| Show GOBN PIT WAS EXCITED Coarse Grain Held Undisputed Undis-puted Sway in Chicago BUSINESS WAS VERY HEAVY After tho First Two Hours Trading WAS on an Enormous Scale One Speculator Credited With Disposing Dispos-ing of live Million Bushels Number Num-ber of Others Not Far Behind Scarcely Any Maize Changed Hands at the Top Figure of the Day Bush to Sell Later SILVER Now York London Sun Francisco OllC < HVc 25d LEAD Ncr York exchange fl37 COPPER New York exchange 1700 Silver and Drafts New York Feb IS Silver certificates Wfiesc Bar silver Gljfcc Mexican clollarn 47513 San Francisco Fob IS Silver bars CHic Mexican dollars 50r51c Drafts sight 7q telegraph 12te Money and Exchange New York Fob IS Money on call steady 292 per cent prime mercantile paper 3 ½ < Sl6 per cent sterling exchange steady with actual buslncssin bankers hills at ftStfff IS71 for demand and at I S3v5i for sixty days posted rains M81V6 i4 1 and flSSfflSSli commercial bill t New York Metals Now Torlc Feb IS Business In tin In time local metal market was again fairly active In a speculative way with the feel lug finite firm at an iidvnncc of about 30 points Tho strength was In part due to favorable Information irom London and tho largo shipments from this coun try Further advance however was ar rested by expectations of heavy nrrlvaln of tin within the next weak Time clone hero was linn at 270ftf2703c while nt London final prices were 123 lOs for spot The rest of time general list displayed lit tic if any Important development with trading chiefly of a handtomouth char actor Copper remains In a small nominal condition closing at 7100 for Lake Su perior and J1022 for casting und electro lytic Lead though not quotably lower had L nn easy undertone ns Limo result of de pression nt London where prices closed at i 14 17s Cd and Limo increase In present stocks here The cloao was dull utS 437V SpelLer ruled quiet nt 397i f 105 whIle domestic Iron markets exhibited a weak undertone but prices however remain practically unchanged nt 350fi 1050 for pig iron warrants Northern foundry I i60 < uTtf50j Southern foundry UCO1C70 and soft Southern loOO < lG7rr At Glasgow time close was at 51s 7d and at Mlddlcsboro lOs ld l San Francisco Mining Stocks San Francisco Feb 1Tho official closing quotations for mining stocks to day wcro as follows V Julia 5 WAIpha Con S 03 Andes OoKcntuck Con 01 Belcher IS Mexican 21 heIst B 21 Ocel Con 07 Bullion W Ophlr n Caledonia 70 i Overman 1 Chul Con ISPolosI 13 Chollar Suvaso 11 Conildenco 71 Sog Belcher 01 O C Va 163 S Nov J5 Con Imperial 01 Silver Hill 13 I Crown Pt II Standard J20 Could C a Union Con 22 JIale Nor IS Utah Con 07 Julia OlYcl Jacket 27 Justice 05 NEW YORK MINING STOCKS Am Sm R o72o Adams Con M preferred 0325 Llttlo Chief Ifi Alice ISOnlarlo4 600 Brcece 200 Onhfr 75 Brunsw Con 32 Phoenix 00 Comst Tunnel 01 Potosi 13 C C Va 165 Savage 12 Deadwood iO S Nevada In Horn Silver 3 11 Small Hopes CO Iron Silver Ki Standard 120 Lcadvlllo Con OS BOSTON MINING STOCKS Adventure i360 Amalg CopperJ5900 lUlantlc 2S5P Osreola S700 Jllngham 1875Parrot W50 Bos M C2232 00 Qulncy 17301 Butte B F200 Santa Fo Cop 760 j Cal IT S30SrvOO Tamarack 35300 Centennial 2100 VInona 700 Franklin 2100 Wolverines 502i IJumboldt GOCOUtah 3450 Elgin Butter Market Elgin III Feb IS