Show STOCK MOVEMENTS CONTINUE CHOPPY Quite a Rise in Prices During the Week and Considerable READING UNDER THE BAN REPORT OF COPPER PRODUCERS WAS NOT STIMULATING New Ne Yerk Dec 10 OThe The choppy and uneven movement of stocks today was w partly traceable to the op up operations operation ba based d on the considerable con rise ri In prices for tor th the week There were some disquieting rumors which caused weak weakness weakness weakness ness In individual stocks and added to the irregularity These The had bad to do with Read ReadIng ReadIng ad Ing trig which was said saki to be involved in some contemplated action by the department of justice in fn connection with the com corn commodities clause dause of the tb Hepburn law The special lal strength shown by the Pennsylvania group croup was accompanied by b rumors that the directing control of Nor Norfolk Norfolk Norfolk folk Western Vestern was wa to revert to that system system tem tern through the medium of the Pittsburg Cincinnati in Chicago k St Louis lou The statistic for November of the Copper Producers association lacked stimulating Influence In The nominal decrease decre in stocks In lii the hands of producers resulted from froma fromn a n reduction in output the deliveries for consumption and nd export expert falling slightly below those for tor October in spite of the stimulating rumor of a combination of producers to restrict the output which enlivened the market for copper early in HIP month Estimates o of the weeks currency move rient mt showed showell the strong counter currents still in force The express movement with the integer has h yielded a heavy balance In lit favor of New York enough it is i sup supposed posed to leave a small net gain pin In cub cash fr for the banks after fter allowing for the absorption of the opera operations operations operations and of gold exports export Tb Th sustaining firmness of foreign exchange in spite of this weeks vP a reduction of tile the tn Bank of England discount rate Indicates a n continuance of the of gold to South America from New ew York The ex cx expected peeled St Paul financing appeared to today today today day in the announcement of the sale of sz of general mortgage 4 per cent bonds Bonds were irregular Total sales lea par value ahe U S bonds bonda were un unchanged unchanged Unchanged changed on call Stock Quotations Sales High Low Close Allis Chalmers preferred m 13 63 53 53 Si 51 i Amal A mal Cop 23 SS 81 87 81 Am Agri 1100 O 45 46 43 4 Am Beet Sugar N 47 17 fj 47 Am Can pM pfd SOS St 4 84 84 Am C F iO 73 13 72 l lAm 7 Am Cotton OIL Zil I a 18 Am Hide A ALeath I Leath pfd pM 10 4 46 H HAm Am Ice lee Sees 2 OO 58 S s 25 sAm 7 2 Am Ant Linseed no 14 u l lArn Am Arn Locomotive ISO 1960 1 61 Sl II 1114 61 Am A S A ft R 11 mi 1 1 Preferred 1060 I UI m 1 11 Am om Sugar Su Ref f A O 12 US Am ni T A T 1 14 14 14 1 Am T Tab d 98 I IAm 96 Am Woo 0 36 16 93 96 Ana Mm Itin Co 0 46 49 4 48 61 Atchison 2350 1 19 Ul m Preferred 14 Atlantic Comet Coast CoastLine Line LIRe r 1 1 Bait A Ohio 1 UT U 11 Preferred M 91 MB B th Steel 81 14 ifill 94 34 34 Brooklyn R it T 80 90 M 71 90 ran an Pacific 1189 1196 1 i ent Leth Letb ii 17 46 46 Pr 38 Jt tent nL of N X J II III lies I es A I Ohio 87 37 87 81 87 1 Chi thi A t Alton Alien 3 S 67 IN 67 Chi G W 2200 z 20 10 M 30 0 C t k X N W SV 2900 13 17 r U M I St P 17 Ja 1 17 C f C O C A StI 76 11 7 7 76 i olo F A I I L 3 11 0 iO 60 lolo Cob South MO 56 I 56 1st preferred lei fl II 81 81 d preferred E 90 Consol Gas au M J 11 1 ut I l orn Products Product n 21 22 2 Del IJo Hudson II i iI l 1 JI I II R G C 2 49 0 Preferred i III 30 16 iii 6 86 16 Sees Seca 36 Erie Ede 11 M 34 W 34 1st bt preferred 90 61 1014 60 Jd d preferred l 1 43 41 41 1 Gen lee 1 lit Ut North pfd 2188 1 ua Gt C t North ore 46 W 96 a 1 31 11 Illinois Cent t l lInt Int mt Met 26 24 24 Preferred 1 etl 61 e 62 14 Int mt Hat Harv Ha v Ii HI 1 itt Marine Manse pfd 90 31 24 34 24 21 2 Int Paper 14 16 11 1 16 Int mt Pump MO J 8 M II 