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Show VALL STREET " NEW YORK, Dec. . The nerrousnewi caused by yegtrday's storm In the stock market resulted In some sharp losses at the opening- this morning;, although vigorous vigor-ous support Induced good gains In a few stocks. Amalgamated Copper ran oft 2Vi within the first few minutes of trading. Colorado Fuel dropped i and United States Steel Steel preferred 1. Losses ran from 1 to ltt In Atchison, Reading and Baltimore & Ohio and to a point or more hi Union Pacific,' Pa-cific,' Southern Pacific, St. Paul, Canadian Faclflc, Brooklyn Transit, Rock Island, Pacific Mall, Metropolitan Street Railway and Leather. Eight thousand shares of United States Steel sold simultaneously at 28 and 27, compared with 28 last night, and the price subsequently rallied to 27. Ontario & Western and Metropolitan Securities Se-curities opened up about a point higher, and Chesapeake tt Ohio V The pressure of offerings continued only for fifteen minutes, min-utes, but additional losses of 1 to 2 polnU were made. These Included the Pacifies, grangers, coalers and specialties. Effort to regain stocks by the room shorts and the expectation of large orders for the long account started prices upwards up-wards at a lively rate, and by 11 o'clock the usual leaders were ruling at a parity with last night's closing or above. Amalgamated Amal-gamated Copper rallied to t&, placing it 2 over yesterday's closing, and Sugar alao showed a gain of 1. Among the railroads rail-roads Missouri Pacific rose a point, and 8t. Paul. Baltimore & Ohio, Louisville A. Nashville, New York Central and Ontario A Western displayed conspicuous firmness. firm-ness. Steel Foundries preferred Improved 2, Rubber Goods preferred S, and International Inter-national Paper. Railway Steel Spring, Wheeling & Lake Erie preferred and Al-Jis-Chalmers 1 to 1. The rise carried Sugar to and New York Central, Mexican Central, Colorado Fuel and Chicago Terminal gained a point each. Buying diminished on the advance, but selling was not pursued down to the previous level, and prices steadied and the market became strong. The. reaction carried car-ried Amalgamated Copper back to t6, and ran to a point or over in St. Paul, Missouri Pacific, Baltimore ft Ohio. Reading, Read-ing, Illinois Central, Brooklyn Transit, Colorado Fuel and Sugar. The rise of lsL In Leather and lVt in Leather preferred lifted the market at noon. Bonds were Irregular at midday. Speculative confidence was measurably restored by the evidences of suppo.Hing orders and the apparent resumption or pool operations. -Buying of the standard railroad stocks was on a large scale and there was an enormous demand for Amalgamated Amal-gamated Copper, the United States Steel and Leather stocks. Amalgamated Cop-pr Cop-pr rose to 69 and United States Steel to 29. The Pennsylvania and Pacific groups were strong. Further additions were made to the number of stocks that made over a point gain before the market sank back on realizing. real-izing. Only about tfee leading stocks that failed to advance appreciably were Union Pacific, Rock Island, Reading and Atchison. Atchi-son. Business became quiet when the market shaded, but the reactions were small. Later Amalgamated sold as low as 634c, but recovered subsequently