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Show MIXED CHANGES IN WALL STREET NEW TORK, Sept. 18. Opening priees ef stocks showed mixed changes from last night with gains predominating and trading very active. Reading was the featnre with opening ssles of 500 shares at 152 and 1524, core p red with 150 last night. The price ran off sharply on subsequent dealings. deal-ings. Amalgamated Copper was also very active at a rise ef . Anaconda gained 3H, Union Pacific 1, and Northern Pacific fraction. Some hesitation arose from the reslizing in Reading, bnt when the stock waa run up again to 153s. the list hardened again. The general market, however, encountered sell-in sell-in orders after prices had worked back to the opening level. Outside of the coalera and a few of the Western stocks, the move ments 01 prices were not viar. rices reacted re-acted at 11 o'clock. The recession wss quite generst to below lsst night, Missouri Pacific, Great Northern preferred and Smelting losing 1, Reading nearly 2 points, and the Railway Equipment stocks fraction. Bonds were stesdy at noon. The demand for reading was revived after midday and the atock touched 1534. its top price. Resding second preferred also became be-came active and moved up 4t to 100 Vi. Broklyn Transit and North American gained lVi, and Colorado Fuel IV There was little doing in the standard rsilrosd stocks, and they rallied but feebly. When the advance in Reading became sensational, sen-sational, uneasiness developed among holdera of other stocks which waa increased also by the rail money rising to 9 per rent. Resding Resd-ing sold at 1564, a rise of 6 points. Meanwhile, Mean-while, Missouri Pacifle and Great Northern preferred dropped off 3 points, and tit. Paul, Union Pacific, Atchison and Reading waa allowed to fall bark over three points. There was aome improvement in other prices, but the rslly did not) hesd. Northwestern North-western receded 1V4. Norfolk t Western 1H, and U. 8. Realtv fell 2. The New Chicago tt Alton atock sold 34 over yesterday. |