Show MARKE WAS LStESS Declining Interest Manifested Mani-fested in Wall Street i VValJStreet PROFESSIONALS HOLD ALOOF jlrany Traders Havo Gono Away on c i Spring Vacation Trips Absence From tho Street of Many Bonkers i and Unllroad Proprietors Usually Concerned 4n Large Doings Shows General Acquiesence in Present Stato of ThingsNo Movement Yesterday of Any Consequence 0 SILVER NeW York r 5o ondon 25d 2 1 LEAD lew York exchange tI12y1 COPPER NcW York exchange S12S7 < i7j3 CO < Silver and Drafts Now York March IBar silver 55c Mexican dollars iS ic San Francisco March 1SlIver bars ic Mexican dollars 15c Drafts Sight 15 telegraph 17 i Money and Exchange New York March 1 Money on call steady at 2 per cent Prime mercantile paper 4 1 ½ per cent tP Sterling exchange steady wlth actual business In bankers bllla at S qISnf for demand and at IS5Vi for sixty days Posted rates M SS and Jl SS4 Commercial Commer-cial blllp bl i S J New York Metals Now York March 1 Holders of copper who bought the metal for a speculative deal find a Blow demand for the metal ijnd they are somewhat anxious about sflllnff Therefore the market Is weak with reports current that somo sales have lbcon Ih made ca irlllo under tho quoted rates The official prices however stand unchanged Lako quoted at 122Jjl250 1 clectrolytlc at 3122531237V and casting ItS 2S74vI3CO Tln Is quiet but about steady with spot quoted at J25 G025 26 tLcna holds firm and unchanged at fl2 Snclter Is also firm nt JI25iJ430 7Plg Iron warrants SHCOJH2jX No 1 foundry Northern 17EX > j7lS5rt No 2 foundry Northern 170iyJTl8O No 1 foundry Southern S16 fl Ii 5 No 1 foundry Southern soft 50Jfl700 r Sn Francisco Mining Stocks San Francisco March IThe official losing quotalons or mining stocks today to-day wero aB follows Alta S 01 Hale Nor 30 Alpha Con 0 Julia 01 Andes 1 Justice 07 Belcher 01 Kcntuc Con 01 Best B 8 Mexlcnn 30 Bullion l Oc Con C Bulion Cacdonla 2 Ophlr 10 Chnl Con 18 Ocnan C Chollar 10 Potosi 1 Confidence C Savago O Con Cal Va 125 Sierra Nev 12 nly Ir g g g Con N Y 01 SIlver If 52 Crown Point 0 Union Con 2 Eureka Con 18 Utah Con OJ Gould Curry 10 Yellow Jacket 17 NEW YORK nNING STOCKS AmS R 47OO Lead Con 0 preferr d SfP Lit Chief 25 f Adam Con EJ Ontario 776 1 Alice 50phlr 5 lco C Cal Va 13 Phoenix 00 J3reeco 63 Potosi 10 Brun Con 0 Savage 0 Com runnel 05 Sierra Ncv n Dead Terra 5 Sal Hopes40 Horn Silver 140 Standard 3W iron SJCI f BOSTON MINING STOCKS Adventure 2225 Oscela 4 7 25 i2 Aloucz uq Parrot l AmalsaI r Qulnc r 1 0 Ballc 423 SFa Cop 3i5 lnJham 20 Tamarack 00 Z e ll0j61OO0 rlmntn 15OO Centcnnl l 170 TrInity 15 0 Cop Rn e 00 US 1W Dom Cool 3 Utah m Pranlcln 1412i4 Victoria 1120 Vltorla 58 isle Rrale Zr Wlnnn 17 MohaJc 3m Volorlno 5200 ld Dom O 0 Stocks and Bonds New York March 1The stock market was very listless and Idle today and re flected declining Interest even on the part of the professional traders Many of these have taken advantage of the dull business on the exchange to go away for spring vacation trips and tho absence from the street of many of the bankers and railroad proprietors whore who-re usually concerned In large doings shows tie general acquiescence In the present state of things The small traders trad-ers whose dealings make up the market devoted their attention to the less Impor pant tocks which have occupied them for come lime past With the exception ior n rIse of 251 In American Colon Oil jsald to be due to favorable trade condi tions there was no movement of sufficient suffi-cient Importance to chronicle Tho room shorts covered on tho publication of tho hank statement and Imparted some slight Strength to the market The distinctive feature of the dealings