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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1888
Page
7
John E Welsh flour firm tone with higher spring wheat prices. Quotations for flour and grain vary by grade and region, with New York and Milwaukee receipts and tonnage showing activity. Market notes include farm and export pricing, with several city markets listing spot and futures values for wheat, corn, oats, rye, buckwheat flour, and related milling products.
The market shows six rowed Canada at 95 to 105 cents, six rowed State at 90 to 95 cents, two rowed State at 85 to 86 cents. Hops market dull. Quoted ranges for choice 1888 New York at 26 to 28 cents, choice 1887 New York at 17 to 18 cents, common to good 12 to 14 cents, old lots nominal 5 to 10 cents.
The market for butter remains very firm with unchanged prices across Western Vermont and Eastern creameries. Egg prices stay firm on choice stock but weak on held goods while other commodities like beans, peas, grass seeds and potatoes show varied but steady to soft conditions, reflecting a broad bullish tone in dairy and a cautious level in produce.
The steamer Aguan is due November 1 from Jamaica carrying bananas oranges and cocoanuts for the Boston Fruit Company.
Provisions hold firm in Chicago with wheat weakness on unloading. Markets show varied quotes for pork, lard, beef, and dry salted meats across Chicago St Louis and Cincinnati with steady pork and lower lard in New York and Western regions. Fresh beef and other meats reflect buyer-favorable trading as supplies remain large and trading slow.
A list of produce prices at old market rates includes marrow squash at 50 cents per barrel, turban squash 75 cents, Bay State purban and Savoy cabbage around 60 cents and four to five dollars per 100 count, onions 2 dollars per basket, carrots 40 cents, lettuce 28 cents per dozen, turnips 40 cents per box, cauliflowers 1.25 dollars per 150 dozen, celery 2.60 per box, spinach 85 cents per bush or box, and other items like parsnips, eggplant, citron melons, and pumpkins with varied unit prices.
FRUIT. Harris & Co sold Florida oranges at 1 246 and Florida lemons at 1 6242 4 6242. Snow & g sold Comichon grapes at 130 150 per pas e, Malaga grapes at 220 450 per barrel and layer figs at 9 4 12% per cwt. Apples steady with quotes for common to good 1 1 25, Hubbardstons 1 25, sweet 1 2, Nova Scotia Gravensteins 1 75 2 25, Snow 2 26 2 60, vippins 1 25 1 50, Baldwins 1 26, arveys 2 per barrel. Grapes good demand at old prices.
Commodity quotes show Delawares 4 5c, Catawbas 2448c, Concords 3c, Niagaras 66c, Dianas 242, Isabellas 242c, Salems 4 44ac with case prices. Grapes Tokays 2 per fancy half-box and 350 400 per case for choice lots. Almeria 4 6 50 per bbl. Oranges and lemons Florida demand fair at old prices. Mes sina Palermo lemons 150 400, Maori Sorrento lemons 4 50 5 60 box. Jamaica Cranes 8 50 400 per bbl. Florida oranges choice 3 3 50 per box. Florida bright lemons 4 5. russets 2 3 per box. Pears unchanged with Louise Bonne de Jersey 3 50 5 50 per bbl. Sheldons 4 5 per bbl. Beurre d Anjou 4 6. common lots 75c 1 per bush. Cranberries receipts large market similar to last quotes. ales 7 50 800 bbl for choice, 6 7 for fair to good, 3% per case. Quinces large supply at old prices. natives 1 2 per bush, York State 3 350 per bbl. Nuts chestnuts steady. Peanuts quiet. hickory nuts unchanged. Virginia H P fancy 5c per tb, Virginia farmers marks 8 4cc, pecans 5 8c, chestnuts Northern 3% per bush, Southern 2 75 per bush, hickory nuts 2 50 per bush.
