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Newspaper

Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Sep 09, 1889

Page

7

Market Report Shows Strong Demand in Pig Iron and Metals

The article notes robust activity in American pig iron with many large sales at full prices and a firm market. It reports high quotations at shipping ports for Pennsylvania and Scotch pig iron, steady to rising prices for manufactured iron, bar iron, and sheet iron, plus active demand for wrought iron pipe and steel rails. Copper, tin, and lead markets show mixed but firm to rising prices, with speculation low and consumption driving demand.

Pennsylvania Gray Forge Pittsburg London New York

The Grocery Trade Shows Mixed Sugar and Coffee Trends

In New York and abroad sugar markets drift with modest declines and later steadiness. Refined sugar holds steady with firmer overseas markets. Rio coffee remains active with rising prices and heavy European buying. Reports cover Rio stocks, shipments, and global prices for spices, tea, rice, raisins, prunes, currants, and Patras market trends.

New York Rio Santos Europe United States Maracaibos Padang Javas Singapore Zanzibar Amboyna Ahr Wednnesday Louisiana Java Assyria Valencia Malaga California London Patras

Grain Markets Report Shows Dull and Steady Signals

The report outlines activity across grains with mixed receipts and shipments in Chicago St Louis and New York. Wheat prices range from No 2 red to No 1 white while oats and corn show quiet demand and variable on track quotes. Weathered by heavy local supply, markets describe dull steady and weaker shifts across regions with modest exports and fluctuating elevator figures.

Chicago St Louis New York State Michigan Brant Canada New_York

Receipts and market prices for dairy and produce items

Receipts today include butter 1300 tubs and 498 cheese boxes while eggs rise in demand. Butter market steady with high grades firm. oleomargarine well supplied. cheese steady. eggs firm with varied regional quotes. beans and potatoes show quiet demand. hay and straw in modest demand. market notes from Ogdensburg and New York.

Choice New York Vermont State Dairy Western Dairy Western Creamery Western Fair State Pennsylvania Ogdensburg Liverpool New Hampshire Nova Scotia New Brunswick Prince Edward Islands Michigan Canadas California Lima Choice Canada New Hampshire Rose Hebrons Aroostoo Hiebrons Houlton Rose Houlton Hebrons Vermont Rose Burbanks White Stars Bush Rose and Hebrons Virginias

Quiet market on hay prices and mixed regional grain data

The report notes ample hay supply with varied prices from $10 to $18.50 for prime hay and rye straw at $16.50, alongside a quiet Saturday trade and no new features. Regional markets show mixed receipts, exports, and stock levels with general firmness on high quality goods and steady mid prices across ports.

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Fruit Market Prices Show Mixed Demand Across Varieties

The report lists abundant stock and low prices for apples, with Graversteins at 3 350, Porters 175 200, and Duchess of Oldenburg 3 per barrel. Oranges scarce with high lemon prices, pears in small supply at strong rates, and melons, berries, grapes, and plums all showing varied demand and pricing across multiple varieties and crate or basket measures.

Duchess of Oldenburg Palermo Messina Naples New York Louis Bonne de Rhode Islands Moore Champions Hartfords Delawares Concords Wyoming Reds Brightons Salems Wordens Marthas Jamaica Baracoa Port Simons Seeley Vine Valley

Gleamers to Arrive with Bananas and Peanuts

The steamer Dana arrives Thursday with Baracoa bananas for Seaverns Co. The Kong Alf arrives Friday with Jamaica bananas for the Boston Fruit Company. The Norfolk boat arrives Monday carrying 680 bags peanuts and 800 barrels potatoes. The Charles Morand arrives about Thursday with Jamaica bananas for the Boston Fruit Company.

Dana Baracoa Seaverns & Co Kong Alf Jamaica Bananas Boston Fruit Company Norfolk Charles Morand

Fruit Auction Figures Include California Peaches and Grapes

Blake and Ripley sold George's California cling peaches at 155 dollars eighty cents per box, Solway peaches at 112 dollars and 122 cents per crate and grapes at 25 pence per box. The fruit were in very good order. Snow and Co will auction 500 packages of New York Bartlett pears on Monday.

