Salt Lake Telegram | 1903-02-16 | Page 8 | Advance in Specialties

AD VANCE, IN: SPECIALTIES Little Doing In Regular Speculative Stocks ; on Wall Street. NEW YORK. Feb. 16. Prices opened slightly higher on a moderate volume of business. Wabash preferred rose a point. General Electric 1 and N St. L & Co. . Activity centered largely in unusually Inactive specialties. Among the better-known better-known stocks Amalgamated Copper and the local tractions were marked up a point or more, but their rise did not Induce any notable response In the regular leaders, Laclede Gas rose 5. Some declines -were made, Grass Twine losing 2 andl Steel Foundry and Union Bag preferred 1 each. The level of prices rose slightly, but on very limited transactions. 8t. Paul. D. & H. and Smelting rose a point or more. Among the specialties Anaconda gained 2, North American Z and the Rubber Goods stocks a point. General Electric I reacted 3. The advance held up to noon. Bonds were steady. Offering of Sugar were limited an the price reached 132 V' United States Steel stocks hardened a sharp fraction. Fluctuations Fluc-tuations in other prominent stocks were unimportant, and there was but Mttle trading. Northwestern. St. Louis St San Francisco and Rubber preferred advanced lCal. St. Joseph and Grand Island first preferred declined BANK CLEARINGS. V 00 Today's clearings. ' $618,134; same day last year, $098,061.