Show fEAT RELESS MARKE Stocks Were Irregular and Change nIxed t A BIG BREAK IN SUGAR I + RETIREMENT OF SALES A PE9ED THE ST c t Cent Pacific Advanced I Anticipation Antici-pation of a eoraatonOut sid Interest I the Mket Encouraged couraged the BullsWheat Make Ma-ke StrongLead On UP Grade New York Dec 19The stock market moved irregularly and resulted In mixed changes in prices The general market had a good undertone but was devoid of Interesting features Little was done In the standard stocks LItte which and the Industrials except Sugar broke nearly 4 poInts and rallied fractionally fraction-ally The confirmation ot the report that confrmaton Secretar and leasurer Searles would illhealth was used In retire owing to depressing Sugar Central PacIfic was strong In anticipation or a reorganlza lion 1lan which was expected to follow any sottletnelit which the company may I I setlement government Southern Pa i make with thp 1a in any favorable chic which would benefit development in Central Pacific rose I poInts PrIces were well held until the last hotr when there was a break In Atchison and the grangers Traders for a decline on the theory that such a movement move-ment was usual betore the Christmas holidays Active bulls profe1se gatl cation at the continuance of outside inter contnuance est In the market which was relccted in the undue promInence of some om the minor stocks In the trading Tennessee Coal Iron became strong and moved up 2 points and the rest of the list symva thlzed in this movement fractionally and the market left elf firm of frm Operations In railway and miscellaneous raiway eous securities were attended with the securItes same aggressive show of strength which has characterIzed the dealings for sometime some-time BusIness was somewhat below recent re-cent totals with a general diversion of in trest in the securities not usually prominent promi-nent Total sales 3100 U S new 45 and the 35 advanced percent per-cent In the bId prIce The total sales of stocks today were 6500 shares Including 1910 Atchson 56950 AtchIson preferred 34W B 0 35020 Central Pacific 12524 Burlington 350 682 D R G preferred 15G Lake Erie Western 7845 Lake ErIc West em preferred 185 L N 10310 llan hattnn 9010 Met St Ry 1092 MissourI 901 Pacific 5120 Northern Pacific 12ock T H 1M nA D 00 Tnfnn UU UV W Uv vu Pacific > < preferred UlUU 16520 St Paul 10238 g tg nr IWg 12280 OT ia5P Re Pacific 9 700 Paper 13150 Tobacco 36120 Federal theei f i Federal Steel preferred 3630 People Gas 3700 Consolidated Gas 66 0 Sugar 22016 T C I 4395 Rubber 9G al Chicago Great Western BOND QUOTATIONS t U S new 4s re1S N J C 51 U S new 45 cou12S Nor Pil Ists18 U S Nor Pac 35 90 U S 4s coul1 Nor Pac 4s10 U S NYCSL 4510 U S 5s reg11Nor W 6s127 U S 55 cou12 N V cnsols13 District 31 Cos 118 1 N V deb 5s m Atehisnn 45 99t Or Nay lsts114 Atchison M4S 8i i Na 41 99 f Can So 2dsl1 0 S L 6s 1 1129 C O 41As9O30 S L 5 1 r101 C O ½ Pic 65 of 95lOIWs Chic Term 45 94h Reading 4s ts C H D 4sl0 R G W Isis 92 D H G Ists10 SLIM con 5l03o D R G is liW SLSF gen 6s1 East Tcnn lsts107 St Paul Con 162 Erie Gen n4 757SLPCP fsts122 FWD Ist t r 851 StPCP is 121 Gen Bloc 5s10i So Ry 5s103 GHSA Cs 107 Stan R T Os S2 GHSA 3sm IT I P f G s lf gi T C 5s11 IT P Rg 2ds 47 l T C cn 6s11 UPDG Ists 8 I In Cen 1sts101 abash 1st 5s13 h N Un Is 9714 Wabash 2ds 95 lIt K r 2ds i West Shore 4s12 M K T 45 91 Wis Cent Ists 6 N Y C Ists17 NEW YORK CLOSING STOCKS I Atchison 1SlRock