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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1889
Page
7
Receipts show flour and oats steady with strong export interest. Wheat prices firm with premiums for No 2 and patent varieties. Corn and oats trade quiet to steady with limited demand. rye and graham flours quiet. millfeed and cottonseed meal at muted levels.
Daily receipts list butter, oleo, cheese and produce volumes with year over year contrasts. Market notes from Chicago New York and Liverpool discuss firm tones, quotations for Western and Eastern creameries, egg markets, and bean prices amid varying supplies and demand.
The report lists prices for foreign and domestic beans including small New York and Vermont hand-picked varieties, California peas, and various Lima and pea bean types with jobbing premiums. It also covers Joie Poultry prices for fresh killed spring chickens, fowls, ducks, and turkeys, plus game partridges, Western grouse, potatoes with regional varieties, sweet potatoes, and hay and straw values with range notes on quality and supply.
A steady demand is reported with quotations for Malta onions at 175 to 225 per basket, Spanish onions at 742 cents per crate, beets 35 cents per box, carrots 40 cents, lettuce 50 cents, turnips 50 cents, cucumbers 250 per 100 count, peppers 125 per bush, Lima beans 150 per bush, green corn 1 per barrel, tomatoes 75 cents per bush, pumpkins 75 cents per barrel, cabbage 345 per 100 count, red cabbage 0.90 per box, spinach 15 cents per bush, cauliflowers 1 per box, celery 74 cents per dozen, eggplants 150 per 200 per dozen.
Apple sales show unchanged market with high demand for choice lots and dull, ample common lots. Gravensteins at 250 325, Hubbardstons 175 200, Porters 170 200, sweets 200, Western mixed 125 225, Ben Davis 250, Harveys 275. Oranges Jamaica 50 60 per box, Lemons steady at old prices. Pears fair demand, native Bartletts scarce and priced around 36 38 per barrel, New York Bartletts 4 4 50 per barrel. Seckle varieties mixed with 2 5 per barrel, Cranberries quiet, Cane Cod 65 70 a barrel. Bananas steady Jamaica 1 25 per bunch, Baracoa 1 12, Port Limons 1 75. Grapes supply smaller with varied prices for native Concords 8 9 per pound various crates. Quinces light, Almeria Grapes steady at 4 per barrel.
The report notes a seven car potato train named Thursday's Train. A Marmion steamer is due Friday bringing Jamaica bananas for the Boston Fruit Company. A Norfolk boat arriving Friday carries 850 barrels of sweets and 300 bags of peanuts.
Blake and Rhipley list California fruit prices with half crates for Tokay Muscats Moroccos nose de Peru Cornichon and more. Snow and Co report Tokay grapes at 190 per single crate and 60 per double. Harris and Co announce an auction today's peaches and grapes and Friday sale of 416 barrels of wine grapes.
The receipts today show tallow 8 pkgs beef 90 bbls pork 12 bbls lard 534 pkgs hams 107 bbls preserved meats 112 cases bacon 405 boxes. New York reports tallow quiet city 32 P pkg 4% gross. pork firm with 250 bbls sold. beef quiet. lard higher with 3 25 tierces Western steam and 100 tierces city at 6 05. Chicago notes stronger mess pork 12 50 and lard active around 6 10 to 6 12. St Louis sees provisions higher across. pork 11 50. dry salted meats and bacon firm to higher. Cincinnati reports pork firm at 1 24 and lard at 5 90 with bulk meats strong.
Kansas City market shows weak slow cattle trade with steers at 3.70 and stockers near 2.70 to 2.50. cows around 1.25. Chicago cattle receipts total 16 000 with beeves near 4.40 to 4.65, steers 3.40 to 4.30, and stockers 1.75 to 2.90. Hog receipts 20 000 with mixed 3.90 to 4.45 and heavy 3.75 to 4.30. Sheep receipts 1 000 with lambs 4.50 to 6.00 and natives around 3.50 to 4.65.
In New York cotton, sales reached 232 bales with classifications including uplands and ordinaries. The market opened steady and closed quiet and steady as the table lists the opening figures.
The report lists net receipts gross exports and coastwise sales stock and market tone for Augusta Galveston New Orleans Mobile Memphis Savannah Charleston Wilmington Norfolk Philadelphia Baltimore Louisville New York Cincinnati St Louis and consolidated five day totals. Notable figures include New Orleans exports to Great Britain 7470 and stock 56 585 and New York gross 14 825 exports to Britain 2555 and stock 39 696.
Raw sugars are steady with small on hand supply and strong demand for refined. Quoted prices cover Cuba Manila Molasses and confectioners grades with small differences by category. Molasses receipts today are none, last year 45 barrels.
Turpentine closed at 4742 to 4744 cents with resin at 1024 to 1072, tar at 3 dollars, and petroleum at 7.60 cents. RSW at 7.20 cents and cases at 1.10 dollars. Coffee notes Rio smooth at 1944 cents. Whiskey markets steady at 102 dollars.
Weekly live stock tallies show cattle receipts between four and five thousand with varied quality and steady hog prices. Lambs and sheep demand remains good with several notable flocks. late arrivals include numerous cows, yearlings, and springers sold by multiple firms. Shipments to Boston and overseas ports continue, with a cautious price outlook for the near term.
A detailed manifest from September 25, 1889 records imports arriving in Liverpool and Curacao. It lists steel, hides, candles, soap, olive oil, wine, machinery, cotton laces, earthenware, wool, paper stock, grapes, and many other commodities from firms like Jere Abbott & Co, Baring Bros & Co, Brown Les & Co, Stone & Downer, Jones, McDuffee & Stratton, and J B Moors & Co. Brigs Nevadae and HM Bain export bulk salt and dry codfish to Curacao and St Pierre respectively.
Feeder cattle, cows, veal calves and hogs sold with varied prices. Notable sales include four springers by W W Monkittrick at 55 each and multiple lots from A A Stevens, Traften & McIntire, and J D Hosmer among others. Yard totals show 4119 cattle at Watertown, with exports to England discussed and beef demand noted for the upcoming week.
Shipping list from Liverpool and Halifax reports cargoes and tonnage for multiple vessels. Ships G F Day Kaleyale Melinda Mary Rose Coila and others carry kerosene oil flour cornmeal bricks sand lumber and various goods to Pictou St John’s Halifax Charlottetown Yarmouth and Mainland routes. Highlights include 15 000 fire bricks and 165 barrels of flour with heavy shipments of cornmeal and kerosene.
London and Liverpool notice mixed commodity movements with wheat firmer in some markets while corn remains quiet. Prices show English and foreign wheat dearer, U S and Danubian corn steady, flour steady. Liverpool spot wheat held firm, Paris and Manchester reports note cautious demand with various price quotes and activity in yarn and textile markets.
Addison New York dealer G W Farnham Altoona Pennsylvania Blumenthal na Gua Kingstry of baves Kingsbery Re Athinta Georgia W W Draper Draper Moore Co I Annate Georgia W Everett MC Kiser Kaye City Michigan N Kittredge Craw Austinalo N Walker W 2 Walker Co Multiple firms named across states appear in a buyer notice listing boot and shoe suppliers in towns including Addison Altoona Kingsbery Athinta Kittredge and others.
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