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Show POLITICS REMAIN THE - MAIN MARKET FACTOR James A. Pollock & Co., hankers and brokers, furnish the following, received .over their private wire yesterday afternoon: after-noon: Logan & Bryan Stock Letter, New York. Today's session -vvns dull and uninteresting. un-interesting. General declines were recorded, re-corded, induced for the most part by the operation of the professional clement, which wero bearlshly Inclined. We are Inclined to favor moderate purchases on the drives, with the usual safeguards in order to bo protected against adverse developments. Paine, Webber & Co. Letter, Boston. Politics havo taken precedence over values. val-ues. All advice on tho market at present hinges on politics. The volume of speculation specu-lation is small and no one feels like making mak-ing new commitments until the situation situa-tion la more clear. The bear party wore on top of stocks all day In New York and succeeded In forcing small declines. The local list was weak In sympathy, the principal selling, however, being done by one house with prominent New York connections. The copper metal market continues satisfactory, and we shnll see a radical improvement in the copper stocks before wo see much, If any, decline. de-cline. At the present tlmo we think the selling Is poor and tho buying good of all coppers. Gallagher (New York) says: On curb today the Schcftels stocks had good support. sup-port. The traders tried to break them, but wero unsuccessful. Glroux, Miami and Chlno a little off. The balance of tho list steady and quiet. No features. Hornblower Letter, Boston In sympathy sympa-thy with tho weakness and sagging tendency ten-dency of the New York market, Boston coppers enscd off from a fraction to a point. The buyjng on the decline was considered fairly good and few slocks were offered for sale. Trading was very light. We may get some further reaction. reac-tion. No decline of importance is anticipated anti-cipated and on weak days good judges advise the purchase of coppers, maintaining maintain-ing that reasonable profits ought to be obtained a little later. The closing was etendy but dull. Ore Shipments. The Utah Ore Sampling company on Monday released ton cars of ore from Utah and one each from Nevada and Idaho Ida-ho camDS. |