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Show PRICES ADVANCE ON WALL STREET NEW TORK. April 22. Business for the week in the stock market began with an upward movement in prices and with trading larger In volume than at any time recently. Operators who favored the long side of the market became more confident of their position when the market mar-ket failed to display Its usual declining tendency. Purchases were curtailed for a while, but resumed in larger volume than before. All of the- representative stocks were In demand, especially Reading, New York Central and the Harrimans. The gains during the following hour amounted to 2 in St. Paul, 2 In Reading, 2 in New York Central, Northern Pacific, Union Pacific and Lead; 1 in Smelting, and 1, In Southern Pacific and Copper, and a large number of stocks a point or more. Bonds were firm. Stocks moved Irregularly in the afternoon after-noon when the profit-taking sales and buying orders conflicted. Fluctuations either way did not amount to much and the market stiffened readily when pressure pres-sure was removed. . The market closed strong at the best prices. Realizing sales were on a small scale and the bulls took favorites in hand for another upward movement. Union Pacific's extreme advance reached 4, Reading and Smelting as much. Amalgamated Amalga-mated Copper 8, Lead 21, Pacific Coast 2; Atchison 2 and Missouri Pacific 11. The rest of the list was held firm in sympathy. sym-pathy. Atchison. 961; Atchison pfd, 98; Baltimore Balti-more & Ohio. 100; Canadian Pacific. 1761; Chicago & Northwestern, 155J: Chicago & Northwestern pfd, 200; Colorado Southern, South-ern, 261; Denver & Rio Grande, 30: Denver Den-ver & Rio Grande pfd" 74; Erie. 241: Illinois Il-linois Central, 146; Louisville & Nashville, 120; Mexican Central, 211; Missouri Pacific, Pa-cific, 76; New York Central. 119i; Pennsylvania. Penn-sylvania. 1261; Reading. 1161; .Rock Island, Isl-and, 22J: Rock Island pfd, 50; St. Paul, 1361; Southern Pacific. 841; Southern Railway, 221; Union Pacific 1411; Union Pacific pfd, 86; Wabash, 141: Wisconsin Central, 191;; Amalgamated Copper, 96; American Car and Foundry, 37$; American Ameri-can Locomotive, 63$; American Smelting and Refining, 135: American Smelting and Refining pfd, 1081; Brooklyn Rapid Transit. 611; Colorado Fuel and Iron. 361; International Paper, 141; National Biscuit, 76; National Lead. 621; Pacific Mail, 284: People's Gas, 931; Pressed Steel Car, S'M Pullman Palace Car, 165; Standard Oil, 525; Sugar, 1241 : Tennessee Coal and Iron, 146; United States Steel, 381; United States Steel pfd, lOlj; Western Union. 831; Northern Pacific. 1361; Great Northern North-ern pfd. 1371; Int. Met.. 26; Int. Met. pfd, 61; Mackay, 681; Mackay pfd, 681. |