53 Ii t Iowa Central 10 29 t 29 K h I C L Southern am 44 43 13 l Preferred MO HI n 71 71 11 M 70 Toul A Nash Nuh JL 1111 li 2 M 1 A St L OK 96 69 U 63 linn St P A S Ste M 2269 2210 z IP Mo to 10 Pacific I 3 1114 71 70 18 70 M Y K I A T 88 S 49 0 49 Preferred it 74 itan Nat an 1 Biscuit 11 National Lead 1 1100 98 II 31 11 ai 87 sat Nat Rys of Mex X XIt t x lt It preferred iW 1146 11 1 96 68 68 N X Y Central Centra N Y O 0 A t W IV 2706 2749 2 49 49 49 Norfolk West We MS l 1 90 1 North orth American I 87 In 14 96 Northern Pacific 1 IH Itt Pacific Mail Mal 1400 1600 43 G 43 43 Pennsylvania IS 1St 1St c Gas Ua 1 1000 00 14 11 y P 1 Coo C C SLL SIL s 9 96 T Pressed Steel Car Cr 1160 1189 69 63 L 53 Pull ull Pal ar 1 n fix Steel Spring La 6 I 62 12 w 10 61 11 Reading Heading m 1 It public Steel I 1169 1100 1 47 61 11 46 Preferred Of 0 MI MS 1 Rok Island Co 41 i 40 41 Preferred 1 3 90 83 86 St ft L I S V F Jo Jod Fd Jd d preferred 2244 96 19 t tt It I 1 S W IV 1889 1 II 34 96 D Preferred 2 Z 10 a Sheffield Steel teel A t lr Jr i 86 96 17 7 Pacific 4 U ua H WI Rv R 1689 1 91 31 SI 31 S1 31 Preferred 1 71 71 71 Tenn lenn Cop Cot 96 86 36 Texas r iXU 4 t Pacific a 18 16 T i 1 St L J W IV Preferred 78 70 70 70 i 72 71 III erred 1 Ie Ier r 1 S Realty HI 1 31 83 12 36 I T 1 1 S Rubber roO 64 M if M V 1 S Steel 91 91 99 90 90 Preferred 1040 I 1 W Ci 12 Copper 1319 1316 90 W 60 I Chemical I VW 00 41 48 M c abash 2 22 I 21 I 21 J Preferred 67 57 West est Mil Md fI 41 4 Z 43 I 46 Went t Electric Ml SI 4 1 SI 82 Western Tuio i iv W v I E K S 8 I WIs Is C Cent it 30 0 49 Total sales for foi the day da shares Metal Markets Ne New York D Dee Dec c Id l The for fr Standard copper was t today vla with I spot pot December and c lIo lo at Ht i n February and March Mareb U r t The London market was wa easy el with nith th spot quoted at 65 5 15 and futures at 60 Ite IM dealers deairs quote qute lake copper cop copper op opper per at J P I at 1312 1 1337 and at 13 i iTin Tin closed clo J firm With willi spot December De I and qu t d at 3 r K ary arv a 27 7 April I SO Tit fw rh Ix nion market was waR firm m I with spot closing at ae s and ami li d future at iSa lS Lead Tead was firm with witt spot quoted at 4 45 I N NeW vw w York Y c nd at 45 4 asked East St Louis The London market was higher at a 13 Spelter was waa quiet at for spot at New York and at 63 20 asked East St StLouis StLouis StLouis Louis The London market was un unchanged unchanged Unchanged changed at 23 22 is 23 Cd Od I Iron was waa higher with Cleveland warrants war wr rants ranta quoted at SOs 50 4 d in toe the London market The local market was wu un unchanged unchanged changed No 1 I foundry found northern is quoted at It No 2 3 at No 1 2 southern and No 1 southern soft at Treasury Statement Washington Dec 10 The condition of the treasury at the beginning of hu business today oday was w as a follows Trust funds funda I Gold coin i Silver Sliver dollars 47 Silver dollars of 1810 Silver certificates outstanding IJO General aral fund Standard II silver lIver dollars In gen general general eral fund Current liabilities Working balance in treasury of offices flees In banks to credit of treasurer trea of the United States 8 1 9 1 1543 Subsidiary silver over coin 15 l Minor coin Total balance In hi general fund Money Sliver Etc New York Dee Dec 19 Money on call ean firm 46 per cent ruling rate 4 per percent percent percent cent closing elMing bid 4 per cent offered at 4 44 per cent Time loans Joana rather dull Anil for tor sixty days 46 per Pr cent for ninety days dys 44 per cent for tbt six months m VA per cent Prime rIme mercantile paper per 56 per cent Sterling exchange firm arm with actual business bu In hi bankers banken hUla blUs at for bills land nd at for de do demand demand mand wand Commercial bills i iBar Bar sliver silver 62 U Mexican dollars 44 Government bonds steady railroad bonds irregular BANK CLEARINGS New York Dec Dee 10 Bradstreets bank clearings report for the week k ending De