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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1890
Page
7
Commercial matters show generally steady to firm prices across staples. Wool and butter hold firm while flour and hay remain steady. cotton and corn ease slightly and potatoes stay firm. Fresh meats and sugar show modest demand with molasses quiet. fruit markets vary with Jamaica and Mediterranean offerings steady and Florida fruit slow.
The dry goods trade remains steady and quiet with movement from jobbers satisfactory and retail stores crowded on sunny days. Cotton goods stay firm while woolen goods outlook improves, exports, prints, and bleached shirtings see strong demand, indigo prices rise, and shipments from major ports show varied gains and stability.
The wool market is steady with limited activity as large buyers pull back. Small lots move for immediate use while prices hold firm and no concessions are seen. Outlook depends on woollen goods demand with potential price gains if a heavy-weight season starts. Combing and delaine fleeces stay at strong, varied quotes across Michigan Ohio and other regions plus firm pulled wools and strong foreign demand.
The speculative cotton market remained unsettled with a generally weak tone and downward pressure this past week. Weather reports from the South caused occasional rebounds, while frost fears in North Carolina were disputed. Heavy rains hindered crop gathering, yet market movement stayed large and stocks expanded. Liverpool and foreign advice were weak, and the silver decline added pressure. Spot demand stayed moderate as prices eased to 101 105-16e for middlings, including uplands and gulf. The latest visible supply stood at 2,108,238 bales versus 1,846,094 a year earlier, with Southern port receipts reaching 313,451 bales for the week ending Friday.
Bales the previous week and total receipts since September 1 1890 reach 1,754 279 bales, compared with 1,616 861 bales for the same period in 1889, marking an increase of 137 416 bales.
Fall River reports the print cloth market sustaining last week's business with new contracts for several thousand pieces of regulars for December to April delivery at 35 16e.
In Chicago wheat opened active and firm with many buy orders, Hutchinson selling a million bushels, then buying back as prices rose. Reports later showed a lower Russian crop estimate, lifting prices briefly to around 103 1/4 before a renewed drop. Corn and oats followed with mixed firmness and later weakness. reports from St Louis and New York futures reflected varying quotes. Grain receipts and stock levels were reported, with visible supplies and on hand stocks listed, and overall market tone described as easier than Saturday.
Chicago markets show dull tone for provisions with a large hog run that is mostly poor. Prices quoted include long cuts at 18 5 and 18 75, short cuts 13 8 to 14, backs 13 50 to 14, lean ends 13 50 to 14, with various pork products and beef prices varying by cut and packaging.
The market shows scarce choice cattle with firm prices and good demand while common lots are plentiful but slower. Quoted values include prime steers at 7 to 8 cents, light and heavy categories varying, and various beef cuts listed. Lambs, mutton, and eastern offerings follow similar demand and price patterns with tallow steady and receipts detailed for the day.
Across Peoria Cincinnati Kansas City and Chicago hogs and cattle shift with receipts large in Chicago and Kansas City. Prices range from steady to slightly lower with hogs typically 3 80 to 4 40 and cattle up to 5 15 for steers. Notable quantities: Chicago hogs 338000 received. cattle 22 000 received. sheep 10 000.
The daily receipts cover butter oleo cheese eggs beans potatoes sweet potatoes hay straw and more with mixed changes. Butter holds firm on limited high grade stock while eggs and cheese show firmness and steady sales. Potatoes and sweet potatoes see firm to quiet demand with select weights and regions quoted, and hay straw and poultry markets mirror steady or modest gains amid ongoing demand.
The market is well supplied and a fair amount is being sold at quotations. Onions span several varieties with prices ranging from 25 to 275 per barrel and basket figures for Malta and Ohio onions. Other items include carrots, beets, lettuce, turnips, cabbage, cucumbers, peppers, eggplant, beans, celery, and more listed in pints, baskets, boxes, and per dozen or per bush measurements.
Cauliflower and celery prices listed alongside green tomatoes. Florida, Mediterranean, Jamaica fruit notes with lemons, oranges, and pears. Apples, pears, quinces, nuts, cranberries, grapes, and bananas priced with regional quotes and stock conditions. multiple berries and commodities detailed with pack sizes and prices.
The steamer Brunel passed Gibraltar on October 15 with 700 boxes of Messina lemons for Boston and 10 900 boxes for New York. The Sama is due Thursday with a cargo of Jamaica bananas for the Boston Fruit Company. The steamer Ethelred is due Friday with...
Harris and Co conducted an auction selling Malaga California grapes at 280 per hundredweight and Concord grapes at 18 to 21 cents per pound in 5 pound baskets. Catawbas brought 17 to 20 cents per pound, Diana grapes 18 to 19 cents, Delawares 14 to 17 cents, Jamaica oranges 3 dollars fifty five cents per 80 pound barrel and 2 dollars per box, and Spanish onions 85 to 90 cents per crate.
Sugar demand remains fairly active with various sugar grades quoted across markets. Raw sugars steady, London beet prices higher, and refined New York quotes steady. Cotton futures show declines in New York while Liverpool market stays steady with strong U.S. exports and domestic receipts.
Pipeline certificates show closing and opening figures for October with details from F W Prescott and Company. Crude runs shipments and equipment data are listed with averages since the first of the month, noting refined prices at 7.60 cents per gallon.
Whiskey markets in Chicago, St Louis, and Cincinnati stay steady at $1 14, with Peoria at $1 15 for whiskey and $1 17 for spirits, signaling firm pricing across key markets.
Turpentine closed at 4142 42cents with resin at 14.24 percent and tar at 2.50. Petroleum closed at 7.25 cents with ASW at 7.60 cents and cases at 9.85 cents.
London report from October reveals cargoes off coast mixed with a firm stance in wheat prices and quiet activity in corn. At Mark Lane the market shows a turn to dearer levels for English cargoes as traders note steadier demand and firmer exchanges in the screening of shipments.
Foreign wheat firmer and American and Danubian corn dearer while English flour firmer. Liverpool spots wheat and corn held firm with cold England weather. Wheat futures firm for January to April and mixed American corn for October to January. other markets steady with peppered price shifts.
England goods feature in the weekly Boston harbor trade report with shipments and receipts noted for the week ending October 24 1890. Details include vessel movements and port activity involving merchandise between Boston and international suppliers and buyers.
A long list of consignments and quantities from Samaria Bartlett Co to various buyers in Liverpool and London. Items include card clothing machinery woollens cottons wine vermouth beer and glassware. Numerous firms such as Noyes Campbell Co Stone & Downer Brown Bros Co and Houghton & Dutton appear with dozens of cases boxes barrels and packages.
An industrial catalog of cargoes bound for global ports lists numerous consignments. Goods include cement, plaster casts, camphore, jute, leather, paper stock, wool, iron bars, bricks, and hundreds of cases and bales, with destinations such as Glasgow and Yarmouth and voyages aboard vessels like Nestorian and Arisaig. Names of firms such as Peabody, S S Pierce, Brown & co, and Stoddard, Lovering appear alongside quantities, ports, and commodity types.
An 1890 shipping and goods ledger notes cargoes from EXPORYS to Cove Nova Scotia and Cape Verde Islands including brig Lucy W Snow with tobacco, flour, beef, sugar, hams, oil, lard, tea, cotton cards, beer, candy, jars, cigarettes, herring, lumber, shingles, mineral water, office chairs, furniture, and hardware. Antwerp via New York reports 1800 pieces staves and leather. Ophir at Campobello carries 1100 sacks salt. De Ruyter cleared Oct 25.
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