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Show LOWER PRICES ON WALL STREET - i 1 i NEW YORK, April 12. Opening trans- j actions in stocks were light and prices j were a fraction lower all around. Values declined on an Increased volume of business. When the decline had reached 1 to 21 In a dosen or more stocks, support became effective and the list recovered re-covered sharply. This buying, however, was not protracted and the list gave signs of weakness again. Stocks that were conspicuous con-spicuous in yesterday's market fall in prices were again the weakest. - Northern Parlflc and Smelting declined 21, Anaconda Ana-conda 21. Canadalan Pacific 21, Amalgamated Amalga-mated Copper 2, I'nlon Pacific 1. St. Paul II. Reading and Southern Pacific 11. Prices war hardening at 11 o'clock. The rally enrd short of a complete re-evenr and left the market Intensely dull with prfc-e almost motionless. Bear operator sse4 I ho opportunity 'afforded by tha a nf demand to attack Reading mn4 I'ntnn Pacific again and forced thorn a a fraction lower than in the morning. Prices gave way generally in sympathy. Certain rks were depresoed further, but the market as a whole did not move much. Reading was lowered 2 points. A subsequently ranging up to a point In I'nlon Parlflc and Reading was not sustained. sus-tained. Wells Fargo fell 15 points. The markets closed above the lowest prices and fairly steady. The dull depression depres-sion continued with occasional slight rallies. ral-lies. Atchison. 95: Atchison pfd.. 96; Baltimore Balti-more & Ohio. 99; Canadian Pacific, 1751: Chicago & Northwestern, 151; Chicago & Northwestern pfd., 200; Colorado Southern, South-ern, 27J; Denver & Rio Grande. 30; Denver Den-ver & Rio Grande pfd.. 751; Erie. 24 J; Illinois Central. ; Louisville 4- Nashville, Nash-ville, 117: Mexican Central, 22f, Missouri Mis-souri Pacific, 74; New York Central, 119J; Pennsylvania. 12S; Reading. 107J; Rock Island, 21): Rock Island pfd., 61; Kt. Paul. 135; Southern Pacific, 841; Southern Railway. 21 1: Union Pacific. 137; Union Parlflc pfd., 881; Wabash, 141; Wisconsin Central, 18g. Miscellaneous Amal. Copper, 931; American Car and Foundry, 36i: Ameri-ran Ameri-ran Locomotive. 64; American .Smelting and Refining, 1321; American Smelting and Refining pfd., 108; Brooklyn Rapid Transit, 60; Colorado Fuel and Iron, 351; International Paper, 14J: National Biscuit. Bis-cuit. 77; National Lead, 611: Pacific Mall, 27; People s Gas, 921; Pressed Steel Car, 36; Pullman Palace Car, 166; Standard Oil. 549: Sugar, 1251; Tennessee Coal and Iron, 144J; United States Steel, 381: United States Steel pfd., 1004; Western Union, 82; N. P., 133; Great Northern. 1361; Inter-Met., 25; Inter-Met. pfd., 59i; Markay, 69; Macky pfd., 67. |