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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1889
Page
7
Transactions reported with firings at 2.40 for extra 2.90 for clears and 2.25 for seconds Dealers quote 3.25 for extras 3.00 for poor extras and 2.76 for clears Extra No 1s at 2 and No 1s at 1.26 Cargo sales of spruce and pine 175 200 and car at 215 2 25 reflect quiet steady market for Jabs and associated timber trade
The local anthracite trade remained fair though buyers were cautious. Prices remain unchanged and likely to persist. Freight rates hit yearly highs as scarce cars delay deliveries and vessels offer few options. production for the week was 830,527 tons versus 987,061 a year earlier.
Market report on carload grain prices and flour, with receipts and sales across New York Chicago St Louis and other centers. Notable figures include No 2 red and white oats, steamer and high mixed corn, and various Minnesota and Wisconsin flour grades. Demand described as limited, prices largely steady, with mixed regional activity and futures quiet but firm.
Receipts today list butter 2632 pkgs 732 boxes oleo 2224 pkgs cheese 563 boxes eggs 103 bbls 2948 cases beans 206 bbls potatoes 103 cars sweet potatoes 77 bbls hay 43 cars straw 9 cars. Last year butter 1064 pkgs 8 boxes oleo 10 kgs cheese 1190 boxes eggs 1573 cases potatoes 43 cars sweet potatoes 845 bbls hay 49 cars straw 3 cars. Butter demand rises in Elgin with prices at 26 4 cents. market steady as buyers gain leverage. Lower butter grades remain weak as supply remains limited and October creameries hold for higher prices.
Market reports show scarce activity with wholesale prices quoted across butter cheese eggs beans poultry and potatoes. Western extra creamery butter ranges 22 to 26 cents while New York and Vermont dairy lines hold 18 to 25 cents. Cheese demand quiet but steady with mixed grades. Eggs firm for choice stock, corn beans and poultry markets varied by region, with notable quotations for Peas and potatoes in multiple districts and hay prices from $14 to $18 per ton.
The report notes no change in market conditions, with prices and demand described as remaining consistent with the prior period. No new data or shifts in supply are indicated, keeping the outlook stable for buyers and sellers alike.
Wholesale fruit and produce prices listed for apples grapes oranges and lemons with steady demand. Kings apples at 33 60. Hubbardston 250 2 75. various box and barrel rates for oranges lemons and cranberries. Almeria grapes firm with better New York arrivals commanding higher prices.
The Devonshire sails from Palermo Oct 26 and arrives mid November with 750 boxes Palermo lemons. 17,500 boxes Messina lemons go to New York. Rialto due Nov 9 with 900 boxes Palermo lemons via Hull. Flamborough due Nov 1 with Jamaica bananas for the Boston Fruit Company.
Liverpool market firm with strong demand as steamer Michigan cargo sells at 18s 15s 6d for Boston Baldwins and 16s 17s 9d for Maine Baldwins reflecting steady prices and brisk trading.
Snow & Co will auction 1 car California grapes and 1 car Concord grapes on Wednesday.Friday sales drop Almeria grapes by 3000, Malaga lemons by 200 boxes, and pomegranates by 172 cases. Britannia steamer cargo of 5000 boxes Malaga lemons to be auctioned in New York Wisconsin. H Harris & Co sold Almeria rapes at 3 15 3 76 per barrel and Florida oranges at 2 25 4 50 per box, Florida lemons 76 cents, Muscat and other fruits with assorted crate prices recorded.
Receipts today show tallow 41 pkgs and lard 1325 pkgs with 171 bbls of hams and 125 tierces of preserved meats. Last year figures include beef, pork, lard, hams, and preserved meats. market remains steady with old-price sales and varied beef and pork values across inspectors and grades.
The market remains firm and quiet across major centers. City steam refined quiet at 635, Continent 675, SA 740, Chicago Mess park 1090 to 1100, lard firmer at 665, dry salted shoulders 34 50m 6214, short clear sides 550, St Louis quiet, Cincinnati park at 10 75, bulk meats steady with short cok 550, bacon stronger at 6 50.
