Show LEATHER LED THE t USTL I Amalgamated Copper a Close Second in the Market SUGAR WELL UP AND ACTIVE Of tho Prominent Railroads Only St Paul and Lcuisvllle Nashville Showed a Notable Degree of Activity Ac-tivity and tho Fluctuations Did Not Hsnch as Much as a Point in Either of Th m LOSSES Wero Liberally Lib-erally Sprinkled 1 Throughout tho List of Stocks SILVER Now York 53ic San Francisco 53c London 2l1316d LEAD Now York exchange 5112 COPPER New York exchange 51225 Silver and Drafts New York April 2Bar silver 63yac Mexican dollars I3c San Francisco April 2SIIer bars 53c Mexican dollars nominal Drafts Sight I2c telegraph 15c Money and Exchange New York April 2 Money on call steady at 3Wffl I per cent closing and linked v3VtfH per cent prime mercantile paper 4iia5 per cent Sterling exchange firm with actual business In bankers bills at 487 for demand and at S4SS for sixty days Posted rates S4SC and t JSSi commercial bills 4S1 113i New York Metals New York April ZA slight gain was noted In values for tin at New York with spot closing at S2C10 to t 2675 At London a net gain of El 10s was established estab-lished with spot at 119 lOs and futures at Elli lOs Copper was steady but quiet and unchanged un-changed at New York At London prices wero marked up Is Cd with spot closing at C53 3 o and futures at 53 is 6d Now York prices wore 12c to 12c for lake and 12 > 4c was still asked for electrolytic and casting Lead was unchanged at homo and abroad New York closed at llic and London closed at H1 7s 6th Spelter was steady but unchanged herewith here-with 435 quoted and London closed 2s Cd higher at 17 ICs Iron was steady but unchanged at New York Pig Iron warrants wore nominal No1 Northern foundry 19OOmOO No Z foundry Northern 1SO02jl900 No 1 foundry ioultern soft l75cjlSO0 The English markets were higher at 53s for Glasgow and 17s at MIddlcsboro San Francisco MinlI1g Stocks San Francisco April 2Tho official closing quotations for mining stocks to daywcrcas f9I1QW Alta 00 JustIce 03 Alpha Con O Kentuck Con 01 Andes 01 MexIcan 13 Belcber b Occidental Con 03I Best D 25 Ophlr 9 I Caledonia 16 0ernmn 06 Challenge Con 18 Potosi 14 ChoJlar 11Sa10 m Confidence 60 Sag Beicher01 C C Ya 125 Sierra Ne 21 Crown Point03 SIcr HIII 45 Gould i C Con 25 Halo N23iYcllow Jacket H NEW YORK MINING SOKs AmS Rl700 Leadvillo Con Os preferred 0750 Little Chief 11i Adams Con 25 Ontario 800 Mice 55 Ophlr 95 Breoce Phoenix 05 Brunswick eon 12 Potosi 06 Com Tunnel OS1Sav age 01 CC Vn lOSlcrra Nev22 Deadwood Tcr wJ mall Hopes 15 I Horn Silver 140 Standard 335 Iron Sliver i3 I BOSTON MINING STOCKS Adventure 2250 Old Dom 2275 Alloucz 350 OSceola 600 AmalS GLS7 Parrot 2S00 Baltic 6100 Quincy 1251 BlnSham 2575 S F Cop 300 Cal H 601100 Tamarack liSOO Centennial LOO Trinity 14100 COD Range 750 United S 900 Dom Coal 1290 Utah 225 Franklin 120 Victoria 6SiY Isle Roy nle 1600 Winonn L5 Mohawk 3500 WolverIne 5200 Foreign Market New Yorlc April 2Thc Commercial Advertisers London financial cablegram says The stock market today was Idle but cheerful l particularly the Kaffirs In the last hour although nothing deflnto regarding peace negotiations has been received re-ceived It is regarded as somewhat significant sig-nificant that houses with South African connections are buyers American