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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1887
Page
7
The lumber trade remains steady while flour corn oats and oatmeal show quiet to steady activity. Butter cheese eggs pork lard fresh beef and other meats hold firm or steady with modest demand for beans potatoes hay straw grass seeds and truck. Sugar and molasses stay steady or firm.
The week sees steady demand with large arrivals as east winds push volume. Spruce weakens slightly due to slow building, while hemlock boards and laths stay in steady demand. Western markets firm with firm prices for hardwoods. southern lumber demand remains good. rising logs flows from upper Mississippi improve supply. several vessels load large quantities of lumber for various firms.
The market shows no change in flour with subdued demand and moderate sales. New spring wheat patents fetch around 480, 485 per barrel on round lots while old wheat flours remain in demand. Corn remains quiet. steamer yellow and steamer mixed prices hold firm with mixed elevator quotes. Oats and white oat futures show modest activity with varied call bids and carload quotations for domestic flour and regional mill products.
Market notes list export and domestic prices for corn meal rye flour oats and millfeed. Includes Canada and New York origin prices, freight terms fob and export, plus rye and malt and hops price ranges for 1886 and 1885 season.
Butter prices are largely unchanged with Western creamery and Elgin quotes in the mid twenties. Cheese remains quiet with firm factory prices, while eggs and beans move modestly. The report notes varied regional activity from New York, Chicago, Elgin, and St Albans along with supply shifts and futures.
Peaches and apples offer quiet trading with steady to unchanged prices. Grapes in large supply show liberal sales at stable rates, while pears and various stock varieties quote mixed bids. Listings include Gravenstein and Porter apples, Hudson River Delaware grapes, Bartlett pears with several price ranges.
A market notice lists onions at 225 basket native price 275 per 300 pounds, tomatoes 75 cents, cabbage 648 per 100, shell beans 75 cents 160 per bush, Lima beans 125 per bush, improved Lima 225 per bush, corn 125 per barrel, beets 40 cents per bush, squash 75 cents per barrel, turbans 1 dollar per barrel, carrots 50 cents per bush, lettuce 2 bits per dozen, cucumbers 1256 per 100, eggplants 14 per dozen, celery 125 per dozen, cauliflower 45 per dozen, peppers 75 cents per bush.
Pork and lard show no change with steady quotations for long cuts to backs and sausages. Fresh beef gains strength on heavy cattle while veals and muttons stay quiet and lambs improve. Supply remains light with prices largely unchanged across items including lard, beef, and fresh beef, with varied cuts priced per standard market tables.
In Liverpool futures, September cotton traded with an opening quiet tone and finished steady at 23 64 per 100 pounds.
Comprehensive schedule for weekday and Sunday trains on the Old Colony and Fall River Line routes from Boston to New York and intermediate stops. Includes Ashmont Hyannis Barnstable and many coastal towns with departure and return times, plus changes starting May 30. 1887 and notes on service adjustments and connections.
Report by George J. Fox for the Boston Post shows weekly livestock totals by species, state origins, and rail routes. It lists cattle 7011, beef prices from $4 to $6.75, store cattle values, sheep and lamb prices, hog prices, hides and pelts, and road car counts for Boston & Lowell Fitchburg Eastern.
Reports from New York Chicago Cincinnati St Louis Detroit Toledo Milwaukee on Sept 20 show flour receipts exports and varying wheat and corn prices. Prices range with No 2 spring at 68.14c in Chicago and No 2 red at 68-63 1/4c in St Louis. pork around 15.25 and lard near 6.40. multiple receipts and shipments listed.
Hogs at rifle firmer with today’s receipts about 12,000 and yesterday’s official 12,737. Shipments 3,694 and 6,000 left over. Sales show light hogs at 4.81 to 4.56, mixed packers around 4.80 to 4.50, heavy shippers firmer at 5.0 to 5.5.
Market reports from St Louis Kansas City Peoria and Chicago show cattle and hog receipts around 9 000 to 12 000 daily with steady to firmer prices. Hogs ranged from 4 70 to 5 35 with mixed results as shipments totaled thousands and slaughters continued.
Net receipts and gross for Augusta Galveston New Orleans Mobile Memphis Savannah Charleston Wilmington Norfolk Philadelphia Baltimore New York Cincinnati St Louis and Louisville show activity. Exports to Great Britain coastwise and continent totals noted. overall steady to firm with mid 9 to 16 c ranges and a four day consolidated figure of 97 563 receipts and 256 206 stock at all ports.
At the London wool sales on September 20 a fair crowd observed keen competition for greasy cross-breds and high class greasy wool. Demand from America was limited with about 600 bales sold. prices held with occasional advances for superior greasy. Sale details cover New South Wales, Victoria, New Zealand, South Australia, Swan River and Queensland with varied scoured and greasy lots and fluctuating prices.
Cardenas ships Samuel E with 681 birds of sugar at Bay State Sugar Refinery. Miragoane schooner M Moseley loads 500000 pounds logwood. Lyon Dupuy & Co. appears in trade listings.
Shipments from Halifax Shelburne Lookport Annapolis Weymouth Yarmouth and Liverpool with pine lumber flour meal oil pork lard canned goods salt hardware and other goods. Also Montevideo shows Dark Silas Fish with 463 826 feet pine lumber.
Detailed lists of goods receipts by multiple railroads including Boston & Albany Grand Junction Providence New York & New England Fitchburg Boston & Maine Lowell and others. Items cover wool flour oats cornmeal wheat lard butter cheese eggs beans potatoes hay lumber leather hides and more with quantities reported.
Local time tables list daily departures and connections from Boston to Springfield Worcester New York and Chicago with through sleeping and drawing room cars. Details include multiple daily trains from Boston, Pittsfield, Palmer and Worcester with express and regional services and Sunday schedules.
Record lists cotton bales, casks and skins, and assorted goods by receipts dated Sept 20 1857 and years 1887 1886. Includes butter flour eggs cheese oats cornmeal beef pork lard hides and pelts with quantities and destinations, plus boot and shoe buyers in Augusta Macon and other cities.
Intercity train times listed for Albany and connections to Chicago Cincinnati and St Louis. Includes daily sleeping car services, Sunday times, and various stops such as Pelmont Waverley Abbe Cambridge Concord Marlboro Hudson and Maynard with prices and run times.
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