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Newspaper

Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Oct 22, 1890

Page

7

Wheat and corn markets show firm, bullish tone in Chicago trade

Wheat prices advance in Chicago with buyers active until December, exporters’ purchase near 63,000 bush boosts sentiment. Corn remains strong with heavy trading and futures above export basis, while oats set new high prices. Reports from Milwaukee, Minneapolis, and Duluth reflect firm grain and flour markets with steady to higher bids for various grain products and millfeed.

Chicago New York Messrs Gilman, Cheeney & Co United Kingdom Bears Messrs Marpum, Reardon & Co Ieee Sap Aie Milwaukee St Louis Minneapolis Duluth Minnesota Wisconsin Canada Superior Canada

Market Report Forms Market Watch of Steers and Lambs

Not very active but steady demand and prices with some choice steers selling near 7 4s percent. Prime steers quoted 1e47%4e, common to good Ta a74c, various weights steady. Fresh meats demand steady with quoted values for lambs, mutton, veal and Brighton meats. Tallow demand slow. receipts today include beef pork lard and preserved meats. Same day last year figures show higher bacon and hams volumes.

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Hog and cattle markets across cities show mixed but steady trends

Hogs in St Louis hold steady with Yorkers at 410 to 420 and mixed packers and butchers lower. Peoria reports weak hogs with light weights at 360 to 410. Chicago cattle receipts 11 000 with slow to lower spirits. steers 235 to 320, Texans 240 to 320, Rangers 260 to 355. Hog receipts 384 000 with prime and butcher weights 415 to 450 and pigs 320 to 350. Sheep receipts 8000 steady. natives 425 485, Westerns 425 450, lambs 485 to 525. Kansas City cattle 9896 good steady, shipping steers 325 to 485, cows 320 to 240, stockers 150 to 210, range 220 to 280. Hogs 17 492 about steady heavies 390 to 410, Yorkers 405 to 410, lights 870 to 405. Sheep 967 steady 344 to 480.

St Louis Chicago Kansas City

Produce Market Receipts Show Mixed Butter and Dairy Trends

Receipts today include butter 2675 pkgs, oleo 727 pkgs, cheese 2092 boxes, eggs 1587 cases, beans 235 bus, potatoes 27 cars, sweet potatoes 2728 bushels, hay 71 cars, straw 4 cars. Butter market firm with rising prices on upper grades. quotes Western and Northern creameries steady to firm, with strong demand for choice stock and limited supply.

Elgin New York Chicago Eigin Creamery Liverpool Michigan Nova Scotia New Brunswick Bush Vermont California Lima Choice Canada Woodcock Girass Alsike Lucerne Red Top West Jersey Rhode Island Bent Jie Bay New Hampshire Maine Rose Hebrons Burbanks Houston Rose Aroostook Houlton Hebrons Aroostook Tebrons

Market Report Prices for Seasonal Produce and Vegetables

The market remains steady with ample seasonal stock. Prices include onions at various grades from 0.75 to 2.60 per barrel or basket, carrots and turnips around 0.5 to 0.75 per bush, lettuce 0.25, tomatoes 0.75 per bush, cabbages up to 4.5 per 100, cucumbers and wax beans around 0.75 to 1.25 per unit or bush, peppers 0.50 to 0.75 per box, and other items such as celery, cauliflower, and eggplant listed with diverse small-quantity pricing.

Malta St Andrews Kalamazoo

The Fruit Trade In Florida And Mediterranean Foods

Florida lemons steady with limited offerings and cheap price points. Jamaica oranges quiet with fair supply and stable sales. Receipts show 1341 bbls of apples today, no material change from last year. Lemons, grap es, pears, and other fruits quoted with firm or steady prices and notable named varieties and counts. Steamers Brunel Yumart Bowden Banes carry Jamaica fruits and bananas to Boston and Seaverns & Co, with arrivals planned this week.

Florida Palermo Jamaica Missouri Jonathans Nova Scotia Gravenstein King Greenings Harveys Baldwins Hubbardstons Beurre Bose Bush Seckle Beurre Clairgeaus Vicars Beurre d’Anjou New York New Virginia Cape Brunel Messina Pos Boston Yumart Jamaica Fruits Boston Fruit Company Bowden Banes Banes Bananas Seaverns & Co Iparaiml Suffolk Losten Post Joan W. McKim, Esquire Elijah George Arthur Hodges Boston Post Losten Maurice J. Tierney Joax W. McKim, Esauire Elwah Gorge Register Massachio Mary KE. Dolan Charles A. Prince Wand Joan W. McKim Esquire Arthur. Matson John W. McKim, Esquire Fall River Puritan Pilghim Park Square Station Old Colony Railroad Kreet Ourning Segave New York Pier 28 N. E Murray Street Btooklyn Jersey City Old State House J. KR. Kendrick Geo. L. Connor LH. Palmer

Fruit Sales Auction Yields Varied Grapes and Oranges

Snow & Co sold Concord grapes at 16 24c per 10 lb basket and 12c for ponies. Other varieties brought 31 34c, with H tlarris & Co listing California fruits including Cornedian, Lokay, Muscat, Black Morocco, Empire, Malvoise grapes at varied dollars and percentages. Florida oranges brought 7 6c and lemons at 2 37 37%.

