Show I IN TRADE CIRCLES 1I i i I New York Stocks Active I and Strong BAR SILVER SCARCELY AT PAR liuiluei Failure Neir York Mining Market llopi tend Petroleum SU rLhe Stock General Money Market NEW YORE December 29 Money 3 c C LATER Money on call easy 3 t 5 closing at 3 3Prime mercantile paper4 Gt 6 Sterling exchange bteady4SO for sixty days bills 481 demand Bullion HKW YOKE December 9Bar silver 9O3 N Petroleum XEVo YORE December Petroleum 1 opened at W2 wcakeutU slightly became be-came strong advanced to r03S all within the nrst hoar remained weak declining to G3 and closing at G3M Sales 3513000 barrels Hop Market SEW YOBE December 39Haips Qaiet steady Pacific Coast 12 tJ 23 few York Lead NEW YOBK December 29Lead steady New York Copper NEw YOBK December 9Copper Quiet few York Coffee Naw YORE December 29 Coffee Fair K o steady U options htjrher moderately active tales VJOOO hips January dosed at 1270 12SO Febru art 12CO 1205 March 12CO 12 R5 Apnl 12GU 8 1205 May lG51g < 1270 New York > ucarr XEW YorK December 29 Sugar Quiet reniied quiet Butineit Failure NEw YORE December 9Chas H Raymond dealer in supplies at 121 Chambers Street and 103 Head Street made an assignment to day for the benefit of his creditors with preferences amounting to 200000 Raymond dealt in hardware supplies for twentyfive years havlne for his heaviest customers the United States orerninent Ho dealt mainly by sample carrying no stock worth mentioning men-tioning Up to about a year ago he was reputed to beYery wealthy and his credit was of the best but since then he bas been lax in his payments The amount of his liabilities is UnG8WD but they are estimated to be near 5QO 000 Raymond is a silent partner with George H Creed in the supply business and at their establishment nothing was known regarding the financial trouble of Raymond I New York Mining Market NEW YORK December 29 Uirn shares steady Sales Dead wood A5 Mono 250 300 Union Consolidated 400 Horn Silver 165 < f 175 Bodie 250 300 Bulwer 110 ca 200 Caledonia Black Hills 105 Iz Gould Curry 4 Hale h Norcross 365 400 Iron Silver 255 Mexican 475 North Boll Isle 300 Sierra Nevada 425 Standard 100 tt 130 Silver King 000 New York block Market NEW YORK December 29 11 am Stocks opened generally higher this morning West Point gained 1i Reading Read-ing IK Pacific Mail 134 Union Pacific J NEW Yon December 29 3 pm Stocks were active and strong during the afternoon West Point gained 3hJ and the remainder of the list smaller amounts The market closed barely steady the figures being slightly below the best of the day Nxw YORK December 2 i Government Govern-ment bonds were quiet and steady Stocks were active and strong almost without reaction from the first few minutes until the last hour Before noon the activity and advance were again renewed and lasted until after 2 pm when a considerable realization of profits caused a slight decline and the market closed barely steady but close to the best figures of the day I Morning Railroad Stock NEW YORK December Governments Oregon Navg 101 S3 bid lOlKlTranscontl S2X is J28KiPadfio f Mail 4934 lHs 118i4 Panama 98 Pac 6s12534 Rock Island 26J CenPacific 42tfStL < fcBF 313 on1l < fin St Paul tr Burlington 36 PauliO 4GK DR G 25 Tex Pacific 21 Ji Northern Pac 27 Union Pacific GOJi Northwestern 13M Wells Fargo 23 N Y Central 13 W U 70J5 Afternoons Market Governments Preferred Gl 3a lOOJi Northwestern HX 4s coaponl29 > N Y Central U yt l scoapon110Ji fcNeidi710l Pac 69125 Transctmtl 32 > tAm t-Am Expressl07K Oreg Im Cu 39 C nP 67i Pacific Mail 40 Can Southern 61 Panama 95 Central Pac 4334 Texas Pacific 234 D k R G 2531Union Pacific 61 Erie 33 USExpress 00 Kansas d Tex 31 jj Wells Fargo J2S North Pac 27J < w U 7134 Obleaxo Market Cazcioo December29 1pm Wheat Steady cash 7S516 February Febru-ary 79 516 May 60340 Ccrn About steady cash 353 February May 43 + Oats Firm cash2634 i May 313 J Whisky L1S 1 PorkEarier i cash 1185 May 1242H Lard Steady casn G ovMay 5 00 Kye Steady 53 BarleyQuiet 52 Shoulders 4B e 400 short clear 630 0 635 ehort ribs 5934 i |