The San Francisco call., 1898-02-01
NEW YORK STOCK MARKET

NEW YORK, Jan. 31.-To-days stock mar ket more active and broader than any time since the upward movement began. but 1t Is exceedingly uneven and some prominent stocks in the list showed declines. The mar ket ignored the heaviness of some of the last weeks speculative favorites and other stocks were taken up and pushed aggressively. Northern Pacific preferred continued It's re- markable advance and touched 6s during the day. Confident assertions that az additional dividend imminent accompa nied the ad- vance Louisville continued to enjoy the ad- vantage of the reports to a funding plan near ing completion. The strength of Pennsyl- vania said to be due the operations of pool which based on the assumption that the stock has not enjoyed rise cornmensu- rate with that of other trunk lines, where better situated.
 The sharp rise in Baltimore and Ohio. which at the highest amounted to SIS, was unex- plained by any news of the day Strength in number of the industrial specialties, mo- tably Tobacco and Leather preferred and the advances of some of the high-priced investment stocks and the strength of the coalers due to the prevalent cold weather helped to sustain the market and the continued large absorption of railroad bonds was an additional factor The tone of the Changers was heavy all day with the exception of Burlington, which rose at one time over point, and of Northwest the Vanderbilts.
 There were several hats during the day. due to taking of profits and the trading closed with very general movement, to mend which embraced all the strongest and most active SlOckS, cuIting down. their extreme gains in all cases. Sugar lost nearly all of It's early advantage London was both a buyer and seller in this market, and Union Pacific and St Paul felt the adverse effect of this selling Commission house business was on a very large scale.
 Business in the bond market was on a very large scale. The Union Pacific and AtchIson issues were in special demand Prices are higher all around. Sales, St. .34O, ,000
 The United States new As advanced H bid and the 5s coupon, 1S.
 Total sales of stocks to-day were 574 100 shares ineiudi0g RE- Atshison Preferred s5oo Central 8346; Louisville and Nashville. SC. 4O2 Manhattan. 2, sl5; Hawaiian, 3s6O; Reading & T. preferred. 4775: New Jersey Central, 4335: New York Central 22 109; Northern Pacific 2s, 15O; do preferred s2;S25; Oregon Short Line 3091: Reading. $500: Rock Island. 664o; St Paul. 22. 800: St. Paul and Omaha S6s2: South preferred. 6636; Union Pacific. 3S, 070: To- bacco, 1s.1s5: Chicago Great Western 55s5 CT. 4s1o; do preferred, 5445; Western Union.
 NEW YORK GRAIN AND PRODUCE.
 NEW YORK, Jan. 3l.-FLOJR-Receipts 21. sss barrels: exports. 29.ss7 barrels: sales, 1O,5OO packages. Weak and lower. beng af- fected by the decline in wheat City mill patents. s5 7536: city mill clears, s 4o95 60; Minnesota l.atents s 1895 70; winter straits, s4 t5Gi e..
 wHEAT-Receipts. 55. 800: exports, 7ss7. Spot weak. No. red. si 0S1s. options were weak from start % finish, except for a short early rally on covering and closed 1;5G3c lower. Weak cable news. liquidation bearish weekly statistics and absence of export demand cen tributed to the days heaviness; Mo- red May, s6Qs7Hc, closed 961sc.
 HOPS-Firm
 WOOL-Steady
 METALS-The feeling on the Metal Ex- change continued mixed. with buyers show