Snow & Co Concord H Tlarris & Co California Florida

Sugar and Molasses Prices Steady in Wholesale Market

Sugar prices hold steady at old levels across grades from raw to confectioners. Notable quotes include cut loaf at 74 4¢, granulated around 6 6s to 7¢, and refined ranges 57 16 to 59 16 0. Molasses market remains steady with Porto Rico and Ponce grades quoted from 25 to 88 40c, New Orleans at 40 50c, and general buying steady with fair to good demand. Wholesale tracers’ prices for Oct 22 show minor shifts within the granulated and fine granulated categories.

New York Porto Rico Ponce Cienfuegos Barbados Mayaguez Arroyo New Orleans

Cotton Markets See Mixed Upland Prices and Steady Futures

New York market shows middling uplands at 104 1/4 cents with sales of 399 bales and total stock 40,875. Futures opened steady and closed steady. Liverpool market remains dull with downward trend, ordinary at 5 4 1/4 pence and sales reaching 7,000 bales. Receipts total 32,000 bales with 26,260 American.

New York Oglohen E'S Binstein Shiek Beernie Eee Ee Aero EC Ooelalke Ea Ae Ieialeiel Ocoisce Leiboshi

Market summary of prices in Western and New York oils

The Western markets show Cincinnati firm at 114 dollars. Turpentine and petroleum report New York closes with turpentine 42 cents, resin 137, tar 250, petroleum 7.25 cents, RSW 7.60 cents, and cases at 9.85 cents.

Cincinnati New York

Market Reports from Boston Post Weekly Livestock Prices

Report by George J. Fox for the Boston Post covers week ending Oct 21 1890. Live stock totals by species, prices for beef store cattle sheep and lambs hides and tallow. Includes calls from the Sheep Market with multiple seller results and freight notes at Watertown union market.

Boston Post George J. Fox

Global Imports and Exports Report October 21 1889

Records show ships De Ruyter Stockholm City Palestine and Dana with extensive cargoes. Items include glass, window glass, oils, wines, dyes, pigments, timber, metals, cloves, soap, perfumery, firearms, living plants, china, clock parts, and concrete quantities of sugar, cement, and miscellaneous merchandise. Cargo origins include Antwerp London and Liverpool with multiple firms listed such as Gill & Lootz Chas Groef & co J H Roussback & Bros Lambert Bros Forehand & Wadsworth W H Crocker J A & W bird & co Gill & Scotz Long & Carroll Baring Bros & co Wadsworth Howland & co.

Antwerp de Ruyter Gill & Lootz Chas Groef & Co Samuel C Lawrence Sherburne Frank O Dame & Co Geo H Leonard & Co J H Roussback & Bros Joseph Birtwell & Co Eliot Hubbard Lambert Bros Moses & Co Sheldon & Co Richard Schwartz Horace Partridge & Co Louis Wolfe & Co J A & W Bird & Co Gill & Scotz Nelson H Brown William Fanton William Read & Sons Waisworth & Howland Pierce & Co London Eng Stockholm Brown Bros & Co Gorhum Rogers & Co Ford Bolls Et al Moors & Co Saxonville Mills Long & Carroll Wadsworth, Howland & Co Weston, Whitman & Co Bixby & Co Stanson & Co Lovering & Co Jones Saddlery C Adam Peabody E & F King Co Do Gambier Liverpool Palestine Schwam & Co Rolfe & Co Blake & Ripley Baring Bros & Co Sanchey & Co Read & Sons Smith & Dover Mfg Co Kidder, Peabody & Co Demerara Dana

Exports from Archet and Mulgrave NS October 21 1890

Shipping notes list cargos from Archet and Mulgrave in Nova Scotia with Sir Annie G OLeary 525 barrels flour and 75 do meal, while the Yarmouth steamer carries nails, corn, flour, lard, curtain materials, boots, organ materials, paint, hardware, glassware, dry goods, pig iron, marble and other items. Glasgow steamer Hibernian clears October 17 with flour sacks cattle cheese tobacco cocoanuts and assorted cargo including machinery, trunks, pool wood, and many packaged commodities.

Arichat and Mulgrave Annie G O’leary Yarmouth Glasgow Scot Hibernian Tobicco

Foreign Markets Update From London and Liverpool Oct 21

Beerbohm notes cargoes off coast with wheat and corn dearer. One wheat cargo arrived, five awaiting sale, two corn cargos arrived with two sold and four waiting. Liverpool reports breadstuffs up, wheat firm at 7s 4d to 7s 8d, spring wheat firmer, corn higher, pork steady, bacon and lard rising, cheese 40s.

London Beerbohm Mark Liane Liverpool California Lara

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