Issues were stagnant Rio TIntos touched 43t and Anacondas 6 In sympathy with the advance of 106 In copper to 5391 the ton and on tho refusal of Calumet to sell under 14 The Government is disbursing but the market debt is so large that no monetary ease is expected Stocks and Bonds New York April 2The naming of tho most active stocks In todays market is In Itself an Illuminating commentary on tho charactor of the market United States Leather led the Hot followed at a considerable Interval by Amalgamated Copper Tho dealings In Colorado Fuel fbll to Insignificant proportions in comparison com-parison with tho recent trading Sugar was well up In tho list of active stocks Of the prominent railroads only St Paul and Louisville Nashville showed a notable degree of activity and the fluctuations fluctua-tions did not reach as much as a point In either of them The extreme range In the United States I Steel stocks was for he I common and Vi for the preferred and both closed at a shade under last night In spite of the extraordinary earnings reported for tho year of the company business and the official assurance given of the success of tho plan for providing J50000COO additional capital Many of the usual prominent stocks did not opon at all before the mid die of the days session and not a few will be found with no sales recorded The price movements of any consequence almost Invariably amongs the less known stocks and the reasons advanced were very obscureSt obscure-St Paul and Omaha rose C points on a few transactions and the preferred 5 but Pero Marquette dropped 6 on only one sale Tho Hocking valley stocks were active and strong he I common rising I and tho prelenvd 2 Rumors were revived of a plan to retire tho preferred stock at par The Wisconsin Central stocks and tho Toledo St Louis Western stocks were bought apparently on tho strength of their strategic position In tho competitive competi-tive field rho New York dock stocks rose In nn erratic manner on tho up posed sudden realisation of tho valuable equities In tho property The movement in tho leather stocks was on tho assump tion that the preferred stock and ita i claims to defcrrcnUal dividends were to bo closed up in some way by a bond Issue There were other movements of leas degree hut this served to illustrate the character of tho market Tho losses which were liberally nprln kind through tho list of stocks of a sim ilar character had no other foundation than they had previously advanced on rumors which have not been confirmed The weakness of Rock Island was associated asso-ciated with tho announcement of Its ad ditional stock issue The decline Inlho Buffalo Rochester Plttsburc stocks was doubtless duo to the coal minors strike In its territory Tho movement In tho general list was a fraction but no other cause was apparent than that they declined yesterday The crop report by the Government weather bureau had verne Influence upon sentiment but the present grain markets are regarded as the under artificial inllu enco of largo speculative operations and are therefore distrusted as an index of actual conditions Tho statistics of tho copper trade and rumors of an approaching agreement as to the output and price wore given somo credence Future money market ship mont are still awaited tho casing ten