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Show HAILRDAD STOCKS SHOiiSTKTil Trading Extremely Dull and Day's Fluctuations Are Irregular. J. A. Hogle & Co., ICS South Main street, received the following digest of financial news over their private wires: Stork market opinions at tile close yesterday yes-terday were mixed. Hut with conditions unchanged. It was purely the speculative element that was taking the hear side. There was bullish talk regarding many railroad stocks, particularly on Southern Pacific, Northern Pacific, Union Pacific. Now York Central and Krle preferred. The technical position of United States Steel common w;w strong. Financial Bulletin: passage of the railroad rail-road bill at Washington is expected to Influence siiort covering in the stock market. To some extent, however, it has been discounted. Fair profits ought not ! to lie Ignored. The general plan of making mak-ing conserviuivo purchases on reactions for turns, as in a bull trading market, should give the best results, as we see It. Pool channels continue bullish on 1 American C;ir & Foundry. Corn Products and Pittsburg Coal are among the specialties. spe-cialties. Twenty industrials 80.39, off .11; twenty rails 81.13, inn hanged. A. W. C declared full dividend of $f per Hliare, payablo In quarterly installments in-stallments of $1.25 each on Its preferred stock. No action was taken on American licet S-ugar extra dividend at the regular meeting of directors yesterday. Cuban Cane Sugar declared a regular dividend of 1 on preferred stock. I flow Jones says: Ray Consolidated de- j .Tlnred a $1 dividend, Cliino $1.60 a share, tftah declared a $2.60 dividend, three months ago, $3.50; Nevada Consolidated $1, tliree months ago, $1, dates March 30 and March 9. New York dispatch says: We are in-Jormed in-Jormed that the government has under contemplation an order of from 100,000 to l.'iO.Oilfl freight cars, which will Involve In-volve $500,000,000. This will be the biff-pest biff-pest order In history and should find immediate im-mediate reflection In better prices for i American Car & Foundry and Pressed Steel Car. Chicago TCvcning Post: Kansas City Southern earnings, twelve months net operating income, were $3, 1)66,507, an increase in-crease of J432.S4S. The West inghouse ErtV'tric & Manufacturing Manufac-turing company has business already entered en-tered on its books of over $130,000,0(10. Of tills total, about $80,000. lino represents government work. The earning power is equivalent to between 1 7 1 2 and 10 per cent, as compared witli 21.17 per cent a year ago. ' Chicago Daily News: American Locomotive Loco-motive company declared the regular quarterly dividend of 1'i per cent on common' stock. The dates are April 3 and March 18. Also 1 per cent on pre- ! f erred stock; the dates April 6 and ; April 22. i Wolverine Copper Mining company Je- i ! clared S3 a share semiannually, payable April 1 on stock of record March 9. , New York Stock Letter: The trading ' was extremely dull and fluctuations were made In an irregular fashion. There I . seemed to he quite a little liquidation in certain sections of the industrial department, depart-ment, particularly in Steel and some of I the equipments. There seems to be a ! tendency to await the consummation ol i the current legislative programme, and ! 1 it Is anticipated that within a few days ! further utterances will be made by the i chief executive in response to recent out givings of the German chancellor. ; In addition, London, Paris and Vienna may express further views, which may ' have a distant bearing on the world con flict. . , , While hacking and filling is looked for at present, still we continue to believe that the incentive Is to take a firm stand on the selling side of the list is lacking, : and that judicious purchases of the stand-! stand-! ard rails and also of the recently reor- ganized carriers are advisable. ! ' New York Curb Letter: The most im-! im-! portant feature was the vigorous demand I for Aetna, which advanced from SVi to 91s. on large trading. Buying came, ap-! ap-! parently, from sources where opposition : prevails to the proposed reorganization of the comnanv. It was Insisted by those active In the buying that there is no necessity ne-cessity for reorganization, as the reeelv-' reeelv-' ers are proceeding with the work of paying pay-ing off all claims in a speedy manner and that it will not he long before the property prop-erty will revert to stockholders. Aeroplane stocks were heavy, with fractional losses In Wright-Martin and Cnrtiss. . , Motor stocks were steady, with activity activ-ity in United Motors, which sold up to 26 Chevrolet was traded In at 5 and 51!-Oil 51!-Oil stocks generally were quiet, with Oosden selling at 8 and 73i. International Interna-tional Petroleum sold at 13, Oklahoma at 7H and 7. and Midwest at 111 to 10!). Boston-Montana was most active in the mining group, advancing to 95 cents, followed fol-lowed by a reaction to 83. Big Ledge was strong, selling at 1 5-16 and Hi, the highest price touched in some time. |