Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-05-04
FINANCE AND TRADE.
Money at BAD Per Cent--Governments
Dull and Steady-Stocks Quiet Flour
Firm and Unchanged-WheatW Weak.

Firm and Unchanged-wheat Weak.
New YORK, May 2.-Money on call easy,
ranging from to 4 per cent; last loan
4 per cent; closed at per cent. bid.
Prime mercantile paper 4a6 per cent.
Sterling exchange quiet and steady at
$4S516a 4S9.
The weekly bank statement shows the
following changes Reserve increased
S46S. 175; loans, decrease, S2,553. 100 A;
specie. decrease, 81 300 300; legal tenders,
increase. 100000; deposits, decrease,
b. 9S6, 300; circulation increase, $500. The
banks now hold s., A, 800 in excess of the
requirements Of the % per cent. rule.
GovERNMENTs-Dulla and steady
Fours Registered. ....................1 2O19
FourS Coupon. ............. lSO12
Fours-and-a -half Registered. ....... 100
Fours-and-a- half Coupon. ............l Ol
Pacific Skies of '95. ..................l l3
STArEs-Duu and steady.
RAILROAD BoNDs-Were also quiet and
without feature of any kind, and while
$571, 900 were traded in, no perceptible ten
dency in either direction could be noticed.
SToCKs-The stock market was quiet to-
day, but there was firm toue throughout,
which advanced prices slowly but steadily
without material changes in prices at the
close. The situation in the bltumlnouS
coal districts had some effect to create a
feverish market, but it seems to be recog-
nized now that the strikes will not last, as
they seem to have arisen from the fact that
leaders do not promptly make known the
outcome of their conferences with
the coal operators. The general
list presented no feature whatever
St Paul was the only really
active stock, and it succeeded in scoring
larger gain than the others, but the move
ment was without life. Silver furnished
the only feature of the trading. The stock
of silver has again began to increase, and
there was evident manipulation OF the
price to-day, which on large transactions
reached 81, but reacted again leaving it at
the close i of cent higher than last
night. The final changes are in all cases
for small fractions only, with majority OF
advances. Sales, 1905 shares. Quota
lions closed bid as follows:
Adams Express, 14G; American Express,
rs; Canada Pacific, 70; Central Pacific
3l3/; Chesapeake and Ohio, 1917 do. first
preferred, 52$i; do. second preferred, 3214 !;
Chicago and Alton, 1876; Chicago, Burling-
ton and Quincy. 80; Delaware and Hud-
son, 1856: Delaware, Lackawanna and
Western. 1855; Denver and Rio Grande
6l4; Erie, rs; do preferred, 81; Ft
Waync, l5l; Illinois Central, 1Ol; Lake
Shore. Sc ll,8[; Michigan Central, g.; Min
neapo,s and St Louis, ~; do preferred,
II; Missouri Pacific, 7124 {; Northern Pacif-
ic. -. 90 preferred, 7295 Northwestern,
no; do preferred 1855; New York Cen
tral, 1O3I Oregon Transcontinental, l155 !;
Pacific Mail, 3S4; Peoria, Decatur and
Evansville, 2034; Pittsburg, 1909; Pull
man Palace Car 1871; Reading, "a; Rock
Island, 49,; ST. Louis and San Francisco,
-; do preferred, -; do first preferred,
e.; St Paul, 6515; do preferred, ll5; ST
Paul. Minneapolis and Manitoba, lO1@ 81
Paul and Omaha, %; do preferred, S395 :;
Texas Pacific. 15A; Union Pacific, 5l$5
United States Express, GA; Western
Union, S214.
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