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Show oo WORLD'SMARKETS WALL STREET N I R York, Aug :, With the exception ex-ception of Atchison and heblgh Valley, Val-ley, which receded one half, the standard stan-dard stocks were generally hitrher at the opening today The holiday In London deprived the market of a lead from that source, and first prices disclosed only small changes Exceptions Ex-ceptions were .mad lan Pacific, which rose two points and Denver. Rio QAode preferred, which gained I 8-8. Trading was heaviest in steel and Reading, The market closed easy Following out th usual procedure of covering some of their outstanding contracts, shorts were In the market for stocks and their buying furnished th chief Impetus to the moderate advance that occurred Considering the small volume of business, the speculation showed unusual breadth, a feature being the material gains In numerous obscure Issues Steel. Reading and Uulon Pacific moved up in concert and to about the Bame extent. Chesapeake & Ohio moved up steadily to 60, increasing its ad-ance to over three points since the dividend was cut In the final dealings general profit taklnc caused fractional recessions all around. Bonds were steady. Market Summary. New York. Aug 23. Speculation was held in restraint this week and the volume of business on the stock exchange fell away to pmall proportions. propor-tions. Price movements were hesitating. hesi-tating. Tho undertone was heavy In the latter part of the week, but losses loss-es were not severe. Uncertainty as to the outcome of the Mexican tangle was the uppermost upper-most consideration Crop news was relegated to second place as a market mar-ket factor and reports of rain In some sections affected by the drough were of little influence Reduction In the price of steel billets bil-lets Indicated a leas satisfactory situation sit-uation In the stel trade In the money market there was a slightly easier tendency. Chicago Grain. Chicago, Aug. 23. Com narrowed today, the news from foreign and domestic do-mestic fields c arrying nothing to g e either bull6 or bears decided support There was fairly active trading among pit speculators, but the rang'1 of prices was small. Cables were easier, but this wae partly offsot by shorts who covered over Sunday, December De-cember started a shade to l-4c lower at 68 5-8 to 3-4c, touched 68 Z-Ar(i 7-8c, and reacted to opening figures. Wheat was Irregular. Cables wore lower, but soma scattered buying of near months kept prices steady. The market opened l-8c lower to l-8c higher, with December unchanged to l-8c lower, at 90 1-2 to 6-8c, within which range It seemed inclined to hold. December oats opening a shade to l-8c ofr at 44 5-8 to 6-8'5l3-4c, steadied stead-ied around the former figure First figures on provisions were unchanged to 10 cenls lower with January products as follows Pork $20.92 1-2; lard, $10.95; ribs, $10.27 1-2. Wheiat hlberal offer later caused an easing in prices The close was , firm, however, with December at 90 3-8c, a net loss of l-4c Corn hater the market weakenetl on expectation of large increase In receipts of cash corn The close was easy, at a net loss of 6-8 to 5-8 C-4c, with December at 68 l-3l-4?. Chicago Livestock. Chicago. Aug. 23 Hogs Receipts 9000. Market strong to 5 cents higher. high-er. Bulk $7 90(38.87, lights. $8.40 'ct 9 25. mixed, $7 70& 9 20 . heavy, $7.55 08.90; rough, $7.357.80, pigs. $4 50 ( 8.50. Cattle Receipts 200 Market quiet, unchanged. Beeves, $7.009.15; Texas Tex-as steers, $6.757 70; western, $6 2u 97.80; stockers and feeders. $6.60 Q 7.90; cows and heifers, $3 60(58 20, calves, ?8 0011.50 Sheep Receipts 2000 Market Blow-steady. Blow-steady. Native, $3 75 4.9'i western. $4 004.90; yearlings, $5.00'9 5 90; lambs, native, $6 65(5 8.10; western. $6 4008.10. Kansaa City Livestock. Kansas City. Aug 23. Hogs Receipts Re-ceipts 1000. Market strong to five cents higher Bulk $8 60g8.95; heav, $8.60f?8.S5; packers and butcner?, $3 60(5 9 00; lights, $8 60 8.95; pigs, $5.507 00. Cattle Receipt 300. Market steady Prime fed steers. $8.50-9.00; dressed beef steers. $7.508.50. western steers, 16.0008.00; southern steers, $5 266.50; cows. $3 506.50; heifers, $4.768.75, stockers and feeders. $5.267 50; bulls. $4.25(36.25; calves, $5.50i3j9 26. Sheep Receipts none Market steady. LambB, $6 25(37.80 ; yearlings, yearl-ings, $4 755 75; wethers, $4 25Q' 5.25; ewes, $3.60(34 75. Omaha Livestock. South Omaha. Aug. 23 Cattle Receipts Re-ceipts 100 Market steady Native 6teors. $7.50'5900, cows and helfera. $4.00(37.60; western steers. $6 25fr 8.00; cows and heifers, $4.0037. 