The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1897-09-18

Wall street Operations Resulted i'm
Substantial Gains.


New York. Sept 14-Today's operations
have resulted in another substantial adj
vance in the level of prices on the stock
exchange. There was some talk during
the morning of the existence of a power
full bear pool, which was prepared for eN-
tensive operations for "A decline. The
supposed prestige of this combination,
coupled with the fact that London prices
came lower, apparently because of doubts
raised by yesterdays reaction here. led to
the early success of the bear contingent.
Money-Firm, closed at 1laM2 per cent;
sterling exchange, weak at $4.S47s0l4.S5 for
demand, and $4.S2ls@4.S2s4 for 80 days
Government Bonds.
New York, Sept. 14.-U. S. new As reg
istered) 1257s@1262s, do (coupons) 1257s00
l2ess. U. S. As Gegistered) li1%@1i2h, do
and coupons) n4AQl14A, Pacific 6s of 1895,
Closing Quotations.
New York. Sept. 14.-Atchlson 1855, do
preferred 34R, Canada Pacific 76%. Cen
trail Pacific IA, c., b. and O. 1909, Great
Northern preferred 140 Illinois Central
LOSE, Lake Shore III, Michigan Central
1922 Missouri Pacific 3S1k Missouri Kan
sas q Texas 1914, do preferred 40A Now
York Central 1884. North American Co.
"a, Northern Pacific POS, do preferred
5512, Oregon Railway u Navigation S7l5,
Oregon Short Line "a. Rock Island 95l5
St. Paul 1914, do preferred 1857. Southern
Pacific zig, Union Pacific 2S9s, Adams
Express 1885, American Express l16, Unit
ed States Express Az, Wells Fargo lO9.
General Electric 49, Lead 411b, Pacific
Mail S7A, Pullman 1921, Sugar 1561a.
Western Union 96. Chicago & Northwest
ern 129A, do preferred 1874.
Metal Quotations.
New York, Sept. 14.-Bar silver. 56lbc.
Lake copper-Quiet $1115Nll.25.
Quiet; $11.15G11.25
Lead-Weak; exchange s4.25Q43O, brok-
ers prices, strong, "a.
Live stock.
4
steers were at hand good enough 10 reach
S. Feeders $3.SOd44O choice veal calves
sold at S6.25 and few up to $3.50.
/ Hogs-The great bulk of good heavy
4 hogs sold above $780, prime buchers sold
$3.50.
Sheep-Local slaughterers bought most
of the good western sheep at $375a4.
Feeders took ewes around $3.50 and feed
ing grades at $3.50d375 Not many sheep
sold below 49, %. and only a few small lots
of fancy natives went above 81. Lambs
went at steady prices, several lots sold
around $3.50; some fancy lambs up to
$5.75, though most good lots went at $50
$50
Receipts: Cattle $780, hogs 1900, sheep
1900.
Chicago Grain.
Chicago, Sept. 1.-THE opening in wheat
was strong. December, which closed Mon
day at 94SM94Ac, opened at from 951sc tC
g5ssc, and during the next half hour II
tiuctuated between the starting quota
tons and 947sc. 1t started up again from
the latter point and rose with the same
| aggressive persistency that has so fire.
quently characterized it in the last three
months.
The real reasons for the early strength
however, were bad French and italian
crop reports and statistics from the
Washington agricultural bureau showing
that Europe would have to import $685.
100000 bushels of wheat from Nortf
America this season, all of which, will
the exception of about 25000 900, mus
come from the United States a large
total than has ever been called for in ont
season before.
Close: December wheat, 9i1ac; corn
32hc; oats, 21Ac
Receipts: Wheat 10000, corn $4,000
oats, $4,000.
miscellaneous.
New York, Sept. 14.-Hops-Quiet.
Coffee-Closed barely steady; December
$6.4O@645; spot Rio, steady; No. Z, invoice
7c; jobbing, 712c
SUgar-Raw. strong; refined strong.