Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-03-02
FINANCE AND TRADE.

Money 1 lie Per Cent. - Governments
Firm 90 Stocks Firm Flour Firm.
Wheat Higher.
NEW YORK, March Mooney on call
easy at Ia per cent; last loan IA
per cent; closed at y per cent. Prime
mercantile paper 80 asa per cent. Sterling
h&change strong at 49, ASH. Silver GER
uhcates 60 &c bid.
GovERNNENTs-Firm.
L. :. 5S Registered. 1853
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u. >. IS Registered .................. %
Pacihc Us Ot'95 ...............,....l 100
STArEs-Active.
RAILRoABs-Easier.
SToCEs The stock market to-day was
much improved in tone aud there was
fairly good buying chiefly for the short
account. The volume OF business was not,
however. large ana the net changes on the
days transactions as a rule are slight,
with majority Of the stocks traded in
showing an appreciation in values COM
pared with the closing prices OF
yesterday The Granger stocks
were well held throughout the
" e
figures touched. Consequently there were
purchases 10 cover short contracts, which
caused an advance IN the shares. The
COalers were neglected. The general
market opened irregular on light trading,
then reacted fraction except for Leather
preferred, which broke "a per cent. on
sales of 100 shares. A movement 10
cover short contracts was begun after
mid day. which caused q gradual improve
Oh. a
Advances were established of l 4 in Jersey
Central Manhattan ana Sugar and North
west aud usS in the rest of the Granger
group. ln the list of declines are: Leather
preferred IA American Cable l 4 and
the General Electric and Norfolk and
Western preferred per cent. Speculation
in bonds was quiet and unintereSting The
aggregate sales were S643, 800. Total sales
OF stocks li7,543 shares. Quotations closed
Did.
Atchison, 81 Adams Express, $40; Al
ton suJ Ierre H8ute, 355s do preferred, -;
American Express lO98 Baltimore ana
Ohio j1j9; Canada Pacific 43]S Canada
Southern, AZ: CeRtral Pacific, l25s Ches-
apeake aud Ohio, l6s Chicago anu AItc1,
l46, Chicago. Burlington and Quincy,
40. Chicago Gas, IL; Delaware ana Hud-
sou, l25}a Delaware, Lackawanna ana
Western. l5S; Denver ard RIO Grande
preferred, "a; Distillers and Cattle Feed
ers Co. ms. Erie 81. DO. preferred, IL;
Fort Wayne, l56; General Electric, ~;
Illinois Centra. 81; Lake Shore, 1888;
Michigan Central, "; Missouri Pacific
1871: National Cordage, 5i4 do. preferred,
;; Norfolkand Western preferred, lOls;
Northern Pacific, 24 do. preferred, 1879;
North western, $50 do preferred, l3S;
New York Central, 96}5 New York aud
New England 80; Paci1c Mail, y;
Peoria. Decatur anu Evansville, % Pitts
burg, l55; Pullman Palace 1873; Read
ing, ga Rock Island, 6l55 St. Louis and
San Francisco first preferred, -; ST.
Paul "a 5 do. preferred, ny; Tennessee
Coal ana Iron, 13&; Texas Pacific, 50;
Union Pacinc, So United States Elk
press, 40; Western Uulou, S1l4; Wheeling
and Lake Erie, So do. preferred, "a.
Mining StocKs-Bulwer, 90; Cholor, 40;
Crown Point, 35; Consolidated California
and Virginia, 245; Deadwood. 40; Gould
and Curry, -; Hale and Norcross, 80;
Homestake, 100; Iron Silver, -; Mex
lean, 40; Ontario, 500, Ophir, 152; Plym-
outh. 20: Quicksilver. 100; 90. preferred,
! 500; Sierra Nevada, 90; Standard, 265;
Union Con. -; Yellow Jacket, 30.