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Show OPENING PRICES AT HIGHER LEVEL Large Buying Orders Give the Market a firmer Tone. NEW YORK. Jan. 13. Large buying orders carried opening prices in the stock market today to a higher level, the high-priced railroad stocks leading. Great Northern preferred rose and Northern Pacific, St. Paul and New York Central a point There were besides, be-sides, large fractional gains in Missouri Mis-souri Pacific, Colorado & Southern, and Pressed Steel Car. Union Pacific was shaded a small fraction, and Sugar and Metropolitan Street Railway were also lower. . The breadth and volume of business offered attractive opportunities for realizing and stocks were "so freely offered of-fered as to put prices back to last night's level or below. Here and there stocks weakened Sharply and added to the reactionary tendency. Consolidated Gas was carried off 4, Brooklyn Union Gas 7, Kansas City Southern preferred and Smelting 1 Sloes Sheffield Steel 24, and Corn Products 1. Otherise the Betback as arrested in the neighborhood neighbor-hood of last night's level and there was some recovery later with a subsidence sub-sidence of activity. Northwestern rose 3, and Missouri Pacific, Chicago & Alton, Al-ton, American Ice and Tennessee Coal 1. Prices were lifted again, but the favorable fa-vorable bank statement Induced renewed re-newed realizing and prices sold off again. Union Pacific was lifted a fraction frac-tion to a new high level at 158. Northwestern North-western rose 64; Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul 4; Chicago & Alton 2; Long Island and Brokolyn Transit 2; St. Louis, Southwestern preferred and Pulhnan 2; Missouri Pacific and Cleveland, Cleve-land, C. C. C. & St. Louis 1; Atlantic Coast Line, Pump preferred and National Na-tional Biscuit 14. and Amalgamated. Copper and local traction 1. Losses of a point or more were scored by Union Pacific. Southern Pacific, St. Paul. Illinois Illi-nois Central." Minneapolis. St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie, D. & R. G., Sugar, the Smelting stocks. People's Gas, Railway Steel Spring, Corn Products preferred and North American. The closing was extremely active and irregular. |