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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1889
Page
11
Durable goods and staples show varied movement with flour and cornmeal firm, oatmeal steady, butter cheese and apples firm, potatoes and pears steady, and poultry slow. Hides of fruit and vegetables like lemons grapes and cranberries show inconsistent readings, while oats and cottonseed hold steady. Overall track remains quiet with several items listed as firm or slow.
Fall River brokers report a strong print cloth market with cloth at 342 cents for 64 by 646. They estimate a large business for the week, about 300000 pieces, reflecting robust activity in the market.
The Chicago option market reports December wheat around 81 to 82 cents with a soft close as offerings remain heavy. Corn weak amid light receipts while local buyers hold back. Provisions firmer on local demand and hog prices seen weak at times. futures show modest support in open interest and spread activity across wheat corn and oats with quotes from Farnim al Co Boston and regional exchanges in St Louis and Minneapolis noted.
The week brought poor weather for fishing with Barnstable Bay fleets modest yields and blocks from Block Island scarce. Prices hold firm with large to bay fish at 21 to 35 dollars per barrel and foreign supplies moving steadily. overall catch trends remain weak as the season winds down.
The market reports weak demand for barrel herring with prices sliding to 12 14 cents, good medium not over 13 14 cents, and some under 12 cents. Yarmouth splits fetch 5 550, Nova Scotia 6 50 per barrel. Cape Ann shore herring near end. Canned salmon prices hold at 2 25 a case, with 1 42 to 2 45 for other grades.
John E. Welsh flour and grain reports carload prices for all grain except rye. Receipts today include 6 steamer yellow corn cars, 18 corn cars, 7 No 2 white oats, 2 No 2 white oats, 1 rye, total 36 cars. Flour receipts 6725 barrels, 1543 sacks. last year similar day 8682 barrels, 2681 sacks. Market quiet with fair business and demand for immediate shipment. Prices quoted include various grades of flour from Fine to patent and export options. wheat, corn, rye, and buckwheat markets noted with regional variations and dull to weak activity.
New York receipts show 126 700 bush of wheat with exports 68 614 bush and sales 232 000 bush while St Louis reports dull markets for No 2 and 18 44c for oats futures. The spot market is quiet yet firm with various lift prices for No 2 whites and mixed states. rye flour and cornmeal quotes steady. Provisions remain firm with pork and lard showing higher tone in Chicago and St Louis markets, while beef and bacon hold near last prices.
Receipts today show butter 864 tubs 14 boxes and cheese 732 boxes with eggs 1448 cases amid a quiet market. Butter demand soft, outside Western creameries at 25c, most lots 22 24c. eggs steady with Eastern extras at 25c and Western 22 23c. Potatoes and sweet potatoes in fair supply. hay and straw unchanged. poultry steady with turkeys 18 20c, fowls 10 11c, chickens 10 12c. cheese quiet, creamery prices mixed. markets overall calm with few new features.
The demand remains quiet and prices are unchanged from the last quoted level, with dealers reporting steady inventories and no immediate price moves.
Blake and Ripiey through H Harris and Co announce an auction Saturday selling 333 cases Tokay grapes 30 cases Muscat grapes and 25 cases Emperor grapes to the highest bidders in a local fruit sale event.
The market is strong with good demand. Boston Balds fetch 13 15s and 11 12s 6d for seconds. Maine Baldwins bring 13 18s, Maine greens 11 15s, and Kings around 256 27s.
The apple market remains firm with good demand for choice eating and cooking lots. Wholesale prices quoted include Kings 3 3 50, Hubbardstons 2 2 50, Ben Davis 2 50 300, and Baldwins 1 50 2 50, among others, with fall apples scarcer. Oranges and lemons show fair supply. Jamaica fruit priced per barrel or box, Sicily lemons weak, and Florida lemons small in supply. Grapes steady with old-price trade. Delawares 60 65c, Concords 30 35c, Brigh tons 30c, Salems 50 55c, Isabellas 28 30c, Marthas 35c, Canas 30c, Catawbas 30c. New York Delawares in boxes $4 crate, Concords $2 25, Catawbas 83c. Pears steady with Seckle 3 7, Eureka 4 50 0, Sheldon 3 50 5 00, common lots. Cranberries steady with Cape Cod $6 7 50 per barrel and $2 26 2 50 per crate. Quinces quiet with full prices. New York lots $4 7 bush.
The day’s receipts list tallow twenty one packages beef none pork one hundred twenty one boxes lard eighteen hundred eighty five pkgs hams one hundred eighty preserved one thousand cases heoon ee boxes. Compared with last year’s day there were tallow packages beef tierces pork ninety three bbis total three hundred sixteen packages total fifty.
Kansas City market shows strong cattle with steers at 345 to 385 dollars and cows 135 to 200. hogs closed lower with heavies 388 to 400, mediums up to 415, and Yorkers 405 to 415. sheep steady at 335 to 410. Cincinnati hogs weaker at 325 to 435. Chicago receipts 8,000 cattle, 24,000 hogs. beef cattle steady with choice to extra beeves 450 to 490, steers 340 to 425, stockers 220 to 290, cows and bulls 120 to 280, Texas cattle 175 to 800, Western rangers 185 to 375. Hogs receipts 24,000, slow and lower. heavy 385 to 425, medium 344 to 450, ships 350 to 410. Sheep receipts 8,000. natives 350 to 410, Western 350 to 415, Texans 340 to 415, lambs 405 to 585.
New York cotton markets held steady with good and middling bids around 9 1 16d to 10 9 16c while futures opened easy then closed barely steady. Liverpool prices for middling cotton ranged near 61 16d with sales about 8,000 bales and totals of American receipts around 16,000 bales.
Sugar and molasses receipts were unchanged with quiet trading. Cuba raw sugar quotes ranged from 64 to 96 test with no change. refined sugars held steady with various grades quoted. Molasses receipts were none today, with prices for Fancy Ponce and other grades cited and market unchanged.
Trade notes show steady cargoes for Coffee connecting New York and Rio with fair volumes. Whiskey markets recorded no change while turpentine and petroleum prices fluctuated with rosin tar and RSW figures noted and cases unsettled.
A long catalog of cargo details items from several ships and firms appears, including Brown Bros & Co glassware dolls and albums, Houghton & Dutton earthenware, Baring Bros & Co paper stock and rags, and Bluefields Nic River Ettrick steamer logs. The list references multiple steamer vessels, merchants, and varied merchandise such as crates, bales, casks, and cases of foodstuffs, textiles, and materials. The entry catalogs numerous quantities and items across vessels in Liverpool and regional ports with no single dominant event noted.
A historic ledger lists ships and cargoes from Joggins Margaretteville Bear River Sierra Leone Yarmouth Liverpool and Rio de Janeiro. It details flour corn beef lard kerosene pork oatmeal biscuits lumber and numerous goods aboard vessels including the E Norris Sullivan Colorado Bavarian and Bavarian with quantities in bbls cases crates and tons.
London and Liverpool market notices show wheat and flour steady to quiet with firm tendencies in some regions. Paris prices quoted for October and November contracts. Liverpool spot wheat and corn ease slightly with mixed American imports and varied futures, including pork, bacon, lard, and cheese price levels.
A dense ledger of named individuals and firms from Albany to St Louis shows correspondences with shoe companies and merchants. Entries include Pratt & Herrick Addison New York Farnham Renshaw Ven McGraw Dixon Dixon & Bro Chicago Crofoot Wallace Goldsmith Thorne Gates Benckenstein Sachs and many others, indicating trade connections and agency representations.
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