Island 10 Preferred W ½ St L S F B 0 U5 Preferred 62 ½ I Canada Pacific 85 2d preferred 3 Canada So 56 St L S V 7 Central Pacific 29s Preferred 15 T I Cho Ohio 2 St Paul IG 4 Chic Alton m ½ Preferred 10i ½ g B ½ ISrr 0 C E t 57 Preferred165 Preferred 109 srr ilL itCh it-Ch G W 15 So Pacific 32 c 1 go L 8 So Railway 10fs referred 32 Preferred 4Y C N WHOI Tex Pacific 16 Preferred 18 Union Pacific 40Y C C C St r 43 Preferred 7 Preferred 97 U P D G 12 Del Hudson101Wabash 8 Del L W149 Preferred 2 D R G 1lW L E 5T Preferred 66T Preferred 26 Erie new 1 Adams Express10S Ere preferred 36Americn Exp 14i Fort Wayne 175 U S Express 49 fr Nor fm l e sJ rg 125 Hocking Valley 3i Am Cotton Oil 3 Illinois Central 113 i Preferred S Iinois W 18 Am Spirits 1 Preferred 70 Preferred 23 Lake Shore 201 Am Tobacco l4 L N 68 Preferred 127 Manhattan L 96 Con Gas 195 I Net St Ry192 Com Cable Col I mch CentrlI1 lColo P 1 2G lilian 0 St L 2 Preferred 81 1st preferred 98 Gen Eletric 92 Mo Pacific 42 HaW Coml Co 57 Mobile Ohio I0Intnl Paper 5 Mobie T 12581 Preferred 903 11 Preferred 37 Laclee Gas 15 N J Central 92 Lead 37 N Y Central 122 Preferred 12 r7 Y C S L ii i Nat Lin Oil 5 let preferred 70 fl iaI 423 2d preferred 36 Peoples Gas 101 Nor Vet 16 Pulman PalH8 Nor Am Co 6 iSlver Cert 591 Nor Pacific 41 Stan R T 8 Preferred 7654 Sugar IL Ontario W 17 Preferred no Ontao N 51 lenn C 1 36 Or Short LIne 38U S Leather 6 P C 1st pref ll Preferred 63 2d preferred 61 U S Rubber 413 pltsburg 12 IU Preferred 111 Reading 19 Welern Union JI 1st preferred 46 Federal Steel 3 R G W 26 I Preferred 79 Preferred 61 I NEW YORK MINING STOCKS CholaI 1 OntarIo 50 Crown Point 1Ophlr 5 Con Cal Va 1 15Piymcuth 10 Deadwood 40Qllcksler 2 00 Gould Curry 21 Preferred 80 Hale Norcross 1 211 Sierra Nevada 85 Hometnlt 5 00 Standard 200 Iron Silver 70 Union Con 1 Siver Mexican 20 Yellow Jacket 19 SAN FRANCISCO MINING STOCKS San Francisco Dec 19Te official closing quotations fat mining stock today to-day were as follows AHa 8 JustIce 15 Alpha Con 3 Kentuck Con G Andes 3 MexIcan 2 Belcher 16Ocldcntal Con 1 10 Best Belcher 30 Ophir 5 Bullion 2 OCman 7 Caledonia I 20 Polesl 19 2 11 i t Chollar 16 havage ii Confidence 5 Sierra N3ada SO Confdenco Crewel Point Va 1 03 1I Union Utah Cell Con H Gould Cr Yelow Jacket 16 Halo Norcross 1 Gl Standard 22 BOSTON MINING STOCKS Allouez 3g Osceola 72 Atlantic 30Quncy H 33251 Tamarack 17 B 6 B 77 WolverIne 311 Cal HelaG Parrtt 3 CentennIal Humboldt 31 Franklin 2 UnIon Land l Old DomInion 3 Adventure 8 Stocks at London NeW York Dec 19rhe Commerclal AdvertIsers London financial cablegram The markets here were good In tone and a fair business was done considering proxImity prox-Imity or the holidays Americans were quiet and hesitating till the afternoon when they IlardenOd steadily closing al the best The dealIngs In them were small The features were Baltimore Ohio Denver Rio Grande preferred and Central Pacific Spanish bonds spurted to 14 on rumors or a French loan Ten thousand pounds gold ar ilved from Australia and 3OJ from the Cape Tlstrty thousand pounds were taken for Malta Germany took the hulk of he Cape arrivals at i7s n1d Money was firm About a million in loans from the lan was renewed The Metal Markets New York Dec 19At the close the metal echange caled pig Iron warrants I quiet nominally at 72f Lake CopperFirm wUh 1 bid and 1 asked PinFirm with 1560 bId and 1S0 asked asked TinErm firm with 35 bid and 3 SpelterQulet