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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1889
Page
7
Railroads demand demurrage relief after forty eight hours prompting sellers to adjust quotings. Extras quoted at 3 25 to 3 35, clears at 2 75 to 1 00, No 1s at 1 25 to 2 25, with firmer lath prices and East gains of about 10 cents. Best car load price around 2 25, with goods offered to 2 15 for car lots and cargo at 2.
The coal market shows firmer trade and higher prices with improved demand for anthracite. Shipments for the week reached 751,759 tons, down from 872,826 a year earlier, while bituminous stock remains tight and freight rates unchanged. Pottsville Miners' Journal predicts heavy tonnage later in the year and possible price increases toward last year’s peak.
The report covers carload grain prices excluding rye with daily inspections totaling 62 cars and flour receipts of 10,030 barrels. Prices firm with noted sales of spring patents at 5.60 and various grades of winter and patent flours. Shipping region values include New York and Chicago markets with detailed bid ranges for No 2 red and white wheats, oats, and corn.
The report lists today has butter 4108 tubs 867 boxes cheese 41297 boxes eggs 1 bbl 1477 cases beans 759 bbls potatoes 26 cars sweet potatoes 2481 bbls hay 102 cars straw 2 cars. Last year same day shows butter 1199 tubs 72 boxes cheese 2757 boxes eggs 1003.
Butter supplies limited yet sales strong at high prices for Western creamery and imitation brands. New York and Vermont dairy and cheese prices firm with Northern September sales at 11/2c. Eggs show small choice supply with varied regional quotes. Beans, poultry, potatoes, and hay markets noted steady to easy prices with ample supply in some items.
The market shows ample stock of various trucks with sales at the latest quoted prices. Prices reflect current availability and demand in the trading area.
Market notes show ample apples with quiet trading and mixed lots priced from 2 to 300 per barrel. Oranges lemons and pears vary by type with steady or rising demand, while grapes cranberries plums and quinces also report steady prices and improving supplies. Notable quotes include Gravensteins at 250 300 and Jamaica oranges at 56 50 6 50 per barrel or 250 300 box.
The Charles Morant is due Thursday carrying Jamaica bananas for the Boston Fruit Company and the Tordenskjold is due Friday with Banes bananas for Seaverus and Company.
A newspaper brief notes a Wednesday train transporting six cars of potatoes. No injuries or delays reported.
Blake and Ripley offer grapes by half crate with okays at 2006 for 255, Muscats at 150 for 287, and Morocco at 162 for 250. Snow and Co plan a Wednesday auction of Tokays. Concord grapes 3059 baskets, Almeria grapes 600 bbls, Ohio peaches 900 baskets. Auction in New York Wednesday sells cargoes from steamer Victoria 16100 Palermo lemons and 3900 Catania lemons, steamer India 1600 Naples lemons and 2200 Maori lemons, and steamer Columbia 4600 Malaga lemons.
Today’s receipts list fallow 32 pkgs beef none pork 25 bbls lard 841 pkgs hams 150 tierces preserved meats none bacon 360 boxes. Last year similar totals with pork 21 bbls hams 1 bbl tierces 180. bacon 734 boxes. Markets unchanged overall with mixed activity in New York tallow quiet at 2 dollars per pkgs and lard firmer with 1500 tierces sold.
The report shows steam and pork prices with small changes across Chicago and Cincinnati. Lard and bacon hold steady or quiet, while bulk meats firm amid modest shifts in small lots and salted shoulders noted in the market summary.
Kansas City markets show slow cattle trade with steers at 2 90 to 3 50 and cows 1 60 to 2 05. Hogs rise in Chicago and Cincinnati sees mixed results and strong demand for good beeves at 4 56 to 4 70. Sheep steady around 3 25 to 4 35 with Texas lambs and lamb futures noted.
Cotton prices in New York ease with sales at 313 bales for uplands and various grades. Futures open weak then close steady. opening and closing quotes listed by month show gradual firming amid global market activity and regional receipts totals.
Raw sugars steady with Cuba and Manila bids. Quoted refined grades and wholesale granulated prices listed. Havana sugar quiet with lower bids and 4500 bags sold to Spain. Molasses receipts none with varied regional prices for Ponce Cienfuegos and Barbadillos grades.
Coffee between New York and Rio remains steady while a tail car movement is noted. Turpentine in New York closes at 45 44 48 percent and resin at 100 244 1065 with tar at 3. petroleum closes at 7.55 cents with RSW at 7.05 cents and cases at 9.05 cents.
Boston Post correspondent George J. Fox reports Watertown Union Live Stock Market for the week ending Oct 1 1889. Cattle and sheep numbers mix with store cattle moving to Connecticut and Western steers sold from 4 4 to 5 4 per hundredweight. individual sales include Sanborn and Whitten consignments with prices noted.
The 1889 cargo lists 13 casks sperm oil, J N Han Cox engine boiler and machinery, two grain mills, bags of specie, embroidery, wine, chairs, coffee, wicker, jam, salt fish, wine, mdse, and merchandise packed in kegs, cases, and bales aboard the Bark Sarah.
In Hull via New York the steamer Santiago cleared on September 28 bringing assorted goods and cargo. The cargo includes rubber shoes one reel sheet Jread four cases mouldings three, no dry goods eighteen packages, hardware two cases, hats one box, chromes twenty boxes, oranges fifteen, lemons twelve, plums fifteen, onions thirty, bananas five, sweet potatoes ten, baskets, grapes. On personal effects fifty cases, paint fifty thousand seven hundred forty one ths, oleomargarine one hundred eighty nine? bbis apples twenty seven packages, castings fifty tierces loin s, twenty five tierces sausage casings one thousand three hundred sixty eight boxes five half boxes pacon ten boxes hams six hundred half-bbls lard.
London reports cargo activity mixed with steady wheat and quiet corn as shipments adjust. Liverpool notes steady wheat, dull corn, and varied futures with prices for American wheat and mixed corn. Antwerp and Paris show steady to firm conditions across wheat and flour.
A list of buyers from multiple firms across states including Bates Kingsbery & Co Atlanta W W Draper Draper Moore Co and J K Orr Co with firms in Baltimore Columbus Cleveland Chicago Cincinnati Detroit Fort Wayne Memphis Nashville St Louis and more. The notices name agents and companies in shoe trade networks across cities.
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