Money Market and Bond Activity in Boston Financial Desk
Boston money market remains steady with strong clearing house rates. Loans on call range 4% to 5% with new calls at 4 to 5 percent. Government securities hold at high bids while treasury deposits and foreign exchange shift as Bank of England and Bank of France raise discounts. Stock market sees St Paul dividend news pressuring shares. Atchison led volume with mixed Boston, New England and Western issues trading up and down amid regulatory notes and corporate earnings.
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Boston
Clearing House
New York
Chicago
St. Louis
San Francisco
New Orleans
Charleston
Savannah
United States
National Bank
Secretary of the Treasury
Reichsmarks
Bank of England
Bank of France
St. Paul
Wall Street
Atchison
New York & New England
Union Pacific
Burlington & Quincy
Boston Stock Exchange
Bears
California Southern
Atlantic & Pacific
Flint & Pers Marquette
Oregon Transcontinental
Oregon
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
Chicago, Burlington & Northern
Chicago, Burlington & Quincey Company
National Bank of Commerce
Union Trust Company
New York Stock Exchange
Boston Stocck Exchange
Wisconsin Central
Associated Lines
Missouri Pacific Declares 1 Percent Dividend Today
The directors of the Missouri Pacific road declared a dividend of 1 percent today, payable October 15.
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Missouri Pacific Road
Subscription for 5% Gold Bonds Through Amster dam Company
Boston subscription launch Friday Sept 14 with Adolph Boissevain & Co in Amsterdam. Bonds secured by Union Pacific Railway guarantee, total mortgage debt limited to 15 thousand per mile. Principal and interest guaranteed. sinking fund 0.66% annually retirement at 105 or reinvestment. Price 95 plus accrued interest. bonds deliver upon allotment. descriptive circulars on application. right to raise price.
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Act of Congress
Union Pacific Railway Company
Amsterdam
Meigs Elevated Railway Opens Stock Subscriptions
Meigs Elevated Railway announces subscriptions for the first issue of stock. Full particulars available at our office or sent by mail upon request.
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Meigs Elevated
Mining Stocks Close in San Francisco Trade Prices
Williams & Co reports the official closing prices for mining stocks in San Francisco. Notable figures include Navajo 1.40, Hale & Norcross 4.30, Nevada Queen 3.00, American Bell Tel 7s, and Chicago, Burlington & Quincy RR 4s 19214, with numerous other shares and auction listings listed for sale on September 19 1888.
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Brokers’ Board
Bell Tel
Eastern
Oregon
Wis Cent Inc
Am Bell Tel
Lamson SS
Aspinwall Land
Boston
Ee Seeeere
French Bay Land
San Diego Land
F & PM
Nyg&ne
Union Pacific
Doe
West End
T&sfelg
B& Q
Lans & Nor
Sueble & Ark
French Bay
Allonez
B& Mont
Cal & Hee
Franklin
Eeeneee
Kearsarge
Weer
Hla National
Wee Ee Osceola
Tamara
Fitehoarg
Cis
L& Mo
San Francisco
Aaas Vale
Best
Belcher
BTO
Polosis
Nevada Queen
North Belle Isle
N. Eagle Bk
Ado
Old Boston N. Bk
Hopkinton N. Bk
Atlantic Cotton Mills
Manchester Mills
Stark Mills
Naumkeag Steam Cott
Franklin Company, le
Salmon Falls Mfg. Co
Do Cabot Mfg. Co
Wakefield Ration Co
Thorndike Mfg. Co
Do Lyman Mills
Union Pacific RR
Boston, Concord & Montreal BR
American Bell Tel. Co
Lonia & Lansing RR
Little Rock Junction RR
Metropolitan St
Pueblo & Arkansas Valley RR
Chicago, Burl, & Quincy R
Chicago & West Michigan Ry. Co
West Michigan
Samber Co
Baie
Ste
RG. W. St. L
I. M
Ss. -F
St. P
St . C. & Erie
So. P. Lissts
Tex. P. i. G
Crown Point
S. Nevada
II Cristo
Hale & Nor
Sutter Creek
Tenn. C
Proposals for Oregon Improvement Company Stock Offered
Sealed bids for up to 10 000 shares of Preferred Stock at par 100 in the Oregon Improvement Company are invited in New York. Bids due Sept 17 1888 with 5 percent certified check. Installment payments begin Oct 1888 with stated percentages and accrued interest. Proposals to Elijah Smith Mills Building NYC and presidents sign-off by Elijah South.