at 52 Tile frm naming the settling price tor leading miner and sme1er In the west quotes led 36 and copper 175 Loa Exchange and Silver New York call firmer Dec 19Money on frm er at 2fiS cent last loan 2 percent per ntt Prime mercantile paper J g cent Sterling exchange stead with actual business In hankers bis at 4StY 3i4i434 for demand and at 4S1452 for 60 days Posted rates 41 and 4S Commercial bills 48033 W Silver Mexican certillcates dollars i8WPtO4 46 Bar silver dolars GRAIN ANl PROVISIONS Bullish Crop Reports Sustained the Wheat Market Chicago Dec 19Wlth pent or bull news to encourage buyers wheat started iO In good demand ett art advance ad-vance of 8c Slay at GT6l ot few sized lets wero disposed of almost Immediately Im-mediately at 6 The big factor was the strength at Liverpool rhtst market considering tho weakness In the visible supply In the Chicago market Saturday showed a someyhnt surprising degree or fIrmness advances ranging from 4 to 3l being recorded Accompanying the Liverpool Liver-pool quotations were reports of continued rains in Argentine Later on estmate of the eXDortabl surplus of that coUnty placed the amount at but Oo bushels and said the quality would be poor General rains were also reported In the winter wheat belt In this cour try Tile worlds shipments showed a marked fall lag oil from last wek the total being placed at 3O bulHb The sharp opening open-Ing advance provoked a lot of realizing and under this the market eased off to ease of Uil where the market held some time About 1 oclock the market weakened on the enormous Increase In stocks at Uuf falp which caused a complete overturn f ofW1c1 in of tile c1 r1t as to te visIble supply As a result or this the visIble Increase In-crease was placed at 38210 bushes a small decrease been looked for smal > e having A break of tjc occurred In eohsequenc But before noon tie market had again turned strong and remained so for the balance of the session Toward the close the market was helped by the excellent local cash business sales oC 200 bus es nil rail shipment being reported A good deal of the early realizing and the short selling was caused by the heavy northwest recelt5 1195 cars RUmors that the vIsible figures were incorrect also helped Iatc in the sessIon May owl lied to iW67 and closed at 7 6 Vet weather was the principal iniluence in corn That market though not very active ruled firm and higher aU day May closed 14 higher at 35 Oats were llrni anti shihtly higher i principally in sympathy with r My closed at 2 Hog prices and the tone of gin mar kets favored buyer of provIsions Although Al-though packers and local longs sold lber ally at times offerings were well taken and prices wcremtpined At the ClOse lay pork was unchanged at 96 cose lard was a shade higher at 535 anil May ribs a shade lover at 4Hm1821 t The leading futures ranged as follows WheatNo 2 I Open I IgLwC I I sc Dec 16G rl 66 G lay 7 ii14tt8i f 67fJO7 CeihNo2 I Open t Igh I Low I Close Dec I3I34I31 31 ai 1 1 I I i I atsNo 2 I Open I High I 1owt I Closet Dec 243 r 26 26 t MasI263 I285 265283326 t sPorkper Barrel Open I High l I Low I Close < Ja 945 945 I 91 I 910 May972 975 196 I 196 1 LardPer 10 Pounds I Open I High I Low 1 Close Jan 1 512 I 515 510512 I lay I 53 I 531 531 53 Short RlbsPerlo Pounds I Open I High I Low I Close Jan I 403 46734 4621462 MayI ii4iII462v146 1 I FlourStead Cash quotations were as f lows heatSnrlng Xo 3 6340045 No 2 red