Butler firm at 22f no offerings On put for week 0575 tubs Grain and Provisions Chicago Feb ISCorn hold undisputed sway on time Board of Trado throughout the entire cession Time volume of business busi-ness was heavy the Ural two hours and it was enormous the remainder of Limo day Time pit was crowded May opqnod ic higher at IliJ to ll > c There wns nothing particularly strlkhttr cither In limo crop situation or the statlallcal reports but shorts were clamorous In their demands de-mands Several million bushels chanced hands nt the opening lltturcs and after touching UAtfllWc the market was Hiill denlj bid up to 4lc Scarcely any corn changed hands on this bulge U I seemed as If everybody was a wouklhc purchaser pur-chaser Suddenly the market began to crumble Where a few minutes hpforo scarcely any corn was to be had millions of bushels wcro for sale One speculator was credited with getting rid of5COO000 bushels nnd others were not far behind May declined to 404cit0e and closed it M 0mc a not loss of Jlfisic Wheat yielded time palm lo corn without a protest nnd followed the larger market with great docility Time pit most of the acKslcn was half descried May opened unchanged to IMifMc higher at 75J4e to 7cii7rriip Inlluoncid chiefly by time openIng open-Ing corn slronglh although steady cablos and moderate Northwest receipts i were contributory factors Some comml Ion house buying coupled with covering by nervous shorts caused nn early advance to 7 > Tfcc The corn break later caused a reaction lo 7Cc and limo close was easy May SliC lower at 7ifHoSjC An active Irado was done in oats TIme market followed tho corn lead May closed ic lower at 24tc Provisions were not able to withstand the local rocclpls of hoss which were 14000 hoad 111 excess of the number cstl maled Saturday andlho swift change In tho previously bullish condition of tile corn market Transactions wero imt Important Im-portant May pork closed ISAo1 lower lard 7 i < G10c down and ribs lic depressed de-pressed RANGE OF THE LEADING FUTURES Articles Open High Low Close Wheat No 2 February 7391 71 73i 73 4 March 711 7J 71 73i May 7rl 73H To 7jjk Corn No 2 February SSV M arch 37J4 10 3in4 S3H May Jli Jlri 10Y 10 r3 OH Is No 2 February 21i 2l > 2IJi 21 May I 2u1i 2os 25 L Mess Pork February 13E21A May llUillOifclSOillOCfc i Lard March 7iO 70 737 t 737i May 71714 71716 712J 7l2Ji July 7S7 > 5 Short Ribs February 700 700 C S74 60T Miy 705 707k 702ifc 702 > i July 717 717H 715 715 CASH QUOTATIONS Cash riuolallbns worn as follows Flour quIet No 3 spring wheat CS il71c No 2 red 7llW7S No 2 corn 3S 3S5ic No 2 yellOw 33iic No 2 oats 5Ac No 2 white 2Pc No 3 i while 2WSc No 3 rye 11 lie fair lo choice mailing barley l3Sc No 1 flaxsced SlCI No 1 Norlh weMorn JlCl prtmo timothy iiucd JI33 mcsH pork per barrel SIS1 laid per ICO pounds S735ff7375 thort ribs slrlox loose J533 dry salted shoulders boxed Jt > 2 > J short clear sides boxed J7rxva7S0 whisky basis of high wines JlS clover contract grade 1100 1115 RECEIPTS AND SUUillSNTS VimliflrLnB Rocps Slilpn IJptir barroln 12000 I 23000 heat bushels 3ry MOO t orn bUMhclH 2S70CO lOOOOi Qals iMmholH rxlWO 173C > J Ryo bushels 100 Barley bushels 31000 SC > D PRODUCE KXCMANO1 On Lime produce oxchango today the but or mnrkot wns quiet creameries llti2c dairIesI1I4c7ISc