15; calves, $6.00 9.50 Hogs Receipts C30O Market lower. low-er. Heavy. $7.753 8.00; light. $7 95 i38.50; pigs. $5.00(&7 00. bulk of sales $7 $0(38.00. Sheep Receipts 1000. Market stetady. Yearlings. $5.00(35.75; wethers, $4. 2534 85, lambs $7 00(3 7.75. Sugar. New York, Aug. 23 Sugar Raw. firm muscovado. $3 23; centrifugal. $3.7J. molasses, $2 98. refined, steady. Money. I Now York. Aug. 23 Money on call nominal no loans. Time loans weaker! weak-er! 60 days, 3 3-434 per cent. 90 days. . 1-2 per cent, six months, 5 1-4&5 1-2 per cent Close Prime mercantile paper. 5 3-46 1-2 per cent. Sterling exchange, oasy. $4.83 for 60 day drills. $4.86.30 for demand. Commercial bills. $4 82.75. Bar pilver, 59 l-2c. Mexican dollars, 46c Government bonds, 6teady; railroad rail-road bond6 steady. Metals. New York, Aug 23 The metsl markets were quiet and practically unchanged today Lake copper, $16.00. Eloctrolvtlc, $15.87 1-2016.00; casting. cast-ing. 15 62 1-2Q 15 75. Iron Unchanged. Bank Statement. New York, Aug. 22 The statement of the actual condition of clearing house banks and trust companies for the week shows that they hold 522,-173,150 522,-173,150 reserve in exccsB of logal ro-; ro-; qulrements. This Is h decrease or $2,525 050 from last week.. The statement follows Atcual Condition. hoans, $1,934,233,000; increase. 8.-956.000. 8.-956.000. Specie, $349,376,000; Increase, $1.-904,000. $1.-904,000. Igal tenders. $80,006,000; decrease $1,419, I Net deposits. 11,722,781,000; increase. in-crease. $10,713,000. Circulation, $45,336,000; decrease. $747,000 Banks cash reserve in vault, $367,-447,000. $367,-447,000. Trust companies' cash reserve in vault, 8867,447.000. Trust companies' cash reserve In vault $61.925 000. Aggregate cash reserve. ?429,382,-000 ?429,382,-000 Excess lawful reserve, $22,173,150; decrease, $2,525,050. Trust companies' repre with clearing house members carrying 25 per cent cash reserve. $71,262,000. Summary of state banks and trus? companies, In Greater New York, not included in clearing house statement; hoans, $539,683,300; decrease, $3,-788,400 $3,-788,400 Specie, $62,661,100; decrease, $558.-200. $558.-200. hegal tenders. '$7,753,500 decrease. $132,200 ToLil deposits. $613,459,100; do-crease, do-crease, 22.862 500. NEW YORK STOCK LIST. Last Sale. Amalgamated Copper .... ... 72 W American Beet Sugar 25 . American Cotton Oil 45 American Smelting & Refg 67 1-S American Sugar Refining ..109 j American Tel. & Tel 129 3-4 Anaconda Mining Co 36 Atchison 96 Atlantic Coast hine 121 18 Baltimore & Ohio 96 18 Brooklvn Rapid Transit 89 Canadian Pacific 220 M Chesapeake &. Ohio 69 1-2 Chicago & North Western .:.130 Chicago. Mil. & St Paul 106 Colorado. Fuel & Iron 30 3-4 Colorado Southern 27 5 8 Delaware & Hudson 150 I S Denver &. Rio Grande 19 Erie 28 3-4 General Electric 145 1-2 Great Northern pfd . . 126 1-4 Great Northern Ore Ctfs 35 1-2 Illinois Central 108 I Interbcrough-Mct 16 1-4 lnterborough-Met. pfd 'l 1 -4 Inter. Harvester 106 1-8 1 Louisville & Nashville 124 Ml-sourl Pacific 20 Missouri. Kan383 & Texas . . 22 1-2 hehlgh Valley 154 Natioual head U New York Central 98 1-S Norfolk & Western 106 1-2 Northern Pacific Ill " ' Pennsylvania 118 People's Gas 113 1-2 Pullman Palace Car .153 1-2 Reading 161 1-8 Rock Island Co. 17 3-S Rock Island Co. pfd 27 1-4 Southern Pacific 9 1-2 Southern Railway 2 4 64 T'nlon Pacific " 153 1-1 United States Steel 63 1-8 United States Steel pfd lf,7 3-4 Wabash 4 1 Western Union 66 |