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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1889
Page
7
Commercial notes show mixed demand and firming in several staples. Butter cheese eggs meats and sugars show firmness while corn oats rye and other grains display varying activity amid overall steady to quiet trading. Numerous fruit items show plentiful supplies and steady to fair demand across markets.
The Fall River cloth market shows no activity on October 8 with no sales and prices for 64x64s at 35 cents. Only small transactions noted as markets stayed unusually slow.
London wool sales attracted good attendance and brisk bidding led by New Zealand greasy crossbreds. Totals included 12 160 bales across regions: Victoria 490 scoured and greasy lots, New South Wales 3400, Queensland 400, Australia 1400, New Zealand 3900, Tasmania 40, Natal 2100, and Falkland 35 bales with varied prices for scoured and greasy grades.
The Market reports weaker tone in December wheat and corn with large Northwest arrivals and scant export clearances. California futures gain on delayed cargo, while hogs and pork futures slip. overall provisions weaken and futures in St Louis New York Minneapolis show mixed closes.
The general lumber market shows satisfactory conditions with active trade and ample stocks. Southern pine and cypress sales rise with steady prices, while builders pursue large-scale operations and repairs. Shipping delays persist as cooler weather encourages Gulf port departures and rates ease slightly from the prior week.
The week saw strong steamer arrivals of about 183000 feet while lumber prices held firm. Spruce and pine remained active with mill runs, car lots at 14 15, and rounds of shingles steady though unsettled. storage and rail charges spurred industry protest and a Parker House meeting formed a committee to urge action.
The coal trade reports stronger retail demand due to colder weather with prices up 25 cents per ton. Stove coal $6.25, furnace $5.75, egg $6.00, Cumberland $4.75,500, Franklin $7.50. Wholesalers rush supplies from shippers as freight rates firm and water transport advances propel higher prices.
Market report covers flour receipts 8445 bbls and demand, with wide price bands for fine to export grades. Wheat and corn quotes rise and fall by grade, with New York and Chicago receipts and shipments in the hundreds of thousands of bushels. Overall market quiet, prices vary by grade, and exports show activity while domestic demand remains moderate.
New York receipts 122700 bush, exports 1174 bush, No 3 whites bid 25%4c. Chicago and St Louis show softer tissue with No 2 white oats at 31c on track and 31%2c in elevator. Oats demand improved. spot prices for No 2 white oats around 30% to 31%2c. Millfeed, cornmeal, malt, and hops show quiet but steady levels, with modest shipments and steady demand noted across regions.
Receipts today list butter 5119 tubs 895 boxes and 5117 bbls sweet potatoes, plus 120 bbls beans and 1295 cases eggs, 8 Cars potatoes, 72 Cars straw, with 4 cars hay. Last year butter 1246 tubs 6 boxes and cheese 126 boxes. eggs 6 bbls, 2926 cases. Butter market steady with varied demand and offered wholesales from 18 to 26c for creamery and imitation grades. cheese modest demand. eggs scarce but steady with regional variations. beans and peas show quiet demand but firmer prices on yellow eyes and assorted peas. poultry supply ample with prices easing. potatoes and sweet potatoes showing good demand amid ample supply. hay and straw steady with variable prices. game including grouse and partridge small supply and moderate demand.
The listing records prices for Malta onions Spanish onions carrots lettuce turnips peppers parsley beans Lima beans green corn tomatoes cabbage savoy and red cabbage in various forms with prices per bush box bbl can dozen and per unit across markets.
Market notes indicate a large apple supply with no new features and a quiet trade. Trade activity remains subdued as buyers delay purchases and sellers hold steady prices.
The report lists prices for acculumation items including Graven steins Hubbardstons Ben Davis Snow Baldwins Harveys and oranges lemons pears grapes and cranberries. Prices are given per unit and per box or crate with conditions noted as small supplies or steady demand. Florida lemons poor stock lowers quotes while Jamaica oranges remain limited with quoted box and barrel prices.
