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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 14, 1887
Page
7
The report lists varied movements across commodities with copper down and tin quiet, lead firm, flour and corn firm, oats strong, potatoes plentiful, poultry plentiful, apples dull, pork and lard unchanged, fresh beef quiet, lambs dull, veal in moderate demand, and refined sugars easing. Overall, several staple items show firmness while others drift.
Boston port exports for the weeks ending Nov 12 13 and 5 1886 list commodities including butter cheese lard flour wheat corn and apples with quantities in tbs bbIs sacks and bushels and cattle head totals for each week. The figures cover butter cheese oleomargarine pork bacon beef fresh beef lard flour and other staples.
Demand remains good and prices steady for pig iron while foreign irons lag. Copper bears a sharp drop with heavy short sales. Steel rails market unsettled ahead of a board meeting on Nov 15. buyers expect more closures and orders.
Nov 12 market notes a firm flour market with Minneapolis brand bids around 510 to 515 per barrel. Corn remains firm with rising prices and mixed offerings. Oats stay strong with steady to rising futures and on track prices around 36 to 40 cents. Wheat and flour export movement shows wheat down 3.49 million bushels versus 1886, flour up 540,559 barrels. Prices for flour varieties and meal products listed.
The report lists oats, choice barley, No 1 and No 2 white and mixed oats with prices, bran at 125 dollars per ton in sacks, Middlings at 19.60 to 25.75 per ton, cottonseed meal at 24.25 to 25.75 per ton, rye trading quietly at 67.75 per bushel, various malt grades from Canada and state, and hops values from 5 to 12 cents per pound for 1886 and other grades.
The report shows steady prices across butter cheese and eggs with firm markets for creameries and eye market. Fresh lots are scarce while bean hay and rye straw stay firm. oat straw rises slightly and potatoes hold with fair demand. Poultry and tallow prices move little and overall receipts are ample for many commodities.
New York butter firm and in good demand with State and Western prices noted. Cheese steady. eggs firm and fresh at 25c. Beans steady, dried apples quiet, Montreal activity ongoing but prices unchanged as holders resist. Liverpool cheese market steady at 58s 6d.
The steamer Berkshire is due Monday carrying 1888 barrels of sweet potatoes and 123 boxes of oranges. The Savannah steamer is also due Monday with 2500 boxes of oranges aboard.
Snow & Co and H. Harris & Co announce upcoming fruit auctions with loads of grapes figs oranges lemons and chestnuts. Market chatter reports steady to firmer apple demand, quiet trade in grapes and dried fruits, and varied Liverpool prices for apples cranberries grapes oranges lemons bananas nuts and dried apples with range allowances.
On Saturdays the truck market stays calm with prices unchanged. Listings show onions, cabbages, beets, squash, carrots, lettuce, parsnips, turnips, celery, cauliflower, pumpkins and spinach with varied per basket or per barrel rates in pence, cents and dollars. Strong entities include St Andrews and Hubbards.
The pork market shows firm demand with firmer Western markets lifting home sentiment. Export demand remains robust with last week’s pork exports valued at 130 000 dollars, up from 115 000 the prior week and 80 000 the year before. Beef is steadier while imports and lamb trade pick up with higher movement in markets. Prices overall hold steady with an upward tendency across fresh meats and cuts listed.
A listing of various meat products with tied prices and packaging terms. Items include ribs and sausage from Dadlec, hams, shoulders, tripe, and beef cuts. Prices are shown per pound, per hundredweight, or by container, with noted varieties and quality grades.
Liverpool futures opened flat and closed steady with varying November to July bids. Spot markets in New York and New Orleans showed modest upticks and declines, while the Bureau of Statistics reports October raw cotton exports at 600,304 bales, valued at $36,071,448, with a 44 percent quantity increase since September 1, 1887.
Reports from New York trade centers show flour receipts at 27 548 pkgs with exports 4370 bbls and 13 561 sacks while wheat receipts reach 154 000 bush and No 2 spring at 8414¢. Prices vary by city with Detroit and Minneapolis reporting mixed oats and corn values and Chicago noting dull provisions and firm No 2 red wheat.
The print cloth market in Providence on November 12 closed very strong with 64x64s offered at 35 16 cents and 66x603 at 2 15-16, while manufacturers hold 180000 pieces. Weekly sales included 6000 pieces 64x64s extras at 31 4 cents plus 1 percent and 7000 pieces 56x60s spots with November delivery at 2 cents.
In Augusta net receipts total 1826 and gross 1826 with sales 1818, price around 034 cents. Galveston cites net receipts 5367 and gross 5357 with a steady market tone.
Wheat futures advance in Liverpool with California grades listed for November to April. Paris quotes wheat for November. Havana sugar market shows dull trading with polarizations priced, stock figures for Havana and Matanzas, weekly receipts and exports, and freights to the United States in gold.
At Antwerp on November 12 the wool sale saw no special feature with moderate attendance and good demand. Of 2600 bales offered, Buenos Ayres brought 85 170f per 100 kilos for 1360 bales, Montevideo 185f for 859 bales, New South Wales 110 250f for 128 bales, Cape of Good Hope and Natal 200 3845f for 50 bales, and sundries 40 105f per 100 kilos for 698 bales.
A detailed ledger of ships Pavonia Michigan and Pavonia commerce listing steamer cargoes in Liverpool including caustic soda tin boxes leather woolen goods machinery and wines. Notable firms cited include Baring Bros & co Fuller Dana Fitz Jere Abbott & co and Richardson & Gerts. The record enumerates hundreds of boxed goods casks crates cases bags and bales across diverse commodities. It notes quantities such as 120 tons salt 374 casks soda ash 860 bbls wet salted hides and 273,206 feet hard pine for the Charles JH Wolston schooner.
Shipping ledger lists cargo from Charlo ttetown Summerside and Halifax to River NS Digby Annapolis and Port Morant Jamaica and Port au Prince Haiti. Recorded items include flour meal bales cotton hardware boxes brick tea lumber pearl oyster oil and various farm goods aboard vessels Stamford New Brunswick Worcester and Evangeline with cargo counts and items such as 2875 bbis flour 46 pkgs hardware and 200 bags nitrate.
The Albany Grand Junction Providence Old Colony New York and New England Fitchburg Boston and Maine Boston and Maine Western Boston and Lowell railroads report extensive commodity receipts including cotton wool flour corn wheat oats leather hides and lard. Totals list 1887 and 1886 comparisons across bales boxes barrels and cases for staples such as butter cheese tea loaf sugar and molasses.
Local time tables for the Boston and Albany line list daily departures to Springfield Pittsfield Albany and Went with express and sleeping car services to New York Buffalo Chicago and beyond. Includes numerous local stops from Worcester to Marlboro Newton and Fitchburg with Sunday and special return trains.
Train schedules list depart times from Boston and various hubs including Ayer Junction Belmont Cambridge and Fitchburg for connections west to Albany Chicago St Louis and other points. Daily and Sunday trains include express and sleeping car services with multiple departure times and named destinations.
On May 30 1887 trains run Boston to New York on Shore Line Mail with return trips at 8 am and 1 pm. Service includes Steamboat connections and varied daily departures to towns like Jebronville and Hyde Park. Times and routes listed. arrangements note Sundays, weekdays, and seasonal adjustments. A. A. Folsom, Superintendent.
Train schedules list weekday and Sunday departures from Gaston and many stops including Ashmont Fall River lines Plymouth Quincy Nantucket and more. Indicates boat connections from New York and other routes with general manager signatures.
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