CornNo 2 31 OatsXo 2 26glT3d No2 white 2 29 No 3 white 23B2S14 2k Jolt RyeNo 2 5164 BarleyNo2 iJ b 4118 Flax SeedNo 1 104103 TImothyPrime seed 230 Mess PorkPer barrel S10S18 barel 8101810 LnrdPer 10 pounds 5Crl3L50734 Short RIbsSides loose 4575 43 ShouldersDry salted boxed 42 Shor Clear SidesBoxed 4S2455 VhlsyDIstler5 finished gods per gallon 126 SugarCut loaf 59 granulated 505 Aries I Bee I Ship Flour barrels I 4000 33000 Wheat bushels 141130 Corn bushes 530000 Sl0 100 800 Oats bushels 439000 190000 Rye bushels 1 00Il0OO Barley bushels 11550001 190 Paciflc Goast Grain Markets San Francisco Dec 19Vheat stead May 118 Barley easy new 59 56 Cash wheat unchanged Tacoma DeC 19heat 59 1uestem 620z624 Portland Ore Dec 19The loil wheat market pres nted the usual Monday features fea-tures of dullness whIch found lint ltte relief in the foreign advicesWaila Vala 55 A sale of some slxtyonepounl wheat was madeate Saturday at W cents Valley 606161 bluestern 62 cents Valey G 6 Chicago Live Stock Chicago Dec 19Small receipts imparted impart-ed consIderable strength to the c5ttio market desirable lots about 10 cents higher high-er Beef cattle 390423 for tue poorer lots uj to 55032595 for prime to fancy shipping grades built at 47035001 feeding cattle 4303j440 HogsPrices ruled decIdedly hIgher than at tile close of Saturday Hogs sold at quite a wide range the poorest going at 3151325 prime lots at 34300359 Sales were largely at 31561325 for heavy and 325fi5J5 for lightweigllts pigs sold at 30001323 me rainstorm made the market for sheep and lambs worse than usual Lambs sold at 375l50 for common to fair up to 5OWS40 for good to choice with aShes largehr at 47515525 yearlIngs 41011150 good to choice theep 390e4lO ReceiptsCattle 13000 hogs 42000 sheep 20060 Denver Live Stock Denver Dec 19CattleReceipts 680 Market firm Beef steers 35Oi41fi cows 27381325 feders freight paid to river 3 g400 stockers freight paid 575415 bulls stags etc 1750i275 HogsIteceipts 230 Market dull and steady Light packers 3B523 mixed 32806230 heavy 3156J180 SheepReceipts 100 Market slew and steady Good fat muttons 45O25 lambs 3751J425 Kansas City Live Stock Kansas City Dec 19CattieRecolpts 5000 Market strong to 10 centS hlgtie Native steers 27500525 cows and helfers 125ii425 stockers and feeders 31r3e423 hulls 20O6370 HogsReceipts 10000 MacIceS steady to strong Bulk of sales 3250335 heavy l2 6J4O7 packers 32O11333 mixed titJ 235 lIghts 3ltIiJ325 yorkers 320325 pigs 3000J1120 SheepReceipts 200 Market steady Lambs 4155550 muttens 2006400 Omaha Live Stock Omaha Dec 19CattleReceipts COQ Market 10 cents higher Nayiva iltef steers I50550 western steers SSGi4t0 Texas steers 3503j40O cons and heifers 3000350 canners 20J200 stockers antI feeders stronger 3238I4Q calves 675 bulls and stags 2000JCS0 HogsReceipts 4S0O Market strong Heavy 32333e mixed 28fi32VI2 high 33001355 plgf 30001323 bulls ofsaie 32 GJ330 SheepReceipts 1CO0 Market slow to 10 cents lower Native muttons 2604t425y western muttons 240a40O stock sheep 2502CO lambs 4000J523 Coffee and Sugar New York Dec 19Coffee qptions closed steady with prices 103213 p1nt0 net hIgher Sale8 20500 bags rncludlngD cember 5SO January 560 March 595 600 AprIl 600 May O01X3610June 6Os July 615 August 623 September 620 625 October 630 November 62W635 Spot coffee Riq firmer Hg 7inyoie 64j77 No 7 jobbing 7niiId firm C6ri dova 7543015 SugarSteady Fair refining 1 eta trtfugat iI6test4 molanss 3rrcftnetl steady z |