December December cember comber 9 t lilt 1989 shows an aggregate a of W 3 as u against last lut week and on in the corresponding week last year The following is ia a list flat of the cities 1 1 Amount New York iCI go mm 67 7 1 mm 12 1 Philadelphia 38 i St It Louis Lou 51 5 S 9 S Kansas X City San Francisco Baltimore Cincinnati O 62 13 Minneapolis 45 New Orleans Cleveland Detroit Omaha O ba 18 Louisville 87 Milwaukee 36 31 3 Fort Port W rth I 1 Los ro Angeles Angelas A St at Paul Pant 1072 30 Seattle Denver DelIver 3 Buffalo I j Indianapolis Spokane Wa W Wash it 1 Providence sm m 1501 Portland Ore Or s 2841 Richmond 23 2 Albany Alba l 1 10 0 Washington D lJ C CSt un 61 St Joseph ta SALT LAKE CITY s Columbus COlum Memphis i 10 13 18 Atlanta AUa ta M Tacoma I 8 Savannah Sa sis 0 O I aa f OI Rochester r 1 I I U Hartford J Ilos OoS 29 Des Dell Noises I 17 Peoria I 31 1 8 New Raven Haven Hav v j om 6 Sioux City I 1 7 Norfolk N am Grand Ra OM 1411 Syracuse 1 1861 1111 j Birmingham 67 61 Mass x 1 21 Portland Me Ie 25 15 Augusta A Ga Os 1 Dayton Ila Oakland CaL zu Worcester W r Jacksonville Jae Via 11 1000 41 Wichita 18 31 Wheeling W Va V 1135 i 50 a Little Rock Iea 1701 17 OJ Chattanooga 54 5 Charleston S C 10 37 Moon e A 00 38 Wilmington Del n Lincoln Neb eb 1351 U i iWU WU Topeka Toek 1080 Davenport Oklahoma 1000 87 Fall River BRer Kalama Mien 1000 GOO 2641 41 Sacramento 1 32 Springfield a Id lit lB lU lUl l I 21 Fort Wayne aDe to 6 Cedar Rapids la Ia laNew New Bedford 63 Columbia S C Macon 1318 0 Youngstown 1181 Fargo X N D 11 Akron 0 in 10 80 I j Erie Pa l Sioux Fan Falls F 8 S 8 D Ii Canton O 2 Quincy Cat III Il i t 93 3 B Qa IN IlL 93 1 Lowell Lowll 1 79 i Binghamton 12 U 91 Chester Pa South Bend P lad Ind 1 au Decatur Ill l 75 Springfield Il O 0 1 e t Iu t 1 i Fremont Neb Ne i Mansfield Jant O o D WI Jacksonville Xane IU 78 1 Jackson Miss I 1 Houston Houton BI 50 Galveston Duluth 4 Scranton 2998 9 Not Included In I totals because C lions are Incomplete I Not a Included In totals t because bu contain containing cont containIng l ing other Items home I than tn Hearings clearings r Review of Trade New York Dee Dec D M telnet tomor tomorrow tor row Tow will say A Colder wl weather and the nearer approach of the holidays an have stimulated trade te th quite generally I throughout hout the th north norh and west and even helped southern sutern trade es especially we a in the western part pr of the cot cotton cotton ton tn states As A the week advanced ahan there ther seemed to tobe tob tobe be b evidence that the railroad strike was losing its Il effectiveness as a trade trae de deterrent de deterrent terrelt though statistics of flour nour output at t large northwestern cities shows these centers to have been tn sharply sh affected In wholesale lines there is something like a seasonable quieting down dow now that the season of stock sok taking taJ is close clO at hand A large lage although perhaps not ron rec rM volume of business bUln is indi indicated but there is general gerl complaint that hidi costs restrict profits profit There if is il no particular evidence of ot slow alow slowing lug InK Iown own in iii industrial industria operations but new in several erl businesses show in what hat I II N I termed seasonable quieting Iron Irn output I Is of record proportions o but bt new Dew buying in pig r iron is II smaller some soft spots have hae developed den and finished lines Un are not quite as eagerly lop sought for In other lines lne man manufacturers manufacturers are ar still sti buying freely frI of ma materials materials materials which as a rule are arf firmly held hebi Reports as to activity in shoe sho manufacturing manufacturing turing are heat best t from the west wear Business failures in the l nU d States for fI the th week wk ending with December 9 r against 2 last week wk k in the thelke like week of or 1908 1 5 In 1907 1007 11 in 19 and in 1905 19 LIVESTOCK MARKETS Omaha Dec D Ie 10 Cattle Rec 4 Market sl iw lower Native