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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 19, 1889
Page
7
The report shows Chicago and New York receipts and shipments for grain and oats with No 2 red and yellow quotes and depressed futures. It notes weak and firmer tones in various markets, with butter prices steady to firm and eggs and cheese steady with modest demand and mixed stock levels.
The market stays fairly steady with strong prices for select beans and steady demand for peas and yellow eyes. Fresh quotes cover New York and Vermont peas, California peas, red kidneys, Lima beans, and foreign varieties, plus Western poultry, game items, and potatoes with mixed demand and steady close prices.
The report notes slow sales at steady prices for onions beets carrots lettuce radishes turnips and other vegetables. Florida string beans arrive, shipments mostly in poor condition with sales at 3 dollars per crate.
Apples show no improvement with large supply and fair home trade. Exports for the week ending Nov 16 reach 12,081 bbls across Boston New York Montreal Liverpool and Glasgow. Oranges lemons and grapes priced with steady demand. Jamaica bananas sold at 1.10 per No 1s, 0.85 for 8 hands, 0.60 for No 2.
The Devonshire is due with 750 boxes Palermo lemons after passing Gibraltar on Oct 31. The Flamborough is due Thursday carrying Jamaica bananas for the Boston Fruit Company.
H Harris & Co to auction 1000 boxes Florida oranges and 100 boxes Florida lemons Tuesday. Snow & Co sold Almeria grapes at 3.50 per 6, 6 42 P per half barrel, Western New York grapes 22 35¢ per basket, Florida oranges 1.50 to 3.75 per unit, 4 6 24 2 bbl.
Receipts include tallow 55 pkgs beef 12 bbls pork 15 bbls lard 641 pkgs hams 7 bbls bacon 638 boxes. Pork and pork products show strong demand with export activity noted. quotes list various cuts and prices across New York Chicago St Louis Cincinnati and other markets. Fresh beef steady with active demand. tiered notes on lard, bacon, shoulders and tongues with regional price variations.
Fresh meats report shows light to heavy cuts with varied prices. Lambs 9c and 6 8c for others, mutton 7 42c, yearlings 5 7c, Brighton and Eastern lots cited. Tallow supplies strong with quiet demand. city rendered at 4 3 4c and New York tallow steady near 13 16c.
Cattle markets show strong trade with Kansas City listing steers to 330 390 dollars and cows to 175 250 while stockers fetch 250 300 dollars. Hogs run 360 372 percent for heavies and 372 7742 for Yorkers. Cincinnati and Chicago report steady to higher demand with hogs near 343 385 dollars and cattle, stockers and Texas ranges at prevailing levels. Receipts and shipments are noted across cities with varied totals.
New York cotton opens firm then closes quiet with detailed price table for uplands and middlings. Liverpool steady demand shows Wednesday activity while American receipts and stocks across ports, including New Orleans and Savannah, illustrate overall steady to firm tone.
Sugar market remains firm with steady demand and mixed grades quoted. Cuban refining sugars and pulverized varieties show stable prices. molasses receipts and regional quotes noted for Ponce Cienfuegos and Barbados grades with prices per gallon and per hundredweight.
Coffee Rio steady demand fair cargoes at 20 cents. Whiskey market steady at 102 dollars. Turpentine and petroleum in New York show turpentine at 46 cents, resin around 107 to 112 percent, tar at 250, petroleum lead at 7.752 cents, RSW 7.45 cents, and cases at 9.45 cents.
A detailed list of goods from a November 18 1889 shipment aboard the Pavonia from Liverpool. Items include iron, steel, woollens, moise, lace, printed music, wine, prunes, raisins, brandy, clocks, furniture, and machinery among others with numerous consignors and buyers listed.
A long OCR style ledger lists shipments and goods from many merchants including Fuller Mig co Wells Fargo & co and AO Skinner among others. Entries cover wine, dry goods, carpeting, books, glassware, tissues, porcelain, woollens, musical items, fruit, dairy and groceries with quantities such as cases bales crates and boxes, plus destinations like Yarmouth NS Jamaica Rosario and Charlottetown reflecting a broad colonial trade ledger.
The export notices detail cargoes from Margaretville Nova Scotia with Sch Elizabeth carrying flour cs and other goods followed by listings from Sydney CB and Trinidad BWI. The Trinidad voyage Lahaina cleared Nov 16 shows vast quantities including ice cornmeal kerosene vegetables fruit butter cheese lager and many other commodities.
Paris reports wheat steady with December at 39f 3c and flour quiet. London cargoes off coast show no offerings, with wheat firm on passage and higher figures, corn steady. Mark Lane shows wheat and corn dearer, flour firmer. Liverpool prices bid higher for spot wheat though no advance set, corn firmly held. Wreadstuffs declare wheat firm with poor demand, corn steady. futures quiet. Prices listed for winter and spring wheat, club wheat, American corn and barley, pork and lard levels, and December to April futures.
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