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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 11, 1887
Page
7
The leather market remains quiet yet firm with hides dull and easy. Flour corn oats rye and rye flour stay quiet or steady while malt and millfeed show demand. Butter cheese eggs and beans move modestly. potatoes and sweet potatoes plentiful. poultry abundant. fruits steady with grape demand. Beef pork and veal show steady or moderate activity. tallow sugars molasses also steady.
The leather market remains quiet during election week though prices stay firm. Demand is steady for finished and bovine hides with moderate supply and active glove and pebble leather sectors. Exports add to overall value while rough and union leathers stay steady or light. calfskins and hemlock goods see selective demand.
Market remains firm yet dull as millers and dealers hold firm quotes. Wheat and corn steady. oats price activity mixed with fluctuating December and January bids. millfeed in good demand. various flour grades and cornmeal prices listed. oats and rye markets quiet with limited activity.
The butter market remains quiet as quotations hold firm while receipts of fine fresh creamery butter are noted.
Fresh creamery quotations rise with volume for butter and cheese mixed. Eggs and poultry show firm prices though demand is uneven. Thanksgiving ship dates urged for Boston markets. Grain and bean prices hold with steady demand, while beets, potatoes, and sweet potatoes face varied receipts and pricing.
The pork market remains steady with lard and hams at prior prices and fresh beet trading slowly due to ample supply. Extra prime beef and veals show limited movement while lambs are plentiful. Detailed prices cover pork cuts, hams, bacon, beef, and fresh meats with wide-ranging per unit quotes.
Hf Morris & Co to auction 366 bbls Almeria grapes Friday. Apples show slow sale. Baldwins priced extra No 1s. Florida oranges and bright lemons in good demand. common lots slow. Cranberries steady at old quotes. raisins exports from Denia to Oct 15 down vs last year. Virginia peanut crop estimated 1,000,000 bushels. total fruit crop around 1,000,000 to 1,250,000 boxes. Nut markets steady. dried apples and hickory nuts firm.
The report lists net receipts, gross sales, and stock levels across ports including Memphis Savannah Charleston Wilmington Norfolk Philadelphia Baltimore New York Cincinnati St Louis and Louisville. It notes firm or steady prices with mids and cents per hundredweight in several entries, and consolidated totals for six days of exports to Great Britain France and the continent reaching 718 674 in stock across United States ports.
Track prices show onions steady at 2 75 300 per barrel, cabbage at 5 7 per 100, beets 40 to 49 cents per bush, squash and Hubbard squash at 75 cents per barrel, carrots 40 cents per bush, lettuce 1 2 per box, celery 3 per box, cauliflower 75 cents, pumpkins 75 cents per barrel, spinach 15 to 20 cents per bush. Numerous varieties and regional labels appear with multiple unit measurements.
Liverpool cotton futures opened and closed weak across months from November to July with varied d prices. Spot cotton showed active trade and firm up to middling levels while New York spot stayed unsettled. Futures quotes in New York opened easy with mixed bid and ask levels. Reports include pipeline certificates, sugar demand firm with refined staying steady, and molasses prices for various origins.
New York reports flour and wheat receipts with exports and varied bbl and sack sales across grades. Chicago shows firm provisions and steady wheat. Minneapolis notes active wheat and higher flour. Milwaukee logs firm flour and rising rye. Cincinnati and St. Louis show stronger provisions and steady to higher grain prices.
Hogs higher in St Louis and Peoria with prices around 4 20 to 4 70 and firm in Chicago cattle at mixed and higher bids. Kansas City quotes estimated receipts near 8,000 with shipments about 3,397. Chicago notes strong, higher cattle with steers up to 5 25 and various ranges for stockers, cows, and calves.
Augusta net receipts 1446 with little movement, Galveston exports coastwise 4116 and stock 9072 show a firm mid 3 percent, New Orleans receipts 11,653 with exports to Great Britain 3480 and stock 204,989 indicate a strong mid 95 cent market.
