and 14 000 receipts. The roundup includes U.S. port stocks, receipts, and futures for multiple month pairs, plus regional market notes and prices at Watertown and nearby yards for cattle and beef.
Raw sugars remain strong with firm old figures. Cuba refining quoted at 5 s 5%c and 96 test derivatives, Ma nilas 4% 5%c, Javas Nos 10 to 11 at 6% sc, Havana sales of centrifugal at 96 polarization and molasses at $4 gold quintal. Molasses receipts and prices noted, Porto Rico and Cienfuegos grades listed, New York and New Orleans markets described as strong or dull respectively.
Tallow receipts today read 56 bbls matching last year’s 118 bbls and 2 casks with no notable changes. City rendered at 434¢ country 444 4%4c grease 244 4ac. New York market shows firm 49-16 454 for 4%4c. Coffee quiet and easy with fair cargoes. whiskey matches prior levels. turpentine in New York closed at 492 50c, resin $1 156 117%, tar 180 190. petroleum closed at 7.25¢ with RSW 7¢ and cases 9c.
A maritime cargo list notes schooner Andrew Burnham with 10 623 boxes herring and 677 do bloaters to transport. Steamship Istrian from Liverpool carries lubricants and assorted goods with various consignments including steel, lead, paint, hardware, bleaching powders, china clay, varnish and soda ash. Multiple firms such as Seccomb Kehew Sons J Farley Son John Whiting Son Thayer Lincoln Baring Kros and others are named among consignors and shippers.
The document lists cargoes cleared from Hull and Liverpool aboard ships including the Galileo the Annie Simpson and the Michigan. Items cover grape sugar bellies dyestuff empty kilderkins and various barrels hogs pork beef cattle pork rosin dry hides cotton stoves leather lard bacon flour shingles and machinery with quantities given in bags sacks bbls barrels and cases.
March 27 market report shows wheat and corn quiet or dull across Liverpool Paris and English country markets. Futures in Liverpool active for wheat while corn futures firm. prices for California wheat quoted for several months. Overall demand weak with dull or easy conditions and weaker flour demand.
Manchester March 27 The Guardian notes yesterday's market was flat with few sellers achieving average business. Producers were willing to sell but progress was limited. demand from minor foreign markets was quiet but steady. home trade was average. export yarns saw light demand and prices favored buyers. Cloth trades showed dullness with mixed results across fabrics.
A lengthy OCR list names multiple salesmen and partner firms across cities including Allentown Altoona Baltimore Chicago Detroit Cleveland Cincinnati Dallas Evansville Fort Wayne Galveston Indianapolis Kansas City Nashville Omaha Pittsburg Portland Richmond Savannah and St Louis. Entries pair individual brokers with their firms, noting associated cities and, in some cases, trade designations.
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