Salt Lake Telegram | 1912-02-28 | Page 8 | Trading Light, but Stocks Close Strong

TRADING LIGHT BUT I I I STOCKS NEW YORK Feb 28 Trading Trading was lI light ht and featureless at the th o opening of or today's stock mark market t. t Aside from a de dechine decline de de- cline chine of ot 1 point In iii Bethlehem Steel changes Were re only fractional with ith losses los exceeding gains gain With the approach of noon the mar mar- ket kt s a apathy increased and further can can- c collations of some of or the earlier gains were recorded d. d There were adverse ru rumors iii- iii more mors dealing with Untied United States I. I hut but that stock was waa relatively firm tide Aside from from slight In such stick specialties as V. V Western esteril Union and KO go o. o Cleveland land tit tt Louis I tra trading lIn was as d devoid ol of an any feature Ponds Bonds were fir steady Central Leather preferred gave cave aYe way ay over 1 2 points on the publication of th the annual report which how f showed d a deficit of over O after Atter fixed charges es and dividends Tho The rest rut of the market was not Influenced and oven even advanced ane d slight ly IY In spots Reading Reading- Raining gaining almost a. a pOI point Ii t. t The short Interest was all given a t. twist In n the afternoon when large purchasing or orden orders or- or dens den wore executed simultaneously In the principal stocks Reading was u the leader of or the tho movement mCl and If Its fI rise of ot 2 points was wa supplemented b by advances of ot about blut half as ns much In t Pacific Lehigh all Valley alley Amalgamated Copper Smelting and United Stat States Steel The market clos closed d strong Activity In Increased Increased In- In creased In the closing hour and there ther was WaR a JI further expansion lon of ot the buying movement Union Pacific and nd Lehigh h Valle Valley Increased ed d their gains to 2 points point and IDan many other stocks also abo ro row rose materially mate Trading fell off att greatly reath before th the th close and a a. few stocks stock yielded on scattering realizing but the tho general market market mar mar- ket icet retained Its strength Stock List Close A Amalgamated Copper 67 American Boat Boet Sugar American Car and Foundry American Cotton Oil n Locomotive American Sm Smelting and Refining i do preferred 1031 Am American Sugar Refining 1185 Anaconda Anaconda Anaconda An An- Mining Co 36 AtchIson 1041 Atlantic Coast LinG Line Baltimore Ohio 1021 Brooklyn Rapid Transit Canadian Pacific Che Chesapeake Ohio Chicago Chicago Milwaukee aukee 0 St. St Paul 10 1031 1035 Colorado Fuel anti and Iron H Colorado fc Southern 43 Delaware Hudson lit Denver Rio Gra Grande nd 21 1 do preferred 41 Erie Erl si J Great Northern preferred 1305 1301 do tIe or ore or certificates S 8 Illinois Central Central Cen Cen- t ral do preferred d. d Louisville Nashville 1531 Missouri If ouri Pacific 3 Missouri Kansas A Texas Tea 27 Zi National Biscuit I cult 14 National Lead 54 5 New e York Central Central Cen Cen- 1102 1101 Norfolk Western fl rn Northern North North- orth em ern m Pacific Jl Pa Pacific Mall Mail 32 Penn Penn- sylvania rl 1221 Peoples People's Gas lOSi 1065 Pullman Pullman Pullman Pull Pull- man Palace Car 1 S Reading Heading l i Rock Island bland Co 23 do preferred 48 South South- uth- uth am urn Pacific 1081 Union Pacific 1665 1661 United States Stats Steel Stet 61 do preferred 1081 Wabash 7 do preferred 18 Isi Western Western West West- ern Union 83 85 Lehigh Valley 1591 loal International Inter national Harvester lOSS 1055 General Electric Electric Elec Elec- 1605