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Show STClliS ilKal ON WALL STREET NEW yORK. April Is. Prices of stocks rose over last night's level In the opening dealings, advances running to oyer a point in one or. two of the speculative favorites. American Smelting gained 11, Amalgamated Amalga-mated Copper If, Anaconda 1, and Union Pacific. Southern Pacific and Reading large fractions. Great Northern preferred lost 1. . . Immediately the profit-taking canceled the gain in Smelting and lowered the general gen-eral market a fraction. New buying for both accounts was inspired by another bull demonstration in Reading. Union Pacific Pa-cific and Smelting, and the list rose considerably con-siderably above the opening figures.- Subsequent Sub-sequent realising made little impression on prices, the market became quiet and dull when the urgent demand ceased. Smelting rose 21, Reading 2, Union Pacific 1 1. Canadian Pacific 1, St. Paul and Atchison At-chison 11. and Southern Pacific and Northern Pacific 1. At the close of the hour Smelting was quoted a point below Its high price and the remainder of the list from t to . Lackwanna broke IS on a single transaction of 100 shares. Prices fluctuated in a steady, irregular way. After the leaders had been carried a fraction higher than in the four hours there- was another sharp relapse upon the extreme dullness. Bonds were Irregular. Prices began to move upwards more uniformly fcy the middle of the afternoon, but the conspicuous advances were confined con-fined to only a few selected stocks. Amalgamated Amal-gamated Copper land Southern Pacific were heavily bought at advances of 2 points. Atchison. 931; Atchison pfd, 98; Baltimore Balti-more & Ohio, 79; Canadian Pacifle, 1771; Chicago & Northwestern, 1491: Chicago & Northwestern pfd, 195; Colorado Southern, South-ern, 261; Denver & Rio Grande, 261; Denver Den-ver & Rio Grande pfd. 75; Erie, 23; Illinois Il-linois Central. 116; Mexican Central, 21; Missouri Pacific, . 741 ; New Tork Central, 118; Pennsylvania.' 1241; Reading. 106; Rock Island. 211; Rock Island pfd. 491: 8t. Paul, 134; Southern Pacific. 821; Southern Ra.il way, 21; Union Pacific, 1S6; Union Pacific pfd. 86; Wabash, 141: Wisconsin Central, 18; Amalgamated Copper, 431; American Car and Foundry. 361; American Ameri-can Locomotive. 621; American Smelting and Refining, 1301; American Smelting and Refining pfd, 1061; Brooklyn Rapid Transit, 601; Colorado Fuel and Iron, 351; International Paper, 131; National Biscuit. Bis-cuit. 771; National Lead. 601; Pacific Mail, 25; People's Gas, 92; Pressed Steel Car, 84; Pullman Palace Car, 167; Standard Stand-ard Oil, 625; Sugar, 1231; Tennessee Coal and Iron. 1441; United States Steel. 371; United States Steel pfd, 1001; Western Union, 83; Northern Pacific, 130; Great Northern pfd, 134; Int. Met., 251; Int. Met. pfd., 591; Mackay, 68; Mackay pfd, 69c. The market closed animated and buoyant. buoy-ant. There was a reaction on profit taking, tak-ing, but prices came up again later to the top level of the day. American Smeltlng's gain reached 4J, Union Pacific and Northern North-ern Pacific J. Southern Pacific and Amalgamated Amal-gamated Copper 22l; New York Central, Cen-tral, Baltimore & Ohio, Lead and Republic Repub-lic Steel preferred 2. and the list generally gen-erally a point or more. CHICAGO PRODUCE. CHICAGO.. April 16. The wheat market opened easy ' today because of selling by commission-houses and pit traders. The depressing factors were lower cables, lib. eral receipts In the Northwest and reports re-ports of rain and snow throughout Kansas. Kan-sas. May opened ic lower at 78c to 78lc The corn market was steady. May opened a shade higher at 471c and sold down to 46J47c. The oats market was weak on selling of July and September. There was little trading in May. May opened a shade higher at 44c and sold to to 431c Provisions were very quiet. May pork opened 5c higher at $16.06. Lard was up 21c at t8.6718.70. and ribs were up 21 6c at $8,521. The wheat market remained weak all day. The low point for May was "Tic; the close was weak, off c, at 78378ic. The low point for May corn was 461c The market closed weak with May down g!c at 47c. Cash: Wheat No. 2 red, 78fr78fc: No. 3 red. 7577Jc; No. 2 hard. 761ft78ic; No. 3 hard. 6977c; No. 1 Northern, 8185c; No. 2 Northern, 80 84c; No. 3 spring, 76 83c. Com No. 3, 4344c Oats No. 2. 401c; No. 3. 39i39Jc. Close: Wheat May, 78478ic; July, 78178c Corn May, 47c; July, 471c. Oats May. 431c; July. 40ic Pork May. $15,871; July, $15,921. Lard May, $8,621; July. $8.75. Ribs May, $8.45 8.471; July. $8.63. Rye Cash, 68 & 69c. Barley Cash. 66 73c. Flax, timothy and clover nil. E. M. West A Co., stock brokers, ITT D. JT. Walker Blk. Tel. 166: res., S6l-X ST. LOUIS WOOL. ST. LOUIS. April 16. Wool steady. Territory and Western mediums. 2327c; fine medium, 18320c-; fine, 1617c. OMAHA LIVE STOCK. OMAHA. April 16. Cattle Receipts, 7000, steady. Natives. $4.2535.80; cows and heifers, $2.765.00: Western steers, 3. 25 5. 25; stockers and feeders. $3.00 6.00; calves, $3.006.S0; bulls and stags, $3.0004.60. Hogs Receipts, 8000, market 5c higher. high-er. Heavy. $6.406.60; mixed. 6. 2006.45; light. $6.356.60; pigs. $5.506.25. Sheep Receipts, 7000. strong. Yearlings, Year-lings, $.507.75; wethers, $5.757.00; ewes, $5.2506.40; lambs, $7.508.50. JOHN STEWABT, CHEMIST And assayer, 24 E.- South Temple St. , ' LEAD AND COPPEB. NKW YORK, April K. Lead dull, $6.00 6.10. Copper dull, 24 26c. |