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Show OPENING DEALINGS IN STOCKS ARE ACTIVE New York. April 8. Opening dealings deal-ings In stocks were active today, and the changes were mixed and generally narrow, but the gains outnumber the declines. Chesapeake and Ohio open- , ed at an extreme advance of a rolnt ' on running sales of 4,000 shares. American Am-erican Cotton Oil rose 1, and Union Pacific, Northern Pacific, Wisconsin Central and Virginia-Carolina Chemical, Chemi-cal, large fraction?. Atchison and American Locomotive declined 5-8. Speculation ran along. in about the same channel as j-eaterday, the chief demand being for specialties. Somo of the Standard stocks showed marked mark-ed strength but there wm not, as a rule, muoh inquiry for the railway list outsido of Union Pacific and Rend- , Ing. - j Mackay companies advanced three j points. American Cotton Oil 2 1-2. Central Cen-tral Railway of Now Jersey, Rocking Coal. Western Union and Virginia-Carolina Virginia-Carolina Chemical, pfd.. 2, the common com-mon and American Sugar 1 3-8, Wis-" consln Central 1 1-2 and American Telegraph & Telephone 1 1-2. There were a few weak spots. St. Louis and Southwestern pfd., Colorado and Southern 2nd pf d , and American Locomotive, Lo-comotive, declining 1 to 1 1-4. |