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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1890
Page
7
The supply remains ample with steady to firm quotes for long and short cuts, backs, lean ends, and various pork products. Fresh beef lists prime steers and mixed grades with steady demand, while lambs and veal show varied but solid prices. Tallow trade is quiet. New York prices firm, with daily receipts cataloged.
Market reports show St Louis hogs steady with mixed packers higher and Yorkers around 4.10 to 4.20. Cincinnati hogs slow, steady. Kansas City cattle and hogs mixed with range cattle around 2.10 to 2.65 and hogs near 3.70 to 4.25. Chicago receipts 17,000 cattle and 39,000 hogs with mixed prices. overall activity fairly active though lower for some packers. sheep steady to lower with Western and Texans values noted.
The report details supplies and prices across dairy and produce, noting butter receipts and firm prices for Western and Northern creameries, cheese demand steady, eggs and pease markets steady with varied regional quotes, and hay, straw, potatoes, and onions showing stable to steady trends amid adequate stocks. It also lists specific price ranges for butter, cheese, eggs, peas, poultry, game, seeds, and vegetables, with regional distinctions and wholesale receiver prices.
A garbled OCR style inventory lists bush radishes corn citrons parsnips tomatoes cabbage Savoy cucumbers peppers eggplant wax beans pickling beans shell beans Lima beans celery cauliflower and other produce with varied prices such as 75c 1 25 P doz and 50 75c doz bunches, reflecting a fragmented newspaper market item.
The Fruit Trade notes quiet lemon and orange availability in Florida and Mediterranean markets with mixed orders. Jamaica orange demand slows. apples and pears show steady prices with varied lots from Pippins to Baldwins. grapes, cranberries, and bananas listed with mixed regional prices and small supply constraints.
Harris and Co sold California fruits at auction with grapes at 4 25 5 OOP per crate and 2 255 P per half crate. Snow and Co offered domestic grapes with Concords at 18 21 cents and Niagaras at 37 cents per 10 pound basket.
The Brunel will bring 700 boxes to Messina edge for Boston and 10 900 boxes for New ark. Bowden due with Jamaica fruits for Boston Fruit Co. Banes due Friday with Banes bananas for Seaverns Co. Norfolk boat due Friday with 275 bbls sweet potatoes and 260 bags peanuts. Sama due about Wednesday and Ethelred about Friday with bananas for the Boston Fruit Co.
Messrs A Lombard's Sons report good demand for choice fruit with arrivals in better condition. Baldwins 16s 6d 21s 6d, Spies 23s, russets 23s, Maine Baldwins 25s. Weekly shipments ending Oct 18 shown for London Glasgow and Montreal with totals 14,202 this week and 25,225 prior. Total season shipments tallied at 62,998 bbls from Boston New York Montreal Nova Scotia. Pavonia arrived with 1409 bbls. prices: Boston fruit 18s 9d 21s 6d, Maine 25 28, Nova Scotia 20s 25s 6d.
Sugar and molasses quotes show little change across varieties and markets. Raw sugars hold steady while refineds in New York remain quiet. London beet sugar rates are 13s for October and 12s 11 44d for November. Porto Rico and Ponce grades range with several price brackets. Mayaguez and New Orleans offerings appear in the mid to upper teens of cents per pound.
New York steady at 10 4 for middling uplands and 9 15 16c for low middlings with 518 bales sold and 41 556 bales on hand. Liverpool steady with 5 14 d ordinary and 5 13 16d for good middlings. sales 10 000 bales, 7 500 American. futures steady. Other markets show mixed but steady tones across Augusta Galveston New Orleans Mobile Memphis Savannah Charleston Wilmington Norfolk Philadelphia Baltimore.
Consolidated for five days with net receipts totaling 219 551. Exports allocated to Great Britain 72 327, to France 13 984, to the Continent 13 413. Stock stood at 551 559 while per centage figures note mid 9 to 10 cents for the currencies.
The print cloth market in Fall River reports steady strong trading on October 22 with 56s at 2 1 2 cents per yard and 64s at 3 1 6 to 6 16 2 cents. A fair amount of business is reported as active buyers purchase grain and cloth.
Oil market notes from C E W Prescott & Co 54 Devonshire Street include pipe line certificates and crude shipments with averages. Crude shipments show 100,637 57,460 and refiners at 7.60c per gallon, with closing on October 22. Cottonseed oil certificates appear closed with miscellaneous figures and notes on inventories and prices.
Turpentine closed at 42 cents with resin at 13732 145 and tar at 250. Petroleum closed at 7.25 cents with ASW at 7.60 cents and cases at 0.85 cent.
Boston Post report by George J. Fox for the week ending Oct 27 180 shows live stock totals and price ranges. Arrivals at Watertown and Brighton yards include cattle sheep veals with varied quantities. market beef prices range from 4.50 to 6.50 per cwt and store cattle, hogs, and hides are listed with local demand noted for veals and fat hogs. Veal calves sold at 4.5 to 5.4 per unit. hog prices show Western live 4.5 to 6.0c and Northern dress at 5 to 6c. Cattle, sheep, and lamb prices reflected demand, with lighter lots fetching higher per-head values and shoppers seeking high quality veals and calves. Fat hogs in market firm, Vermont-raised hogs common, and pigs moving slowly at lower prices.
A dated ledger style summary lists shipments arriving in Liverpool on October 22 1889 including 60 bbls olive oil for Holt and Bugbee 1050 pieces hardware 90 bags hide pieces L110 dodo cuttings 144e tons round burnkam 80 bags mohair 114 do hide cuttings Kidder Peabody Co 145 cases shelled walnuts Adams Taylor Co 15 casks cognac W H Woods Co 5 quarter casks twenty octaves brandy Fred Warren 1 hhd claret td Boote 11 cases earthenware Jordan Marsh Co 6 hhds do Brown Durrell Co 1 case cotton and silk lave J H Pray Sons Co 1 bale carpets W C Eastler 1 case sweeping machine Pattee Machine Works 1 do emery Charles F Kent 1 do card cloth Howard Bros Mfg Co 1 do do do Co F Kent 1 cask steel card wire Wetherell Bros 126
A dense list of consignments from multiple firms including Phelps Dodge, Norcross Mellen, and J C Houghton detailing boils, bbls, cases, and bales of items such as tin plates, earthenware, mineral coal, paper stock, wool, cotton, and bananas. The entry spans numerous firms and items with quantities in cases, bales, bags, and crates, ending with cargo notes from Boston and Port Antonio.
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