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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1889
Page
7
Prices for mackerel and salmon hold. fresh mackerel scarce yet firm. Halibut and swordfish fetch higher bids while oysters remain scarce. Domestic and foreign receipts of fresh mackerel rise with continued steady to firmer prices overall amid abundant supplies for some species and shrinking stocks for others.
John E Welsh at 206 State Street lists carload grain quotations and flour prices. Market activity is quiet with some steady prices for spring patents and export grades. notes mixed corn, steamer yellow corn, various oats and rye, with receipts and shipments tallied for New York, St Louis, Chicago.
The report lists daily receipts across dairy and farming goods with Butter 3050 tubs and 1822 cases of eggs among numerous items. Dairy quotes show Eastern extra creamery at 20 24c and lower grades dull, while beans, poultry, potatoes, and hay markets vary with steady to quiet demand and regional price ranges.
The notice lists steady demand and prevailing prices for a range of vegetables. Items include onions at 75 cents per bush and 87 4 cents per crate, beets 35 cents per box, carrots 40 cents per box, lettuce 50 cents per box, tomatoes 1 to 1.50 dollars per bush, and celery 75 cents per dozen, with several other greens and root vegetables priced by bush box or barrel. Pickle onions sell at 50 cents for yellow and 2 dollars per bush for white.
Market steady for apples oranges pears grapes with readings from Cravensteins to Harveys. Prices listed: apples Cravensteins 250 300 per unit Hubbardstons 2 per lb. oranges Jamaica 550 650 per barrel, 250 300 per box. pears Seckle 5 8, Beurre Bosc 5 8, common lots 2 3 per bushel. grapes Concords 25 30c, Delaware 65 70c, New York boxes 4 4 500 crate, Concords 150 175.
Cranberries remain firm with good demand and higher prices. Cape Cod lots sell at 750 to 850 per barrel and 225 to 275 per crate. Native lots around 2 to 2.25 a bush, New Yorks at 4 to 4.50 per barrel. Almeria grapes supply not large with steady demand at 4 to 6 per barrel. Niagara prices range 65 to 75 cents, York State peck baskets 75 cents.
Blake and Ripley sold California fruit with peaches at 1 25 1 75 per crate and Muscat and Emperor varieties priced for half and whole crates. Snow and Co auction listed Concord grapes at 27 29c and California peaches, Lake Erie peaches, Almeria grapes, and Malaga lemons with multiple package prices. Monday sales will include one car of Concord grapes one car Catawba grapes and 1000 boxes Malaga lemons.
The steam ship Tordenskjold is due to arrive with Banes bananas for Seaverns & Co. The pending arrival signals a shipment delivery and stock replenishment for the merchants.
The market shows steady provisions with varied regional bids. New York tallow remains strong at $2 per package with a 45 cent bid. pork sales firm around 12.50 to 12.79 per barrel. lard and bacon see firmness in some lots. Chicago observes firm mess pork at 10.50 to 10.75 and firmer short ribs and lard movements. St Louis reports quiet, unchanged provisions.
Kansas City cattle market slow but steady with steers 3 430. cows 135 200. butchers stock 150 190. stockers 250 300. range 210 250. Hogs 569 higher. heavies 380 400. mediums 390 405. Yorkers 410 420. Sheep 495 steady at 3 375. Cincinnati hogs quiet 325 460. Chicago cattle receipts 14 000 shipments 4 000 dull 10c lower. beefies 450 460. steers 280 4 25. stockers 175 300. cows 12 75. Texas and Western cattle 135 285. hogs receipts 22 000 shipments 8 500 slow lower. mixed 345 425. heavy 385 425. light 390 470. sheep receipts 8 000 shipments 2 000 weaker natives 250 450. Western 340 400. Texans 240 410. lambs 405 480.
Cotton trading remains quiet with 408 bales listed for uplands and various grades. Futures opened steady and closed steady while Liverpool markets show steady tones and U S port totals for a week ending Oct 4 with rising stocks and exports across regions.
Sugar receipts today 122 bbls 206 birds versus none last year. Raw sugars quiet and weak refined prices down slightly with steady demand at old levels. Belmont A and standard grades quoted. New York markets show mixed activity with refined sugar easing and molasses steady to dull.
Coffee prices weak in New York Rio market with fair value noted. Whiskey unchanged. Turpentine and petroleum results show turpentine at 484% 49c with resin 105 110 and tar 3. petroleum closed at 7.55c with RSW 7.05c and cases 9.05c.
A compact list of imports and shipments including GOREE WCA cargoes and goods from Surinam to Halifax and Black River Jamaica. Entries feature Brig Rocky and Brig H O Sibley with commodities like cocoa logs and hides, fish, berries, gum, salt fish, and mackerel.
Shipping cargoes from Buenos Ayres Cayenne Yarmouth Port Antonio Melbourne Melbourne Canada Halifax Charlottetown and Antwerp include lumber canned goods meats flour oil and hardware. Notable items: steamer cargoes from Yarmouth and Charles Morand with flour lard onions oranges and nails. Melbourne ship with cans oil and stoves. Antwerp consignment with bacon oil cake and leather.
Foreign markets show wheat quiet and corn cheaper off the coast with weak inquiry. At Mark Lane buyers few even as American corn weakens. Paris and Antwerp steady or quiet. Liverpool spot wheat and corn easier with mixed futures firm for wheat and steady for corn. prices given for several wheat and corn types and fats.
A list of buyers and firms from multiple cities including Atlant a Bates Kingsbery & O Atlanta J A Smith Moore Marsh Co Baltimore Bangs Bangs Co Young Creighton Co Tre Carroll Adams Co Md Slingruff Disney Birmingham Perry Mason Sheep Columbus Orr J K Orr Co Charleston Drake M Drake Son Darcy Guthman Carpenter Telling Farnum US Cincinnati Plant Marks Meis Daum Laws Gates Darrell Belknap Dallas C E Smith H S Robinson Bur tenshaw McGraw Evansville Hinkle Carnahan Grand Ispids Reeder Palmer Grand Rapids Bertsch Lichte Blum Lynchburg Craddock Goodbar Vogel Stern Jackson Nashville Throne Murray Manier Kirkendall Philadelphia Else Lott Roberts c
The notice records the appointment of Robert Grant administrator of Elizabeth Gough of Boston with bonds filed. Creditors must present claims and debtors pay. Also George H. Pendergast named executor of Hopley T. Meserve of Boston. Another notice appoints Horace Dodd administrator of Eleanor Walgatt of Chelsea with bond, demands to exhibit, debts to pay.
A listings page details multiple rail departures and arrivals by city including Nashua Lowell Stoneham Woburn and Winchester with times for weekdays and a Sunday schedule. The list also notes connections via Concord and Bedford and references Montreal and Spain line stops.
Passenger trains depart Boston stations at 7.45 am 1.30 pm and 3.40 pm serving Northampton Hadley Amherst Belcher town endsville Ware Gilbertville Barre Butlanud Oakdale Weat Boylston Worcester Clinton Berlin Hudson South Sudbury Kneckbottom Wayland Weston Waltham Averley Belmont and other stops with Sunday service to Northampton at 7.15 pm. James T. Furber and D. J. Flanders sign as General Manager and Passenger Agent.
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