St. Paul daily globe., 1894-07-22
FINANCIAL.
New York.

NEW YoRK.July 21.-Wall street with
total traHsactIons of only $1,000 shares,
more than half of which were in the
stock of the American Sugar Refining
company. there was very little interest
in the speculation OH the stock eX-
change today. Distilling, the sales of
which were IL. 700, and Richmond Ter
minal, with but ]. 100 shares to its credit,
completed the list of stocks in which
the sales exceeded 900 shares. So mar
row market has not been experienced
in many years, even on a Saturday.
Scarcely anything was done during the
first quarter or an hour except in Sugar.
Not until 10:45 was there sale of Chi
cago Gas, General Electric or Louis
vile. The first transaction in Bur-
lington & Quincy took place at
11:15, Rock Island at 1l:40 and
i'll st. Paul at :51. Sugar was in good
request in the early dealings, and ad-
vanced 1}s per cent, reacting and
recovering a per cent, making gain
of lB from yesterdays closing price.
DIstllling rose % III The opening trading,
but was at once raided, and sold off "a
per cent Ill the final dealings the
covering Of short contracts resulted in
rally of q per cent. The dealings in
the rest or the list were so small and the
fluctuations SO narrow as not 10 call for
any special mention, the market closing
steady 10 firm, with prices somewhat
evenly divided between the declines
and advances, compared with the final
sales of yesterday, but in no case was
the change above a fraction, except
Pullman, which was per cent higher.
The result of the weeks trading has
been in The main a depreciation in
values, the principal declines being
Atchison, l3s; General Electric, ~; ST.
Paul preferred, 15s; Evansville q ferre
Haute, Chicago Gas, 2; Distilling and
Wisconsin Central, 35s; Minneapolis d
st. Louis preferred, AZ, and Brooklyn
Elevated, per cent. Advances were
established of 2 per cent in Tobacco
preferred and Des Moines 6 Fort Dodge
preferred; 215 in United States Leather
preferred; "a in Louisville q New
Albany preferred, Hooking Valley pre-
ferrei and Laclede Gas preferred; 2%
in Baltimore 81 Ohio, and 311s in Sugar
| shows gain of 4, and Rock Island a
| loss of Is, st. Paul Is. and Northwest IS.
The railway and miscellaneous bond
market was fairly active, but was weak
! in tone. and declines were made of per
| cent in Chicago q Western Indiana gen.
eral 6S, IA in AtchiSon IS, IL in At
| Gibson seconds, ~ in 81. Louis & San
Francisco general 5s, 17s in Erie Sec
! ondS consolS trust receipts and l per
cent in Northern Pacific seconds and
Northern Pacific & Montana firsts. Buff
faIo & Erie new rs advanced N, and
Rock Island extended 5s registered and
Fort Worth and Denver City IS, per
cent. The principal changes of the
week are as follows:
Advances-Cedar Falls & Minnesota
firsts, 65s; ScIoto Valley Il New Eng
land As, 5; Equitable Gas (of New York.
5s and Union Pacific sinking fund IS,
4; do gold 6s, collateral trust notes. 8;
Northern Pacific thirds. 80; United
States Cordage tirsts, 35s; Richmond &
Dauville stamped 5s, So, and Union
Pacific. Denver & Gulf firsts, SO.
Decli nes--Toledo, Peoria q Western
firsts. IL; Missouri Pacific collateral
trust IS, I; Wabash debentures, series
b, 8; Detroit Gas IS, 4; Atchison sec
onds, 33s; do As, q; Burlington
Quincy debenture IS, 81, and Northern
Pacific terminal firsts, per cent.
The Total sales OF STOCKS