liuoyp iutlvp 104 < 7Il Jc iSSS quiet fresh I34c I Const Grain y San Francisco Fob IS Wheat easy day r9r December 10lli Barley steady May 64c Visible Grain Supply Now York Feb ISfite statement of Hid visible supply of grain in store and afloat r on Saturday Fobruarv irtth as compiled by the New York produce exchange ex-change is as follows Bushels Wheat 5765200 Decrease 612COO Corn 17031000 incrcaso fr < soooo OHla 1022009 Increase 12000 Rye r ii7iooo Decrease 3lXX TJarley 3C6000 Decrease 119000 b Stocks arid Bonds New York Feb 18 Today was one of active speculative liquidation Inthcr stock market The 1 bears took a very active Part In I I ho days proceedings both by short soiling and by I manipulation for tho decline > oficrng prices uown freely and wildly There was not much evidence or detormlned support except by time sym nathcllc Influence of time perelsicnt strongth of a few Individual stoiks Besides Be-sides tho extraordinary movement In time stool stocks there was deckled strength Hliofrn by tho How Toledo 31 Ix > uls Western stocks St Louis San Frau CKCO second proforrcd Illinois Central Cleveland Lorn In A S hcollpfr preferred Amalgamated Copper and Consolidated GasThere There was evidence of continued activity activ-ity on he part of a bull pool in Burlington Burling-ton and ibo other grangers showed somo sympathy nt ono tlmo There was some support at Intervals also sympathy with PliiAvard c IhulsOii which wan extremely extreme-ly erratic all day it I sold down4 2 points and then got 3A oyoi Saturday There yas a downward plunge In tho period of general weaknefs of S points and the final rally left ihc net lost on1y l vi In tho steel stocks It nun clear enough that spcculators were mm itlcmptlne to adjust ad-just price to the supposed terms of ox uhtngo of the existing securities Into the stock of Limo new combination Tio apo mado It pretty clear that In the present plan of qomblmillon time preferred stocks arc Intended to bo benefited far more than time common stocks Stocks of this claen iern all buoyant and the common sleeks showed signs of demoralisation Hoop preferred advanced at ono lima 714 and oilier gains by the preferred smelts were 7 by Tin Plate Pi by Federal Steel 4 by Steel 5 Wire ami 2t by Republic Steel These advances wcro curtailed by l the reaction In time market National Tube led the decline In time common StockS of time steel companies breaking 7 full points and closing at the lowest The losses of the others wore partly recovered but at ono Imo Colorado Fuel was down l 4 National Steel and Tennessee Coal 4 5 Federal Fed-eral Steel 3 American Hoop 34 Steel I Vlro sylt and Tin Plato 2 In I Limo general list tho t reaction ran all the way from 1 lo 34 points The wider losses wcro among those stocks which have been most manlpulalcd for an Jid vunce notably time Southwestcrns Including Includ-ing Missouri Pnclllc and Kansas fa Texas preferred and some of the latelydevel oiled obacuro stocks such as Evansvillo Terre Ilaulo I and the new North American Amer-ican stock It was clear enough Lime dubious du-bious outlooic for Limo money market was tho impelling CHUSO of the liquidation and not any serious doubt yet entertained over general condltlono In fact the liquidation did not appear to be voliin tilt > but was forced