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Show NARROW IN WALLSTREET NEW YORK. Jan. 24. -Opening prices of of many prominent stocks today rebounded rebound-ed sharply from yesterday's closing depression, de-pression, although there was a sprinkling of losses. Reading was carried up an extreme ex-treme point on running sales and 4000 shares of Erie sold at 41 and 41, compared com-pared with 41 last night. Realty gained a point and Rock Island. Union Pacific. Southern Pacific, L. & N., Consolidated Gas large fractions. The early buying was most effective in the transcontinental stocks, but several of the coalers, -metal stocks and tractions were also taken liberally. lib-erally. 8t Paul, Northwestern, Union Pacific, Southern Pacific preferred, Erie second preferred and Kansas ft Texas preferred advanced 1 to 1. The smelting stocks. Republic Steel preferred. Metropolitan Metro-politan Securities. Consolidated Gas. Hide and Leather preferred and Westlnghouse Electric figured for similar gains. Heavy selling of Reading, which drove It down from 88 to 86, precipitated realizing real-izing elsewhere and the previous advance was canceled. Cotton OH lost 1. Ice preferred pre-ferred 1 and St. Louis and San Francisco Fran-cisco first preferred 1. At 11 o'clock the market was dull. Prices tended upward In sympathy with advances in individual stocks, but the general movement was narrow, Southern Pacific gained 1. Smelting preferred was carried up 3 and North American 2. There were declines of a point or more In C. C. & St. L. and Chicago Great Western West-ern B. and Rock Island preferred lost 1. The demand ran off at the higher level and let prices slip back. Bonds were steady at noon. Realizing on the dividend announcement on Hide and Leather preferred met and wiped out its forenoon rise and Induced sales of other specialties. Smelting preferred pre-ferred also reacted more than a point. Railroad stocks lacked feature, but were quoted at about the highest again at 1 o'clock. The subsidence of demand at the advances ad-vances aroused distrust of the market, and an active selling movement carried the whole list to a level below last night. The declines from that level reached a point for Rock Island, St. Paul. L. ft N., Reading. New York Central, Atlantic. Coast Line and Brooklyn Transit. Westlnghouse West-lnghouse Electric lost 2, General Electric Elec-tric 6. New York Airbrake 5. Pittsburg C. C. ft St. L.. 2, Denver & Rio Grande 1 and Northwestern 3. The closing was active and weak at about the lowest. Omaha Cattle. SOUTH OMAHA. Neb.. Jan. 24. Cattle Receipts, 4700; market steady, lower; native na-tive steers, $3.50d6.75: cows and heifers. $2.75g.26; canners, 81.50i32.26; stockers and feeders, $2.504.00; calves, $2.50fi.75; bulls, stags, etc., $2.003.50. Hogs Receipts, 11.500; market shade higher;, heavy. $4.fl64.76; mixed, $4.62 4.67; light. $4.604.65: pigs, $3.7&4.40; bulk of sales. J4.KiVoH.70. gheep Receipts, 8000; market, steady; Western yearlings. $5.56p6.36; wethers, $5.005.60; ewes. $4.256.60; lambs, S6.60& 7.50. Chicago Grain. CHICAGO, Jan. 24. The opening was easy at c decline in wheat with May $1.14. The price soon advanced, however, how-ever, under buying orders to $1.1601 16. Cash: Wheat No. 2 red. $1.18; No. 3 red, fl.u261.14; No. 2 hard, fl.13i91.16; No. f, hard. $1.051.14; Np. 1 Northern, fl.ls; No. 2 Northern, fl.l4l.lS; No. 3 spring, $1.0661.14. Corn-No. 2. 43fi43c; No. S. 424?ec. Smaller receipts than anticipated In St. Louis and Kansas City resulted In the May option, advancing to $1.15. The close was easy. May sold off to $1.14 1.14 and finished with a net loss of ig c at fl.l4n.l4. Wheat-May. fl.141.14; July, 98 98c; September, 91c. Com January. 42c; May, 4444c; July, 46c; September, 45c. Oats January, 30c; May. 30c; July, 30c. Pork-January. fl2.87; May, fl3.0G 13.07. Lard January. K90: May, f7.10; July, f7.22; September, $7.32. ' JUbs-January. 18.70; May, f6.0ft 2; July, t7.06. Rye January, T&lp. Flax Cash, Northwest, fi a. Timothy January. $2 80. Clover January. $12.75. Barley Cash, 38860c. Kansas City Cattle. KANSAS CITY, Jan. M.-Cattle.-Re-celpts. 11,000; steady to lOo lower; native steers, $3.606.60; native cows and heifers, $1.754.60; stockers and feeders, $2.754.20; bulls, $204.00; calves, $3.003.60; Western West-ern fed steers, $3. 6035. 26; Western fed cows, $2.008.76. Hogs Receipts, 19.000; steady to shade lower; bulk of ales. $4.60fc4.80; heavy, $4.754.86: packers, $4.6564.80; pigs and light. $4.0064.72. Sheep Receipts, 6000; sheej), steady; lambs, weak; muttons, f4.602o.75; lambs, f6.0065.50; range wethers, fo.606.60; fed ewes, f4. 255.15. |