The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-10-14
NEW YORK MINING STOCKS.
BOSTON MINING SHARES.

oct 70 10y STATEMENT Washington,
Oh the ., treasury shows: Available cash bal
anee $9o5, 747, SO2; gold reserve. $244 ,S44, 229
WALL STREET GOSSIP-New York stock
ers and brokers, S41 Robert street, National
Gefman-Amer1can Bank building, ST. Paul
Post Flagg wire US: The market opened a
shade off from last nights close, but soon
developed strength. London sold about IL OOO
shares Northern Pacific common at the open
ing One cause of the changed tone in the
market is that spectators are beginning to
discount the elections in New York in No
Vember, and what is of much more impor-
lance In accounting for the better feeling is
the settlement of the trouble in Northern Pa
cif1c affair between two great controlling
powers, the one representing the Great North
ern, the other the banking interests Of the
corporation. The closing was strong with
prices in some cases at the highest.
NEW YORK MONEY-New York Oct 13-
Money on call easier at 2021A; last loan 2k.
Prime mercantile paper S@4 per cent. Ster-
ing exchange irregular with actual business
in bankers bills at $4.S4G484H for demand
and at $4S1A@4.S114 for sixty days. Posted
rates, S4S212 and 1885, commercial bills 81 50
Q4.eo12: Silver certificates 59% @6015; bar
silver; $3.50; Mexican dollars, 461kc
BUTTER AND EGGs-New York Oct. 10
6attermRec 1i5} 1906 pkgs; firm; Western
11kQ141c. Cheese-Receipts, 7,4O4 pkgs:
S afee coa aFss ERte s sE small small white
Receipts, 4,47S pkgs; firm; Western, 17iS6
Cnlcago, oct. 1S.-Butter firm; creameries,
141hc. '-''
NEW YORK CoTToN-New York, Oct. 10.
The cotton market was quiet with prices
unchanged to two points higher. Speculation
was almost at standstill during the first
part or the session. news at hand averaging
up about a stand-of, while orders were few
and and far between, and for the most part
! limited to a degree which prevented their
execution Initial Liverpool cables reported
/, a continued healthy trade in spot cotton
md
for futures, with prices tending upward on
! demand from shorts. Port receipts were fully
G up to the high average of the past few days.
Cotton futures c-csed steady; October, 5.20c;
Noyember, 6.Hc; December, B.26c; January,
isle; February: 5.S4c; March, 5.ssc; April
Adjust S9 May Hc SAG no June S50C July 55sc
mlddling upiands, $50; middling gulf 55sc.
SEED MARKETS Chicago, Oct. 18.-The
! f1axseed market opened steady and strong;
| prices were about the same as at Wednes-
days close. Later there appeared to be
difference = of opinion, but the close was
Receipts here were 6S cars: 121 cars at Du-
luth and "a cars at Minneapolis Cash fax
9O1ac, December at soc and May at 921h092%Io
per Blu. Cash timothy seed closed at So 20
per 100 lbs. Glover seed closed at S750 per
lOO lbs Minneapolis faxseed quoted at S7%c
FOREIGN BANK STATEMENTS London
Oct 13.-The weekly statement of the Bank
Of England shows the f0iOwing changes
decreased f456, COO Bullion decreased 1850, O00
Other securities, decreased 1884 900. Other de-
Posits decreased fl, 265, 600. Public deposits
creased 1899, COO Notes reserve, decreased
1928 goo: Government securities decreased
Fl, $4,000. The proportion of the Bank of
England's reserve to liability is $50 per cent
as compared with 1920 per cent last week
PARIS, Oct. 13.-The weekly statement of
the Bank of France shows the following
changes 59 Notes in circulation, increased s.
creased 13.375,OO0 francs. Gold in hand, de-
creased, 9,550G00 francs. Bills discounted
increased, 52,525,OOO francs. Silver in hand
decreased, 6 300 600 francs
LONDON MONEY-London, Oct. 13.-Amer-
lean securities opened firm on New York buy
ing, but later reacted and closed quist but
steady with light demand. The amount of
bullion withdrawn from the Bank of England
today on balance was Goo
BANK CLEARINGS.
st. Paul, 1892, S81.
Minneapolis, $1,96S3SS.
Chicago, $40, ,518.
Boston, SIS, 261 915.
New York, 1872, 914, 662.
FOREIGN FINANCIAI-New York Oct 49,
The Evening POSTS financial cablegram
says: The stock markets here were stag
nant today, being demoralized by the rise in
the discount rate of the Bank of England
from to per cent. This change in the
rate surprised the market generally. 1t is be-
lieved that politics, principally caused the
rise, but l have reason to believe that
more potent factor is the endeavor to repress
a repetition of the growth of German finance
bills in this market. If the bank rate had not
been changed the open market rates would
have given way considerably. 1t is also
learned that the bank is taking steps to make
the present rate effective by borrowing from
the market until the 4th of November at 8
per cent. Americans were the only market
showing any firm tendency today. New York
buying has given a general I'LL up and prices
closed quiet at the best, Northern Pacific be-
ing chiefly in favor. The London market was
unsettled on account of discount rate