by time uncovering of sloploss orders on time decline which the bears were able to effect With tho wiping out of margins stocks were thrown on the market to protect brokers and commission houses which were carrying them for time customers Tho callloan rate went to t 214 per cent during the day but dropped back to 2 com partly due lo time receipt of a fcOOMO per credit by ono of Lime banks for Australian gold arrived it San FranclBCO tnat expectation however There is i no closer conditions In time money market will be escaped In I the near I uS mire Bankers that confidence continued to express ers there would he no actual I stringency hut for credits duo such largo requirements In lo tho t heavy llnancial transactions progress remain lo ho met that sentiment outlook Is nervous nvpr tho money Vory hnavy ouyniK i < > er bond railroad Is wa time foaturo ot time market The tendency elsowhore was generally m vpacllonary Total sales par orally 5625000 United States old Is advanced value vanced U per cent on the last call BOND LIST U S ref 25 rcgm D R C Is 102 70 do coup lOo Nor Pac 3s 110L do Is lUo SB reg IIOH Or Nav Is 100 3s coup 101 do Is jl37 n ft rog do coup J 4137 1 O S L 6s m 12ii old Is 1 rcg llo do cons 5s do coup ll3iR G W Is 100 Wit So Pac is 0 Es reg do coup 110Vi U P is 105 Cole So Is 1 5i CLOSING STOCKS AlChlBon 60 iWhcol L E 3116 3lA SSVi 2nd pfd preferred Bait O 8014 WIs Cent 18V DO Third Avo 120 Can Pac 57 B O 1 pfd S7U So Can O tONatl t Tuba K ½ dies l9L preferreti > 105 1 glliGfc Com C B Q 1lSi Jxpre8S Uhl hid L TO PaimiC 67 dims 1W iiil preferred E I 1CS American is I I N W 172 United Stales 57 Well Fargo 137 C ft I P SI L 75 MiscellnImcots C C C i Am Cot Oil Cob O preferred 87 Dot 2nd imt it pfd Hudson109 lSI Am preferred Mailing 872fL D ii W IW Am Sm it R S7 i D R G 10 preferred preferred 87 Am Spirits Erie preferred 17 ltt 111 Cimm Am Steel Hoop 29 GI Nor lfl 19II lmreferrcd iioclthmg Coal 15 iiii St I 50 liochclmmrr raliej i7i ireferreti i32 Anm Im Plate ill Centrmtl preferreti 97 In reimtrai 2511 AM Am Tobacco li6li preferred Ampreferred AMU L E W U preferred 1I2V 110 Anaconda lIVs jiroferred 230 Brooklyn R T 76 Lake Shore L I Nnsh 311 i I Colo F I I I2J Manhattan L mja Gout Tobacco I i i62 i 1refcrrwl tKJ St Met Ry i PFcd Steel IS imtimil Mcx 1 iriferroti cr rcflrre J Nhmmm St 1 72 I iireferreli ito Gliictms IJlectcIc W Sugar Mo lac preferred iI ioiniio 0 75L t i la ini Pajmi e ri apoi 711 IC CC L Hilt 5ii tiferrcni preferred OCIClL GUtt 7iI 1 1i Central fllscrmlt JJ Y Central 1 eferreti Norf West 1G tiLl Lead Nor aac preferred I prcforrcd GA all Steel iI OimL SVct preferred O It < N 12 l 7R Air Urako IX preferred IXin 0 American 2111 lIS 1 Pennsylvania s y rPar < SIt Coast Reading i 1st pfd ss fd Ihl iftl 7i 2nd nfd C7 2nd jjfd 1 I Pac Mall 10 II 3 V 7 Oile Gas 100t Fi preerid Steel Car St 1st 1 S F 15 ¼ ii efeirctl 76 ril 2nd fdW ri timan 1v mut i ti Si L ii W Sugar iireftrctl iprefericd St ltmaul 150 profcrrcd 100 U s Iemttlmer ot i y iz1 1 nroforroii mo P ellta 1 I S uubber Eu Rv mrefi r ii ii prfrred 11 St l tiion 577 Tox Pac Amal Coimper Ijnl6ii P < io MfRop I r vwr B Preferred 7 preferred A abash 17f4p C C St 1 preferred 20i Butter and Eggs New iTok Feb 38 Culler Rccclnli JCfl piok goa steady fresh arcunicrvir fi23c