in tho stock market this week has been the prominence of the less prominent utocks which urn not Immediately allied with the great railroad pyatoms and the Industrials of small capitalization J which arc affected only by Individual causes and are not a barometer of gen Jen eral conditions Interest has shifted from one to another of thcae during tho week Usual some ostenBlbTir reason was advanced for thc buying of the par ucular stocks affected but they were for rUlie most part vague femora and there were often sudden relapses In prices When rumors failed of confirmation and Die speculative pools responsible for the movements had taken iholr profits he sum of these movements helped out the 5 appearance of activity In the market for much of the time but they were In i reality a symptom of the underlying neglect and Indifference of capital to the market As for the general market as 0 whole t has maintained 1 fairly firm under tone notwithstanding the tendency towards to-wards stagnallon That Is to say holder hold-er arc not seeking to market stocks while the demand In so slight that sales could be effcctccNonly at concc lona In f prices This agrees with the wldelyhelTJ I j theory that u very large volume of accur j I iisi representing the proceeds of con solidations Is Jn strong hands nnd that the complct success of tho consolida tions cannot bo said to be assured until the securities find ownership with unti vesting public eslnf publc Much weight has been attached by srJculators to the expected development plans for further consolidation as thor ny ° e affected by the Northern Secur ities companys fate The proposed suit against this company by the Govern melt necessarily brings Into question not only its own future but that of many other projects designed on the same lines The settlement of the Govern meats suit la recognised lo be f mater o months and perhaps years and I no one supposes that the mock market will lie le stagnant all that lime There are factors of moro Immmliate application which promise uncertaInty In the speculallvo sentiment Thc money outlook Is by no means clear and the resumption of gold exports on a larce scale la 0 complicating factor I Is clear p that tho gold has gono out In payment of maturing of obligations abroad and the growing domuridH on foreign credits Indi cutes that further calla will be made by thlH country foreign creditors The speculation In Kaffirs In London rcullton 1 II Lndon has ap parently culminated for tho time and r the taking up of contracts In these linn required resort for loans to the Bank or England on au enormous scale The weekly statement of the Bank of Franco i reflects Ihc same tendency ihcre Fanco The supply of exchange bills In our market Is l very scanty owing to the small outward movement of grain and cotton and the alternative for American ilchlorn la i to ship gold A cOnsl mhlp outward movement IH expccl during the coming month The Interior Is al ready showing nvldcncc of sPring ro qulrcments for currency with NOW Vlh York Murplun reserves of modest dlmcn BlonH such a slmultancoun demand from both directions Is likely to result In B ml lltnell clrcumatancca for thoao do pendent upon calf loans aa the majority of speculators are IM also Tho period of crop uncCrlalnllcs of this week reports Wednesday at hand On lnn of damage to tho winter yhcnt amrgo Inotruincnt In the I made effective crop an cfecto market hands of the beam In the Block mnrket hnndt apprehension likewise that labor expressed troubles may develop durlnrr tho spring especially In the coal fields V1 street awaits further light on these qucs I llona tons demand for good demnl Thcro has beon a n of tho