dency ot money hero being counterbal anced by tho expectations of early gold exports Tho market closed dull nnd heavy on tho taking of profits by room tracers There was a very good demand for bonds which was better distributed than of lain Total sales par value 2450000 TJrUcd Stnt < bonds were all unchanged on the mot callBOND BOND LIST U S ref 2s rug 10 U S Cs reSI00 US 1 ret 2s coup JW US 5s COUP10C U S 3S ro IOSy Cob So 45 91 US 31 eofipl05D nG JGI0 US I noW iS regI33 jP7o Pac 151Qi US fleW 18couP31 No Pac 3 ft Il US old 4a reg 111 INO Pac alw U T S old la coupIll U P con 4s10ti CLOSING STOCKS Sales High Low Close Atchison 3600 77V6 77 77 preferred icoO S7 srAti7 Baltimore O1 Ohio 15CO IDS lOiijfe J 105 preferred MO 05 ½ Dofe f 51 Canadian Pac 2SCO 113 112 > b llSft Canada Southern 300 S7i SP4i S7 > 4 Chesapeake 0 100 15 454 45i I Chicago Alton 300 S5 25 S i preferred H 75A Chicago Tnd L 1050 G5 6W < C3p preferred 77 f Chi 8 East 111 357 Chicago G tV moo 24VI 23 3 S3 A preferred 200 S7 S7 KV B preferred lyt Chicago N W 5CO zltL 233 23lh Chicago R I P 2300 17Sy lilY 177V Chicago Term T 3iX ISSi ISJ isy preferred 200 3o o1f 34Va CCC 5 S L IW O1t J 102 Colorado South 2200 23 i 2V 27 ½ Istprcforml 200 71 7Wi 701X 2nd preferred ICO 1111 41 ½ 11 Del Hud 100 172 172 171 Del Lack West lCOO 2S3 235 2S7 Denver RG 42ji preferred 100 91 91 ftFI Erie 4SGO SCSI 2S 35 H ½ preferred 700 CS > I GS ½ C3 1 2nd preferred 300 C4Ui 1 5 1 ½ W rOt r-Ot North nref 1SI ½ Hocklngt Valley 10100 78 74 77 > i preferred 2700 SOVfc S7H SO Illinois Central 1100 Ht ½ 141K J41 A Iowa Central ICO 49 49 4SU preferred 20 82 SI SI Lake Eric West OW nref erred i 120 Ldulsvllle Nash 15000 IW 10 14 103 4 Manhattan L 31CO 1S314 132 ol 1323 Metropolitan St Ry 3 UOFJ 1C3 1h 1G3 163fc Mexican Central 4800 10j 20 CO A Mexican National COO 1s1 1S 1S = 1 lInn SUL 200 1CO2 ICO IGSVb Missouri Pac 1100 KTC 03 99 > 1 Mo Kan Tex COO Mfc I f 21 24 preferred 10 G4 ½ 01 U ½ ZI 1 New Jersey Ccn ISO New York Con 100 1G3 162 I lC2i Norfolk West 56ft preferred CO Ontario West 1000 321s S2i 32 ½ Pennsylvania 1 3050 1EO 149 149 Rending 11700 57Vk 56s GS k 1st preferred 1300 Sl 8l i 81 ½ 2nd preferred llSOO 6SfS Gill C7t St J San Fran 7500 C9 C3 C3 1st preferred 200 S3 83 831h 2nd preferred GGQO 75t 71t 7 B S L I S W tOO 271 27 2JJ preferred 700 5911 53tf fi9 i St Paul 22400 Ifj7 112 IG1 preferred 100 187 ½ 1S7 ½ 183 ½ Southern Pac 27CO 65 G4i Cl1 1 Southern Railway SOO 32J 32g 32 preferred 3100 91 9J7 94 Texas Pac JFCO OL 40 4 40Vi ToISLW 1000 22 nil 21 1 preferred 410 23 27j 39 Union Pac 3COO 1CO W 100V6 preferred COO S3 577 Sift Wabash 200 231J 23 23 preferred 700 42 42 > i 42 Wheeling LE COO 19 ½ 19 19 2nd preferred 500 31 ½ 31ft 31 Wisconsin Ccn 5700 23L 22ft 5321 t prof erred 4300 4C i1Y 45 I Express Cos Adams 195 American j 225 United States 10S Wells Fargo 195 Miscellaneous Amalgamated Cop 29400 66 Cl Co Am Car Found GOCO 29 29 20 preferred 3000 DO SS ½ 00 Am Linseed Ill 233i preferred 02 Am S R 200 47 47 47 preferred IEOO 93 07 37 ½ Anaconda M Co 700 119 11U ½ 115 Brooklyn R T COO 6414 frl I4 Gl i Cole Fuel Iron 11200 1C134 102 1G 4 Con Gas 64CO 22Ki 223 221 preferred 200 194 113 119 ½ General Electric SCO 323 3W4 322 Kockins Coal CIOO 22 2014 21i lrttcrn1 Paper 100 21 21 21 In tern1 Power 