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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 04, 1890
Page
7
Wide range of commodities and textiles with general market steadiness. Woollen and cotton goods outlook firm with higher prices anticipated. exports and jobbing trade remain strong. Grain markets report steady to firmer prices for wheat corn oats and related products amid active export and domestic demand.
The cotton futures market has been unsettled with a Friday slump amid rising interior receipts and stocks. South reports favor crop prospects. weather across the belt has been dry with frosts, while spot prices declined to middlings 97 and 3/16 to 101-16 cents. Visible supply reached 2,306,175 bales versus last year, with weekly port receipts 343,188 bales and Sept 1 totals 2,097,467, up 172,391 from 1889.
Wool market shows no police change with steady trade and strong demand from manufacturers. Territory wools sell mainly on scoured basis around 62 63c, with strong fleeces reaching 65c. Fine, medium, and Ohio Michigan wools vary by grade, while foreign wools remain thin but in good demand amid depleted Australian stocks.
The breadstuffs markets show wheat touching a two week low in Chicago with a slight rally on short covering and buying, while the visible supply rises by 41,500,000 bushels. Corn dips 4 cents. oats ease slightly. A curb message to Gilman Cheney & Co follows.
Provisions in Chicago show dull trade with mixed quotes across commodities. Pork and pork products demand steady. beef prices hold with steady supplies. butter and cheese markets are steady with varied creamery and dairy rumors. produce prices mix with beans, peas, potatoes, fruit, and bananas all quoted, supply ample in many lines.
The Florida fruit trade shows lemons and oranges in slightly larger supply with fair arrivals and steady demand. Prices quoted include oranges at 2.50 to 3.50 per box and lemons at 4 to 7 per box. Mediterranean lemons command firm prices with limited supply and varied sizes. Jamaica oranges sell quietly at 3.40 per barrel. Apple receipts reach 3,720 barrels today, with steady sales for assorted varieties like Pippins, Nova Scotia Gravestein, Snow, King, Russell, Greenings, and Ben Davis.
The steamer Brunel sailed from New York today for Boston carrying 700 boxes of Mesina lemons. The steamer Yamuri is due Saturday with Jamaica bananas for the Boston Fruit Company.
Snow and Cosold auction prices include Almeria grapes at 2 3 4 2 8 50 per bbl Tokay grapes at 65 75c per single and 2 12 14 300 P per double crate Muscats at 1 24 1 40 per pkg Emperor grapes at 1 50 per double crate Winter Nellis pears at 2 65 per box H Harris and Cosolid offer California grapes Cornichons half crates 1 25 full 2 87 4 Muscat grapes half 62 4 80c full 1 83 5 1 65 lokay half 1 30 full 2 50 3 25 Rose de Peru full 1 85 Jamaica s 1 12 4 2 00 per box
AC Lombardsns cable reports steady market for choice fruit with good demand and neglect of inferior apples. No Boston apples offered. Best Canadian Baldwins at 25s, russets 22s, Northern spies 22s. Arrivals: 9691 bbls from American and Canadian sources. Reads on tight parcels list prices for Kings Culverts Ribstone Pippins Blenheims Baldwins Greenings Twenty ounce Russets and other varieties. New York Baldwins 193 23s 6d. Maine Baldwins ship prices 20 25s 8d. Russets 23s 6d. Kings 31s 64 338s 6d. Harveys 24s 6d. Nova Scotia Gravensteins 18 22s. Choice quality in strong demand. French and Belgian fruit scarcer. apples expected to perform well through period.
Sugar and molasses prices show quiet, steady demand across the market. Raw and refined sugars hold firm with varying grades quoted from 5 to 69-16 cents per pound, while wholesale brokers list several granulated and pulverized sugar grades. Molasses demand remains quiet with prices for Porto Rico, Barbados, Cienfuegos, and New Orleans grades ranging from 27 to 53 cents per gallon.
The New York spot market shows quiet demand with Middling uplands at 9 34 cents and middlings at 9 16c. Daily sales total 418 bales with stock at 54,373. Liverpool demand moderate at easier prices for various grades. American sales 10,000 bales and receipts 19,000, mostly American. Futures opened weak then steady. other ports show mixed yet steady to easy tones. Additional notes cover print cloth, whiskey markets, and miscellaneous commodities with current price levels.
Shipping and warehousing entries list Beaman Bros sending 11 cases eggs and J F Brock 16 dozen, alongside Brown & De Lorien, Bartlett & Lyman and many others moving eggs potatoes mackerel and fish. Numerous firms from Halifax to Yarmouth record bags and boxes of perishables, butter, and miscellaneous goods, with quantities, locations, and shipper names across a wide coastal trade ledger.
A maritime goods list from ports including Port Antonio Kingstonport and Liverpool details cargoes such as flour meals corn plaster and groceries. Ships Dexter Windsor Packet Amherst Maitland and Windsor Packet are mentioned with quantities of flour meal and other provisions.
The list details export values by item and country, listing Nova Scotia Scotland Belgium Italy Germany Hayti Buenos Aires Cuba and other regions. Key goods include dry goods, wool, cotton, paper stock, machinery, coffee, sugar,酒 and various metals and provisions. Overall totals reach 1 211 659 with regional tallies and commodity breakdowns.
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