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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1890
Page
7
The weekly market review notes small salt fish supplies with weak demand and downward price pressure for mackerel. Reports cover many species from Gloucester and Provincetown, with imports from the Provinces, light cod catches, and steady prices for herring and lobsters.
Receipts today include 6205 barrels and 2160 sacks wheat flour 320 sacks oat meal and 627 barrels cornmeal. Market tone is very firm with prices advancing and spring patent prices around 6 per barrel. Demand high as buyers seek supplies. oats and cornmeal show steady sales and firm pricing.
Grain receipts today include 800 bush cotton seed meal 42 830 bush corn 9 085 nan oats 15 tons milkfeed and 3150 ash malt. Inspections show 8 cars high mixed corn 68 cars No 2 mixed sail corns 6 cars steamer yellow corn 4 cars steamer mixed corn 1 car upgrade.
Corn led with 77 cars, oats 18 cars, total 95, demand fair for corn. Steamer yellow at 46c and steamer mixed at 45c per bushel, oats market very firm with spot lots selling. No 2 white on track 37 38c, elevator up to 39c. Rye quiet at 65c, six row Canada No 1 malt 72 76c. Millfeed steady with sack spring bran 16 50 and winter 14 50 per ton. cottonseed meal firm at 25 50 arriving and 26 26 25 ton on spot.
Receipts today show butter 1091 pkgs and 1273 eggs, with creamery butter in short supply yet fair to good demand. Cheese steady. eggs firm with limited choice lots. beans and peas priced high with selective demand. Hay, straw, potatoes, and poultry show mixed supply. prices range from low to firm for Western and Eastern dairies, Bermuda and New Brunswick varieties, and fresh-killed poultry at or near peak for region.
The market saw its first Maltese potato arrival, 150 baskets of Malta potatoes consigned to Curtis & Co. Each basket held about one third of a bushel and the produce was large and in good condition. Sales reached 1 12 6 per basket and the entire lot was sold by closing.
The market shows strong supply and demand with prices listed for onions Bermudas Valencia Egyptian beets lettuce radishes turnips carrots and more. The schooners Mary Ann McCann and Post Boy are due next week delivering Bermuda onions and supplies.
The bulletin lists apple demand and firm Baldwins prices around 4 56 per bushel, russets steady, California navel oranges reduced supply with trade around 54 6 50 per box. Pineapples abundant, Key West and Porto Rico pricing, Mediterranean citrus with Valencias varied, dried apples quiet with evaporated at 12 13 cents, sun dried at 42 6 cents, Norfolk Seeseberries offered with limited sales.
Jamaica bananas and Baracoa bananas top the cargo list with No 1s at $185 and Golden Vales at $250 for No 1s. Steamer dispatches include Naranja to Boston with 3700 Valencia oranges and various Palermo and Messina fruits en route. Provision trade shows steady tallow pork lard and bacon. sugar and molasses priced steady with refineds easing. Cotton markets in New York and Liverpool hold firm with quiet demand and mixed bales.
The option markets in Chicago showed wheat bulging after unfavorable crop reports, with later heavy unloading by locals and outsiders. Hutchinson bought July in blocks to support prices, while others unloaded. corn followed wheat as receipts and rain fears eased prices. Provisions eased as weather remains a key factor for planting in the next two weeks.
At London wool auctions on May 9 strong demand pressed good merino wools while scoured types firmed. Catalogued total was 284 882 bales with 32 000 withdrawn, offerings spanning Victoria New South Wales Queensland South Australia Swan River New Zealand Tasmania Cape of Good Hope and Natal with varied prices for scoured greasy and locks and pieces.
Market notes show closing dates and values for pipe line certificates and cottonseed oil certificates. Whiskey and spirits prices are given for Peoria Chicago St Louis and Cincinnati with turpentine rosin tar and petroleum prices in New York and related regions.
From London and Liverpool to Paris prices show wheat firmer and higher, corn steady to quiet. At Mark Lane English wheat strong foreign firm American maize steady, English flour firmly held. Liverpool spot wheat priced higher with corn steady, futures for wheat strong and corn firm. Paris also reports steady wheat and flour with mixed American corn, prices quoted in expected old currency. Weather described as colder and cloudy with total grain receipts around 106 000 centals.
Shipping ledgers show Yarmouth and Halifax cargoes including lobsters eggs halibut salmon and boxes of various goods. Multiple firms such as Barclay & Co F L Clements and H K Griffin record crates cases and bales of seafood eggs mackerel and hardware. The lists include vessels American Express shipments and quantities like 169 cases canned lobsters and 1443 bbls sugar with several consignors and receivers.
A maritime cargo summary from May 9 1890 lists shipments at St John New Brunswick Port Antonio Jamaica Grand Manan New Brunswick and Yarmouth Nova Scotia. Freight includes salt hard pine whiskey lumber flour cornmeal stove linings kerosene oil beans lard pork hemp packing oranges lemons hats plows oysters lobster empties egg carriers and various manufactured goods aboard several steamers and schooners.
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