when the market mar-ket steadied, reaching C8. up 2 points from last night. The rest of the market shared In a slight advance, which developed during dur-ing active trading. The later demand shifted to the United States Steel stocks and St. Paul. Other stocks got only ellghtly higher than before. be-fore. St. Paul, Illinois Central, Atlantic Cot line, Norfolk & Western, St. Louts-Southwestern Louts-Southwestern preferred. United States Steel preferred, Tennessee Coal, Colorado Fuel. Pipe preferred. Sugar and leather got 2(722'" over last night. Reading gained 1 and Unltea States Steel 1. There were recessions from best prices, the reaction reaching a point in Amalgamated Copper, L. ft K. and Leather. Hocking Valley lost I'm- The closing was moderately active and rather easy. LOCAL QUOTATIONS. Furnished by A. A. Gibson & Co., brokers, bro-kers, 215 South Main street, 'phone 916. Open. High. Low. Close. Erie com 37 38H 36 38 Smelter com 79tf 807 79 Preferred Ill HI Rio G com 314 S Sl4 31 Preferred 86 85V4 Alton 40 40 So Ry com 34 35 34 So St L & S W 65 57H 55 67 Norfolk 76 78 75 77 Rck I si com 83 34 82 84 Con Gas 2u8 i9 207 106 Tenn C & I 69 71 67 71 Steel bonds 91 92 W Sl Common 27 2 27 29 Preferred 88 91 87 91 R & O 97 10f' 97 100 Colo Fuel 4 48 43 47 Copper 6i 9 63 6 Sugar 140 143 140 143 People's Gas 106 loS 106 107 Met Traction 121 121 119 121. B R T 61 63 60 62 Man Ry 1K4 106 164 16 St Paul 167 171 167 171 Union Pacific ...... .100 111 109 111 Atchison com 85 86 84 86 Preferred 102 U3 102 lo Southern Pacific .... 62 63 61 63 Missouri Pacific ....107 108 106 108 Texas Pacific 34 35 84 85 Canadian Pacific ...12! 131 129 131 Ches A Ohio 4' 47 44 47 New York Central ..137 138 137 13S Illinois Central 152 155 152 154 Ont & Western .... 44 44 43 44 Kansas & Texas .. 62 63 62 63 Wabash pfd 43 45 43 45 Penn Railway 136 137 135 1S6 Reading 76 78 7 78 Louis & Nash 141 143 141 142 Western Union 92 82 CHICAGO GRAIN. May wheat 110 111. 110 111 May corn 44 45 44 44 May oats 30 80 80 30 May pork 12.82 12.95 12.80 12.95 Jan pork 12.50 12.65 12.50 12.62 NEW YORK GRAIN. May wheat 112 113 112 112 May corn 50 60 50 60 Kansas City Cattle. KANSAS CITY, Dec. 9. Cattle Receipts. Re-ceipts. 3O00; steady; native steers, S3. 5o 6 50; native cows and heifers, 81.766.00: stockers and feeders, J2.5O54.10; bulls, J2.00 j4.0O; calves, $3.0o4(.25; Western steers, $3 005.00; Western cows. 81.753.50. Hogs Receipts, 10.000; steady to 6c higher; high-er; active; bulk of sales. 84.30)4.60: heavy, $4.4564.67; packers, $4.30(&'4.50; pigs and lights. J3.75I&4.40. gheep Receipts. 1000 strong; muttons, $4 0O4J6.O0; lambs. $4.5v&.00; range wsthers, 84.0034.90; ewes, J2.504i4.2S. Chicago Cattle. CHICAGO. Dec. . Cattle Receipts, SHOO; steady; good to prime steers, JS.OOitf 7 20- poor to medium. 83.6iX3o.80; stockers and feeders. $2.2ok4.10; cows. $1.4ya4.00; heifers. 82.00tfi6.00; canners, sl.352.40; bulls. J2.0Orfl4.1O; calves, $3.607.00; Western West-ern steers, 83.404.90. Hogs Receipts, today. 30,000; tomorrow, 3S0U0; strong; mixed and butchers, 84.250 4.50: good to choice heavy, 84.46a4.60; rough heavy, 84.404.60; light. 84.154j4.40; bulk of sales, 84.464i4.62. gneepReceipts. 8000; sheep, steady; lambs. 10c higher; good to choice wethers, 84 4m&5.25; fair to choice mixed, 83.5tn34.35; Western sheep. 