Show COMMERCIAL Money Market NEW YORK February 18 Money on call 3 4 Closed 4 Prune mercantile paper unchanged Sterling exchange unchanged Now York Stock Market NEW YORK February 1Today was an extremely dull and uni iterest ing day on Change The opening as tace tnotieh tHin the tirt prices sowing sow-ing advances ot MM y to yo Advance ot fractional amounts were established which wre hit lUlU icgained before noon which operation was repeated after 12 oclock when the market became be-came too dull to show any fluctuations until the last hour when there was a better business Slight improvements were maae and themarket closed firm at fractions better than the opening prices Government bonds dull and steady New York Mining Market NEW YORK February 18 Mining shares were dull with the following prices bid Bulwer 110 Best Belcher i 950 Caledonia Black Hills 120 California Virginia WOO Deadwood 210 Eureka Con 650Hale Norcross 555 Homestake 13 Iron Silver 250 Plymouth 1650 Standard 115 Union Con 410 Mexican 675 Petroleum NEW YORK February 18Petroleum opened weak at 61 weaKened rallied to 61 broke near the closed to 61i and closed at 6O3 Sales 2566iOOa barrels bar-rels New York General Markets NEW YORK February lSCoffe fair Rio quiet 14 options higher active Sales 10800Jbags February 1235 12 50 March 1230 1235 May 1225 1235 Sugar dull I Afternoon Stock Market I NEW YORK FebrnaiR 18 Governments North Pac 27 3s 100 Northwestern 4s coupon1l84 N YC 12 4 coupon 110 ON 102 Pac 6s 126 Transcontl 32 Am Express109 Oreg Im Co 4 Can P 6051 Pacific Mail 56 Can Southern 58 Texas Pac 23 Central Pac 36 Union Pacific 56y D R G 24 U Express 62 Erie 33 Fargo Er129 Kansas Tex 29 W U 73 Chicago Produce Markets CHICAGO February 18 Wheat Firmer cash 74 May 803 June 811516 Corn Firm cash 3434 May 39f June 40 Oats Firm cash 23 May 28 June 29 RyeVull54 BarleyNominal 5052 Whisky 118 Short ribs573 shoulders 580600 short clear 700 800 i Chicago lave Stock CHICAGO February 18 CattleReceiPts 7000 Stronger fancy 500 25shipping steers 90 > to 1000 pounds 350 490 stockers and feeders 2602375 HogsReceipts 19OCO strong 5 higher rough and mixed 510 555 packing 515 575 SheepReceipts 3000 strong natives na-tives 250 5 00 western 550 rp 475 Texans 250 420 Lambs 400 600 New YX rk Wool NEW YoRKFebraary ISkVool quiet Ohio Pennsylvania is Western 33 39 New York Michigan Indiana Western West-ern 31 39 Fine washed delaine 3634 3734 medium and coarse washed combings and delaine 39 40 tub washed 39 43 medium unwashed combing and delaine 30 32 Coarse unwashed combing and delaine 30 31 Eastern Oregon 15 22 Valley Oregon 21 27 New Mexico and Colorado 16 23 Liverpool Grain Market LIVERPOOL February 18 Wheat itrong demand good holders offer sparing California No 17s7d 7s 9d per cental red western spring 7s 4d7s 5d Corn firm demand fair No2 mixed western 4s 5d per cental |