speculative bonds mostly for aome tive m08t United States 3s registered and advanced and tho now 4a coupon advancd yo cal of last Vt week per cent over tho closing cnlof latt I3OND LIST U S ref 23 rGI0 130ND U S OS coul0I SO Is 91 cou1C3 Cole o U S ref 2 t S 39 2 cou1t D R l 11 10 l leS 10 Paciiie 4s1O U S Is No Pacla i IT S new Is rcglS No Pucilo 3g J I S new 45 couI3 So Pacilc 45 I 1 r S old Is reg 1i1 U P 4i 1 lH U Sold 18 coul i U l conY is I 10 LJSSsreg 11 CLOSING STOCK LIST Sale 111gb Low Cbs Atchison 1700 75 7i 75i i11 preferred 10 7 97 9i BalL OhIo 5O lOI l0 104 preferred rt Canltlan prCfelrcd Pac 16 115 1i 1 Canada So S Canndo Ches Ohio COO If 15 IG Chi Alton 0 3 31 M pref Alon 0 7o i1 7 0 Chi er L 2 t G 8 G preferred I 100 i 9 79 7SJ prCfcred ill 10 m Hi 1iS Chi Great Vest COO 2i I 2i I 24 A preferred 200 s 57 S 13 Ilrcferred 1511 Chi NorsveSt 200 liU 27 219 Chi R I iS Pac IGI Chi Term T 1 1X U 17 prterrei 6y 32 32 3 C preerret Ij 10 JO 1C HI Colorado So SJ 21 2 2I 1st preferred r C 1 GS s 2nd prefcrrNI f Y 3 30t Del 1do1 10 1i li2 14 D I L Vcst n 253 Den Rio G 10 J 41 13 i1 1 preferred 10 9 n 1 I Erie 15 3H 35 3 1st preferred 1CXh C 6 2nd preferrl 100 r0i 67 5S Great Nor pfd lS Ilocking Valley 67 G HoeklnJ Valey preforrcd n S Illinois Central 10 13 3 139 lows Central lO IS SY li preferred is L Eric Vest G preferred J31 IUIN Nash Ir HH lr 11 Manhattan L 700 132 133 13 Met Street Py 70 169 lOS 6 dexican Central 0 2 25 2 Mexican National S3C0 IS4 m lrc4 111n St L 10 O la lCa1 3lisotiri Pac 5S00 SOS 59 99 lsolrl SJ 9J f r 9 Mo K Texas 31 = preferred 10 5i r11 SlY N J entral O 193 In 191 N Y Central 1ZU Norfolk Wet lS 6S 5T G preferred 90 prlerrcd Ontario West 500 1 3314 35 Itorlo csl S 31i Perm Ianla 10 mo 110 31 Rcadlng 10 QJ1 53 H r 1st preferred r 81 FO St 2nd preferred 1710 67 r 61f St L S F 3 00 S f 1st preferred 200 SI 51 53 2nd l reefred ioci i2Y 72 ½ WI Sl L So est 25 preferred lj Sl Paul 310 l1 16 IG preferred lS Southern Pac 1iOO GI I Souther PLC 10 6 t Southern Ry 33 32 32 32 preferred i 0 95 y 95t 1 Texas Poe 40 4OV 101 40 T St L cl 10 Z 2 2 preferred 3 11 1 01 Union Pac G3 r 9S preferred i 200 S S fli w rrecrred 11C 24 2 Z preferred W > 1 M 12 I 12 I prferred L B h 10 I9ri 10 19ty 2nd preferred > 31b Wisconsin Cent 0 214 21 204 preferred 7W 13 42 IZ < 6 Express Companies Adams 193 American 230 United Slates 11G Unite els Fargo l If 0 Miscellaneous Amah Copper o 11700 70 C9H 70 Am Cop1 P7 O 29 m 2Si preferred 2W 8S 1 S 4 SSi Am Linseed Oil 19 preferred fJ Am Sm tc Ref COO 17 i7V 47 preferred S3 AnacondaM Coi4 200 31 S2Vi 32Vi Brooklyn R T1100 G4M 1 G G ColoFlron 3r J S S64 S7i Cons Gas 9GOO Zs 21SV4 23RM Coat Tob pfd 117 General EJcpfrl I > M 23 t Glucose Sugar 2CO 41 41 43 Hocking Coal 1 < G Intcrnl Paper 100 2 20 191 preferred 200 i1 75V 75Vi lnterl Power SO L Clcde Gas W National Biscuit 100 17 17 1 iI NationalLead I 17 National Salt 0 I 2 preferred G North Amor 02 Pac Cost 72 Pac Mal 10 47 47 t6 I Peoplcs Gas 100 ff r 99 Pressed Steel Car 2 3 3 l preferred I 1 53 ½ 8 8 Pullman Pal Car 21 Republic Steel t roo 1G 16V 1f publc preferred 7s f 71 714 Sugar < 390 121 lZSI lf Tenn C Iron 510 69 65 C Unioal3PCo 15 ½ preferred 78 U S Leather 10 1h 1 1 preferred 1 51 81 SIV U S Rubber 3 1jl 154 151 preferred Ht 55 5 5 1 U S Steel 4100 13 43 13 preferred 3C 95 91 H 1311 Western Union 1 Amer Loco 12 U1 311 3IL preferred 200 92 nYJ 92 LONDON CLOSING STOCKS Consols for M K r 21 money 91 16 preferred J Consols for ac N Y Central lG64 count 911516 Norfolk W f Anaconda f preferred Atchison i Ontario W nil preferred 93 Pennsylvania 76 B 0 106 r Rendln 2lh Can Pnclte 15 lt pid J7 C 0 7 2nd od 344 C G W 21Y So Halway 33 C M St