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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1889
Page
7
Domestic flour quotas show wide price ranges for all grain except rye with 119 carload inspections. New York and Chicago receipts, shipments and mixed demand across corn, oats, wheat, barley and rye flour, with firmer tones for some staples and steady to dull movement in others.
Receipts today show large quantities across butter oleo cheese eggs beans potatoes and more with last year’s figures for comparison. Market notes report steady demand for high grade creameries and steady quotations across Western New York and New York Vermont dairy with prices ranging from 10 to 26 cents per pound depending on grade and source.
The general market is steady with onions in good supply and quiet trade. White turnips have steady demand while St Andrews lots are dull. Squash is abundant and not very active. Celery trade is good with fair cabbage demand and ample supply. Prices include Malta 175 225 per basket, onions 75¢ per bushel, Spanish onions 8742c per crate, celery 250–300 per box, and various prices for beets carrots lettuce turnips and cabbage.
The market shows ample supplies and steady demand for apples with wholesale prices across varieties. Oranges lemons grapes cranberries quinces and Almeria grapes move at firm or dull levels with notable price ranges and basket counts for wholesale and crate sales.
The Devonshire is due mid November with 750 boxes Palermo lemons and 17 500 boxes Messina lemons bound for New York. Santiago arrives November 9 with 900 Palermo lemons via Hull. Flamborough heads to Boston with Jamaica bananas. Norfolk boat due Friday carries 260 bbis potatoes 260 bags peanuts and 60 boxes oranges.
H Harms & Co auction Thursday offers 785 bbls Almeria grapes 200 boxes Florida oranges 76 boxes Florida lemons. Snow & Co auctions Friday include 3000 bbls Almeria grapes 200 boxes Malaga lemons 172 cases pomegranates plus 300 Tokay grapes. Concord grapes sold today at 35c Muscats 425 460 Tokay 250 per crate.
Receipts today list tallow 70 pkgs pork 280 bbls lard 1265 pkgs hams 4 bbls 600 tierces preserved meats none bacon 86 boxes. Last year pork 11 bbls lard 590 pkgs hams 9 bbls tierces 25. Markets show steady to firm demand for pork and pork products with varied pricing including long cuts 12 50 to 13 00, lard 7c tb in tierces 10 1b pails 3-tb 8c, hams 1142c, smoked meats steady. New York Park activity firm. New York City and Chicago notes on mess pork, beef, and lard markets.
Kansas City market shows steady cattle with steers at 320 to 455, cows 150 to 220, stockers 235 to 800, range cattle 230 to 260, hogs lower with heavies 375 to 874, mediums 370 to 744, Yorkers 385 to 390, and sheep steady at 320 to 400. Cincinnati hogs firm at 320 to 410. Chicago large cattle receipts 16 000, dull trade. beef 465 to 515, steers 275 to 440, stockers 190 to 300, cows and bulls 120 to 285, Texas cattle 150 to 275, Western 200 to 380. Hogs receipts 26 000, mixed 385 to 410, heavy 375 to 410, light 390 to 420, skips 383. Sheep receipts 9 000, natives 250 to 400, Western 350 to 416, Texans 310 to 410, lambs 425 to 580.
Cotton prices in New York show irregular sales of 292 bales uplands with various grades and middlings. Futures opened easy and closed weak while Liverpool reports easy tones for middlings and steady futures across multiple month spreads.
Sugar receipts total 33 677 bags today versus 35 bbls same day last year. Raw sugars quiet. refined sugars steady with steady demand for pulverized powdered and granulated grades. Beet sugar firm with modest activity. Molasses receipts today none. demand steady at old prices. New York dull on raws and refined sugar. London cane quiet. various beet sugar prices listed.
Turpentine closed near 48 to 49 percent with resin at 10.742 and tar at 2.60. Petroleum finished at 7.70 cents with RSW at 7.35 and cases at 9.35. Coffee gains in New York Rio steady at 1 cent. Whiskey markets in the West hold at 102 dollars.
A lengthy ledger records shipments and commodities including tin plates wool wool waste and tea ware from Baring Bros Co and J B Moors Co. It lists veal prices and sales at several markets with details on prices per head and per pound, and notes water town and Brighton yard cattle sales with numerous steers bulls and oxen sold and price averages. The report mentions Western and New England cattle sources and stock movements to Boston markets.
A 1889 export list records shipments from Havana Cuba to Halifax and Charlottetown NS and ports in Scotland and England. Items include coke, cornmeal, hardware, glassware, dyewood, lumber, kerosene, flour, beef, butter, and numerous cargoes aboard several steamers and vessels.
Livestock market totals show week ending Oct 50 1889 with sheep cattle and lambs traded at lower prices. Arrivals at Watertown and Brighton include Western cattle dairy cows steers and hogs while buyers and drovers faced thin demand and modest retail activity.
Foreign markets report a steady yet cautious tone with buyers scarce and export yarn demand slight. Wheat and corn quotients ease in Liverpool and London while Paris notes quiet country markets. futures show mixed movement across No 1 California wheat and distant corn futures.
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