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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 16, 1889
Page
7
Large seaboard wheat and flour clearances buoy prices while Northwest receipts lift bears. Market shows light offerings and expectations of better exports, with corn, oats, pork, and lard following a guarded, fluctuating path.
John E Welsh at 206 State Street reports carload grain trade with 97 car receipts today 7416 bbls flour 4669 sacks and prices firm with advances on some grades. Multiple regional quotes including No 2 red and white oats steamer yellow corn and mixed grains. exports and mill activity noted with rising demand and notable sales of spring patents at mills.
The report shows sack spring at 14 14 75 per ton and sack winter at 15 25 16 00 per ton. Michigan bran bulk 16 16 25, middlings 15 19 per ton. Cottonseed meal receipts today 800 bushels, market quiet at 23 50 per ton for new meal with December shipment. Malt receipts 2700 bushels, market dull with light demand. Hops receipts none, market quiet in buyers favor with New York price ranges from 12 13c for 1889 to 3 6c for 1887.
Receipts show butter in various forms including 183 pkgs cheese and 1152 boxes eggs, with butter markets steady. Western creameries press for 26c for fancy brands though 25c straight is quoted, while lower grades weaken and buyers pay more attention to higher grades amid limited supply.
The market shows a steady, quiet trade with ample supply. Onions at 75c bush and 2.25 per double crate. Spanish onions 8 cent per crate. beets 50c box. carrots 40c per box. radishes 40c per dozen. turnips 35c per box. white cape and St Andrews items listed with various prices.
Readable fragment lists a variety of produce with odd spellings and prices. Items include cabbage, parsnips, pumpkins, squash, marrow, turban, Hubbard, celery, cauliflower, spinach, and boxes priced per quantity. Values shown range from 15c to 150 per box.
Apples show steady demand for choice greenings and fancy table lots while common lots move slowly. Wholesale quotes ease from $2 to $3 for various varieties. Florida oranges supply is large with fair demand for choice lots. Sicily and Malaga lemons hold steady pricing amid modest supply. grapes and cranberries show steadier markets with varied lot sizes.
The Devonshire is due around Nov 17 with 750 boxes Palermo lemons after passing Gibraltar Oct 31. The Charles Morandi is due Nov 18 with Jamaica bananas for the Boston Fruit Company. The Savannah boat arrives Monday with 5850 boxes oranges. The Flamborough is due next Thursday with Jamaica bananas for the Boston Fruit Company.
H Harris & Co announce an auction Tuesday for 5000 boxes of Florida oranges. The cargo of the steamer Frutera, 86 boxes of Almeria grapes, will be sold at auction Monday in New York.
Receipts today show tallow 46 pkgs beef 10 bbls pork 90 bbls lard 1075 pkgs hams 20 bbls bacon 312 boxes. Pork and Pork Products market steady with a wide range of prices for cuts and byproducts across New York Cincinnati Chicago St Louis and general notes on beef and tallow demand.
Kansas City hog and cattle markets show steady cattle and lower hogs with receipts in the thousands. Cincinnati hogs firm. Chicago notes steady to strong cattle and shade easier hogs with large receipts and mixed listings. Sheep generally steady across markets with varied regional quotes.
New York cotton trading remains quiet with 228 bales sold. uplands and middling grades quoted between 9% and 11 cents. Futures opened easy and closed steady while Liverpool shows easy demand and mixed open close quotes for several months. other U.S. markets report varied receipts, exports, and stock levels with overall quiet to steady tone.
The report tracks net receipts and stocks at multiple ports including Charleston, Philadelphia, New York, and New Orleans, with exports to Great Britain and the Continent. It notes weekly totals, comparative figures, and interior stocks, highlighting firm or steady conditions and mid price ranges across markets.
Openings and closings listed for certificates and lines with specific hours. Entries note closing times at 3 pm on November 14 and 15, 1885, including pipeline readings and seeds sections with references to ROE and derived entities.
Sugar and molasses market note with receipts today 3064 bbls and 11 998 bags, last year 287 bbls. Prices quoted for Cuba refining 4 4% 4c, Manila 4 4% 4c, pulverized 75-16 to 77-16c, powdered 73-16 75-16c, granulated 61 5-16 711-6c. New York raw sugars firm with good demand. refined angels firm. Receipts in classes 363 bbls 2 bhds, last year 15 bbls 50 bhds. prices for Fancy Ponce 42 43c gal, Cienfuegos 25 78c, Barbados 32c. New Orleans demand fairly active.
Coffee New York Rio shows firm posture with fairly active demand and fair cargoes. Western markets stay steady as turpentine and petroleum close with resin and tar prices noted while RSW and cases values shift slightly.
The Nov 15 1889 cargo report lists steamers Bavanan and Mt Edgecombe delivering glass, bleaching powder, soda, mdse, sugar, and wine from firms like Sherburne Baring Bros Co J L Whiting & Son Drexel Morgan Co and Morey Co to ports including Liverpool Demerara Montague and Souris with Potatoes and hemp and various bales and cases.
Foreign markets report quiet wheat and steady corn across Antwerp Paris and London. Liverpool quotes show wheat steady with poor demand and mixed American corn prices amid unseasonably warm weather and rain.
The notice lists intercity and local train times from Boston to Portland and other towns for weekdays and Sundays. It includes stations such as Alton Bay Rochester Farmington Andover Haverhill Kennebunk Biddeford Saco Old Orchard Lawrence Lowell Newburyport Meadt Salem and more with multiple daily departures and special Sunday trains Readings and Way Stations and Workingmen's train are noted.
Schedule list details trains from Boston Causeway Street to Portland Amesbury Beverly Bradeford Great Falls Ipswich Lynn Marblehead Newburyport North Conway Portsmouth Swampscott Salem York Harbor Woboro and branches. Includes times for Boston Haymarket to numerous destinations with multiple daily departures and special branches.
The list shows a detailed Lowell System schedule with stops including Portland Street Keene Peterboro Hillsboro via Concord Wilon Milford Amherst Greenfield Nashua and more. Times are given as morning and afternoon intervals across many cities such as Lawrence Stoneham Woburn Winchester Concord and Concord Mass Reformatory Station listed with multiple daily departures.
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