Show 1 WAITING GAME r 7 PLAYED A Few Stocks Showed Strength in Wall Street but No In Interest Interest Interest terest Was Evinced MORE HARRIMAN RUMORS I THIS TIME IN CONNECTION WITH FINANCING MISSOURI PACIFIC r f N SW w York Feb 3 The strength of a aI aF I F jew individual stocks had a sympathetic influence e In Sn sustaining prices In the gen general genral gener eral er ral list today but speculative Interest all u languid The prevalent disposition Is Isso w so await more definite developments of the business J situation A good deal was made today tody of what was called an Improvement fc Ib the copper trade situation but reports en fill this Utis subject are contradicted and the conveyed was confused Directly conflicting reports were In cir circulation of large sales gales of copper on the thee e nc e hand and of a hopeless stagnation of I demand a mand and sagging values on the other The dealings in London copper warrants I pete re said saw on the one hand and to be specula speculative speculaTe tive Te transactions representing successive transfers of at the same holdings and at tic prices pricel while another claim was that substantial amounts of American copper had been placed in that way with foreign tor tM ign purchasers The copper Indus Industrials trials followed the foreign lead upward at It t the opening but afterward developed and uncertainty with tho the sus suspicion deion cion aroused by toy the tho opposition reports re orts Of Ot trade conditions condition Another sustaining force in II Ii the dull dun market was the vitality of the belief in further f Important deals in the railroad world The rumors of that rind Kind that were most effective dealt with I r the Gould group the market action of several of the stocks in that group giving J credence to the rumors These concerned themselves mostly with a revival of stories r er f E Eo H II plans toward this 3 system y tern which were active actIe following th the announcement of financial support ac Sc by b Mr tr Ir Harriman In the disen disentanglement disentanglement disentanglement of Wabash finances last year ear reports pointed more directly to Missouri Pacific and to alleged further financing for that company compan to be under undertaken undertaken undertaken taken by Harriman bankers These Thele re retorts report reports torts ports were without authoritative confirmation confirmation confirmation mation but the comprehensive price movement in the Gould securities gave them hem influence The annual sailing ailing of J Pierpont Mor Morgan Mortan Mortn tan gan tn for his foreign vacation to Europe i bad ad some effect on repression on specula speculation tier loft as usual The publication today of at atle the le annual report of the commissioner of Corporations tended toward repression as ask ask asIt I k It Is considered of Importance as showing bow how far the elaborate program of corpor corporation tIOn supervision lon there outlined may rep represent resent the policy of the Incoming adminis administration administration ration and how far tar merely merel the Ideal of The e outgoing The attention given the Japanese legislation by the Pacific lc coast coasts states s te l Is not Ignored In speculative circles although h the apparent restraint of the national government gov on the subject Is re reassuring re reassuring assuring effect Cf t fan all loans l an late yesterday and today exceeded the recent 2 per cent maximum and time loans were quotably firmer Foreign exchange ex hange rates eased with the hardening of the money mone market Easier EasIer Easler ier ler discount rates were reported from abroad also The days das changes In stocks were mixed after the usual had been concluded i Bonds were firm Total sales par p r value lu I United States bonds bonda were unchanged on call culL Stock Quotations Sales High Low Close Cloe Ama Amal Copper 36 64 6 l mt li iri C F SOU 9 V 4 Preferred 11 1104 lIos llO 11 Cot Oil OilA 1700 52 51 5 52 s sA A H L 1 pfd 41 n 41 ja xi Ice Scour J JAmn fl 22 Arnn Linseed 1 Wk 14 13 13 14 66 56 i 56 6 55 OO 2 Preferred 1 S B It n S 8 8 85 s S 85 Preferred 1200 Sugar R RAmn la 13 Tob Too pfd fd 91 91 91 91 Amri Woolen liS liSAna Ana Min Mm Co 2000 OO 46 4 i 1 k Atchison 2700 ZO m 1014 ro Preferred 1014 1014 At Cut Coast Line OO 2 W B 0 lOS IOn IOS Preferred KB R 92 9 32 31 Brook Rap T r 90 0 71 70 Wl Can Pacific 2600 2 14 1 Cent Leather m 3 31 31 Preferred d 10 Ire C of N J T Ches Ohio 66 04 65 6 Chic Gt West Vest l 0 O SH S 8 8 C N W ITS lis li liC C M St P 9 J U 14 C C C 8 St L 1 70 iO 0 78 s 70 iO Colo Cob F L 1 1300 40 W Z 1 33 34 Colo Cob So SW 6 61 1 61 1st preferred 3 10 84 82 preferred ff 60 1 79 74 78 is S SCon Con Can Gas 1400 Corn Products OO 19 IS lS 18 Del Hudson 13 1 D R 71 G 0 43 tm 4 43 m 41 i Preferred AWO 00 SS t i 82 12 S 82 4 DIst 37 i Erie 1700 17 21 31 3 1st preferred LOGO 47 45 4 46 48 21 d preferred 3 35 31 Gen Electric 15 Gt Nor pfd Y Hf 14 Hl Gt Nor or ore 1000 10 71 iI 5 H 71 71 11 Ill III Central Cen 14 Inter Met 00 l 15 lii W 15 Preferred S O 00 G 42 C 41 41 Inter 11 Preferred 54 Inter Pump m 0 S 8 38 Iowa Central 30 m 3 30 m COU ro roK K C Southern Sout 2200 41 0 40 4 Preferred 7 2 72 77 Louis Nash ash COO 00 14 4 M St L 1 1100 56 66 65 00 i 55 51 M 31 1 St P Sault Ste M f 14 Hl Mo Pacific 71 70 70 7 0 M K T MOO eS 42 42 e 42 4 Preferred 74 i 74 73 National Lead TSU 78 78 77 N Y Central 4 O 1 17 N Y O 0 W 47 4 47 47 Nor or West W st 2209 2 91 91 91 North ID C Sl sj 81 S1 81 Nor or Pacific 2700 ISS 1 1 Pacific Mall 31 31 34 Pennsylvania Penn 1 Peoples Gas 2000 P C C St L 1 1000 92 4 91 92 Pressed S Car 00 42 43 42 41 Pull Pal Car SO 0 IiI lv l I IR Ry R Steel Spring 47 4 47 i 46 4 Reading ISSi 1 1317 12 1 Steel 00 24 24 i 24 Preferred 85 Rock Island 25 5 21 I 24 Preferred 64 Q 63 3 63 6 St L San F d preferred 1000 1009 41 40 40 St L S W 22 22 22 T I T ei Tt lL Ft ft t 5 S S S I ISo 6 So Pacific Preferred 0 12 1214 tn 1214 So Railway 25 25 g 2 21 Preferred 3 1 33 61 62 sZ 61 Tenn Copper 1300 I 41 U 40 Tex TeL Pac PacT 2400 85 S 34 34 T St L 1 8 W 00 0 49 19 48 43 47 47 Preferred m 0 70 i 70 0 63 Union Pacific l 1 Preferred COO roo 95 93 95 55 94 U 8 B Rubber 23 1st let preferred iJ Ire 4 U t S Steel 53 52 52 Preferred 1500 1124 f 4 Utah Copper 1700 44 43 43 Va VS Car Client Chern 2100 2109 46 46 48 45 Preferred Wabash abash KM ft 5 18 4 18 15 19 1914 Preferred SOO 49 48 43 45 s West Electric 80 3 SO 3 SO West Union tm 0 S 3 68 8 ex 65 S W L 1 LE E EWIs 10 io WIs Central 00 0 3 39 38 T T 2100 i 1 1264 Total sales for the day shares |