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New York
Oregon Improvement Company
The
Elijah Smith
Mills Building
New York City
Elis AM South
Financial markets open with heavy losses and early rally stalls
New York trading opens with easy money on call and dull government bonds. St Paul shares plunge at the open, then briefly recover amid heavy short covering and buying in Vanderbilts and Villards. Market ends heavy and quiet near opening figures, with wide swings early and unsettled sentiment in the evening.
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New York
Prime Mercantile
Sterling Exchange
Actul
St. Paul
Board Room
Bank of England
Vanderbilts
Villards
Hocking Valley
Northwestern
St. Pau
Reading
Chesapeake & Oliv
Erie
Flint & Pere Marquette
Metropolitan
Mobile & Ohio New
Texas & New Orleans Sabine Division
Green Bay
Albany & Susquehannans
Peoria
Decatur & Evansville
Evansville
Wabash
Detroit
New York Stock Sales Report Sept 13
New York stock sales report notes today’s transactions aggregate 488000 shares. The following are the shares sold, the accompanying buyers and sellers, and the volumes exchanged across listed issues.
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New York
Market Closing Roundup from London and U.S. Stocks
London mixed securities and United States issues closed with Consols at 988 16 for money and 985 16 for account. Atlantic and Great Western and Erie bonds quoted, Canadian Pacific at 58% with others like New York Central 111 1 2, Pennsylvania 56 7 8, Reading 27 3 4, St Paul 68 7 8, Mexican ordinary 47% and more.
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London
United States
Atlantic & Great Western
Canadian Pacific
Erie
Illinois Central
St. Paul
New York Central
Pennsylvania
Business troubles at Hibbard firm creditors vote to accept offer
At a creditors meeting in the Chamber of Commerce rooms the Alonzo D. Hibbard & Co. debtors voted to accept 17 cents on the dollar. J Tracy & Spurling of Eileworth Missouri report $24,000 liabilities with $7,000 secured. unencumbered assets around $32,000. Bisset Bros. of Quebec are settling through an assignment with liabilities about $12,000.
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Alonzo D. Hibbard & Co
Chamber of Commerce
Railroad Petition Granted for Revere Street Relocation
The Boston Winthrop and Shore railroad wins authority to relocate a section of Revere street in Winthrop. The move must be funded by the railroad and include satisfactory arrangements with the Revere Water Company.
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Boston, Winthrop & Shore Railroad
Revere Street
Winthrop
Revere Water Company
Dangerous counterfeit five dollar silver certificate circulates
A new and dangerous counterfeit five dollar silver certificate of series D is being circulated in the city and Salem. It bears small characters 2011 or 2017 under the denomination and the words Register of the Treasury appear irregular under W F Rosecrans, while the genuine note is printed clearly. The Grant portrait resembles a woodcut, identifiable by experts.
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Salem
How Much Water We Drink This August
The city engineer reports the water board’s August consumption. Sudbury and Cochituate works averaged 32,432,700 gallons daily, up 7.97 percent from August 1887. Mystic works averaged 7,859,100 gallons daily, up 14.4 percent. Lake Cochituate fell four and a half inches, Mystic Lake three-eighths of an inch.
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the Water Board
Sudbury and Cochituate Works
Mystic Works
Lake Cochituate
Mystic Lake
Trade Partners and Firms Across the United States
Albany New York to Minnesota and Georgia firms listed with agents and firms including Freeman Rogers Belknap Childs MacLanchlan Wallace Cobban Rich Appledorn Versteeg Wray Seabury Huston McDougall Einstein Coburn with associated companies in Broks & Co Selz Schwab Moore Kellogg Johnson C Moore.
