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Show Colorado Fuel and Republic Ste stocks, l( United Statea Steel touched GO 1-and 1-and the persistent absorption of t!.; stock was an Influence In the t:tre i-l of the whole list. Northern Pad! rose 1 3-4; General Electric 2 Hothl hem Steel 'l 5-8. the preferred 1 1 and Great Northern preferred. No folk & Western, Chesapeake & Oh! Wabash preferred, Anaconda. Anir-i can Woollen. Slogs-Sheffield Steel n WcRtlnshousc Electric 1. Gcnen Electric declined 1. Bonds wero firm. MODERATE OPENING DEMAND FOR STOCKS New York, May 21. There was a. j moderate opening demand for stocks, and its effect In Increasing prices I was limited generally to small frac- i Hons. The feature of the market was the opening sale of 7.000 shares of U. S. Steel at prices varying from 59 3 4 to 59 12 'compared with 58 7-8 last night. A long Interval of dullness, in which prices were without essential change7 was succeeded by a demonstration of strength In which all of the well-known stocks participated. Buying of the Harrlmans, Reading, and the U. S. Steel stocks encouraged purchases all : through the list The advance halted before the end of the hour when small reactions were followed by renewed dullness. Delaware and HuJson, Consolidated Con-solidated Gas. Western Union 'and Pacific Coast gained 1 12, St. Louis ' Southwestern andl U. S. Steel 1 1-4, and Reading, New York Central, St. Paul, Southern Pacific, Rock Island. Amalgamated Copper, |