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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 02, 1887
Page
7
A historical price list details various timber products with prices and sizes. Items include planks and boards in wide and narrow widths, planed and rough finishes, and Vermont spruce measuring around 12 feet, with prices ranging from about $10 to $1312 and percentages noted. The record centers on cargoes, frames, and shippers with unit costs and freight references.
Report from Boston Post correspondent George J. Fox on market beef prices store cattle hogs and sheep at Watertown Union Livestock Market. Prices show weakness across cattle and sheep with steady veal calves and hogs. Notable sales include steers and heifers from local buyers and several consignments with varied weights.
Market remains firm with millers holding to asking prices. Minneapolis flour for choice brands at 5 dollars, oats and corn show varying bids, with steady demand for millfeed. Inspections today totaled 85 carloads across several grain types, including No 2 white oats and steamer yellow corn. Prices for flour, cornmeal, and rye flour listed, with oats and malts showing mixed movement and a generally robust but slowly trading market.
Butter buyers seek firmer texture and stronger demand for choice lots while lower grades hold steady. Cheese shows limited demand at old prices. Country advices indicate more activity. Canton reports 2000 boxes at 11 1/2 to 11 3/4 cents. Watertown lists 500 boxes August cheese at 10 1/4 to 10 1/2 cents and 4000 September and October at 9 1/2 to 9 3/4 cents, with Eastern trade picking up.
Regional price quotations list butter eggs poultry potatoes and miscellaneous goods with values for Northern Western and Eastern regions. Notable items include Northern choice butter 12 14c Vermont creamery 24 27c eggs East fresh 24c and 21 22c, turkeys 18 20c, fowls 12 16c, Burbanks and Hebrons potatoes 65 75c per bush, hay 12 18 dollars, seeds timothy 270 290 per bush.
Chicago and New York butter is mostly firm or steady with varied creamery quotes. Utica Little Falls and Elgin report multiple cheese box sales and lower market pressure. Montreal dispatch notes cautious holders waiting for better quotations while listing color and grade ranges in cents.
A broad listing of vegetables and produce with assorted prices per basket bush barrel box or dozen. Items include onions tomatoes cabbages lettuce parsnips turnips spinach cauliflower pumpkins celery and several regional varieties with unit prices ranging from 15 to 75 cents and up to 3 per unit.
Snow & Co reports Almeria and Malaga fruits selling at varied prices, with Orlando, Florida and Palermo lots listed. Apples, cranberries, pears, oranges, lemons, grapes, and bananas show steady or unchanged quotes amid moderate demand. Dried apples and nuts hold near prior levels. Quinces in short supply with native lots at 3 to 3.50 per bush.
Provisions show strong demand for pork with varied price ranges for long and short cuts, backs, and lean ends. Fresh beef markets are quiet at old prices while lambs veals and muttons hold steady. Numerous cuts listed with prices for lard, ham, bacon, tongues, ribs, and plates. regional grades and packaging notes included.
Liverpool futures opened quiet and closed firm with varied May to July contracts from 5 16-64d to 5 21-64d. Spot Upland middling held at 5 5-16d while Orleans stayed around 6 7-16d. New York spot opened quiet at 95 in Morning and closed dull across multiple grades with small declines and tiny gains.
Futures opened firm in New York with firm quotations across contracts in November April December May January June February March August and July. Market closed quiet and steady with refined sugar prices firm and wholesale grocers' price today at 7 cents for granulated.
In New York and Chicago flour and wheat prices move unevenly with steady to firmer tones for some grades. Receipts and exports rise in multiple grain markets while pork lard and various staples hold steady or ease slightly amid moderate demand and ongoing shipments.
Kansas City reports hogs lower with 10 000 receipts and 445 shipments. St Louis notes hogs steady with Yorkers at 420 450 and packers at 420 450. Peoria shows hogs steady at 420 460. Chicago cattle receipts 10 000 with steers 345 10, stockers 160 310, cows 1250, Western range 210 380. Hog receipts 830 000 with prices 4 80 4 65, light 4 46 4 60, ships 250 375. Sheep receipts 7000 with natives 175 420, Western 3 355, Texans 2 3 25, lambs 4 25 5 60 per 100 lbs.
Cotton market note lists net receipts gross and sales by port from Augusta to Louisville with ongoing movements in exports to Great Britain and the continent, coastwise shipments, and current prices in cents per pound. It records stock levels, market steadiness, and mid price ranges across multiple cities including New Orleans Savannah Charleston Wilmington Norfolk Philadelphia Baltimore New York Cincinnati St Louis and Louisville.
London market summary reports Beerbohm noting cargo movements offshore and wheat prices trading amid calmer European commentary. The brief note conveys limited pricing movement and ongoing market chatter from the open session.
Two cargoes arrived since last report and three await sale as wheat and corn ease slightly in Liverpool and Paris markets. India exports to Britain total 22 500 quarters, continent 2 500. No 1 California wheat for November quotes around 6s 5d to 6s 7d. mixed American corn for November around 48 5% to 44. Weather wet. bread stuffs steady overall with varied demand and receipts.
