Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-22
ADVANCE MAINTAINED.
Stocks Making Good Progress Toward Re-
covering Their Lost Ground-Every.
thing Scores Fractional Gains
Railroad Bonds Again
Fairly Active.


Fairly Active.
New York, March 2l.-The stock market
was quiet to-day. but there was further progress
made in the improvement started day before
yesterday, and while the fluctuations and final
changes in most of the list are not large al
most everything shows a gain tonight The
foreigners were not a factor in the market
to-day the margin of profit between the two
markets precludiDg any extended operations,
but Chicago was a conspicuous purchaser, and
the local traders furnished the remainder of
the business done. The Gould following were
confident that their chief would return to New
York bull, and Missouri Pacific and Manhat-
tan were again on the upward track, and in
the general list it early became evident that
there was no lack of support for the leading
shares.
There was an attempt to break the Grangers
again in the early trading, and Burlington did
display considerable weakness being in fact,
the weak spot in the list, but the others were
firmly held and the attempt was given up. The
purchasing for the long account later became
more pronounced, prices beginning to creep up
under the increased demand, early sellers began
to GOV er and the movement became strong and
reached to all portions of the list. The trading
in Chicago Gas was again on large scale, but
it failed to reach the volume of business done
in the stock yesterday: Inc strength, how;
advance was scored over the high figures of
yesterday.
The opening figures were steady, but the at
tack upon the list was begun Immediately, and
everything but Chicago Gas sagged off, with
Rock Island and Atchison in the lead, but they
were soon followed and overtaken by Burling-
ton, which droope6 over point The strength
of the decline was broken before noon, how
ever. and while there was not SO much trading,
prices began to improve, but it was not until
well into the afternoon that the demand be-
came DStable, and before P. M.,when the best
figures generally were reached. Everything
was fractiOnally better than the opening, and
Manhattan, Oregon Navigation and Chicago
Gas were materially higher.
Realizations sagged the list off in the last
hour but no marked impression was made
upon the gains of the previous two hours, and
the close was firm though quiet, generally at
fractional advances for the day. The declines
were very few and unimpOrtant but Naviga-
ton rose ~; Chicago Gas, 1ss and Manhat-
tan. III.
Railroad bonds were again fairly active, and
the sales of all issues aggregated s., 100000 out
of which the Chicago Gas and Coke firsts,
tributed S2Sl.0 200, and after opening up at 95,
declined to 9315. and afterward fluctuated rap
idly between the two extremes, finally closing
at 9IL, net gain of IL per cent The other
active issues were Denver and Rio Grande,
Western assented, with 5000: Reading IS,
Sl33000, and the first incomes, SI0l, 900 The
general list showed the usual lack of feature
still a firm tone the changes are generally for
fractional amounts only Utah Southern gen.
erals rose 2 to ll2.
The following table shows the prices of active
stocks on the New York Stock Exchange
Corrected daily for THE DISPATCH by Whit
ney stephenson, members of New York
Stock Exchange, 81 Fourth avenue: