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Show WLO'SIMETS; 1 l -- i BUYING OF SPECIALTIES 1 HAS A GOOD EFFECT New York. Aug. 1C Opening prices it. the stork market today were slightly slight-ly Irregular, but lb" conditions either tvav were vn import ant aside from the advance of a po.nt in. Anaconda and Colorado & Southern and a loss of as much In Canadian Pad lie. Unlcn Pa-cilic, Pa-cilic, Missouri Pacific, Northern Pacific Pa-cific and St Paul Avere among the representative stocks which were slightly iower. Confident buying had a tonle en'ect on the whole list, and there was a brisk rally in the western ra -I road stoek6. After the list generally had sold a larpe fraction above yesterdav's final prices, the demand lessened and there was o later re-action of about a half in the standard btocks. American Ameri-can Beet Sugar lost 1 from its opening open-ing price on profit taking sales, but the preferred rose 2 3-1. Bull operators encountered n opposition oppo-sition in bidding up pr.tes, and ou light deallDgs the list mounted again to aboU the high level of the first hour er above. Inquiry for United States Steel, Amalgamated Copper and American Smelting contributed to the market's strength. There was little lit-tle Interest man.fehted In the railroad j list outside of Reading and Union Pa- i cific. International Harvester rose ' 1 1-2 and Amalgamated Cpper, United States Steel, National Biscuit. American Ameri-can Linseed Oil preferred and Amerl- j can Telephone ATclegraph 1. Louis- J ville & Nashv.lle lost 1. Bonds were Irregular. |