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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1888
Page
7
A dense slate of woodworking materials with prices for hemlock boards, cedar logs, shagies, clapboard, laths, and various hardwoods. Includes Indiana black walnut, ash, cherry, oak, cypress, and Western/Eastern pine, plus Vermont spruce, all with measures in feet and inches and per unit pricing across multiple stock grades.
The report shows flour prices holding steady amid quiet trade with millers firm on bids. It covers New York, Chicago, St Louis, Minneapolis, Milwaukee and other centers, listing varying flour grades, wheat qualities, corn and oats quotes, and on the call futures. Receipts, exports and daily sales figures are noted, with overall market sentiment described as steady or quiet across regions.
New York spot markets show steady demand for millfeed with spring bran at 21.75 to 22.75 per ton and sack winter at 24?00. middlings in sacks 22.50 to 24.50. cottonseed market calm with prime in sacks 26.25 to 65?0 per ton on spot and 24.25 to 24.75 for arrival. barley quiet with Canada six-rowed at 90 to 92 cents and two-rowed at 80 to 82 cents. Chicago receipts 15,000 bushels, shipments 18,000. St Louis 2,000 receipts. Milwaukee steady for old, farm for new at No 2 70 cents. Hops dull with 1887 New York 12 to 15 cents, common 8 to 10 cents. 1887 Eastern 8 to 10 cents, common 5 to 6 cents. old lots 3 to 5 cents.
Butter demand remains quiet with steady prices. Quotations cover creameries, butter grades, and regional markets from Elgin to New York, plus cheese, eggs, beans, seeds, potatoes, sweet potatoes, hay, straw, and poultry. Notes include receipts, demand, and unchanged tones, with details on specific grades and wholesale or jobbing levels.
The steamer Samaria is due May 5 with bananas for the Boston Fruit Company. The steamer Gwent is now due with bananas for Seaverns & Co. The steamer Hertha is due May 4 with a cargo of bananas for W. W. & R. Noyes.
H Harris & Co sold the cargo of the steamer Howick at auction today with Messina oranges at 90 cents per box and half boxes at 55 cents. Palermo oranges at 90 cents per box with half-boxes at 75 cents, Messina lemons at 135 per box, Palermo lemons 50 cents, Valencia prices for regulars and extra large ranged around 5.16 to 3.67 per case. Apples receipts were small with Waldwine at 3.38 per barrel and russets at 2.75. Palermo oranges 8.50 per box, Messina oranges 2.50 per box, Valencia 5 per case, bananas unchanged with Jamaica fruit at 1.25 and Baracoas at 1.50.
York to New York and Chicago markets show steady pork demand and prices with meats, lard, and hams varied by cut. Pork quotations span long cuts to boneless breakfast bacon, while beef and veal pricing appears unsettled with mixed trade activity in St Louis and Cincinnati markets.
The demand is moderate with light on hand stock. Prices are steady for various cuts including fancy fall lambs at 12 13c per lb, common to good at 10 11c, spring lambs 18 25c, Chicago mutton choice 10 11c, heavy Brighton mutton 11 12c, yearlings 9 10c, Eastern mutton 9 10c, Eastern veal good to choice 9 10c and lower grades from 7c.
A market listing notes steady truck demand with prices near prior quotes. Native and Bermuda onions vary, asparagus 9 per dozen, green peas 1.2 per crate, Florida tomatoes 2.38 per crate, Southern cabbage 3.256 per crate, kale 0.75 per barrel, spinach 3 per barrel, beans beets and other vegetables with assorted regional prices including Chicago and Norfolk sources.
Sugar prices show firm quotations across Cuba refined and Javas with no change to note in refined sugars. Molasses demand remains quiet but steady with prices ranging from 23 to 38 cents per gallon for various origins. New York raw sugars and refined lots remain quiet or unchanged as markets hold at current levels.
Allan Asher & Co report cotton market renewed activity with near month strength as bears attempt to depress values, but buying orders restore opening prices. Port receipts total 5,231,000 bales since September, stocks 514,000, exports 4,020,000. New York futures open steady and close steady. Liverpool spot firm with uplands at 5 1/2 to 6 1/6d and new orders support prices.
Hogs mostly higher with Yorkers at 5.10 to 5.40 and packers 5.35 to 5.65. Chicago cattle receipts 6000 with steers 3.80 to 4.85 and stockers 2.40 to 2.60. hog receipts 11,000 at Het. Sheep receipts 6000 with natives 5.55 to 6.50 and lambs 5.50 to 7.00.
Tallow prices hold near previous levels while New York reports a steady market with 150000 tons at 474 cents. Pipe Line certificates close April 30 and open May 1 with bids near 87 percent. Turpentine rosin and tar quoted in New York, petroleum at 6 1/2 to 7 cents, Rio coffee firm at 14 34 to 15 cents, whiskey steady around $1.15, St Louis and Cincinnati markets steady or active near $1.09.
Shipping cargo listings alight from Steamer Scandinavian Marathon and Catalonia at Glasgow Liverpool and Yarmouth detailing flour wheat dry goods leather cotton canned meats lard beef cheese and related goods with quantities including sacks cases bales boxes barrels and bags, illustrating a broad trade snapshot in the era.
Shipping ledger from Liverpool and Canada lists cargoes such as beef, flour, rum, sugar, cotton, and woodware, with quantities in bbls bags crates cases and more. Vessels include Steamer Istrian and Schooner Alice, Istrian clearing on April 28 and routes to Liverpool and New Brunswick.
A lengthy ledger of daily receipts dated May 1 1888 lists railroad shipments from Boston and Albany Grand Junction Boston Providence New York and New England Fitchburg Boston and Maine and other lines. It records bbls and bushs of corn oats pork bacon butter eggs leather hides cheese tea sugar molasses and various lumber, hay, and tare items, with hundreds of units including bales, boxes, sacks, and cars.
A scanned ledger summary lists receipts by commodity including cotton molasses wool and butter with quantities in bales packages and bushels. It records totals for flour oleo eggs corn wheat potatoes and many other items along with prices and counts for hogs hides leather and beef among others.
London and Liverpool report steady wheat and firm corn with cargoes awaiting sale. Prices carry a mixed tone across markets in Paris Antwerp and Liverpool with wheat futures steady and notes on futures for May July and September prices.
Boston and Albany Railroad schedule notices list daily departures from Boston and suburban stops to Springfield, Pittsfield, Albany and west, with express services to New York and connections at Pittsfield Chatham Palmer and Worcester. Frequent inbound and outbound times cover many MA towns including Newton, Wellesley, Framingham, Marlboro, Leominster and Fitchburg, noting daily and Sunday variations and dining or sleeping car services.
Passengers holding tickets may have baggage checked from Boston hotels to destinations. Calls to baggage pickup at No 8 Old State House. Effective April 29 1888, weekday trains from Exeter to New York via Fall River Line at 6 p m return 5 p m with numerous stops including Ashmont Barnstable Hyannis and Quincy. Frequent return times listed for many towns. Sunday trains to New York and summer routes also noted. GEO L CONNOR and J R KENDRICK sign as general officers.
A dated timetable outlines daily train departures and returns from Boston to New York Providence Pawtucket and many intermediate stations with varied times on weekdays and Sundays including connections and late evening services. Details include Shore Line Fast Express Shore Line Mail Steamship lines and numerous local stops such as Attleboro Readville Hyde Park Forest Hills Dedham Roxbury and West Roxbury with notes on schedule adjustments and late trains.
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