Show It MART MARKET STEADY STADY AND SPECULATION LIGHT NEW EW YORK TORK F Feb Fb b. b J. J Speculative S e In In- In in the stock m market rk t was S 7 too slight sligh to lo effect a decided change In thc tho love ivel of prices s during tho the morning The rho boar bet faction which for several days had bee been making Ineffectual attempts to unsettle pi Ices made mado n no further efforts and th the undertone of or the market was firm Reports Re ne ports that some of the smaller steel oman man were cutting prices had no of of- of feet leel on time the steel shares hare The copper coppe group roup fell Cell hack back 81 slightly on profit taking after yesterdays yesterday's rl rise e despite the lie sharp advance all In the price price- of or metal meta abroad Increasing strength th was shown n under undo the leadership of the he Hill stocks tho the soul south group o of railroad stocks sharing Great Greal Northern preferred rose lose Iii and Northern Pacific St. St Paul Patti Paull 1 I. Prices of or the time prim prim- shares at midday ruled generally a fraction above yesterdays yesterday's final float fi figures Bonds Bond were stead steady Underlying r strength ln was wa shown in th the earl early afternoon de despite tIme the the c dullness I IAn An easier tone prevailed In tho ho lat late trading Reading Great Northern pc erred and Northern Pacific rt reacted 3 point Tobacco Issues s weakened materi- materi ally American Tobacco lost 8 S Sand and Lorillard Lor Lor- illard rd 3 points Denver Rio Klo Grande preferred pre pre- tagged sagged 21 I The Tho market closed stead steady Southern luthern Railroad preferred d added only tf il l to Its lla early gain of or 1 I on the formal announcement announcement announce announce- ment that tho stock had bl been n placed on ona ona ona a I 1 pet per cent basis this action having ln b been cn discussed in previous days das The rhe general market sold off but buL declines were Insignificant and offerings scanty AmerIcan American Amer Armer- ican lean Tobacco went Jack back to 61 its low lov I level vel of or yesterday Stock List Close Amalgamated 1 Copper 63 63 American Beet ugar 55 American Car Cal and Foundry Foundry Foun Foun- dr dry 51 American Cotton Colton Oil IS 19 American Anion Ameri can Locomotive il bid hid American Smelting Smelt ing Ins arid and nt Refining American Smelting and Refining preferred IOU 1011 American Sugar Refining 1188 1183 Anaconda Mining company compan 35 AtchIson on 10 1043 tf Atlantic Coast Line th 1371 Baltimore Ohio 1021 1121 Brooklyn Transit 11 Pacific 2291 9 Chesapeake fc Ohio iU Chicago Northwestern Chicago Milwaukee lII St. St Paul 1046 1043 Colorado Fuel and Iron 51 bid Colorado South South- em ern 13 3 bid Delaware Hudson li 1723 bid Denver Rio Grande 20 o bid Denver Den Den- vcr ver Rio Grande Grando preferred Erie 30 Great Northern preferred 1291 Great Northern Ore Certificates 36 6 Illinois Illi IIII- nets nois Central bid Metropolitan Metro etro I politan 17 lipi Metropolitan preferred 5 Louisville Nashville 1521 Missouri Pacific Missouri Kansas Kan Kan- H ass sas UI Texas bid National Biscuit 1461 1463 National Lead New Now York Cen Cen- ml 1102 Norfolk Western rn lOSt 1083 bid Northern Pacific Pacific Mall Mali 32 Pennsylvania 1221 Peoples People's Gas Pullman Palace e Car 17 1759 Reading 1578 1573 Rock Island company compan bid Rock RockI I Island land company preferred 49 49 Southern Pacific 1 1033 Southern Hallway Railway S Union Pacific United States Ste Steel SteN l. l GOt United States Steel preferred 1071 1073 Wabash 7 bid Wabash preferred 19 13 W Western Union Lehigh Valle Valley 1581 International Int Harvester 1062 j Genel General 1 Electric |