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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1889
Page
7
New York and Chicago receipts run high while No 2 white oats hold at 30%31c on track and elevator. Spot prices quote fancy oats at 34-36c and No 2 white 31c in elevator, with stock 71,373 bush up from last week’s 48,785. Western and Boston calls indicate firmer oats and mixed grain values with various barrel meals and flours quoted, and overall market activity modest.
Receipts today include butter 396 tubs and 3815 bbls sweet potatoes with 12 cars potatoes and 49 cars hay. Butter prices rise with outside at 24c and expected 25c for choice grades. creameries show limited extra supply. Cheese and eggs show firmer prices. North and East markets steady, with imitations softer. Poultry demand remains firm as cold weather tightens supply. beans and potatoes noted as steady with sparse offer.
All choice lots sell at full prices with a range of chicory and tuber quotes. New Hampshire and Aroostook prices are listed for roses heborns and burbanks with minor variations. sweet potatoes show ample supply and lower prices, while hay and straw markets reveal steady to firm values and varied quality levels across regions.
The market is well supplied with fair demand. Quotations list Malta at 175 dollars per basket, onions 75 cents bush, Spanish onions 8 742 cents per crate, beets 35 cents per box, carrots 40 cents per box, lettuce 50 cents per box, turnips 50 cents per box, white cape 1 1 25 per barrel, St Andrews 1 50 per barrel, cucumbers 2 50 per 100 count, peppers 1 dollar per bush, parsley 25 cents per bush, cranberry beans 1 dollar, shell beans 1 50 per bush, wax beans 1 per bush, green oats 1 25 per 7 box, lima beans 2 2 25 per bush, green corn 1 per barrel, tomatoes 75 cents to 1 dollar per bush, green tomatoes 35 cents per box, pumpkins 75 cents per barrel, cabbage 3 5 per 100 count, Savoy cabbage 75 cents per barrel, red cabbage 60 cents per box, parsnips 50 cents per box, marrow squash 75 to 90 cents per barrel, turban squash 50 to 90 cents per barrel, spinach 15 cents per bush, cauliflowers 75 cents per box, eggplant 150 to 200 per dozen, celery 7 H be 1 per dozen.
The market shows ample receipts with demand focused on choice apples. Gravensteins fetch 2504, various varieties priced per barrel and box, Jamaica oranges in fair demand at 25 to 50 per box, lemons firm, pears mixed but steady, cranberries quiet, plums scarce with firm values, and grapes with decent demand. Cotton and wheat futures listed. wide activity across Atlantic ports and domestic markets with recent shipments to Europe and steady to firm prices across regions.
A railway note reports Tuesday's train configuration shifting from four cars to nine. The change affects freight capacity and routing, with officials citing demand for more potato shipments and streamlined operations across lines.
The steamer Marmion is due Friday carrying Jamaica bananas for the Boston Fruit Company. The arrival is anticipated to supply fresh produce to local markets and vendors.
Horatio Harris and Company invites buyers to a sale featuring nine carloads of California fruit including Tokay Muscat Morocco Rose de Peru and Cornichon grapes along with gobbles of Almeria grapes.
Kansas City reports lower cattle with steers at 3 25 to 4 00 and cows 1 25 to 2 30. Hogs steady at 3 65 to 4 25, Yorkers 4 10 to 4 25. Sheep at 3 35 to 3 85. Cincinnati hogs strong 3 25 to 4 60. Chicago cattle weak with beves 4 50 to 4 80, steers 3 83 to 4 40, hogs 3 50 to 4 76, sheep 3 50 to 4 60. Texans and Western ranges noted. receipts and ship ments listed.
Receipts today list tallow pork and related goods with quantities. Prices across New York Chicago St Louis Cincinnati show steady to firmer lard and pork products, with dips in beef and cut meats and varied regional quotes for mess, bacon, and sausage products.
Fresh beef supply ample with no scarcity of choice cuts. quotes for choice steers and various beef cuts listed with mixed prices. Other fresh meats see increasing supply with firm tone. veals steady. lambs and mutton priced. tallow markets quiet and lower city rates noted. New York dull with city packages at 42 to 49-16c.
Sugar receipts show 635 bbls 434 hhds and 900 bags today versus 10 bbls 473 hhds and 900 bags last year. Raw sugars quiet and in a nominal condition with easy tone. Quotes include Cuba fair to good refining 5 4c centrifugals 96 test 642 69 16c Manilas 45s 642c Moilos 4 4%%¢ Javas Nos 10 to 11 64¢c. A good demand for refined sugars at decline. supply on hand small. Pulverized 8%s 8cc powdered 844 8%sc granulated 8a8%ec confectioners A 81 16c standard A 8%sc Belmont A 7%&e extra C 748 7%c yellow 6%s 6%%c. Wholesale granulated 8c. New York raw nominal weak fair revenue 5%4c centrifugals 96 test 644¢c refined steady. Molasses receipts today 92 bils 228 birds 127 puncheons. same day last year none. market nominal. Fancy Ponce 43c Peal 40 41c fair to good 36 39c Cienfuegos 28 31c Barbadoes 34c boiling grades 50 nominal. New York trade dull.
Turpentine closed at 48 48 percent, resin at 10242 107 percent, tar at 275, petroleum at 7.60c with RSW 7.20c and cases at 9.10c. Coffee New York Rio easier with fair car goes 19. Whiskey markets steady with Western at 102.
Trade list from the steamship Palestine and other vessels showing caustic soda cheese wine hides rags linens and dry goods in multiple consignments from firms such as King & co Phelps Dodge Merrill Deiler and Co Baring Bros Co and others. Includes bananas oranges bread salt logwood and seafood from Jam. Steamer Coila Visagua Bark Suitana Turks Island Yarmouth NS and other locations.
Shipping list entry detailing exports from St Pierre Mig Brig Daphne and various ports including Port Lorne Grand Narrows Digby Annapolis Cape Verdemslands and Africa. Items listed encompass food provisions alcohol tobacco coffee tea flour molasses canned goods agricultural products craftsmanship and household effects with quantities such as 100,000 feet hard pine and 6080 boxes or tubs across multiple vessels and destinations.
The record lists numerous goods and quantities including fish lines water filters bread ale ducks boxes axes shingles boards lathing and bo is lamp posts trunks tobacco and miscellaneous items. Also notes Sch Byrtle 50 tons pig iron 50 barrels kerosene oil 50 rolls of paper and 139 barrels pitch.
London and Liverpool cargoes show wheat firm in places and corn steady or easier amid varied demand. Paris and Antwerp prices largely unchanged or quiet. Wheat futures listed for September to January, with specific prices noted for California wheat and corn futures. British farm deliveries recorded at 6739 quarters.
A list of shoe buyers and agents from multiple cities including Atlanta Birmingham Chicago Cincinnati Cleveland Corpus Christi Dallas Detroit Galveston Kansas City Knoxville Lexington Macon Memphis Nashville New Orleans Norfolk Omaha Pittsburg St Louis Savannah Terre Haute Toledo Wheeling. Names like Bates Kingsbery Draper Kiser Leonard Nussbaum Goodbar Brown Schafer Smith Rosenheim Meinhard and several firms like Greensfelder Florsheim Dages Andrews Sanger Bros Vance Shoe Co and others are shown as buyers or agents. The item reads like a directory snippet detailing representatives and firms across the U S shopping for footwear.
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