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Charleston
Darcy
Creigh
O’brien
Craw
Colmbus
Belknap
Belknap, Carpenter & Co
Cleveland
B Childs
Childs, Groff & Co
Chicago
A C MacLanchlan
Selz, Schwab & Co
Wallace
Wallace & Sloat
Cedar Rapids
Cobban
Detroit
Mich
E Smith
HS Robinson & Burtenshaw
Des Moines
W B Bentley
Bentley & Olmstead
Commercial Market Summary of Agricultural Goods
Leather and hides hold firm while wool remains steady. Flour corn and oatmeal stay firm or steady with cornmeal. Hops dull and malt slow. Butter strong and cheese firm. Eggs quiet, beans easy, potatoes in good demand, hay steady. Poultry unchanged, fresh beef fairly active, other meats quiet. Sugars firm to active, molasses steady, rye and rye straw quiet.
Leather and Hides Market Summary
Leather and hides market remains firm with higher prices and strong demand. Finished leather, buff, grain, and hemlock stock show tight supply and upward pricing. foreign and domestic hides hold firm with upward tendencies. Crop leather and sole leather show active trading. detailed grade prices for West Western wax, calfskins, croppings, and various hide categories are listed.
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Brogan
Brighton
New England
Buenos Ayres
Montevideo
Rio Grande
Entre Rios
Corrientes
Cordova
Entre Rio
Wool market steadies as demand shifts with scattered gains
The market stabilizes after a lull with higher prices only. Buyers contract cautiously yet more freely. idle machinery restarts. Demand remains firm for fine fleeces, Ohio and Pennsylvania fleeces, and territory wools, while Montana and California wools stay subdued. Prices for combings delaines and carpet wools stay firm with modest movements across regions.
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California
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Michigan
Territory
Wyoming
Utah
Nevada
Montana
Texas
Georgia
Oregon
Wisconsin
New York
New Hampshire
Vermont
Kentucky
Indiana
Missouri
Wools and related fabrics price list across regions
A lengthy catalog of wool prices and types by region including Montana Wyoming Utah Colorado Kentucky Texas and California with entries for fine medium coarse unwashed pulled and super wools. Also lists carpet wools from various origins and East India grades with per unit prices in cents and dollars.
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Montana
Montan
Wyoming
Utah
Colorado
Georgia
Kentucky
Texas
Kansas
Nebraska
Ohio
Michigan
Pennsylvania
Maine
California
Oregon
Washington Territory
Montevideo
Aleppo
Angora
Donskoi
East India
Candahar
Jaria
Cordova
Bagdad
Boston fish market reports firmer mackerel supply and cheaper prices
Delong and Seaman note improved curing weather and larger shore catches with fifty to one hundred barrels weekly, mainly Nos 2 and 3. Prices ease except for some items, as canned lobsters demand wanes and sardine trade remains cautious. various prices for cod, hake, herring, mackerel, salmon, and canned fish are listed.
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Bay Fundy
Split
Round Shore
URSA
Shrek Sane
Chicago Markets Report Stronger After Wheat Rally
Wheat opened weak then rose after figures from the Cincinnati Price Current showed 400,000,000 bushels crop but only 75,000,000 bushels in weight, prompting shorts to cover. December wheat likely not below 90c this year. corn and hog prices drifted lower. hog receipts and car lots for tomorrow listed.
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Farnum, Reardon & Co
Cincinnati
Boston Markets Grain and Flour Prices Swept by Firm Wheat
Boston markets report firm flour and grain prices with strong demand and millers holding back for better values. Price listings cover domestic flour ranges from fine to winter patents and Canada export grades, along with New York and Chicago receipts, with mixed fortunes across regions and weak to steady signals in various wheat and corn quotes.