Blake & Ripley George California Solway Snow & Co New York

Pork and Lard Prices and Receipts Report

Receipts list today include tallow 3 pkgs beef 10 bbls pork 290 bbls lard 250 pkgs hams 3 bbls preserved meats 756 cases bacon 225 boxes. Last year this date showed tallow 102 pkgs beef 100 bbls pork 14 bbls lard 710 Peas hams 364 bbls bacon 1 box preserved meats 1725 cases. Pork products demand remains strong for home and export with lard steady. prices quoted for various cuts and products across New York, Cincinnati, and Chicago markets. Continuous notes on beef and other meats indicate firm to higher pricing on several items and mixed activity in others.

Minnesota Wisconsin Canada City New York City Extra India South America Chicago Cincinnati Brighton Choice

Market Report on Hog and Cattle Prices in Kansas City

Kansas City market shows slow cattle and weak hogs with steers at 3.30 to 3.70, cows 1.50 to 2.90, stockers 2.20 to 2.70, range cattle 2.30 to 2.60. hogs heavies 3.50 to 3.80, mediums 3.75 to 4.15, pigs 4.10 to 4.35. sheep 3.00 to 3.90. Cincinnati hogs steady 3.25 to 4.50. receipts 500, shipments 430. Chicago cattle receipts 3,500. hogs receipts 8,000, shipments 3,600. cattle steady to slow, beves 4.40 to 4.70, steers 3.40 to 4.50. hogs mixed 3.75 to 4.30, skulls 3.60 to 4.40. sheep receipts 2,000, shipments 500, natives 3.40 to 4.70, Western 3.50 to 4.00, Texans 3.40 to 4.10, lambs 4.57 to 5.0.

Kansas City Cincinnati Chicago Texas Western Rangers

New York Cotton Opens Steady Amid Quiet Trade

In New York cotton markets sales reach 283 bales with uplands and varieties listed. Prices show ordinary at 85 sc to 10 tcts, good ordinary 10 c, middling around 11 1/2 c, Gulf ordinary 8 1/4 c, low middling 11 3/4 to 11 5/8 c. futures opened steady and closed steady. A table follows detailing opening and closing quotations and yesterday’s close.

Bates New York

Turpentine, Petroleum Prices Across Markets

Turpentine closed at 4474 44%2 ¢ with resin at $102%42 105 and tar at $275. Petroleum finished at 7.60c, KSW 7.20c, cases 9.10c. Whiskey markets steady in the West at $102.

New York

Imports Sept 7 1889 Ponce PR Brig Odorilla-452

Shipping list from Ponce Puerto Rico shows brig Odorilla 452 with molasses at 48 tierces and 1 hogshead. vessel Whiting with 11 cases jelly. agents G Preston.

Ponce Odorilla Preston

Exports Debris from 1889 Atlantic Trade Listings

The report catalogs shipments from September 7 1889 across Valparaiso Halifax Bear River Africa and Cheverie with cargoes including rosin tar nails lumber hardware ranges and assorted commodities. Notable items include 11600+ feet lumber 140 cases assorted hardware 85 crates ranges and fixtures 125 bbls flour and 2 boxes electric goods among many others. Strong entity mentions include Bark Rose Innes Halifax NS Steamer Halifax Brig Bessie May and Sci Gamma.

Valparaiso Halifax Russia Cheverie Sci Gamma

London and Liverpool Wheat Markets Sept Prices

Foreign markets report wheat quiet in London and Paris with mixed American corn data. Liverpool notes dull wheat, firm corn, prices steady to firmer for various wheat and pork, bacon, cheese, and tallow, with local quotes across Winter and Club wheat.

London Mark Lane Paris Liverpool California Antwerp Lara

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