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Show WS BASKETS SMALL GAINS AND LOSSES ON WALL ST. New Tork, Jan. 12. The first prices of stocks today showed no changes of significance, small gains and losses beiDg mingled in equal proportions. The dealings also were light, Read- 5ng rose 1. Stocks which figured prominently in yesterday's liquidation wero sold again today but their effect on the general market was not Important and the list rallied. Wheeling & Lake Erie first preferred declined 3 1-4, Utah Copper was' 2 3-S lower. International Harvester, Harves-ter, 2; Westing-house Electric and Rock Island, 1 3-S, and the preferred and Republic Steel. 1. The indifference of the general list to weakness In individual stocks prompted some buying Including a demand de-mand from uncovered shorts. Reading rose 1 K-S end Union Pacific, Pa-cific, Southern Pacific, Canadian Pacific, Pa-cific, IT. S. Steel, American Sugar and American Beet Sugar about a point. Prices slipped back a fraction before noon. Bonds were ateady. New York Money. New York, Jan. 12. Close: Prime mercantile paper 4 l-2a5 per cent. Sterling exchange firm with actual I business In backers' bills at 481.7o.i I Tt) for sixty day bills and at 4SC.0U for demand. Commercial bills 4S2 l-?a3-S. Bar i-ilver 52 3-Sc. Mexican dollars, 44c. Government bonds, easy; railroad bonds, irregular. Mon-jy on call firm 3 l-2a5 per cent; ruling rates 1 7-S percent; closing bid 3 1-4 per cent; offered at 46c. Time loans, easier; for sixty and ninety days 4 1-2 to 4 3-4 per' rent; for six months 4 1-2 to 4 2-4 per cent. Chicago Livestock. Chicago, Jan 12 Cattle Receipts estimated at lR.noO; market weak: beeves fi.10a7.S5; Texas steers $4.00 a5.00; western steers .4.10aH.10; siorkere and feeders $3.00a5.10; rows and heifers 2.I0a5.50; calves $7.75 al.73. Hog Receipts estimated at 37.00. Market weak. Dc lower; light $S.10a 8.4."; mixed ?.S.liia$ .43; heavy ?S.17.a S.ffO; rough. $8.1Sa.S,35; good to choice heavy $S35aS.60; pla $7.20 nS 10; bulk of sales $8.3fiaS.50. Shfep Receipts estimated at. 000; market steady; native $4.00a'i -00; western $4.00a'f..10; yearlings $0.-"SaS.Hi; $0.-"SaS.Hi; lambs, native, $G.25aS 85; western $G.26aS.80. Chicago Close. Chicago. Jan 12. Close: Wheat ! Jan $1.13 1-2; May $1.13 l-4a3-8; j Julv $1.03 1-4; SepL 98 3-4. Com Jan. 63 1-4; Mar 69 5-8; Julv I 09 i-Snl-4. : Oats Jan. 17 1-2; May IS 3-4; July 43 l-l. Pork Jan. $22.07 1-2; May and July $2.22 1-2. Lard Jan. $12.72 1-2; May $12.25! Julv $J2.20. Ribs Jan. $11.80; May $11.07 1-2; Julv ?K.70. Rye-Cash ROaM. Rarlev Cash COa74. Timothy March $4.0.1. Clover $15.15. Omaha Livestock, Omaha, Neb., Jan. 12. Cattle Receipts Re-ceipts 4,000. Slow. Native steers $4.-OOa7.23; $4.-OOa7.23; cows and heifers $2.50.11.-00; $2.50.11.-00; western steers $4.00a6 00; crvws and hcilors $3.50a4.75; stockors and feeders ?2.75a..00; calves $3.50a5.-50. $3.50a5.-50. Hogs Receipts 8.000. Strong to 3c higher. Heavy $3.25aS,35; mixed $8.-20aS. $8.-20aS. 25; light $S.15aS.20; bulk of hales $S 20a8-25. I Sheep Receipts 8,300, Slow. Yearlings Year-lings $l.63a7.50; wethers ?3.30afi. 00; ewes 54.80a5.9O,; lambs $7.40aS.3). ) Chicago Produce. Chicago. Jan. 11. Butter, steady: creams, 2Ca34; dairies, 25a30. Eggs, hteady at mark, cases included, 21 1-2 a30; receipts, 2,515; firsts, 35; prime firsts. 3S. Cheese, steady. 10 3-4al7; twins. It! l-4al 2; young Americas and l.jugbortiS, 1C 1-2. Sugar and Coffee. Now York, Jau. 12. Sugar Raw, firm, nui.'.covado 89 test $3fil; centrifugal cen-trifugal 9C test $4.11; molasses sugar su-gar X9 test $3.3(1. Refined, steady. Coffee, spot, Fteady; No. 7 -Rio 8 11-16 a3-; No. Santos 9al-S. Metal Market. New York, Jan. 12. Lead, quiet, $l.t;7 l-2a4.72 1-2. Copper, quiet, standard spot and March $13.25al3.- 33. Sliver. 02 3-8c. |