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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1890
Page
7
Trading activity shows mixed results with strong gains in gas and utility stocks and a broad pullback in some sectors. Western wool prices firm while Michigan fleeces attract attention. demand for canned goods, cheese, and eggs remains cautious amid fluctuating eastern and western markets.
London market quotes include Atlantic and Great Western shares and Mexican issues with rates for money and accounts. Paris and London exchange rates shown with bullion movements in Bank of Poland and Bank of England reserve ratio changes. Bank of Bengal and Bombay discount rates set at six percent. Special Telegram reports Lookout Rolling Mill to relocate to New England City with fifty tons daily output and 175 workers.
Receipts show 6495 bbls and 1975 sacks wheat flour with 125 sacks and 125 bbls oatmeal and 650 bbls cornmeal. Prices rise as wheat stays firm. trade remains small and cautious. extras and patents command higher quotes.
The grain scene shows 62 685 bush corn 32 635 bush oats 79 tons milkseed 550 bush cotton seed meal 700 bush barley and 6200 bush malt. Mixed corn prices steady to firm with steamer varieties around 45 to 46 1 2 cents per bushel. Oats demand strong with No 2 white at 37 to 38 1 4 cents on track and 38 44 cents elevator offers. Rye quiet at 62 64 cents per bushel No 1 New York. Malt and millfeed steady with bran at 18 190 to 14 75 1900 per ton and middlings at 18 20 per ton. Cottonseed meal firm at 25 50 to arrive and 26 26 25 per ton on spot.
Receipts show butter 7796 boxes and 2041 pkgs oleo with steady prices on finer grades. A weak undercurrent from upcoming grass butter could cause a summer surplus. trade remains cautious with creameries selling at 20c top for fine butter and 14 to 18c for common grades, while dairy butter and imitations fetch lower or irregular prices.
A market report outlines demand for truck crops at steady prices. Bermuda onions remain liberal with $2.60 per crate sales, Egyptian onions rising to 3 25–3 50 per case, Valencia onions scarce at 2 50–2 for large and small. Beet and carrot supplies are mixed with small old beets at 1 25 a box, bunch beets steady at 20 per dozen, and carrots scarce at 1 25 per bush box. Lettuce active with arrivals in good condition and radishes, turnips, parsley, squash, rhubarb, spinach, dandelions, kale, and beet greens listed with varying local prices.
The steamer Viking due May 12 carries Baracoa bananas for WW and CR oves. Naranja, bound for Boston, passed Gibraltar May 5 with 8700 vases Valencia oranges. Scotsman and Pontiac sails from Gibraltar with oranges and lemons to Palermo and Messina, April 25–26. Elgira arrives with Jamaica bananas for the Boston Fruit Co and will sell Friday. The Option Markets report wheat gains at Chicago on May 8 amid poor crop reports and firming oats and corn. oil and whiskey prices noted with varied quotes.
Market notes report varied receipts today with tallow 67 pkgs beef 82 bbls hams 213 bbls 16u tierces lard 100 pkgs preserved meats 1000 cans and bacon 1257 boxes. Pork products are steady with fair sales and prices for lard and various cuts.
Sugar markets show steady raw sugars with quiet trade and easy refined prices. Quotations cover cut loaf to powdered forms with varying cents per pound and a general grocers' granulated price around 6.31c. Molasses trade remains steady with New Orleans sales reported at 40 to 48c quality dependent.
Kansas City cattle trade steady with 5000 head, steers 5.60 to 4.85. native cows 1.65 to 3.65. stockers 3.00 to 3.85. Hogs 7891 head closed stronger. heavies 3.90 to 4.00. mediums 3.87 to 4.42. Yorkers 4.00. pigs 3.60 to 3.87. Sheep 4838 head steady at 4.65 to 5.25. Chicago cattle receipts 13,600. shipments ongoing.
Livestock sales data indicate cattle receipts around 6000 with steers trading near 3.80 and 3.25 for Texas corn fed and grassers. Hogs show 21 500 receipts and shipments around 6000 with prices from 3.50 to 4.35. Sheep receipts near 6000 with natives and Western corn fed ranging 4.60 to 6.35 and lambs 5.50 to 7.00.
The New York cotton market remains dull with varied local prices across uplands and middling grades. Liverpool reports steady demand with notable futures movements and multi-day consolidated figures across receipts exports and stock totals.
London cargoes show two wheat arrivals since last report with four sold and six on writing. Scarzo corn awaiting. At Mark Lane wheat quiet. English and French country markets firm. Liverpool spot wheat dull in poor demand, corn easy. prices quoted: winter wheat 7s 0d, spring 7s 3d, club 7s 2d, mixed American corn 38 64d, peas 6s 3d, pork 4s 0d, bacon 32s 8d, lard 28s 3d, tallow 24s 0d, cheese 4s 3d.
Shipping list records imports to Liverpool showing numerous goods from paper stock and moise to tin plates and wines. Named firms include Baring Bros Co Jere Abbott Co Ogden Co Stone & Downer Torrey Bisht Capen and Brown Bros Co among others with quantities such as 1021 boxes tin plates 74 bales moise 200 do do and 50 frames sheathing.
A sprawling listing from a 19th century trade ledger shows cargoes moving through Glasgow, Port Antonio, Rosario, and Ponce. Items include rags, bagging, paper stock, pottery, granite, potatoes, and coal along with vessels like Steamer Norwerian and Brig Acacia.
Shipping notices from Annapolis Halifax Liverpool and Azores Island ports detail cargoes including steamer New Brunswick goods such as twine glassware suet and millinery. Halifax gun ships list staples. Azores Bark Sarah carries medicines groceries herring lard and tools among other items. bulk commodities like flour meal pork beef oil and various wood products are logged for several ships including Dexter and Sarah with quantities and packaging.
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