Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-02-09
FINANCE AND TRADE

Money at l 1-2 Per Cent-Governmsnts
Dull and steady-stocks Active and
Higher-Fiour Steady and Unchanged =
Wheat Higher.
New YORK, February S.--Money on cali
easy, last loan; closed offered at ~
per cent. Prime mercantile paper 3 Sa51ll
per cent. Sterling, exchange quiet but
firm at s4S425a455.
GovERNMENrs-Dull and steady.
Fours registered. ....................1l 1851
Fours-snd-a-half Registered ........ 100
Pacific Skies of '95 100
STATEs-Dull and steady
RAILRoADs-Very active, the total trans
actions reaching Sc, l92, 900. of which Read
ing firsts contributed $751;, eco and the sec
onds SSg4, 900.
STOCKs-The stock market to-day was
more active than on any day for years, and
we must go back TO the panic of 1855 for a
parallel to the enormous business trans
acted in both stocks and bonds at the Stock
Exchange to-day. The coal stocks were
again the great feature of the day and the
unprecedented activity in Reading was not
only maintained, but surpassed, the trans
actions in the stock being the largest
ever known On the Exchange. Attic same
time the late strength developed in the
anthracite properties was fully maintained
and heavy advances were scored in all Of
them. For some time this morning there
was nothing in the market but the coal
stocks and Erie, which latter was also
heavily dealt in on the theory that any,
thing which helped the coal trade would
be of benefit to the Erie. The improvement
in values was extremely sharp in the early
trading, but with diminution of enormous
trading, prices became more settled, and
while the best prices were not reached till
the last hour, there were frequent fuctua-
tons in the downward direction. The
strength in the coal stocks did not affect
the rest Of the list to any appreciate ex-
tent during the early trading and
the bears were still disposed TO
hammer the list as usual, and in Union
Pacific over ! per cent was lost. The
market closed active and strong, generally
at close TO the highest figures OF the day.
The changes are all large fractional ad-
vances, but Lackawanna is up64, Reading
4, Jersey Central 81, and Erie Is. Sales
SSS,69l shares. Quotations closed bd
Adams Express, 146; American Express
lie; Canada Pacific Ssh; Central Pacific
321S; Chesapeake and Ohio, 25lI do. first
preferred 6l35; do. second preferred 40;
Chicago and Alton, 142; Chicago, Burling.
Oon QuiHSy. lOoI2s |CAoNoiC NM
Hudson, 1894; Delaware. Lackawanna
and Western l5S; Denver and Rio
Grsnde, preferred 4911; Erie 3255; do.
preferred 70; Fl. Wayne 1853; Illinois
Central, 1OS$l; Lake Shore, 1874; Michi-
gan Central, 1919; Minneapolis and st.
Louis So; do. preferred 10; Missouri
Pacific 81; Northern Pacific, $3.50; DO,
preferred 6SH; Northwestern l1T2. do pre-
ferred IA; New York Central, ll4%:
Oregon Transcontinental, 17l5; Pacific
Mail, 81; Peoria, Decatur and Evansville,
2015; Pittsburg, $50; Pullman Palace, lS9;
Reading, 1923: Rock Island, 9l$I st. Louis
and San Francisco, -; do. preferred :;
do. first preferred IS; st. Paul, So; do.
preferred 1851; st. Paul, Minneapolis and
Manitoba, ll3; St. Paul and Omaha,
49,; do preferred ia; Tennessee Coal
and Iron, 49,; Texas Pacific, III; Union
Pacific, 4615; United States Express, 40;
Western Union, s675.