Show j COMMERCIAl EASTERN 3IAKKETS Money Stocks Grain anti Cattle Bullion NEW YORK December 3Bnr silver i 108 i PetrleuJD J NEW YORK December 3 Petroleum steady 78M J i New York Wool J NEW YORK December 3 Wool dull unchanged New York honey Market NEW YORK December 3 Money 2 easy 1M2 Prime mercantile paper 44 G Sterling exchange bankers bills firmer 80 Sterling exchage demand 84 New York Stock Mining Market NEW YORK December 3There was some little activity in mining stocks this morning and the sales included Bodie at 270 Arnie at 4 Consolidated California Cali-fornia and Virginia at 45 buyer CO Little Lit-tle Chief at 25 Plymouth at 15M Eureka at 285 Horn Silver at 495 to 512M Standard assessment paid at GO assessment unpaid 32 Sierra Nevada at 120 seller 10 flat and Sutro Tunnel at 13 buyer GO In the afternoon only 400 shares including Eureka at 275 buyer 20 Plymouth at 15a and Horn Silver at 512J4 were sold The New York Stock Market NEW YORK December 3 Wall street Stocks lower prices declined y to 1 Lackawanna and New York Central Cen-tral being weakest shares Near 11 there was a rally of Y to U NEW YORK December 3Noon Stocks firmer with an advance ofjtf to 1 from lowest point of the day west en Union led the upward mov meat NEW YORK December 3Stocks in early afternoon trading firm near 2 oclock became strong Western Union and grangers in good demand and recorded re-corded higher figures The former advanced i ad-vanced on rumors of an additional dividend divi-dend and on reports that negotiations were on foot looking to the purchase of the Postal telegraph company Neither of these rumors were confirmed NEW YORK December 3 Governments Govern-ments strong At the opening of business busi-ness at the stock exchange today the market was weak and there was a general gen-eral decline of ys to 1 per cent Missouri Mis-souri Pacific and Lackawanna leading the former selling down to 93J4 and tIe latter to 107 The remainder fell off ys to 3 per cent At 2 oclock a weaker I feeling feet in and a reaction of M toper to-per cent took place In the final dealings deal-ings the market was firmer Delaware I S Hudson was exceptionally weak falling fall-ing from 9131J to 88J4 to 89X As compared I com-pared with last nights closing the prices are Y6 to led per cent higher for Lake Shore Kansas Texas New Jersey Jer-sey Central Pacific Mail Texas Pacific and Western Union and Y to 23 percent I per-cent lower for Lackawanna Missouri i Pacific Northern Pacific preferred Omah Delaware fe Hudson and Union Pacific Central Pacific Chicago Burlington Bur-lington Quincy St Paul Louisville Nashville Northern Pacific and Erie are unchanged Chicago Grain Trade i i i CHICAGO December 3 Wheat t I Strong closed K over yesterday I 73 cash December 74J4 74 January I Janu-ary 75 February 81K May i Corn Firm higher 3G s cash year 3474 January 34 February 3iM May OatsEasier 247 24 cash December Dec-ember 25 January 28J < May Whisky13 I I II I I AFTERNOON Wheat Firm 74 December 743s January 81 May Corn = Firm 36 year 35 January 373f May Oats Steady 243 December 25 Jan nary 28M May RyeQuiet 51 Barley Dull 55 57 Pork Steady 1135 January Lard Good demand 687J December Bulk MeatsFair demand stronger shoulders 500 505 short ribs 600 ahort clear 635 GAO Whisky 13 4 Chicago Cattle Market CHICAGO December 3 Cattle Re ccipts9200 very dull 10 15 lower good to choice 550 625 common to fair 420 525 stockers 300 350 feeders 360 425 Texas steers 300 oJK Hogs Receipts 33000 brisk 10 to 15 igher rough packing 410 430 packing and shipping 430 4GO light 400 440 SheepReceipts 2700 common toP to-P 180 250 per cwt medium to good 250 300 good to choice 325 400 holiday sheep 500 i MorningRafroad Stocks NEW YORK December iJ j 1 Governments N Y C OO < i 33 1 O N 72 43 is 1334 Oregon Trans 13 4s 233 PacIfic Mail 51y Pacific 6s 26 Panama 98 Central Pac 3G StLSF 21M C B Q 21 Texas Pacific 13 T North Pac 18 Union Pacific 50M N Pac pfd 4134 W Fargo Ex 7 I Northwestern 91W U 63X II I f NEW YORK 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