Show I MART MARKET IMPROVES CLOSE IS STEADY STADY Y t YORK YOnI Dec The ih H rl c of or stocks continued at tile the he of or the market today and there was a a. good d de demand domand do- do mand for issues Issue of or all Tho The largest lat larg cst est gain was as scored by Mexican Petro leum which rose roc 2 points Th The copper copper shares Were ero again in some me demand American Smelting advanced a 11 an and j Amalgamated and ond Ulah Ulab a a. point Canadian Cana Cana- dian dlan P Pacific was IJ 16 higher Lehigh Val Val- ley icy was It Ii said and American Can and Call Cali fornia ornia Petroleum a n point higher Prices climbed until a wide vide assort assort- merit ment of or stocks stocke mad gains of ot a point or more morA Union Pacific preferred showed ed unu unusual ual activity and lO rose love fJ 3 points The improvement was taken advantage of later luter to market tock and amid th the whole lI list t fell back sharply Southern which hall hail lagged Jagged In the general t move o mile ment broke 1 bolow yc yesterdays yesterday's close Tho The market closed d steady As H It result of- of yesterdays yesterday's a s notable ex ex cx- of ot strength outside orders order were received tt In greater reat r volume tJ today a than for 01 a 1 Ion long time back bacic and their execution Imparted strength to 10 the early arl market Tho upward movement was ins Impeded later by an 11 unexpected d break In Southern South South- ern era Pacific to the thc Ion lowest cat price pilco of ot the tho year car The rhe tock stock went off a II point at a a. a lima to 1031 1035 arid Brad and there was a break all through h the thc list lieL to a level vel below last nights night's final Axial figures Heading lle manifested acuto wc-al wc ness and losses cS of oC a a. J point or 01 so flO o recorded copied In In Smelting Lehigh Valley and anil Union Pa Pacific Pa- Pa Short covering o pulled th the up u smartly marth again b before the close cloe Bonds Donds were Irregular Stock List Close tr Am-tr Amalgamated am Copper Coppe American Beet fleet Sugar Huar 52 American kan Cotton Colton OH 56 American Smelling Refining 7 71 American SIJ ll 1 Ameri mer American mer meran can an Tel Tel HO Anaconda Mining Co 3 39 6 Atlantic Coast Line 1518 Baltimore Baltimore- i Ohio Brooklyn BrOokin Transit 88 Canadian Pacific 2602 Chesapeake Ii Ohio 0 Chicago 8 13 Chicago ChIc o. o Milwaukee t St. St Paul Pail Colorado Fuel Iron s 3 Colorado Southern 3 Si 31 bid Delaware hudson hid bid Denser Denver Den Den- ser ver Jib Rio Grande Grandc 01 Erie irie It General Gen Gen- eral Electric 18 Groat On-at Northern 1 pfd 13 J Great Northern Or Ore Orr CUM CUB I tl 2 Illinois Illi nois Central 16 bid hid hM 1 t. t 1 IS 18 pfd pid BIS International mia lIonal lIa Harvester ster Louisville N Nash Nash- ush ville HI Missouri Pacific I 12 Missouri Kansas Texas as 27 Lehigh Valley 1 1713 iU National Lead Cl New j York rork Central 1 1082 8 Western Vestern 1131 Northern Pacific Pf 1118 1212 Peoples People's UGH fiGs Pullman Palace Car hid Read Reading Ins 1675 1671 Rock Pock Island Inland Co 2 21 1 Pock nock Island Iland Co pit pfd 43 41 SoI Southern Pacific tOI 1012 Southern l Railway 2751 i Union mien Pa Pa- chic elfte States St Steel cl rS United States Stales Steel pfd pit 1101 Wabash abash I 1 I bid ld Western Union 74 4 |