New York cotton holds at 9.13 16 cents middling with sales of 247 bales as futures open and close steady. Liverpool spot softens to 5s 6d for middling, with 8,000 bales traded and 6,000 American. Major port receipts, stocks, and exports listed across Augusta, Galveston, New Orleans, Mobile, Memphis, Brunswick, Savannah, Charleston, Port Royal, Wilmington, Norfolk, Philadelphia, West Point, Baltimore, New York, Cincinnati, St Louis, Louisville, and overall seven day totals show steady tone and mixed movements in regional markets. Consolidated figures show weekly US port receipts at 270,671 with exports to Britain, France, and the Continent, and Liverpool stocks at 253,000.
Shipping entries list exports from Toedestrand Maitland Great Village Port Williams and Yarmouth NS. Vessels Mildred J Mclean Islander Thorburne Raymond Emma C Virginian unload flour cornmeal oats and food products, plus numerous goods including leather, bones, coal, canned beef, pork, fruit and hardware across several ports in Nova Scotia and Liverpool England.
A detailed ledger lists diverse goods shipped and received by multiple railways including Boston and Albany Boston and Providence Old Colony New York and New England Fitchburg Boston and Maine and others. Quantities span wool cotton flour cornmeal oats malt beans apples pork potatoes lumber leather hides and more across routes and divisions.
Hathaway Higgins Co reports firm standard sellers with anticipated price dip within days. Cottonseed oil certificates show opening Oct 26 with highest and lowest quotes, closing near Oct 26 figures and noted sales volume of 1,103,000 barrels.
Kansas City reports 6344 cattle receipts with slow trade at steady prices. hog receipts 9649 active demand with higher bids. beef, cows, and common stockers listed. St Louis shows firm hogs with mixed packers and butchers high. Cincinnati hogs quiet and easing. Chicago cattle receipts 12000 with steady beeves and stockers plus lower bulls. hogs opened higher then closed lower. shoe receipts steady. Lambs quoted at 8 75 to 6 50.
Cargoes off the coast steady to dearer in wheat while corn holds. wheat futures rise at Liverpool for October to February bids. Spot wheat up at Antwerp and Paris. breadstuffs and provisions show mixed firming and declines with pork, bacon, cheese, lard, and tallow moving on London markets. Weather warm for the season, market notes on rates and receipts.
Sugar markets show quiet raw sugars with Cuba quotations around 54 to 64 cents for various grades and refined sugars steady with strong demand. Molasses remains in fair demand with prices listed for Ponce Porto Rico Porto Rico Barbadoes Cienfuegos Mayaguez and other grades, all quoted on a 60 test basis or nominal in New York.
The market shows mixed activity with steady to strong trends in various sectors. Coffee and turpentine display dull and steady movement while petroleum prices hold nominal levels. city and country renderings show minor percentage changes amid unchanged whiskey markets across major hubs.
A long list of names and firms appears, detailing boot and shoe buyers visiting from multiple states. The names include Gramling, Spalding & Co. Mc & JF Kiser & Co. Perry-Mason Shoe Co. Manss Bros Shoe Co. A G Leonard & Co. I P Farnum & Co. Miller, Cutler & Co. Howell Bros.. Hinkle, Nisbet & Co. Dixon, Mackey & Co. Dages & Galveston. Willis & Bee. Kindge, Bertsch & Co. Reeder, Palmer & Co. Hendricks & Cooper. Haynes, Henson & Co. McMillan, Hazen & Co. H M Weaver & Co. Carrin Goodbar Love & Co. Hill & Sons. North Star Boot and Shoe. L D Kilbourne & Co. C A Stern & Co. Murray, Dibreli & Co. Richardson Bros. Hollins Sons.
A collage of advertising notices lists firms and representatives in Tennessee Pennsylvania Ohio Missouri and other states. Names include Throne of Nashville Franklin Nance Adams Grieb Grieb Sons Akin Einstein and many others with shoe trade references and city locations such as Pittsburgh Philadelphia Portland Savannah St Louis St Joseph Towanda Toledo Wilmington and Wheeling.
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