The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-11-25

New York, Nov. 2A--The Stock mar
ket during the two hours of business
Today was generally strong in tone and
except for few of the specialties
prices at the close showed advances or
the days transactions.
sugar which showed the most &C
sivity. was in good buying demand in
the early dealings and recorded an ad,
vance Of q per cent, but was subse-
quently sold down q with a final re.
coyery of the entire loss, making q
gain on the day Of X. The preferred
rose 4. Northwest advanced Il On the
covering of short contracts but the
stock being in good supply, the shorts
took occasion to put out some fresh
lines, causing 9 break OF i per cent. Il
of which was covered in the final deal
lngs. leaving an advance OF Is on yes
terday'ss final quotations. Cordage
guaranteed broke 21z per cent to 221s
on sales OF $50 shares. Mobile e. Ohio
is down 1. Canada Southern and Louis.
Vile, New Albany Is and Laclede Gas
u per cent. The rest OF the shares
traded in appreciated UP to the close,
and made advances ranging from Il to
2 per cent, the latter in Lake Shore, LIS
in Pullman, ] in National Lead, Is in
Western Union, Is in Rock Island
General Electric, Richmond Terminal
and Tennessee Coal & Iron; st. Paul
Burlington, Delaware & Hudson, Louis
willie & Nashville, Il. In the final trad
ing, It was active and strong and the
market closed in good tone.
AS result of the trading during the
week there have been established gen.
orally a lower range of values, which,
- the active list, have been most
marked in the granger's group, the
depression in these shares being due
to the scaling of the Burlington divi-
dend from IA TO l per cent, the inn
mediate expectation of a reduction OF
the Northwest dividend. Northwest
shows loss of 234. Most of the indus
trials are also in the list of declines.
The total sales of stocks for the week
were 1880 shares
The dealings in the bond market to-
day were unimportant with some ex-
ceptions, notably the Reading and
Southern railway securities. The trans
actions were comparatively light, the
total sales aggregating only SAG, 000
The market was slightly easier; the
changes in prices were only fractional.
On the week the more active shares
were generally lower, but in the main
the changes were pretty evenly divided
between declines and advances.
The total sales of stocks today were
f1,Ott SHARES, lnctuulnS. American
Sugar, 5000; Burlington, $500; Chicago
Gas, 5000; D. & c. F., 5000; Manhattan,
1920; Northwest 5000; Reading, 1900,
Rock Island, 2,4O0; st. Paul, 5000,
Southern railroad, 1900: Southern rail
road preferred, S,40O; Western Union
$780,
Money on call, easy at per cent.
Prime mercantile paper. 3$f@4.
Sterling exchange, easy with actual
business in bankers bills at 4.S7L al. &c.,
for demand and 4S6G4S6A for sixty
days.
Posted rates, 4S6k@4S71A and ASA
ASST.
Commercial bills, 1854.
Silver certificates, 6S5s.
Mexican dollars, 503t.
Government bonds, steady.
State bonds, dull.
Railroad bonds, easy
Petroleum, steady. Pennsylvania oil
sales, none; December option sales
none; closed. S27s bid.
GOLD AT BUENOs AYREs.
London, Nov. 24-Gold is quoted TODAY
at Buenos Ayres at 90