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Show IRREGULAR : RECOVERY Scrcral Strong. Stocks Served to Bolster Up Walt Street . V . l' NEW YORK, Feb. 20. There was an irregular recovery In prices at the opening open-ing today, with a few prominent stocks lagging with small declines. , Stocks which were most depressed yesterday led the rally, Metropolitan, Copper and St. Paul showing large fractional gains. St. Louis & San Francisco moved ud strongly nearly 3 points. Buying orders or-ders predominated in the latter dealings, deal-ings, and the support extended to yesterday's yes-terday's weak features aroused a better bet-ter feeling. St Louis & San Francisco met realizing orders and lost a point of its opening gain, but was purfbed up again to 84, a rise of 4 points since the opening. Hocking Valley rose 7. Substantial advances were also made In St Paul. Atchison. New Tork Central, Amalgamted. Smelting preferred. Metropolitan Met-ropolitan Street Railway and Metropolitan Metro-politan Securities, which ruled between 1 and 2 points higher. There was little life in the market outside of a few strong stocks, but prices were vf 11 maintained.. The St. Louis & n Francisco group was the feature. The first preferred rose 5. the second preferred pre-ferred . and Kansas City, Fort Scott and Memphis preferred 24. The United States Pipe stocks and St Louis Southwestern South-western preferred rose 1 and 1H. respectively. re-spectively. Bonds were steady at noon. Prices of the St Louis &. San Francisco Fran-cisco stocks were shaded on profit-taking:, but the market otherwise was j firm, with some demand for the trans- 1 continental group. Obscure stocks were more generally dealt In and registered reg-istered some sharp changes. American Beet Sugar advanced 4 points, the preferred pre-ferred 12. Maryland Coal preferred 6, Minneapolis. St Paul and Sault Ste. Marie 2V4. New York Central , and Kanawha & Michigan, Anaconda, Erie second preferred 1. Metropolitan Street Railway and Amalgamated rose a fraction frac-tion higher than before. Active bidding for Metropolitan Street Railway carried It up above yesterday's close, but other stocks continued sluggish and uninteresting.' Northwestern sold at a decline of 4"4 with allowance for the stock subscription rights oft and Toledo, St.. Louis & Western preferred lost 1. The rise of -254 in Wabash preferred lifted lift-ed other members of the Gould group, the Rock Island and Kansas City & Southern ptocks rising a point in sympathy. Union Pacific and Chicago Terminal preferred rose a point Smeltinr 1 and Metropolitan Metropoli-tan Securities 24. The rise In Wabaeh preferred started with the announcement of advances in the wage schedule. Prices advanced generallv but moderately. The close was quite active and firm. Closing stocks: Atchison, 87H: Atchison preferred. 100; Anaconda, 120; B. & O., 9S; C. G. W.. 27; C. & O.. 61: Erie preferred. pre-ferred. 704; Illinois Central. 144Ti: I & N.. 126; New York Central. 148H: C. & A., 354; Reading, 634: S. P.. M1: Pennsylvania. Pennsylva-nia. 1494; St. Paul. 1775; Southern Railway, Rail-way, 36H: Union Pacific. 101T; U. P. preferred. pre-ferred. 9Sy U. S. Ste!. 39: U. S. Steel preferred, w: Wabash preferred. 634; People's Gas, 104; B..R. T.. 69: Missouri Mis-souri Pacific, 113; Amalgamated Copper, 734; Sugar, 130. BANK CLEARINGS. 00 Today's clearings, $S,929; same day last year. $363,386. New York Produce. NEW YORK, Feb. 20. Butter Receipts. 3000 packages; firm; State dairy. 15i&25c: creamery, extra, 27; June creamery. 180 26c. Eggs Receipts, 14,100 packages; easy; State and Pennsylvania. 17c; Western unrandled, 17c. ' Sugar Raw. firm: fair refining, 3ic; centrifugal, 96-test, 3c; molasses 'sugar, 3c: refined, firm; crushed, $5.10; powdered, $i.8; granulated, $4.75. Coffee Steady; No. 7 Rio, 5Sc. New ork Money. NEW TORK, Feh. 20. Noon: Money on call, steady, at VWi per cent. Prime mercantile paper. 4Vi5 per cent. Sterling exchange, firm, with actual business in bankers' bills at J4 87.77ya 4.87.875 for demand and at $ I.84.60&4.84. for sixty days. Posted rates, $4.85 and $4.88. Commercial bills. $4.834(S4.844. Mexican dollars, 37 c. 1 Government bonds, steady; refunding 2s registered, 107: refunding 2s coupon'. 107; 3s registered, 107; 3s coupon. 107; . new 4s registered. 134; new 4s coupon, 135; old 4s registered, lOS; old 4s coupon. cou-pon. 109f; 6s registered, li; 6s coupon, 102. Chicago Cattle. CHICAGO. Feb. 2a Cattle Receipts. 3000: Pteady; strong; good to prime steers. 35.6CCa6.G0; poor to medium. $2.2564.60; stoeokers and feeders. $1354.f.O; cows. $1.44.40: heifers. 32.00Q9.ti0; cunners. $1.40 f2.60; bulls. $2.40-53.25; calves, $3.5tKg8 00; Texas fed steers. $3.50(4.25. Hogs Receipts, todav. 22,000: tomorrow, 15.0CO; left over. 6000; 6fil0c hleher; mixed and butchers. $6.90&7.20; good to choice heavy, $7.i7.50; rough heavy. $ii.96?t7.25; light. $6.5r5?7.oo; bulk of sales. $7.0org7.30. Sheep Receipts, 7500; sheep ad lambs, strong; higher; good to choice wethers. $S.0Ofc5.76; fair to choice mixed. $4.0ogS00; Western sheep, $4.75i5.75; native lambs, $4.7597.10; Western lambs. $4.757.00. Kansas City Cattle. KANSAS CITT. Feb. 20. Cattle Rih celpts, 8000, Including 250 Texans; steady: strong; native steers, $3.50&5.25: Texas and Indian steers, $2.25(4.10; Texas cows. J2.WX53.50; native cows and heifers. $1.75& 4.50; stockers and feeders. $2.5&4.&0; bulls, $2.253.75; calves. $2.0050: Western steers. $3.005.00; Western cows, $1.75&3.00. Hogs Receipts, 70M; strong to 6c higher; high-er; bulk of sales. $7.00ig7.16: heavy, $7.05 K7.25; packers, $8.907.10: medium. $7.0O 7.20; mixed. W.657.10; yorkers, $6.907.15; pigs, $6.06a.65. , Sheep Rereipts, 2000; market strong; muttons, $3.50tii.00: lambs. J3.6);6.55; range wethers. $3.005.50; ewes. $3.25&5.40. |