Natie steers 4 Om O OMI S tin MI cows cow and heifers western we steers 3 Wai J 12 S and heifers 2 ii iio i emitters cahners 8 stockers stacker and feeders fer o calves 3 T bulls buil si stags a KB tr 2 z 7 H fl I Hogs 6 C I Market tark t St a j r Heavy Hevy mixed 8 3 light pigs bulk Sheep Receipts 1400 14 Market steady Yearlings 60 wether ewes es 4 lambs 6 Kansas City Dec D W Cattle Receipts 2000 30 Market Markt steady Native Nath steers iiO 1050 native cows and heifers heiers stockers and feeders fede bulls bulls 05 calves caes 3 iS western steers ster western weter cows cow Hogs Receipts 9 Market strong to Ic i higher Bulk of sales Ie heavy 47 packers and butchers 8 light 7 1 3 pigs pig pig an 40 Market strong Muttons utona lambs Iambs 6 J 1 10 fed fe western wethE and yearlings fed fe western ewes Chicago Dec esti estimated estimated et mated mt at 40 Market weak Beeves Texas Texa steers western steers stockers st kel and feeders IJ cows and aDd heifers helfers calves calve estimated at Mar Ma ket ke strong Sc higher Light L Li ht I mix mixed heavy beV 8 06 rough good to choice heavy h g 82 pigs piga bulk of sales s1 Sheep Receipts estimated at t ete Market larket Maet strong Iron Native west western era ern er yearlings l lambs lamb I Inathe native nathe western 5 GRAIN AND PROVISIONS Chicago Dec Dc 10 Domestic conditions supplanted the Argentine situation with traders in the wheat pit here today and toay held the market remarkably strong The Te crop cr expert exper of a local lol concern who is isnow Isnow Isnow now In that country county claimed the te dam damage damal damage age was wa W unimportant Continued al CUned light receipts chiefly chlOy caused u the firmness fn man manifested ma manifested throughout tb the session n The to total total total tal movement was estimated at 2 jOO bushels bushel bushel as a against bushels the te cor corresponding responding day a year ago A bulge of wore more wor than le lc in corn and ad an n almost almot equal eual ly sharp advance in oats stimulated con considerable demand for to wheat and reports of tree free te buying of cash wheat what in the te north northwest nh northwest west by millers also al augmented demand here The future deliveries delve displayed greater gater strength than the th December Demb op tion ton and ad during the day May sold d op be between b between tween 10 and 19 December ranged rne be between b between tween 1 and LO At the close clone clo De Do December D cember was up at IM white while May was wu 6 49 higher at Corn Cor for fo May Xay ay delivery sold at the high highest bh est eat et price pr for the crop crP the tb new nw record rr be being b ing lug 64 14 1 which was wu 1 above the th pro pre previous pr close dO All AU other deliveries also 11 made me sharp gains the December option oton advancing m 1 above the th final nal figures tr of the tb previous session suon The Te range for lor the day on o December was between 68 and aD andIC 6 IC I and for May Kay between 62 18 and 64 an G The close dos on December Dember was warn Wa at 60 40 8 n oats was wag WI active and an the t market maket was wu strong The Th close clO was at the top top with December at 43 and May at Provisions closed o 5 S to 32 D higher The T leading futures ranged a a follows 1010 WHEAT WHET I Open I High I Low Lw I Close C Dec D 1 1 lN 0 May 1109 1106 1 July 86 CORN CORNI I Open i High I Low Lw t I Close CI Dec D 58 15 60 40 May a I M 14 a If 1 4 July 2 2 18 9 I 4 OATS OAT I On n ii i High I Low I Close Cl Dec Deo D I 4 43 43 May Kay I f 44 i 49 10 mt 41 July 41 4 4 42 4 41 f M PORK Per bbL bb I Open I High I t Low I Close CI Jan 2160 2140 D I 2176 2175 2190 2168 May My Y I 2100 24 I 2137 Dm 10 2115 DU LARD Per 10 lbs IDS lb i lOp I Open I HI High I I C Close Jn Jan J 1255 1266 1266 1216 My May 1175 ns 1185 17 1175 1183 July 1165 17 1175 11 1116 l 1172 SHORT 10 Ib lbs I Open I High High I Low I 1 C Close Ja Jan 1170 1197 1190 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