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Show TRADE IN STOCKS IS VERY DULL NEW YORK. July 14. With the exception ex-ception of Vnlon Pacific and Missouri Pacific, practically the entire list of active act-ive stocks was lower at the opening ef the market today. Trading was dull. The Copper shares. International Harvester. Houthem Pacific and Northern and Northern Pacific were the heaviest. The market hardened ahortly after the opening under the lead of Union Pacific, which rose to ltft). a gain of a point. Virginia Railway and Power rose 4 and Lake Erie A Weatern 11- Toward the end of the first hour of trading the upward up-ward movement was held and prices were shaded fractionally. After a brief display of strength early i In the day the market arew heavy and leading alocka sank to allahtly below Saturdays Sat-urdays close. Trading waa spiritless and th. only chnaea of. consequence were amors Inconsplruoua atneka. Paasaae of th. Canadian reciprocity bill by the senata. did not Impart strength to the roads moat affected, and Northern preferred pre-ferred and Canadian pacific all were heavy. Kvanevtlle 4k Terr. Haute gained three points. Bonds were sleadv. The market held steady and dull during midday, with practically no change In prlcea except In anm. of the Inactive Issues. Is-sues. Bethlehem Steel common advanced 14 and the preferred 1. while International Interna-tional Harvester was up It and Evans-vllle Evans-vllle S Terr. Haut. preferred t. Trading waa at a standstill during much of the afternoon session. The standard stocks barely moved. Bethlehem Bethle-hem Steel increased Its rise to S points. International Sleam Pump loet 1 and Vlrelnla-Carollna Chemical preferred t. The market closed heavy. The list developed de-veloped a pronounced downward tendency In the laet hour, when lowest prices were scored. The Ifarrlman and Hill Issues and St. Paul fell back over a point and other stocks lost from a point to n substantial sub-stantial fraction. Stock Ust Close. Amalgamated Copper. 91: American Beet Sugar, 631; American Car and Foundry, Foun-dry, 57; American Cotton 4)11. 17: American Ameri-can locomotive. 4n: American 8meltlng and Hflnlng. 7B; American Smelting and Refining, preferred, 104; American Sugar Refining. 1171 bid; Anaronda Mining eompanv, eom-panv, 39: Atchison. 113; Atlantic Coast Line. 131 1: Ball I more Ohio, lot); Brooklyn Rapid Transit. t?i; Canadian Pactnc. J4i; Cheaapeak. 4k Ohio. 2t: Chicago, at Northwestern. 1474; Chicago. Milwaukee St. Paul. 1171; Colorado Fuel and Iron. 94; Colorado 4V Southern. U bid: Delaware aV Hudson. 171 bid; Denver Rio Grande, tt bid: Denver 4V Rio Grand., preferred. 471 bid: Erie. 941; Great North-em North-em preferred. ISM: Great Northern Or. Certlftratea. S9: Illinois Central. 144; In-terborotigh In-terborotigh Metropolitan. 17; Interbor-ough Interbor-ough Metropolitan preferred. 411; Loula-vllle Loula-vllle Nashville. 15.1: Missouri Pacific. 60c; Missouri. Kansas A Texas. S4; National Na-tional Biscuit. 134t: National Iad, t6( bid: New Tork Central, 109; Norfolk Weatern. 1081: Northern Pacific, USt: Pacific Mall. Sti bid; Pennsylvania. i:i: People'a Gaa. 109 bid: Pullman Palace Car. 191 bid: Reading. 1671; Rock Island com- Jany, SSI: Rock Island company preferred. Si: Southern Pacific. 12J. Southern Railway. Rail-way. -32; I'nlon Pacific. 1M: United 8iatea8teel, 791. United States Steel preferred, pre-ferred, 11H; Wabaah. 14; Wabash preferred. pre-ferred. 961: weatern Union, tl; Standard OU. 967: Lehigh Valley, 1744, |