A dense list of goods shipped and received including pig iron, steel billets, dread samples, mdse, spirits, lumber, paper stock, granite, bricks, tiles, dyes, flax, hides, and scrap iron. Named firms include Naylor & co, Seavey Foster Bowman, Jordan Marsh & co, Baring Bros & co, Wood Pollard & co, and James Strong & Son with quantities and classes. The passage records a broad coverage of commodities and associated firms in a single trade ledger entry.
Listing of cargo and quantities for ships Sailings on November 1 1887 from Buenos Ayres and Nova Scotia. Bark Anna 626399 feet pine lumber. Yarmouth NS steamer cargo includes flour middlings paper goods organ materials dental items stove linings dry goods shovels hardware churns shoe blacking pork onions corn fur niture baskets saws sieves iron pipe boots glassware crockery carriage stock drugs lard fruit vegetables and more. Bark Kenward 160 reams paper 425 drums codfish 9 bbls sugar rope clocks iron molasses agricultural implements plough stock flour glass ware domestics petroleum chairs rosin drugs etc. Digby NS schooner C B Newcomb 125 bbls flour middlings.
Readable figures show staple receipts across commodities for November 1 1887 with quantities in bales, bushels, boxes, and other units. Includes cotton wool butter flour corn oats wheat meat and more with year over year comparisons for 1887 and 1886.
A consolidated tally lists cargo volumes for several railroads including Boston and Albany Providence and New York and New England. Items include large quantities of cotton wool flour corn oats malt and bales, boxes, and bags of dairy, meat, timber, leather, tea, and other commodities. Entities include Boston and Albany Railroad Grand Junction Providence Old Colony Fitchburg Boston and Maine Boston and Lowell and Boston and Maine divisions.
A list of harvest era stock figures shows 1039 bags coffee 9840 bags sugar 9 bales molasses 68 tubs butter 144 boxes cheese 27 barrels apples 946 bags beans 4873 barrels 3500 bushels potatoes 615 barrels sweets 11 cars hay 109 cars lumber 76 rolls 15 barrels 4 cases 2618 sides 37 bags leather 170 bales hides 20 bales 216 barrels green hides 9 bales dry hides 26 bales 10 bundles skins.
Transfers show numerous property sales across Dorchester Roxbury Winthrop Revere and Chelsea. Names include Clark square Gilbert Darling Colman Adams Lund McKay Morse Wyman Child Ayer Emmons Newell and Lord. Dates range Sept 28 to Oct 10 with prices mostly nominal and several mortgages.
A series of mortgage filings announced include Sullman A Tucker to Alexander McDonald on Chapman Avenue bonds for $200, Florence Sullivan to John Pleadwell on Our Street westerly side for $72, William H Mellyn to Samuel B Pierce on Lauriat Street for $223, and Alfred Boyson et al to Linus M Child on Bellingham Avenue for $600. Additional loans involve George Martin to James Boyle on Thomas Park South Boston for $4,000, Catherine A Shea to Union Institution for Savings on Broadway South Boston for $1,000, Charlotte M Tewksbury to Thomas Robinson on Tremont Street for $500, Amnie D Smith to William W Potter on Wheatland Avenue Dorchester for $1,500, Lozer Leventall et al to David Frank et al on Salem Street for $1,500, Jeremiah Hayes to Elizabeth J Gleason on Geneva Avenue Dorchester for $500, James Sullivan to Newburyport Five Cents Savings Bank on Shawmut Street for $1,000, Isabella Dickson to Boston Five Cents Savings Bank on Broad Street for $1,000, Paul Barrow Watson to Eliot Five Cents on Hammond Street Roxbury for $3,300, Charles H Bacon to James C Lovering on Tremont Street for $2,000, Ellen A Casey et al to William Reed on Central Avenue for $2,100, and James Brooks to Amos W Stetson on Pepo and Suffolk streets Chelsea for $2,600.
Local timetable notices list Boston to Springfield Albany and westbound trains with express and sleeping car services. Major departures from Boston include 5 7 15 8 30 and 11 am and 2 30 3 00 6 00 10 30 pm with connections at Pittsfield Chatham Palmer and Worcester. Dining cars run Worcester to New Haven and New York. through tickets and full timetables available at 232 Washington Street Boston and stations offices.
On and after Sept 5 1867 trains leave Boston Passenger Station Causeway Street for North Adams Troy Albany and the West.
Weekday and Sunday train times listed for routes from Boston to New Work, Ashmont, Barnstable, Hyannis, Yarmouth, Sandwich, and many other towns. Schedules include departures and returns with numerous intermediate stops and special notes for boats and connections. GEO. L. CONNOR and J. R. KENDRICK are named as officials.
Train arrangements begin May 30 with numerous daily departures from Boston to New York via Shore Line Fast Express and Steamant Stone Line. Returns, Providence, Attleboro, North Attleboro, Sharon, Canton, Reauville, and other stops listed with varied morning and evening times.
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