Show Financial and Commercial BY ny THOMAS C. C New York March farch 16 After After an ox x cited opening today anti and two hours of oC trading In which new high record record- were ere mado matle In th the leading stocks on a a. heavy havy avy volume of or trading trading- a n reaction swept wept prices hack back an average c of or n irly three iree points point The Tho clo close was active and I around round the lowest n figures ures of ot the tho day The reaction Is 11 not the time one which the he bl big Interests have been expecting I er e very every dA day for or a a. I week Tt It I was wan the tho su- su Sl- Sl premo remo court decisions upholding the lower ower courts court In finding the Chicago packers ackers and the Burlington ton railroad guit guilty of ot rebating which broke the tho list today oday The market marlet Is bro broader than nn any ny decision Such a n decision was ex exacted ex- ex acted anti and anI would have e had no effect but ut for tor the fact that that tho the market markel had been heen rising without even a n fractional fluctuation The real roal reaction which I Is expected to correct the technical con- con to tho the market will wi probably come ome as a n result o of the failure of the New v York state legislature to pass the remarkable ant ant- speculation anti bills Thelt Is a matter mator of at course because they hey are nrc too radical They do tin not take taie tole cognizance of of th the tact fact that It Is the e bucket shops and not Wall Vol street that hat should hould be eliminated Today's selling vas too precipitate to be he In earnest and nd It Il will wl probably be bo that found that it il wa was vas started h by the bl big plunge plungers plunger These plungers will wl not be permitted to run things in Wall Wail Wal street very m much ch In tho the near future A rec cr from oday's today's decline Is therefore e to be he ex exp ex- ex p Among the stock that made cw high prices priceR for the tte movement mo early arly In the tho da day Steel re Were Steel tt common which sold to the equivalent of or 35 beng heIns he- he lag Ins ng ex-dividend ex half Smelters half Smelters which crossed 70 for or the time In man many St. St Paul which crossed 10 for Cor or orthe the thc he first time the since panic Missouri Pacific which terrified the shorts b by rising to 40 Amalgamated d which was up Prices es were near the top lop when the court announced Its decision and te plungers ers immediately jot got ot bus busy I Copper i metal meal W was va q a advanced on the theNe Vow Ne w York exchange one eighth of a cent it C pound found and one small smal sale of electrolytic reported at 13 There wag vaS a rumor that the Amalgamated Amalgamated Amalga Amalga- mated Intends to bu buy control of or the Utah q Consolidated Control of or that tha company was offered to the Amalgamated Amalga n- n mated maled only at 20 a n share hut but tho the In In- In tool It Il instead Now ow there Is talk talk of of Amalgamated mal d paying 75 5 a ash sh shako share e for fOl this wonderful new prop prop- C er r try The Crucible Steel company the dividend on Its Is preferred stock stace I Trustees o of the Great Northern Ore lands ma made e their first detailed report reports 1 showing that In addition additon to the ore sold to the steel trust there therea a was a a. to toll total total to- to ll tal of ot tons mined lost last season by companies that made leases of or that trust This statement state state- prior to tho the steel ru t mOat ment has hns been heen extorted from rom the thc ore oreland lands land trustees by b the criticism to which the New cw York stock exchange had hal been subjected because It listed the ore certificates certificates without knowing what aluC was behind them I On th time j curb the strength and activity continued in the thc lower priced gold goM and copper copp r mining shares Further good re reports re- re ports from rota Gol fell Tonopah an and n Rawhide had their Influence Standard Oil 1 nul Chicago subway both hoth made mad slight gains linage of Price IRue Pollock Special Wire Wire I ii Am G. G 1 P. P 1 I SOIl I lOll Am Smelting 1 70 71 67 Am Locomotive o 1 38 27 37 37 7 7 I 2300 0 Am Mn Sugar 80 SOl Am Wool I I 1711 11 1 17 H 20 2551 u Amal Arnal Copper j i 58 SS I 1 55 55 Amal Anaconda a Cop 1 I 37 J JI 35 Atchison I 1 I Ill 7 71 72 7 LI B. B and O O. 1 I 81 SUI 81 I 1300 Br I In R. R H T. T 1 1 I 15 1511 1 1 1160 1600 Jan nn Pacific 1116 I- I I i I I 1 1600 Ches and Ohio 9 29 9 1 1500 1501 J. J M M. antI St. St P P. P 1 1018 1181 Colo Cohn I. I F F. and 1 11 21 1 19 19 rio 1151 I 15 1511 HI 1 Hi Great reat Nor or ll 1223 Illinois Central 1128 18 IS I LOU Iou and Nash 1 I 99 Il 99 1 99 9 1 20 O Mexican Central 1 18 IS 18 18 IS 10 Missouri Pacific 1 10 36 38 J M. M I. I K ant and IT T. T 1 I 23 21 1 1600 do preferred 53 I I r 02 00 N. N Y V. Central 10 1011 U 99 99 GOO N. N Y O. O and Wor W. W 3 1 32 3 1100 or or and We U. U National ant Lead EO I 19 19 1500 1505 Nor or atonal Pacific 1 1291 19 1 C 17 27 I 60 Penns Pennsylvania I IS 16 1162 lG 1162 Peoples People's Gas J SSI Reading 1061 1031 1 nock Island 1 Ill I'll 13 1 1 1200 OU flea Ren oct L T. and anti S. S I IS I 18 IS Southern o It R 11 1 1000 12 1 outher southern Pacific 71 7 Union Pacific 13 1231 L L' U. U S. S Stool 33 33 I do preferred I Utah Copper I I 29 28 S 28 I 2 5 58 Tonn Copper 1 1 I 30 29 9 SO w I 0 00 Newhouse N who se I Total rota sales U. U S. S Steel com corn dl J of or 1 I per por cent Money Mane closed 13 U 6 per pr cn cent cent- t |