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Show HIGHER PRICES ON WALL STREET I. i NEW TORE, Aug. 10. Only small orders for stock were offered execution at the opening open-ing today and the effect on prices was moderate. mod-erate. U. P. and St Paul were stronger at advances of about a point, and the majority of prominent stocks were slightly higher. I 111 nol Central sold of 1 and Colorado ft Southern first preferred fell . Stocks showed a more definite tendency after af-ter business had got well under way. Quite a number of buying orders appeared and the Improvement in the Hill stocks and the Pennsylvania group gave the market a uniformly uni-formly firmer tone for a while. Moderate short selling depressed the market later. St. Paul. Union Pacific, Reading and Amalgamated Amalga-mated Copper fell back a point or more from their best prince and the list was down to the lowest. Nashville and 8t. Louis broke S. Anaconda thi and Sugar and International Paper 1. In the way of advances there were t points In Northwestern and Northern Pacific Pa-cific - 1 In Great Northern preferred, ltt In Denver A Rio Grande, 1 in Consolidated Consoli-dated Gas, and 1 In Norfolk Western. The selling movement was not pursued but the market became intensely dull and prices made but slight recoveries. Amongst Inactive Inac-tive stocks there were declines In Evansvllle and Terre Haute preferred of 4, Kanawha Michigan 2fc, Tenn. Coal 1. Consolidated Gas rose IK. Bonds were steady at noon. Most .of the advances that had been laboriously labori-ously built up In the afternoon were wiped out on a light selling movement that drove St. Paul, Reading, Amalgamated Copper and other Important stocks below yesterday's closing. The selling ceased as abruptly as It began and there were trifling recoveries. D. ft H., and Wheeling ft Lake Erie dropped 2 points and Inter borough Metropolitan |