83.50fc6.10; native lambs, 84.7ba.50; Western lambs, $4.75.40. TODAY'S TONOPAH STOCKS. (Furnished by Brokerage and Finance company, successors to Hudsons Sons St Co., broers. room 6, D. F. Walker building.) build-ing.) Tonopah 89.S7S9.60 Montana $1.)1.80 Belmont 66&68o North Star 23'r24c Paymaster New York Sugar. NEW YORK. Dec. .-Sugar-Raw, firm; fair refining. 4c; centrifugal, 96-test, 4c; molasses sugar, 4c; refined, firm; powdered, pow-dered, 85.65; crushed, 86.25; granulated, 85.55. Coffee SUady; No. 7 Rio, 8c. NEW YORK METAL. 0 ) NEW YORK, Dec. 9. Bar sii- (j) ver, 6oc. . (& Lead and copper quiet and un- (j) 00 changed. , N Chicago Grain. CHICAGO. Dec. 9 May wheat opened to c higher at 811U1.11. A further decline to 81-10 resulted, but the recession reces-sion was checked by buying orders from some of yesterday's sellers. The market rallied under this influence to 8JL11. On a buying movement May later advanced ad-vanced to 81.11, but declined to 81.10 on selling by pit longs and commiHslon-houses. commiHslon-houses. Then ensued a scramble of shorts to cover, which carried May back to 81.11. The close was rm at 8111. a net loss of c. 1 Close: Wheat December, 81.08; May, $11.11; July. 99c. Corn December. "47c; January, 43c; May. 44ii45c; July. 45c. Oats December, 2sc; May, 30c; July, 30c. Pork December, $11-35; January, $12.62 &12.65; May, $12.95. Lard December, 86.85; January, $6.90; May. $7.12; July, 87.22. Ribs January. $6.55; May, $6.7566.77. Rye December, 76c. Flax Cash. Northwestern, $1.24. Timothy December. $2.70. Clover December, $12.50. Barley Cash, 3S&51c. Cash: Wheat No. 2 red. $1.1671.16: No. 8 red, fl.10frl.13; No. 2 hard. fl.luGl.13; No. t hard, tl.0agl.10; No. 1 Northern, 81.174 1.20; No. 2 Northern. 81.081.15; No. 3 spring, 81.02i91. 10. Corn No. 2, 47fiM7o; No. 8, 43JH3c. Oate No. 2, 29'S30c; No. 3, 29c. New York Produce. NEW YORK. Dec. 9. Butter Firm ; creamery, held, common to extra, 194? 24c. Cheese and eggs Unchanged. New York Money. NEW YORK. Dec 9. Close: Money on call steady at 2ii4 per cent; closing, bid and offered, 2 per cent. Time loans were steady; 60 and 90 days and 6 months, 4 per cent. Prime mercantile paper steady at 4r4 per cent. Sterling exchange firmer, with actual bus'ness in bankers' bills at 84.86.1oH.86.25 for demand and at S4.83.50tfi 4.83.60 for 60day bills. Posted rates, 84.84 and $4 87iP4.87. Commercial bills. $4.83. Bar silver, 6tc. Mexican dollars, 48c. Government bonds steady; railroad bonds firm. St Louis Wool. ST. LOUIS, Dec. 9. Wool Steady; Territory Ter-ritory and Western mediums, 21422c; fine medium, 17618c; fine, 164T17c. Omaha Cattle. . SOUTH OMAHA. Dec. 9.-Cattle Receipts. Re-ceipts. 2"00; market, steady; native steers. $3.504i15.2E; cows and heifers, $2.5064.00; Western steers. $3.004j4.70; Texas steers, $2.7Mj3.75; range cows and heifers, $2.44? 3.40; canners,- $1.75u2.35; stockers and feeders, $2.60'54.00; calves, $3.004$.50; bulls, stags, etc., $2.0064.00. Hogs Receipts. 7300; market. 2e higher; high-er; heavy, $4.3v1i4.37; mixed. KSkxgH.fc"; light. $4.32fi-4.37; pigs. $4.004H.3; bulk of sales. $4.4r4.22. Sheep Receipts, 4500; market, strong; Westerns, K60V6.OO; wethers, 84.26 0 4.55; ewes, $4.00C4.oO;- common and stockers, $160414.25; lambs, fa.0v4j6.2a. |