Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-01-28
FINANCE AND TRADE.

Money, Ia2 Per Cent. - Governments
Dull and Steady - stocks Flrm-Fiour
Dull and Observation-Disclosures Steady.
NEW YORK, January 27.-Money on call
easv at LAP per cent; last loan a. per
cent. closed offered at per cent. Prime
mercantile paper 4}[a6 per cent. Sterling
exchange, quiet but steady at 4S6a4SI55.
GovERNMENTs-Duil and steady.
FOurs Registered. ....................ll
Fours Coupon. ............-... tlS5S
Four-snd-a-hslf Registered...........l0O
Pacific Skies OF 'S5..................lO 100
STATEs-Dull and steady.
RALROADs-Easier.
STOCKs.-The stock market today was
somewhat narrower than usual Of late,
most all the interest ia the trading center
ing 10 the two lndustrials, Sugar and Dis
tiIers. The discovery that the Sugar
stock is so closely held by insiders that
they can make 10 loan OF a priemum, which
was said in some cases 70 be as much as
per cent per day, was a surprise 70 the
street as il showed that the insiders
held nearly all the stock and
that IL has not been dlstrbu among the
public as had been supposed. The crowd
trading in the stock ~ the opening was
simply enormous. having beer equalled
/
price never got much below The best Of the
forenoon, and 10 closed with a net gain Of
sTE for the day. A few other stocks al
tracted some attention by their activity
and movement, chief among which were
the Richmond Terminal shares. Burning
ton and Quincy, Union Pacific and
Coalers Distillers were active
but was pressed FOR sale, and
closed lie lower for the day. Railroad
stocks, quiet as q rule. The coal stocks
were inclined 20 strengthen on the excel
lent showing FOR the past year for the Del
sware and Hudson and the Lackawanna,
but Reading was pressed for sale some
what The Granger stocks were rather
heavy on account Of rate cutting in the
West. Manhattan was comparatively dull
aud without material change The general
list was festureless, but closed rather firm,
az slight losses for the day. Ssles, 46S,SOo
shares. Quotations closed bid:
Atchison, S5A; Adams Express, l51;
American Express. us; Baltimore and
Ohio, o.; Canada Pacific. S74; Central
Pacific, 27$l; Chesapeake and Ohio, %;
Chicago and Alton, 14S; Chicago, Burning
ton and Quincy, 1925; Delaware and Huo-
son, 1851; Delaware, Lackawanna and
Western, 1876; Denver and RIO Grande
preferred, 555<; Erie, 26}S; do. preferred,
1929; Lake Shore, 1903; Michigan Cen
tral. 1851 Missouri Pacific 5S2s; Norfolk
aad Western preferred, 50; Northern Pa
cidc, is; do preferred. 4S1I; Northwest
ern -; New York Central, 1903; Pa
cifc Mail, %; Peoria, Decatur and
Evansville, 17l{; Pittsburg, l57; Pullman
Palace, 1879; Reading, 521&; Rock Island,
SIS; St. Louis and san Francisco first
preferred, 10; St. Paul. SIN; do preferred
i241<; Tennessee Coal and Iron, 1915 !;
Texas Pacific, 101s; Union Pacific, 4213 !;
United States Express, 671<; Western
Union, 9sX; Wheeling and Lake Erie
Of; do. preferred, 65.
Mining Stocks-Cholor- =; Grown Point
SIS: Consolidated California and Virginia
$50; Deadwood, $50; Gould and Curry, IS;
Hale and Norcross, go; Homesteak, 1850;
independence, =; Mexican, 40; North
Star, =; Ontario, 1900; Ophirs lS5; Ply