The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-12-31
FINANCE AND comMeRce,
Now York Stock Marh..

0hh' lee. 3U- With the
exception OF A,ohisop, New England and
Sugar the stock market was stropp and
higher to-day. Louisville and Nash
vile was the great bull card openiny
y higher at 43A@439s, reactino 10
42S and jumping to AK. For a week
past IL has been rumored almost dailv
that the company would pass its Fob.
ruary dividend. These stories created
large short interest To-day some Of
the more conservative of the bears
tried TO cover. They found very little
STOCK onerlng, however, and had to paw
as high as Is per cent. for the use of the
shares at the stock exchange and "a per
cent at the consolidated board.
London bought something like 400
shares OF the stock and taken altogether
the shorts wore badly punished. The
other active Issues advanced u to per
cent. The principal gains were Man
haitian 2, Wheeling and Lake Eric
American Cotton Oil IL, Chesapeake
and Ohio Il, Lake Shore e and New
York Central Is. The Burlington and
quincy statement for November was uu.
expectedly good. The stock, howey.r.
which had advanced to 75%, fell to74N
ana 755n after the publication OF the re-
FSNe ~" i6uo anu AlCl1SCn sold
at the lowest figures of the year, the
former falling 2T to 9% and the latter
IL to 91s.
Inc stock market closed firm at ad-
yyances ranging from Il to 29S per cent.
Louisville and Nashville scored the
largest gain. American Sugar, after
declining q to sou, recovered to SIX
@s1; Burlington and Quincy lost k and
New England 216 for the day. In the
specialties Buffalo, Rochester and Pitts.
burg declined SIS to 90. Colorado Fuel
to S2H, Union Pacific and st. Louis
preferred rose to 81 and Linseed Oil 3
TO Is. Total sales, lO7, 600 shares.
Railroad and miscellaneous bonds were
strong. Treasury balances: Coin, $780,
96l, 900; currency, seq. AGO, goo.
Produce and Merchandise.
NEW YORK, Dec. 3O.-Flour dull:
winter wheat low, low grades, 2.0O@
as; patents, 3 4O@3 G5; Minnesota
clear, 5000 90; patents, 3 8, ga 80: low
extras, o5@2 As. Southern -four duh.
steady; common to fair extra, 0o@
3Oo; good to choice do, 1904 20.
Wheat spot dull; half higher; firm; No
red, store and elevator CO.., anoat
67h @67%; options were very dull, hsif
higher closing firm; January, CO..;
Corn dull, steady; No ., 42k@42L
elevator, 434@43M ehoat; steamer
mixed, 42H; No. , white, AK; options
were dull, unchanged TO q up, closing
steady; January, AN; February, AK;
May, Az. Oats dull, firm; January;
33%; February, 344; No white.
January, 35; spot No. 9. 33&; No .
white, IS; mixed Western, 34@35: white
do, 5000. Hay quiet, steady; ship.
ping, 60@65; good to choice, 1905.
WOOL dull unsettled; domestic fleece,
eo925. Beef dull, steady; family, II 90
cola W; extra mess, 8 00@S so; beef
hams quiet, Is 00@l5.25; tierced beef
dull; extra India ness, 100000 90
Cut meats quiet, steady; picked be lies.
~; shoulders, s@6A; hams, 9@94;
middles nominal. Lard dull, easier;
Western steam closed, $40, nominal:
city. 7T@7sl; January. so asked; re
Aneo 9uiet, easier; continent, S.s5;
south America, $50; compound, 6.256
376.
Pork dull, steady. 13.75@14 so. Butter
dull, weak; State dairy, 1926; creamery
22@2 6; Western dairy, l7@2l; creamery,
2o@2s Elgins, 37}6@2s. Cotton-seed
oil dull, frmer; crude, a9@2916; yellow,
34@35. Petroleum quiet; crude in
barrels, Washington. 600 do. bulk.
2 so; refined New York, SIS; Philadel.
phia and Baltimore, $40; do bulk, 2 go
co. 60 Rosin quiet, steady; strained.
common to good, 1.25@l27LG.