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Show hivrtiL'u ill WALLSTIipET NEW YORK, Dec lO.-Openlng prices of stocks today were carried higher than last Bight by larga buying orders. Atchison being the sols exception with a decline of K- Gains reached to over a point In Colorado Fuel and Amalgamated Copper; to a, point tn Southern Pacific. Rock la land, Erie first preferred and paper, and to a large fraction In Norfolk Western and Vnited States 6teel. Erratic fluctuations In Amalgamated ' Copper, Vnited States Steel preferred, Leather and Sugar created an uneven market. These stocks as well as Union Pacific met heavy selling orders after the Initial advance under which they yielded below yesterday's closing. Sugar to the extent of a point. Standard Stand-ard railroad stocks later advanced, led by St. Paul which touched lTt. The coalers were also bought heavily and by 11 o'clock the general trend .became upward again. Amalgamated Copper, United States Steel preferred and Sugar Su-gar rallied to their highest prices. There was a period of hesitation, but prices advanced strongly to the highest level of the day after the-appearance of the bank statement, losses of a point were made by Wheeling: eV Lake Erie. Minneapolis St. Louis, Erie Second preferred. Chicago Great Western "B" preferred, pre-ferred, the Leather stocks and Consolidated Gas. On the rally gains reached In Amalgamated Amalga-mated Copper 2. Heading I. Kansas City Southern preferred Chicago Union Trac tion preferred 1, Tennessee Coal, Colorado Fuel. General Electric and Hocking Valley preferred 2. . and Pennsylvania, Southern Pacific Pa-cific St. Paul, Chesapeake 4k Ohio, Hocking Valley, Corn Products preferred, - Brooklyn Tranait, Sugar, the Malting -stocka the Pump stocks. Rubber and Rubber goods a point or more. United States Steel gained ltt. The closing was active and generally firm. |