Juno creamery I > tj20c faciory1 ffJuC i ISgss Rccelpli S774 packages slcadv Kfr rit ninrkt Ifil6cs 5outimerit at murk btj lOc 1 Live Stock CHICAGO Chicago Feb IS Cattle Tiocclpts 23 000 Including Texans gciMirally stead > to mOo lower Twcana about steady ppod lo prime steers SISOfD poor to medium J3IOirl70 stockers and feeders slow 270 tj4i0 cows 250ii10 hielfers2501435 crumners L7Tf24 bulls 2i421caivo soeso Texas d steers t0oiiaa TCXRH grass steers 53205310 Texas bulls 2rtWt3130 Hogs Kecelpls today IStiO tomorrow I S3WO left over lOCO market rfflOt lower toil J510 iqlxcd and hutchun SCOfioO good tur choice heavy JoS griIO rough heavy jirx3526 light 515353714 bulk of FaleIV752 I ShciiHHrcflnts 22fA5 ntoady for ahcop nliado lower for lamb choice Moihors rjSOJjlJi5 fair jo choice mixed VYttM Western sheep WXifi 145 Texas flhoop rrCJiTCO natlv lamba Jl 25 < 3020 WfHt crn lambs 5 rAftoJli KANSAS CITY Kansas City Mo Feb l SCnttleBe celpts fflCO best beef sieera tcadyoth e rs 6tjlOc inssor nativo fitters il0iiO Texss StOut JThI1I3D fen5 cows 270 t 7i0 mmatlve cows Lint hmeiers 2MI45I tttkeis sijmtl eeiier 3J6t1 170 bulls 36 I 5 125 calves5607675 IIOgiiCriitit tC < 0 5e lower bulk of s aks 52ztit Imeavy Z2015tO packers 525115Z5 mixed 52Oz5l5 light 51rfj 5 20 yorkers bimYciS30 juigi I51I503 Slmeepflcceipts sternly muttons i 35iIfo lamljs JUS < i5Ci OMAHA Omaha Neb PVb IS Cattlo Bccclpts C > > 00 Bteady to 10c lower natlvo beef steers jrxXir > 0 SVetuorn steers 3705ii 4 110 Texas steers MflOfl3S5 row nintl heifers 1C1ii0 elinuiers Sl601125 stockers and feeders f32 tfjfltn calves ICOfiTOO buliP sings etc fcrOfMOO Hogs 1 Rocolpl5 630 47c louver heavy i tt233 > i2o mixed 320 f2o light VfcdJi5r2j 5221i plgtj fCOi510 bulk of sales Shcop RccolntB JfCO weak to lOc lower j yearlIngs Urfl 7i wothorH 10091CO owes rJ0 375 lamb ll25tj5C0 I DENVER I Denver Colo Feb IS Cattle Rccclpls 200 steady beef steers 350i715 rows J22all5 fccilcrs frelgjit paid to river WOOfllIO Htoikcrs freight paid to river J300C lro bulln atatrs etc UOOflXK J Hogs Rocclpt W Hlcady light pack rrs jSAOSovs mixed and heavy 3Jfr 530 I 530No No sheep San Prancisco Wool San Francisco Cal Feb ISWocml quo tatlons Spring Nevada IVftlic eastern Orogon iodine valley Oregon 1Iiiie Fall Mountain lambs or10c San Joaquln plains 017c Jlumboldt 1 and Mendoclno tlJ1c St Louis Wool Market St Louis Mo Fob 18WoolDull and weak Territory nnJ Western mediums HJ neiic flume lIiBUic coarse ll tlllc Foreign Market New York Feb 11Time Commercial Adverllacrs Ixmdon Imanolal cablegram Thouglx business In time stock oxchango hero was mragor todav limo tendency of time general Hsu was HllglUly upward and the tone was cheerful This was due In part to tho hone that we have Dowot cornered partly beonuso ho jnroot la counting on a reduction of time bank rate to 4 prr cent American shares wore loft entirely to themsclvos and Lucy fell by their own weight New York was doing nothing In thorn to hnlp the movement either way The weakest spots were In Now York Central St Paul and Southern Pacllles Call rrttos were from 3113 ½ percent per-cent althougli vory largo repayment had bfon nmdo to t lh bank1 Time moneyS money-S blllM 3lt5atf i The fortnightly copper report shows a decrease of 721 tons In stocks und OtSln visible supplies |