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Minnesota
Michigan
Canada Superior
Canada Roller
Canada
New York
City
Chicago
St Louis
Milwaukee
Detroit
Minneapolis
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New York Times
Roswell Miller
St. Paul Road
J. Pierpont Morgan
Pierpont Morgan
Missouri Pacific
Omaha
Rock Island
Chicago & West Michigan
Mexican Central
Louisville
Evansville & St. Louis
Denver
Watson & Gibson
New
Old Colony
Fitchburg
Central Massachusetts
Herald
San Diego
Frenchman's Bay
East Boston
Lamson
Bell Telephone
Calumet & Hecla
Boston & Montana
Tamarack
Pewabie
Huron
National
Ridge
New York Evening Post
Metal Exchange
Adolph Boissevain & CO
Holland
Consolidated Hierigage
TAN & Northern
Williams & CO
Metropolitan Nat. Bk
Belling Co
Sugar Refineries Co
Tol
Attieboro Branch RR
Naumbergsteau Cotton Co
Portland Saco & Ports. RR
Vermont & Mass. RR
Metropolitan Street Ry. Co
Kansas City
Bay State Live Stock Co
International Button Hole Sewing Machine Co
F. Howard Watch and Clock Co
Pedham Water Co
En Rock & Fort Smith Ry. Co
Chicago, Michigan
Bank
Naumkeag S. Cotton Co
McKay & Bigelow H. M. Asso
City of
Cambridge
Dexter
Pueblo & Arkansas Val
Wisconsin Central RR
Share Appleton Co
Cocheco Mfg. Co
Pepperell Mfg. Co
Amory Mfg
N. Revere Bank
Old Boston N. Bank
Washington N. Bank
State N. Bank
Ames Sword Co
Mulliwiston
Alloucz
Arnold
Atlantic
Bonanza
Bily Bis B. & Mont
Ise
Ironton
Wybb
Osceola
Aspinwall
Enenee
Boothbay
W. P
Boylston Street
Brookline
Campobello
Bay Ee
Maverick
Newport
Payson
Penobscot
Sullivan
Tha Topeka
Wollaston
Atchison Isles
L. G
Whee & Hh
Kan. & W
Doine
Sa Coats
C. & W. Mich. Ba
Con. Vt
D. D
Ilsl
Kk. C
G. TF
K. C
K. G
Do Inc
S. P
N.Y
N. EL
Nor, Pac
Do P. D
Oregon S. L
L. C. Con
Lila Pueb. & A
Rutland
Southern
Rex. Div
Ans. Ee
Eee
Sonora
Union Pactite Ss
Lidte Dos
de Inc
Alsia
Arch
Boston & Albanye
Boston & Lowell
Boston & Maine
Boston & Providence
Cal
Mass
Cleve
Canton
Col. Sp
Flin & P
Ee . Ia Io K. C
Ft. 5S
Cl. & Sp
New Eng
Norther
Wis
Centraless
Escere Telephones
Am. Bell
Eevee
Eastman Car Heater Co
Hamilton Woollen'Co
Hill Mfg. Co
Russell Mills
Plymouth
Fg. CO
Wainwright Am “Jer
Ieee
At&t. Es
al & Pacific
B. & Air Line
Roc &P
Can. Pacific
Central Pac
Ches
Alton
St. L
East Tenn
Fort Wayne
Hocking
Hioust
Seve Kan
Long Island
Lou
Man
Memphis
Central
Wit
St. Leesee
Essex
Nash, & Chat
X. J. Cent
N.Y. Cc
N.E
Ener
On & Wen. A
G K.& WP
P.& On
Ly la Tex. Pac
O. C
Bs U. Pac
Utica
Nn & P
W. A LE
Bsie Land and Miscellaneous Companies
Pacific Mail
Ae Pullman Pal
W. Union
Oregon Improvement CO
NEW York Financial
Albany
Freeman
Balliyqueep
East Saginaw, Mich
Rich
Rich Bros
Samnconent
Appledorn
Appledorn’s Sons
Keokuk, Ia
Versteeg
Versteeg Bros
Nashville
Tenn
Wray
Norfolk
Thomas
Nortuls
Seabury
Seabury’s Sons
Penn
W Huston
F E Schmertz & Co
Plattsburg, N
C McDougall
EG Moore & Co
Einstein
Finstein & Sons
Py Paul
Minn
Coburn
Kellogg, Johnson & C
J. E. Carter & 60
Bankers & Commission
Washington ST
Boston Fish Market
Chicago Markets
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