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Show MI SINKING IS ADVERSE EFFECT J. A. Hojle - Co.. 1S Main street, furnish the follo-lne- riifret of fmanrifll news, received over their private wires: New York metal market: Lead steady. 67 at 7ts: February. tiSO at ii.yS: March. 6i7ii at 675. Spelter, dull; liast St. l.ouis. spot, February and March offered at 7",. Twenlv industrials 7$. OH. off .S5. Twenty rails 70. ?S. off .SI. Canadian Pacific, fourth week of January, Jan-uary, loss increase $1'!?,000; from January Jan-uary 1, increase Jti2?.000. c'hic.ico Trihune filvldend payments may be resumed on United States Rubber Rub-ber common. This, together with the more General appreciation of the fruits of the severe restriction Imposed by the bankers when payments were suspended two years airo, explains tile recent accumulation ac-cumulation of the stock. A large percentage per-centage of the floating supply of I lie stoi k has leen taken up by banking interests in-terests f r.Si't'eil in the development of foreign commerce. Midvale trteel, for quarter ended December De-cember .11, e.irned ?10,SS'.'i:7 net. or K.v per cent, on the Mock, compared with J,0GO,CS5, or 5.011 per cent. In previous pre-vious quarter. Herald: Interests close to Distillers' Securities corporation declare that when the directors meet. Februat y 13. the stock wilt be put on a ti per cent batia and an extra dividend declared. Chandler Motor Car company 1n 1017 earned, before federal taxes, a balance equivalent to approximately "1 rer cent on the stock outstanding. War taxes amounted to J7 or Sx a bhare. wo that after allowing for them the company earned its il- dividend rate more than ! twice ol'er. Between government business busi-ness and its otn line of passenger cars S'lld, it expected that profits In ll'lx w ill be at least tu:U. if they do not surpass, t.his: of li'I7. Curb letter: There was much activity ! In many issues on the curb, but price chani;. s w ere mixed and market tone was iVregular all turouph the day. In tiie inn'or group Peerless wns the n-ost prominent leature. advancing from 1' to l:i. with the buying attributed to ..tatrnicnt- of war orders which had been t'l fed with the company. Ke.'tono con-tlriu'd con-tlriu'd Mneic. selling at IjS. while 1'niled M'l'.rirn was weak, dropping from 2 C, to IMS. S ibniarlf.e Roat reacte.1 fr"m 1J"4 to 1". Altia ratittcl from f: to 'IS. I'. Sie.imsliip ivif ftrontt. elh'.-ig at 41- and t e x -d i vlderd. ll-ciston Cm! v..,s aicain the most active of the ind.-p'.inient oil stock?, iiemg heavily trad, d In at It1, to (". V S'li-i S'li-i i.ilr 'ijlf was wall, selling "fT from - I to P',. '"..s'ien war. traded in on a cry larg- .-ale at 7', to 7. Mining s'o k r. fl-'lr.l increased outside out-side lntr.s'. l:h.-,ut srec.il change In prln s. Tcei'i w;m a cr.unnued dcreand nr Was..". ' Vpp. r at 1-, and IS. with MiteriMs Id- iitifi' l Willi prop, ity appar-'nllv appar-'nllv .Tiding to their h-il. lines. Nim.-i N..v.i.!n sold at P, and 1 S-t. F it'' i"i'pr'C .'lie v,a ti:' slrongi-st of tbl" gr'.cp. ni"iiig up from ft to l',:t. t..e hlKiit prl'-c ti uched for some tunc s:o.-k iMte.': Ilx' epf In a few !n.t.r.ce. -tuck- wire un.lir pro -.me. princiially the I'nltKl Slj.les Steel :uintr.. The re-portr-.l sinking of fie t ra ii-p-rt T'li'.i-:na T'li'.i-:na exerted a rather unfavorable infl'.i-'ii infl'.i-'ii 'f Htid tiro'ig'it more torcihlv to the Male of nund v.ir!ik- cot.'! 1 1 ions. What liens ici. received tiom H.-h In gt on on j the railroad sltua'ion was of t ivoraNe i Inl'-i prf tat . -n, bat. ).etirllng the Ilnal si-IliiMon si-IliiMon of the name, ope r.Lt : ons of a more ! i.x te.,. e s ale were deferred, j After the sharp advance of la.t wr-fk ' the receding tendency rif prlcca in the I p,IS' feV SeV.I'iriS seems tO be lllltUtlll, and lurth'T scattered liduldatlou may hav e A lenitiorary d epi i ssi n g eftect. Ilnw-ter. Ilnw-ter. tlie market Is supersensitive to the trend of intertill l.illtlcal ev'enls and iliriccs In good part will be dictated by I dl.'icln-urr- toiu hlng on thn afore-1 afore-1 meni toned. |