plr preCerredS D R G 41 So Paclilc Pncilc preferred 93g Union Pacific G Erie 31 preferred 101 1st pfd G 4 U S Steel 2nd pfd r7 preferred f Ill Central t H3 Vahash 7i L NIOI preferred H Spanish Is 76 Bar sliver dull 26d per ounce 7G11 Money 24lt2 per cent The ale oC discount In the open market for short bills Is 24 per cent The rte o discount In the open market for three months his Is 23 per cent St Louis Wool Market St Louis March 1 WoolLower Territory Ter-ritory and Western mediums 15tT17c line 1218c coar e 1521c 151lic Ino San Francisco Wool San Francisco Morel l lQuotntlons on wool hero today wero Spring Nevada 12 f Hc eastern Oregon l2l4c J valley Ore gon IMilSe 1al Mountain lambs C j9c San Joaquin plains Gi9c Gf New York Sugar Market New York MnrCh lSugnrRaw steady lair reilning 3tc centrifugal M1 qulcL test 2e molasses sugar 2i fe < refined Live Stock CHICAGO Chicago Mnrah lCattleneceipts 2j I nominal good to prime steers 204OjsOO poor 10 mNllm 31CG00 stockers and feeders i223o00 Cows 12ouISOO heier 22fli5Z Oi canners 5125 225 2Z bulH 2 rIC calves 257j6OO foxes fed sleers I0035 75 O IiOgsfleccipt ody 12OOO mixed ajid butchers cMfif i nf Z3Sii620 food to cholco nnl P3fliCi2 G riA ½ rough heavy J600flG2S light J JOljlU bulk Of talc Jfj 9V77fi TO Bhi0pReeeipts lY t59563 lambs wale good 10 choice wethers 4C5t52i fair to choice mixed wcthefJ h Western sheep 1Wi7 natIve Inmb 37oIG4O I Western lambs t 5oq64o 17 SOUTH OMAHA Son t h Omaha March 1 Cattle Rc celptjlJ l0 market steady Native otcerd iIO00 COWl and l heifers 32iGIC Jlwjron steers 1C0i1525 Texas steers 75ti2 canners Wlfes slockers and stags feeders etc 275U5i calves 390675 bulls Hogs 27575 IGO market flfllPu oS fch Ibeayy 008 62 mixed S 1O GO of salcs light 2 514j600 1165 > 12590 bult Sheep RecclplH rxiO mnrhtct steady l et mUlens 30OI675 mnrltct i2aj 50 owes 57 H commrn and Rtpck crs 32 fJj lmbs 5 20iO40 KANSAS CITY Rnnaa3 CIty March lCattle Re oi > Msrch 1CnlCRe Cfllnta J nominal TcxniiB 3600623 native moors JI2SS550 1 Loxas and imiiall 2166 Ioxas steers 2I6i Texns COWB tt OflSc ffl native cows and heifer ffwih f0ZGIOj crs and 3Of Rtoct feeders 5h CCcors 32ij490 W8 Z W 6 HOGHRceelpl3 WYj market EC higher Bulk of sales OOIfCSO heavy JSSOftO 30 packers m5IO JiS l tK 20 mixed JS WGS5 light Sheep Nominal market JI7W7GOO mul 0 wolhcrs tons J6 SOffC Jl05tf690 50 iambs 5390fre03 I range DENVER Denver March 1 Cattle Receipts 100 Steady Beef steers S375fl523 cows 250iji00 stockora and feeders freight 5I river 303 100 bulla stags ole Jl60i350 Hogs RcrolplH 10 Steady Light I Jo packers jjt20 5SO5W mixed and heavy O l1No No sheep ST joSEpn > Sl Joseph March 1 Cattle Recclpls W nominal natives Jl 407fG90 cows and 175ft5M veala J3O heifers 1751 JJ30QG50 stock era and feeders J2GOTflS3 3iG50 Hogs Receipts 3700 steady light and light mixed Joi > JG3a medium nnd heavy GI0Wd5 < pIgs JA5 < MJ500 Sheep Receipts 50 steady Weekly Bank Statement New York March ITho statement of tho associated banks for tho week ending end-ing today shows Increase Loans 93S191COO 1IS3COO Circulation 31203700 31SOO Decrease Deposits J10174SS300 I ISO Legal tenders 71011500 GllSW Specie 192I33EXX 2lfTvlOO Spec I43SWO 2077200 I Reserve required 231372075 ISfi174 1 Surplus 9975935 2IS0725 I Foreign Mnrket New York March 1Tho Commercial Advertisers London financial cablegram says Practically nothing wag done In the stock market today Kaffirs wero dull on reports that Cecil Rhodes was seriously ill It was even rumored that ho was dead but thero was no confirmation confirma-tion of the report Americans were stagnant stag-nant nnd heavy on gold exports Gold to the amount of IiU000 has been received from Australia |