London and Liverpool market notes report wheat prices firm with active demand and steady corn. Prices for red winter wheat quoted at 36s 3d, California wheat 63 5/4d, mixed American corn for November 4s 6 3/4d, December 6 3/4d. Liverpool futures strong and tallow and cheese values rise.
A long ledger style record lists ships and consignments arriving at Liverpool and Atlantic ports on November 10, 1887. It names steamer Venetian and numerous firms like Commercial Express Co Erie Despatch Co EK F King Co and Baring Bros Co with casks of soda glass chemicals and raw goods, plus regional entries for Barrington NS and Charlottetown PEI.
Sch AF cleared Nov 9 carries 500 barrels of meal and 125 barrels of flour. Port George ship Portland loads 250 barrels of flour 50 bags middlings 25 barrels phosphate.
A ledger style listing shows total receipts of various commodities on November 10 1887 including cotton eggs cornmeal oats beans wheat malt and beef with numerous container and unit figures such as bales barrels sacks and bushels. The data specify quantities by type and unit across multiple products.
A long 1887 ledger note lists railroad receipts for Albany Grand Junction Providence Old Colony and New York & New England. Entries total bales cotton flour corn oats malt teed butter lard bacon tea coffee sugar molasses and leather with hundreds of barrels sacks and boxes across rail lines. Names of roads and quantities suggest broad grain produce and merchandise movements through regional hubs.
A ledger style list details cargo moved by multiple rail divisions and carriers. Items include cotton, wool, flour, corn, oats, cottonseed meal, butter, cheese, eggs, apples, potatoes, hay, lumber, leather, hides, skins, bolls, bales, and various bbls and boxes. Notable lines reference Boston and Maine Railroad Eastern and Western Divisions and Boston and Lowell Railroad with quantities in bales, cars, bbls, and boxes.
The Boston and Providence Railroad Corporation schedules its annual meeting for November 16 at 11:30 a.m. in Boston to elect directors and discuss leasing the road to Old Colony Railroad Company and issuing bonds to fund floating debt, with ratification later by stockholders. Clerk Winslow Warren issues the notice from Boston dated November 5, 1887.
Dividend of five dollars per share payable at the treasurer's office in Boston on Tuesday November 16 to stockholders of record at the close of business October 27 1887. A Blanchard Treasurer Boston October 26 1887.
Trains run from Boston foot of Summer Street on weekdays with no car changes for Ashcroft and multiple listed departure times to Danbury Atlanta Dorchester Street and other stops. Sunday trains depart Boston for Norwood Central and intermediate stations with a late evening return schedule.
M. Norwich Line Express for New York New London Norwich Danielsonville and Putnam. Train connects at New London with Steamer City of Worcester or City of New York. Parlor car seats Pullman berths steamer state rooms. Tickets at 322 Washington Street or depot foot of Summer Street. A. Jackson and A. Kendall, general superintendent and general passenger agent.
Local time tables for the Boston and Albany Railroad dated June 27 1887 show departures to Chicago New York Buffalo and Albany with many express and sleeping car services. Through tickets and drawingroom coach access available from 232 Washington Street Boston including Worcester Springfield and Palmer connections.
Timetables listing weekday departures from Gaston and various endpoints including Fall River Line and Ashmont. Provides multiple routes with arrival and return times for towns such as Barnstable Hyannis Yarmouth Sandwich Braintree Mattapan Milton Nantucket Plymouth Hingham and Brockton along with connecting boat trains and general passenger guidance.
Trains leave Boston Passenger Station Causeway Street for North Adams Troy Albany and the West with various sleeping car services to Alba Express and Columbus, listing multiple daily departures and times across Brattleboro Miller's Falls Miller's Falls connections and Sunday schedules.
On and after Monday May 80 trains run from Providence and other lines to New York and destinations. Details list sail times for Leard Hoston via Shore Line Fast Express 104m, connections to New Wor via Shore Line Mail, New York Steamboat Stonington Line, and multiple return times. Public notice ends with A. A. Folsom, Supt.
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