Steamers Kong Ali and Flamborough are due Thursday and Friday with Jamaica bananas for the Boston Fruit Company. The Coila is due with 19,000 bushels of Prince Edward Island potatoes for the Boston Produce Company.
Liverpool market remains firm with solid demand at latest prices Baldwins 14 15s.
H Harns & Co plan Wednesday sales of 432 boxes Almeria Bienes and one car California Notoma Vineyard Tokays. Snow & Co set Wednesday auctions for 3080 baskets Concord grapes 2790 baskets Catawba grapes 550 boxes Almeria grapes and 1000 boxes Malaga lemons. Blake & Ripley’s California fruit sale notes Tokay whole crates 3 55 to 3 85 half crates 1 50 to 1 55 Emperor whole crates 2 50 Corichon whole crates 2 12.
Receipts list varied items including tallow beef pork lard hams bacon and preserved meats with last peak figures. Prices reflect strong pork demand with long and short cuts backs lean ends and mess grades quoted across cities like New York Chicago St Louis Cincinnati and more.
Net receipts and gross figures from Norfolk and other ports show steady activity. Exports to Great Britain and the Continent mix with coastwise shipments, while stocks remain substantial at several hubs including New York and Baltimore. Consolidated figures cover four days with overall exports dominated by Great Britain and France.
Sugar receipts and prices hold steady with unchanged values from last year. Cuban refineries quote fair to good refined sugar and a range of granulated and confectioners products, while New York markets show a dull, nominal tone across refined and molasses offerings with mixed lot prices and ample wholesale signals.
Coffee-Rio shows firm fair cargoes at 19 percent. Whiskey-The Western markets steady at 102 dollars. Turpentine and Petroleum New York report Turpentine 48 484ac resin 105 110 tar 3, petroleum 7.50 cents with RSW 7 and Cases 9C.
Market report from Boston Post by George J. Fox for week ending Oct 8 1889 shows strong cattle and sheep trade. Prices listed for beef store cattle hogs hides and skins with premiums for fancy cattle and steady demand for lambs and mutton at Watertown Union Market. Trade described as fair with sales near prior week levels and several consignments including oxen and young steers.
Kansas City market reports show slow steady cattle with steer prices near 350 to 430 and stockers around 230 to 280 while hogs close lower with heavies around 385 to 400. Chicago receipts reach 11 100 cattle and 19 000 hogs with slight gains on good grades, cattle to 4 80 and hogs 3 95 to 4 40, lambs around 4 dollars. Cincinnati hogs rise on strong demand with common and light at 3 25 to 4 25 and packing hogs 4 15 to 4 35.
Cotton activity remains subdued in New York with 238 bales traded and various grades quoted from good ordinary to middling, cents per pound. Futures opened steady and closed firm while a nationwide table shows firm to modest demand across Augusta Galveston New Orleans Mobile Memphis Savannah Charleston Wilmington markets with mid 9 to 10 cent ranges.
Readable portion lists shipments from many firms with items like steel strips tin plates hides machinery woollen goods and various commodities. Names include Baring Bros & Co J B Moors & Co Brown Bros & Co and others reflecting extensive cargo in a records ledger. The entry covers figures such as 1291 bales mdse 336 bales old bagging 706 do do do and 2452 boxes tin plates among many line items.
Shipping cargoes from Yarmouth Saint John Annapolis Bridgetown Shelburne and Liverpool show flour coal iron pig iron tar oil woollens zinc ingots pitch feed oats docks and goods including crates boxes and pallets. Multiple vessels such as Sch Magnum Sch Sabrina and Sch Can ning Packet carried diverse freight across Nova Scotia and New Brunswick ports.
Wheat prices hold firm across London and Liverpool with upward tendency noted. Cargoes arriving and sold while buyers and sellers diverge on near term values. Paris and English markets show firmness in wheat and firmer French prices amid quiet spot activity.
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