Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-03-02
FINANCE AND TRADE.

Money, L Per Cent-Governments' DuiI.
Stocks, Higher-FIour, steady-WheAt,
higher.
New YORK, March Money on call
easy at / per cent. last loan, per cent;
closed at / per cent. Prime mercantile
paper Sa5J< per cent. Sterling exchange
dull with actual business IN bankers oils
at ass a4SSll for demand and at 1865 a4S6A
for sixty days; posted rates +o'1sa4S9i
commercial bills 4S515a4S52l, Silver certl-
Gates 6O4a6l.
GovERNMENTs-Duu.
Fours Registered. .112%
FOurS Coupons. ............... .1Io%4
Four-and-a-half Registered. .......... SO
STATEs-Duu.
RAIIROADS-Strong.
STOCKs-The stock market. after weak
opening, quickly developed strength ard
the general tendency throughout was in
the direction of higher prices. The volume
OF business too showed considerable in
crease and all the conditions were favorable
apd led up 10 the result which was
brought about in the later dealings. Dur
inc the early morning the bears made
drive at Sugar on the plea that
the sliding scale of protection suggested
by the Senate was not what the sugar
interest hoped for. On the resultant sell.
ing the stock fell off rs per cent, but the
recovery was rapid, and Sugar quickly
took its place as leader of the upward
movement, with all the active shares and
most Of the specialties traded in in process
sion. 1t seemed to gradually dawn on the
shorts that the time had come TO cover,
but 10 was not until after two o'clock that
the great ruah to buy reached its height,
aud during the last hour of business the
purchases were unusually heavy imparting
"a buOvancy 70 the market TO which it.haS
long been a stranger. The floor OF the EX-
change presented an animated scene and
right up 10 the striking OF the gong which
closed the days business were the several
pools in active motion. The Stock EX-
change thinks rapidly and late to-day
came 20 the conclusion that the tariff
question, which has been the unsettlng
influence in speculation as well as on the
business OF the country, was nearing
solution IL mattered not a great deal
70 the street whether the settlement was
satisfactory, the main fact that the dispu-
tation was coming TO an end, that the best
or the worst was 70 be definitely known,
was enough. Belief in the reserve power
OF the country TO overcome tarln as other
difficulties was at the bottom OF the purch-
aslng movement in stocks and the encOur-
which had published their January earn
inzs lent material strength TO the market
Sales pc, 800 shares. Quotations closed
did:
Atchison. 1879; Adams Express, $50;
American Express, ll2; Baltimore and
Ohio, al Canada Pacific, 66H Central
Pacific, l335; Chesapeake and Ohio, Is;
Chicago and Alton. 1873; Chicago, Bur
lngton aud Quincy, ISH; Chicago
Gas, CAS-; Delaware and HUDSON, 1881;
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western.
l61sI: Denver aud RIO Grande pre-.
ferred, 80; Distillers and Cattle Feed
ers Co, PAX; Erie, 1850; 90. preferred,
IS; Fort Wayne, $50; illinois Cen
trial. 9ll1: Lake Shore, 1918; Michigan
Central, 9S; Missouri Pacific, 233s
Norfolk and Western preferred, 2Oh4
Northern Pacific, 43s; do. preferred, lS1s
North western, IO41S; do. preferred, lao;
New York Central, 99JS; New FORK
and New England, l01a Pacific Mail.
Il; Peoria, Decatur and Evansville, 4;
Pittsburg 1867; Pullman Palace, l6o1S;
Reading. %; Rock Island, 69lS; st. Louis
and San Francisco first preferred, -; ST.
Paul COS; do. preferred, ll9; Tennessee
Coal ana Iron, 1913: Texas Pacific. eas
Union Pacific, 1875; United States Elk
press, 80; Western Union, So; Wheel
Ing and Lake Erie. l21S; 90. preferred,
41; General Electric 4l$l
Mining Stocks-B and B., -; Cholor, 45;
Crown Point so; Consolidated California
and Virginia, 800; DeadwoOd, 50; Gould
and Curry, 60: Hale and Norcross, 60;
Homestake, 1850; independence, -; Mex
lean, 100: North Star, -; Ontario, $50;
Ophir, 290; Plymouth, 20; Sierra Nevada,
100; STANDARD, 90; Union Con-, 10; Vel
low jacket, 20; Iron Silver, 10; Quick
Silver. 275; do preferred. 1850; Bulwer -.