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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1889
Page
7
The report notes expected freight increases and lists prices for flour and wheat by grade, region and delivery terms. It covers New York Chicago St Louis receipts and shipments, oats, corn meal and rye flour markets with quotes, stock levels, and on call bids plus futures activity.
Receipts show butter 1350 pkgs and other dairy products with mixed stock. Butter market is steady with Western creameries scarce, firsts in fair demand, and higher prices expected for finer grades while poor lots sell low. Cheese remains steady with quiet demand and exporters active.
The egg market remains soft with no change in quotations. Eastern choice eggs bring 30c, extras 26–28c, firsts 25–26c, while Western and Canadian regions quote 23–28c and down to 16–22c for held or limed stock. Beans and peas show steady demand. poultry demand remains fair with steady prices for choice lots. Potatoes, sweet potatoes, and hay markets are quiet to steady with varied regional prices.
The market remains steady with full supply and quiet trade. Prices listed include onions 75 cents bush, Western onions 2 dollars per barrel, beets 50 cents per 5-box, carrots 40 cents per box, lettuce 25 to 40 cents per head, radishes 40 cents per head, turnips 3.65 per box, cabbage 50 cents per barrel, celery 2 dollars per 4 bunches, spinach 20 cents per bunch, and other produce with various price points.
The market stays well supplied as New York State crops fail and Michigan harvests the heaviest apple crop in a decade. Michigan greens and Talman sweets lead, with exports rising to Boston and New York. Prices for Boston wholesale apples range from 2 to 3.60 per barrel plus freight.
The steamer Devonshire is due about noon, bringing passengers and cargo to the port. Local harbor officials expect routine customs clearance and passenger handling upon docking.
A steamer bound for Palermo carried 750 boxes of lemons and passed Gibraltar on October 31.
H Harris & Co announce Tuesday auctions of 6500 boxes Florida oranges 893 boxes Palermo lemons and 660 barrels Almeria grapes. Brown & Seccomb to offer 13000 barrels Almeria grapes on Wednesday November 13 from Ponca cargo. Wick Bay lemons 10000 boxes to be sold in New York Tuesday. Snow & Co report Almeria grapes 4 dollars 8 12% and Florida snow 1 dollar 75 2 65 per box for quality grades.
Receipts show tallow 14 packages, beef 85 barrels, pork 50 barrels, lard 2792 packages, hams 3 barrels and 160 tierces, bacon 640 boxes with no preserved meats. Current quotations list long cuts to country prices and regional notes for New York Chicago Cincinnati markets with varied lard, corned beef, tongues, and beef products.
Kansas City reports steady cattle markets with steer prices around 3.20 to 3.75 and cows 1.50 to 2.20, hogs steady to weak with heavies near 3.75 to 4.05 and Yorkers 3.90 to 3.95. Cincinnati and Chicago indicate hogs steady to lower opening, cattle receipts and shipments up, beef values from 3.40 to 5.05 in beeves, and sheep with natives around 2.75 to 4.20.
Cotton futures opened steady and closed weak in New York while Liverpool held steady with fair demand for middlings around 53 4d. Ocean shipments and stock levels rose across major ports including New Orleans, Savannah and Charleston, with totals for receipts and exports reported alongside steady to firm prices in several markets.
The oil market proves too narrow for large quantity trades as big purchases push prices up while heavy selling drives the market down. The pattern shows holders reluctant to sell during price advances, with implications for pipeline certificates and related notes.
Sugar receipts today total 453 barrels, similar to last year, with a quiet, unchanged market. Prices quoted for Cuban, Manila, Java, and Molasses supply notes, with refined sugar firm and comparable to last year. New York raw sugars are very firm with quiet demand. molasses receipts include 37 barrels and 5 hogsheads, with steady tone.
Mand is reported at previous prices with Fancy Ponce at 42 43¢, Peal choice 6 41c, fair to good 36 39c, Cienfuegos 25 28c, Barbados 32c, boiling grades. 50 test nominal. New York trade is quiet.
Turpentine closed at 47 4 cents per gallon with rosin down 10 112 percent and tar at 260 cents. Petroleum closed at 7.752 dollars with RSW at 7 45 cents and cases at 9 45 cents. Coffee Rio is firm and active with fair cargoes at 19 cents. Whiskey shows no change.
Shipping ledger lists S Santiago Hull Steamer and numerous consignments from Charlottetown Port Hawkesbury Halifax and other ports. Items include mackerel paper stock woollen goods china glassware and potatoes with many firms named such as C W Yates Crocker Burbank Brown Bros Houghton Dutton Saitta Keaman Bartlett J F Brock and Barclay & co.
Export list dated November 11 1889 includes Georgetown Prince Edward Island and St Thomas Bermuda with flour cornmeal crackers rye and wheat flour codfish smoked salmon mackerel tongues and oysters ice nails paper tongues ork turkeys cabbages celery onions potatoes pine shingles and kerosene at Bear River Shelburne Lockport and Ella Maud vessels detailing quantities and destinations as part of a coastal trade report
A detailed cargo inventory from the Bostonian steamer sailing from Liverpool lists items including sacks of feed flour oatmeal cornmeal pork beef refined oil beans lard salt and oil cake. The record also notes quantities of copper zinc hides rubber organ materials books bags and various meat, textile, and agricultural products aboard.
Antwerps report notes steady wheat prices while Paris shows quiet activity for December wheat at 59 f and flour at 32 f. London cargoes dull as wheat and corn trade slowly. Liverpool shows poor demand for wheat and steady corn with low spot activity and mixed quotes for winter and spring wheats. Prices cited include 6s 94d to 7s 24 78d for various wheats and 4s for mixed American corn. Provisions lists and futures also indicate quiet or weaker conditions across notes.
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