The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-03-11

NEW YORK. March la-Tae movement
OF stock prices today was irregular, PRES
generally being fraetiona.iy on. 49, 49,.
some Gotz bic advances were reeoEasd
among the SpscisitIss. Local traction SOCKS
were buoyaut, on tsse idea that the acnon
CT the STATE senats yesterday diminished the
chances of hostile legislation IN restricting
The ase Of Amsterdam avenue. ~hica were
particularly effective toward Third Ave-
nCe which rose 9Ia points, while Meiroso-
lsan Street Railway rose nearly a. much
strength were. Tobacco, American Steel
and Wire. Peoples Gas, American Spirits.
Standard Distributing Consolidated Gas.
Brooklyn Transit, New York Air Brake.
American Tin Plate. Cotton Oil and Ten
nessee Coal and Iron, although the ful!
gains were not mentioned. The railway
and some other standard stocks sagged
slightly for lack 0f attention. ON the an
nouncemen; that a dividend % Ia per cent.
had been declared On Union Pacific pre-
fcrrea. the stock eased II having been pre-
yiousy falsely f79mnred on the board that
the disbursement was 2 per cent. In the
early dealings London was iae principal
seller, while in the afternoon selling APP
peared for both accounts on pfognos3ca-
lions that there would be another heavy
decrease in the surplus reserve in tomor-
row ) hank statement. but prophesies TO
the bank statement based on the known
data Of Friday. have often Of late proved
misleading. The action OF the days mar
ket seemed 10 show that the specialties
were pre-emneatly In favor with the pro-
feSS,oESt cement. The early dealings were
featured by an almost entire concentration
OF interests in the higher priced stocks.
which moved IN a sensational manner. The
standard stocks trailed along somewhat
syznpatheticalty. bat soon developed a
yielding tendency. In the late session in
terests shifted In the low priced special
ties. which had not moved proporsionateiy
with the rise in the Industrial division in
the morning
In the last hour trading followed Union
Pacific. the market was OF an exceptionally
uninteresting character. scarcely any inter
est being manifested in the movement OF
prices The closing was duh.
Bonds moved somewhat hesta:ngly to-
day. some active lines working upward
while Others yielded in sympathy with
Total sales $4,000 United States As,
regular. advanced Il in the bid price.
Money and Exchange.
Money on call 2ix@5ts per cent: last
Iona. 2is per cent: prime mercantile pa
easy, with actual business in bankers bits
at s.. s5i@Ga&.s ~. Tor demand and at si.S3s4 a
M for sixty days; posted rates, sis4taas
ts5 and Assi4ef4s'. commercial bills.
bar silver. sa4c: Mexican dollars 47i1c.
Government bonds-strong: state bonds,
Inactive: railroad bonds. Irregular
Bonds.
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Observation-Disclosures.