Kansas City cattle and hog prices show steady to mixed movement with receipts of 3 560 cattle and 9 359 hogs. Chicago reports stronger demand for choice cattle and higher hogs with large receipts of 23 000 hogs and 9 000 cattle, while sheep remain steady at about 3 20 to 4 00.
Cotton markets show steady/opening declines and steady closes in New York and Liverpool while other U S regions report varied receipts stock and sales. Futures move to firm closes with ranges around ten cents per pound across months. Global demand remains steady with mixed regional stocks and exports to Britain France and the Continent.
Sugar receipts reach 285 bbls today, none a year ago. Raw sugar steady with Cuba, Manila, Java quotes and refined prices listed. Molasses receipts include 15 bbls and 18 puncheons with steady demand. Foreign lots nominal, limited activity in New Orleans.
Turpentine closed at 48 percent with resin at 10742 and tar at 260. Petroleum closed at 7.70 cents with RSW at 7.36 cents and cases at 9.35 cents. Coffee from New York Rio shows low spirits with dull fair cargoes at 18 percent. Whiskey markets in the West show no change.
Weekly market summary from Watertown with cattle and sheep figures, prices for beef and store cattle, and notable sales by Stevens Shaw & Follansbee Hathaway and others. Includes sheep and lamb movements from North and East, with quantities and per hundredweight prices.
A London imports and exports listing details cargo aboard the steamer British Empire and other consignments. Items include cement, bales of waste paper, hemp, flax, coffee, wool, stores, beer, dye, piano, washing crystal, flower boxes, sundries, machine parts, personal effects, mushroom spawn, jute and wool products, and extensive quantities of cement, tin, and wool shipments. Named firms include Waldo Bros, Baring Bros, Pierce, J Miller, Beach, Cong, Gorham Rogers, and Joseph Breck & Son among many others.
A fragmented ledger itemizes various goods including mineral water, rags, trusses, rope, hemp and flax bales, coffee, tobacco, mds e, vestas and fuses, bags, casks of ale, gambier, pelts, marble, skins, moxie, wool, stationery, rags, sugar, and nitrate. Entries reference bark docks at MANILA and PISAGUA, plus the Standard Sugar Refinery and HemEnway & Brown, with quantities ranging from single units to thousands of bags or bales.
A dated October 29 1889 export list from Yarmouth Nova Scotia records steamer cargoes and freight for Paspebiac Quebec Talcahuana Valparaiso Chill and Chile including flour cornmeal beef lard pork and petroleum. Also lists brig Highlander Melinca Lares and Bark Lares cargoes and extensive hardware lumber coal and agricultural goods for multiple destinations.
London and Liverpool report mixed goods flows with wheat steady, corn firmer, cargoes arriving and awaiting sale. Prices show December California wheat at 7s 144d and March near 7s lyed, with Paris and Continent markets softer on wheat while Liverpool notes dull wheat demand and steady club and mixed American corn pricing.
A list of shoe and boot trade buyers and firms with names and locations across Baltimore Bloomington Jersey City Chicago Galveston Indianapolis Louisville Nashville New York Philadelphia St Louis Sedalia Wichita and more. The page enumerates representatives from Brooks Rogers Selz Schwab Maellavchlan Miller Culter Mauss Grauman Weaver Carrington Marks Rothenberg Wollner Lowenstein Remley Badger Bell Childs Upham and others.
Local and through trains departing Boston Causeway Street list daily and Sunday schedules to Albany Troy Newark and western points. Through sleeping cars to Chicago via Niagara Falls and to St Louis via Michigan Central and Wabash lines. Frequent local stops include Belmont Waverley Concord Fitchburg Gardner Greenfield Hoosick Falls Nashua North Adams Shelburne Falls and Union Square Somerville. Through tickets and Westward routes available from John Adams General Superintendent.
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