Salt Lake Telegram | 1906-06-08 | Page 8 | Stocks Sluggish on Wall Street

o;j ufitL-sttiaT NEW, YORK, June . Smell fractional rains except for a few stock and light dealings gave the character to the opening open-ing In the stock market today. Consolt-dated Consolt-dated Gaa sold at an advance of 2. but Immediately lost all but a fraction. New York Central gained 1 and Union Pacific and Atchison were up large fractions. The narrowness of the current speculation specula-tion was shown by the Immediate relapse to below yesterday of the more prominent promi-nent stocks when the traders attempted to take profits on the slight opening advances. ad-vances. St. Paul. B. A O., and Great Northern preferred scored the chief losses loss-es of to 114. Consolidated Gas fluctuated fluctu-ated frequently between 145 and 147 on the continuance of the Injunction against the enforcement of the 80-cent gas law. Spirited Spir-ited buying movement In Atchison, followed fol-lowed by a demand for Delaware & Hudson Hud-son caused a general recovery before 11 o'clock. Atchison sold lc higher. net-Street net-Street railway, a, and Delaware Hudson Hud-son 4, . . The market became dull and sluggish and was not stirred by movements In separate sep-arate stocks, mostly all of a minor grade. Reading accounted for a large proportion propor-tion of the limited dealings between 13 and 1 o'clock, and although it crept up gradually to 145, the general market remained re-mained practically at a standstill. The market continued dull and uninteresting unin-teresting with a measure of heaviness. Prices fell to the lowest of the day In the fln&l call. The sharp upturn la wheat was given as the motive for the selling, but some of the specialties were even more affected than the grangers. Colorado Fuel. Smelting ' and Anaconda told at declines of 1 to t, Illinois Central Cen-tral 1H. Northern Pacific 1. Atlantic Coast Line 1 St. Paul 114. Amalgamated Amalgamat-ed Copper, People's Gas, Locomotive,' Canadian. Pacific and L. tt N. X. The closing generally was easy and near the lowest.