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Show TRADING IN WALL STREET DULL AND INCONCLUSIVE Operations Unusually Light and Narrow, Even for the Short Session on Saturday. NEW YORK. Jan. 22. Trading in today's to-day's two-hour session was dull, irregular a nd altogether inconclusive. Opemt ions were unusually light and narrow, even for a week-end, and leading storks were relegated rele-gated to comparative obscurity , their plaees being taken hy such specialties as United States Industrial Alcohol, Corn Products and other kindred issues. Alcohol's continued activity was primarily pri-marily due to t he announcement that the company had received a very large foreign order for its product. The stock rose and fell between its previous high records. 15S and 166, closing at 162, a net loss of four points. Steel Under Pressure. United SHates Pteel was under further pressure and Bethlehem Steel closed at 4 72, a loss of twelve points. War shares, as a class, were moderately higher, with I more substantial gains in International Nickel, General Motors and American Woolen. 1 &tocks of no especial designation rose . one to two points, but representative shares, particularly rails, were inclined to sag. New York Central was the active fea.-ture fea.-ture of llie railroad group, its depression being attributed to adverse rumors regarding re-garding tile prospects for an increase of the dividend. St. Pnul :i!so yielded a point, hut. with CentrLil. made up some ol its loss before tile close. Total sales of stocks amounted to 190,-tiOO 190,-tiOO shares. Outlook Hopeful. General news of the day bore hopefully hope-fully on the outlook for spring trade and the demand for copper showed no abatement. abate-ment. The Lehigh Valley railroad issued its December statement, showing a gain in revenues of $357,000. Some of the larger transportation systems are expected to Issue December statements the coming week and indications point to substantial substan-tial gains over the excellent exhibits of November. Bonds were steady in today's limited market. Total sales, par value, aggregated aggre-gated $1,995,000. United States bonds were unchanged on call during the week. |