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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1889
Page
7
Market notes show firmer Chicago prices for No 2 spring and No 2 red cash while New York and St Louis reports vary. Wheat No 2 red around 83 to 84 cents, corn steady near 46 cents to 48 cents depending on grade, oats quiet with Chicago No 2 whites 30 to 31 cents on ship.
The itemized station lists box prices for turnips cucumbers parsley and beans, with fruit and vegetables including oranges lemons pears grapes and berries priced per box, crate or bbl. Quotations cover apples, cantaloupes, muskmelons, peaches, cranberries, cherries, and grapes, plus futures and regional market notes across New York and Atlantic ports.
Receipts include butter 8717 tubs 729 boxes oleo 59 packs cheese 410 boxes eggs 3051 cases beans 480 barrels potatoes 26 cars sweet potatoes 1158 barrels hay 46 cars straw 4 cars. Butter prices show Western creameries firm with quotes 18 19c for extra creamery and 14 18c for firsts. New York Vermont levels 12 17c. Cheese firm with Northern choice 9 14 49 4c and Western 8 8 2c. eggs firm with Eastern extras 20 21c and fancy nearby stock 19 21c. Beans steady with varied hand-picked and screened lots. potatoes steady with several regional quotes. hay and straw receipts rising with firm or dull prices. Commercial activity remains active in Eastern and Chicago markets with mixed demand across dairy and produce sectors.
The market is well supplied and a quiet trade is reported. Egyptian onions priced at 150 dollars per crate, Malta at 175 for a 2 25 B basket, onions at 76 cents, bush at 2 dollars per barrel, Spanish onions at 1 dollar per crate, beets at goo box, carrots and lettuce at 40 cents per box.
The Dana is due next Thursday with Baracoa bananas for Seaverns & Co. The Kong Alf arrives Friday with Jamaica bananas for the Boston Fruit Company. The Charles Morand docks Thursday with Jamaica bananas for the Boston Fruit Company. The Tordenskjold is due early next week carrying Banes bananas for Seaverns Co.
A Wednesday report details a train load comprising 10 cars of potatoes, 1 car of tomatoes, and 7 cars of Jersey peaches. The note records a freight mix with no stated incident or destination.
H Barris and Company will auction 1013 boxes of peaches 1223 crates of grapes 6 boxes of grapes and 100 boxes of Messina lemons on Wednesday.
Receipts show tallow 5 pkgs, lard 1103 pkgs, bacon 691 boxes, hams 3 bbls, preserved meats 2 cases, pork 165 bbls. Prices vary by region with New York pork at 12 75 13 50 and beef parts firm. tallow steady 4 5c city.
Kansas City stockyards show firm cattle and steady hogs with steer prices around 3.20 to 3.25, cows 1.85 to 2.20, stockers 2.40 to 3.10, range cattle 2.10 to 2.40. Hogs 8.40 to 9.42 for heavies, 3.80 to 4.27 for mediums and lights, sheep 3.20 to 4.00. Cincinnati hogs stronger 3.25 to 4.50, Chicago cattle receipts 8,500 with slow, 10c lower. beef steers 2.80 to 4.40, Texas cattle 1.30 to 3.00, hogs 3.75 to 4.50, sheep 3.00 to 4.60, lambs 4.25 to 5.90.
In New York cotton markets activity shows firmness with sales reported at 240 bales. Uplands are described as ordinary with a good ordinary price stance indicated despite limited detail from the market report.
Sugar receipts today 2415 bbls with no prior year comparable. Refined sugars steady with detailed quotes for pulverized, powdered, granulated, and confectioners’ grades. wholesale prices in New York show firm demand and steady refined rations. Molasses receipts 292 bbls and 50 hhds with nominal market. prices for Ponce, Cienfuegos, and Barba does range from 28 to 41 cents and boiling grades at 30 2 cents. New York reports no change.
Coffee New York Rio is strong and fair car values noted. Whiskey markets steady at 102 dollars. Turpentine and petroleum values listed for New York with rosin around 102 percent, tar at 2.75, petroleum at 7.60 cents, RSW at 7.20 cents, and cases at 9.10 cents.
Listing of goods imported into Liverpool and Antwerp including casks salted skins brass tubes nails machinery woollens and moire raw hides glass wine and tinplates. Dense catalog of firms such as Baring Bros Co J B Moors Co J H Pray Sons Co and others with numerous consignments and quantities across ships Kangas De Ruyter and more.
Shipping list notes exports including 35 barrels of flour 250 of cornmeal 50 of refined oil 6 tubs of lard 2 boxes of soap 14 barrels of dyewood 1 keg bichromate potash 1 box copperas 1 box madder and 1 box pressed paper. Also mentions Sch Hale Todd 125 barrels flour and the steamer Yarmouth at Yarmouth NS with 72 cases machine oil 72 cases rubber shoes and 7 bales rubber belt.
A dense OCR style listing lists an extensive range of goods and quantities across several locations, including St Johns NF and St Pierre Mig Sch Vesper. Items span groceries, hardware, feed, building materials, textiles, and machinery with scattered quantities such as bbls flour 1, 176 bbls washboards, 241 bbis glassware, 130 plus lines of various crates, boxes, and bundles. The fragmentary nature yields a snapshot of wholesale stock and trade items without coherent narrative.
Boston Post correspondent George J Fox reports Watertown Union Market activity with stock totals by species and varied price lists for beef store cattle sheep and lambs hogs hides tallow and skins Prices show steady demand for good stock and fair trade for younger cattle with select sellers and multiple local buyers including Pierce Harris Adden Heath Hathaway Morse and McDonald in a detailed summary of sales and prices For sheep and lambs Canada supply runs high with good lambs in strong demand and several sale notes across multiple vendors.
London market notes wheat slow and corn steady with 4 cargoes of wheat arrived and mixed sales. Paris and Antwerp ranges show quiet wheat, with Liverpool futures firm for corn and weak spot wheat. Weekly British imports tally 1.434 million quarters of wheat, 800 thousand corn, 528 thousand flour. Liverpool prices show mixed shifts across wheat, corn, and provisions with weather influencing rates.
A long list of boot and shoe buyers and representatives is shown across multiple U S cities and states including Albany New York Bayou Sara Louisiana Chicago Illinois Cleveland Ohio Columbus Ohio Eric Pennsylvania Green Cove Springs Florida Indianapolis Indiana Kansas City Missouri Memphis Tennessee Mount Vernon Indiana Nashville Tennessee New York New York Ocala Florida Portsmouth Ohio Rochester New York Louis Missouri Savannah Georgia Syracuse New York with various firms and agents named. The ad highlights prominent shoe outfits such as J Fearey Son Mann Levy Fargo Phelps Dodge Childs Cady Belknap Andrews Hostettler Rowell Ramage Fisher Hayward Claflin A Einstein Nettleton and others.
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