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Show HEATY BUYING -OF UNION PACIFIC NEW YORK, June 17. Operation! In I the stock market were Hntleee durtn the mornlnar. althoufth a number of Iwuea fluctuated widely. Heavy buying of lTnlon Pacific and I'nlted (Hates Steel In the flrat hour cave aft appearance of strength, to the market, but when thla demand subsided, prfres fell a way and the tone became rather weak. United fttates Hteel was bought In large amounts 1 hy London after the close there, but the stork was not active In the London mar ket and It was reported that purchases I were for the account of a large Chicago I operator. I The decline In the second hour was assisted bv a fall of over a point In I American Bmeltlnc. Much of the earlier advance waa canceled and Southern Pacific Pa-cific receded to a point slightly below Jesterday's close. Near mldrtsv the mar et again hardened fractionally. Bonds were steady, except for American Ameri-can Tobacco 4a. which were sold freely. Realising sales had no appreciable effect ef-fect on piirev-and the list went substantially substan-tially higher. The Jump In the Erie and Minneapolis. fU. Paul Sault 8ta. Marie led to reports of traffic agreements. In the more active section Tnion Pscitlc and Reading were conspicuously strong and the whole market. In fact, presented a good front. isolated points of weakness checked'the market from making progress upward-But upward-But HtOe effort was made to dlapose of stocks outside of the HU1 and copper Issues. fluctuations were too narrow to permit of any DeV" table trading and business acccnllngTy waa very scant. The market mar-ket tended downward. American Smelting Smelt-ing selling at 7ft. compared with yesterday's yes-terday's close at 80. The market closed very 'steady. Tha market continued to lose ground until a fair proportion of the Hot was selling fractionally under last night. Including il'nlon Pacific, Atchlnnon and the Hill land copper stocks. Tnlted States Steel, I Reading and other earlier strong features fea-tures surrendered all of their gains. Buying Buy-ing orders then appeared and the market stiffened, with an Increased demand for Tnlon Pacific. Baltimore Ohio and Erie. I Stock List Close, j Amalgamated Copper,. 70: American Beet Sugar. 64: Amtrtran Car and Foundry. Foun-dry. 67; American Coton Oil, 62 bid: American Iocomotlve, 411; American Smelting and Refining, 75J; do preferred. lft; American Sugar RoAnlng. lift bid: 'Anaconda. Mining .company, 401: Atchison. Atchi-son. 113i; Atlantic Coast Line. 129; Ral- tlmore a Ohio. lOef; Brooklyn Rapid Transit, Sll; Canadian Pacific. 341 a : Chesapeake Ohio. K.t; National Biscuit. Bis-cuit. 13S bid: Nstlonal Lead. &; New York Central. 110: Norfolk A Western, loot: Northern Pacific. 136: Pacific Mull. !7t; Pennsylvania. 124!: People's Oas. 10 bid; Pullman Palace Car. 141 bid: Reading. Read-ing. Isol; Rock lelsnd company. 831; do preferred, 5 bid; gouthern Pacific. lJr.f; Southern Railway. 321: Cnlon Pacific. I1SI: Chlcaao Northwestern. 147 bid: Chicago. Milwaukee ft Bt. Paul. 1271: Colorado fuel and Iron. M: Colorado & Southern. M bid: Delaware aV Hudson. 1711: Penver 4k Rio Orende. 211 bid: do preferred. 671; Brie. 37; Great Northern North-ern preferred 1371; do ore oertlflcotea. 1 bid: Illlnefs Central. 1411: Interbor-ough-Metrnpo'ltan. i; n preferred, SO; Louisville Nashville. 1K1; Missouri Pacific. Pa-cific. Si: Missouri. Kansas Teiaa. 371; I'nlted States Hteel. 71; do preferred. 111: Wabash. 17; do preferred. 17: Western Cnlon. SO; Standard Oil. t42; Lehigh Valley. 180t. |