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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1887
Page
7
Last week figures show closing quotations for wheat corn flour and oats. Prices for malt hops and commodities listed, with bids and destinations across Canada and the United States, reflecting market activity and export terms.
The butter market is quiet with day to day sales and no price changes across cities. Cheese shows firm prices at prior quotes while eggs vary by region with New York and Western markets firm and Philadelphia softer. Prices for beans seeds hay potatoes and produce are steady or lightly changing, with noted wholesale butter quotations across Western and Eastern regions.
Listings show Messina oranges by box priced around 3 to 5 dollars, Malaga and Palermo boxes at a couple dollars each, and Florida oranges with multiple grades and sizes from 176 to 200 to 250 counts. Tangerines and mandarins offered in P boxes with various price points.
Market notes show steady pork demand with little change in prices. Lard and fresh beef remain near last quotes while trade remains quiet. Veals lambs and other meats show listless activity but stable prices. long cut and short cut pork items and various beef and lamb grades listed with current quotes.
Liverpool cotton futures opened and closed firm with varied March to September by 5 35-64d to 5 4264d ranges. Spot uplands and Orleans steady at 6 7-16d to 6 7-16d. New York spot firm at 101 1/2c middling, 95 1/2c good ordinary. Futures bids and asks shown. total bales 211,700.PIPE LINE CERTIFICATES closed and opened with daily highs and lows. refined oil price listed. Sugar remains firm with various refined grade quotes. molasses steady with cargo notations.
New York reports flour and rye firm, wheat higher with No 2 red around 92 to 95 cents. corn higher with steamer bids at 48 to 49 cents delivered. Chicago notes flour steady, No 2 spring at 79½ cents and No 2 red at 79¼ to 79¾ cents. provisions strengthen with pork around 20.25 to 20.50 dollars. Midwest and other cities list rail and ship trade and varying receipts and shipments across wheat, corn, oats, barley, and rye.
Boston station on Causeway Street offers through service to Tilton Laconia Lake Village Weirs Meredith Ashland Plymouth Franklin Lebanon White River Junction Montpelier Essex Junction Burlington St Albans Montreal and more with multiple daily departures. Local Boston service lists Manchester Concord Keene Peterboro Wilton Milford Amherst Greenfield Nashua and other NH towns with varied morning and afternoon trains.
Time table lists full information for local and through trains serving towns including Arlington Bedford Lexington Lexington West Medford Woburn and Boston area stations. It cites multiple daily departure times across mornings afternoons and evenings with special Sunday schedules and notes obtainability at stations.
London wool sale notes brisk demand and full prices across divisions. Sale offerings 9493 bales, sales 9600 with values listed for Victoria New South Wales South Australia Queensland New Zealand Swan River Cape of Good Hope and Natal in scoured and greasy categories. Also market figures for various grains and meats in New York.
Kansas City hogs firm with most sales 5 10 cents higher, receipts about 4000 today and 4621 official Saturday. Chicago cattle steady to strong, steady steer prices 4 5 10, Texas cattle 3 4 36, hogs 5 20 to 6 00 lighter weights 4 95 to 6 60. Sheep and lamb receipts solid with natives 3 24 80 and Western 3 75 4 87 42.
Market results across ports show firm or strong tone with steady mid prices. Species include Augusta Galveston New Orleans Mobile Memphis Savannah Charleston Wilmington Norfolk Philadelphia Baltimore New York Cincinnati St Louis Louisville and Consolidated with varying net receipts gross exports and stock figures and overall steady to firm tone
A detailed roll lists receipts for March 28 1887 across multiple railroads. Items include cotton wool flour corn meal oats malt mill feed tallow pork grease butter oleo eggs cheese leather hides rice tea sugar molasses and lumber with quantities in bales bbls sacks boxes cases and carloads. Railroads include Boston & Albany Grand Junction Providence Old Colony New York New England Fitchburg Boston & Maine Boston & Lowell and Boston & Maine Western and Eastern divisions.
Shipping entries list cargoes including Bark Gem-345,890 feet yellow pine for George H Peters & co from Pensacola. Sch R Bowers-383,253 feet hard pine and Sch Otello-3038,419 feet hard pipe for George McQuesten & co from Brunswick. sugar, cocoanuts, hides and oak plank aboard various vessels. mackerel and eggs loaded at Shelburne and Apalachicola ports. lumber consignments include Sir Rebecca and Lillian B Jones with firms A T Stearns and J G Hall & co respectively.
The report lists brig Golconda-3610 with 100 hhds sugar for Boston Sugar Refinery, ships Melissa Trask and Gate City with molasses and oranges, and numerous consignments from Boston and Savannah firms. Cargo includes logwood, hides, lumber, cotton, poultry, dairy, and farm produce, with extensive oranges and textiles among the items shipped by sea and land.
The Cephalonia cleared March 23 at Liverpool England with 32 cases patent medicines and numerous consignments including beef, flour, wheat, leather, sugar, and machinery notes. ship California cleared March 24 from London via Halifax with large mixes of flour, oils, wheat, cheese, lumber, machinery, medicines, bacon and other goods totaling thousands of items and bales.
Foreign markets in London and Liverpool report wheat steady to firm with mixed U.S. corn and Minnesota flour priced at 28s 6d. English country markets hold steady as Paris wheat and flour futures for April show firm levels. Liver pool notes include 7s 9d to 8s 1d for various California wheat futures.
A corrected listing shows weekday Boston departures to New York and New England routes with trains from Ashcroft Dorchester and Beaver others, noting times to Needham Manchester Concord and Providence, including Sunday exceptions and through connections via Shore Line and Norwich Line. It lists departure patterns from Boston foot Summer Street and references multiple towns, stations and through services to Hartford New Haven and Philadelphia.
A timetable lists weekday trains from Boston to New York via the Fall River Line after February 28 1887 with departures from Ashmont and Boston and returns in late afternoon. It includes connections to Cohasset Hingham Weymouths and Taunton and lists Sunday trains to Portland Bangor Lewiston and other stops with varying departure times.
The Central Massachusetts R R Station on Causeway Street announces weekday and Sunday train departures from Boston to Jefferson, Hudson, Rockbottom, Sudbury, Wayland, Wentom, Belmont, Waverley, and Waltham with multiple daily times, express options, and a 1887 start date. GEO. W. STORER Asst. Gen. Pass. Agt. S. Mell en Gen. Supt.
Train listings show Augusta Haymarket and Lewiston routes with 8.30 am starts at Haymarket and Causeway stations. Services to Halifax Saint John Eastport Calais and North Conway plus connections to Maine Central Grand Trunk and Knox lines run on various schedules including 7.30 am 12 pm and 4 pm departures.
A dense timetable lists departures and destinations from Boston Station including Amesbury Beverly Chelsea Dover Everett Rochester Rockport North Conway Danvers Swampscott Lynn Newburyport Portland and Halifax routes with multiple daily times on various branches and notes on services and offices. The schedule cites city ticket office at 306 Washington Street and mentions Pullman cars on Portland and Bangor trains with managers James T. Furber and D. J. Planders.
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