3100 97 ½ S54 W ½ Laclcdo Gas S9 ½ Nat Biscuit 700 51 51 ½ Gift Nat Lead 400 18 1S 18 North Amer 400 121 123 123 Pacific Coast 100 73 73 73 ½ Pacific Wall 500 43Vi 42 42 L Peoples Gas 100 10231 102k 102 1 Pressed Steel Car 400 i24 42A 41 preferred 400 85 84 ½ 81 ½ Pullman 255 Republic Steel 7CO 17 17 17 preferred 1200 74 73 74 Sugar 2010 133 131 132 Term Coal Iron 1900 70j 70 ½ 704 Union Bag Paper 163I preferred S0 ½ U S Leather 50SCO 14 ½ 13 ½ 11 I preferred 22COO 88 Si4 5vi U S Rubber 500 17 1C 16i preferred E6 U S Steel 64CO 42 4214 2U preferred 700 IM 9J i 91 Western Union 30 C 0 S011 90VL Am Locomotive 3COO SI14J 31Vt 31 I preferred 2CO 51V S i 044 p Total sales410700 Live Stock CHICAGO Chicago April 2 Cattle Receipts 15 000 Strong lOc higher good to prime steers JGC05T720 poor to medium Sl25tiG50 stockers and feeders J2EXXT525 oows J125 f550 heifers f250 COO canners 125 240 bulls 250 525 calves 2003585 Texas fed steers OOJ600 Hogs Receipts today 23000 tomorrow 25000 left over 7000 Opened strong cloaed 5c to lOc lower Mixed and butchers 5C50fiC92 ½ good to choice heavy 5702t rough heavy 561M 675 light C35iJ670 bulk of sales 650 GS5 Sheep Receipts 13000 Strong Lambs Weak to lOc lower Good to choice weth ers 523jg5 fair to choice mixed JIEO J5CO Western sheep 407TGOO native lambs 4503665 Western lambs 525S > G90 Official yesterday Receipts Cattle G720 hogs 21100 sheep 11253 Shipments Cattle 2033 hogs 6999 sheep 63S9 OMAHA South Omaha April 2Cattlc Receipts Re-ceipts 4000 market active lOc higher native na-tive steers 175 7090 cows and heifers 37cI585 Western steers 815071600 > Texas steers 425fi530 canners 2COt5325 stockers and feeders 300iI500 calves 1OOV7C0 bulls stags etc 275500 IIogsllocelpts 13O1 market strong heavy 665i6S3 mixed 6 Wu1670 hiht 54021C5 pigs 5OG6O0 bulk of sales 56E03C70 Sheep Receipts COCO market strong fed muttons 5oOOtfG00 Westerns 15011 ICO ewes l0 > 7520 common and stock era 300 4GO lambs 5 X > gG70 DENVER Denver April 2Cattle Receipts 2CO flrm beef steers 0017575 1 cows 5300 ffSOO slackers and feeders freight pnld to river 537SS525 bulls stags etc 1603 > 400 Hops Receipts ICO higher light packers pack-ers 153620 mixed and heavy GSOg6 SO KANSAS CITI I Kansas City April 2CattleRe I celptH 5500 Including 1000 Texans steady native steers 500 600 Texas and Indian In-dian steers JlOJjCH Texas cows J350G 650 stockers and feeders S325g5SO bulls J3SOg500 calves 1207600 iHogs Receipts 70CO market strong bulk of sales GC0i690 heavy 6SSii7iS packer 6731165O medIum 63af6D light J t2513680 yorkers 6651j60 pigs 5 COcJGCO Shenp Receipts 2000 market steady muttons 5225T1 lamls i357166 range wethers 522i575 etses iSl520 ST JOSEPH St Joseph April 2 Cattle Receipts 132 Strong Natives scolj600 cows and heifers 31501G25 vents 050tl > 00 stockers and feeders 200 5r2o IIogReceipts 5000 strong Light and light mived 6C71C87 ½ medium rtnd heavy wS2Aii700 pigs 1401150 Shcepl3OcOiPtS 2230 SteadY yestern lanibs 00l680 Western hecp 600 St Louis Wool Market St Louis April 2WoolDUil Tern tory and Western mediums ISipltSwc flue fll5c coarse 1115c New York Sugar Market New York April 2 Susar Raw firm fair refining 3Vc centrifugal S6 teatS teat-S 1e molasses sugar 2c refined firm crushed 530 powdered 490 granulated 180 Coffee Quiet No 7 Rio Gc |