The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-06-08
NEW YORK MINING SHARES.
BOSTON MINING SHARES.

WALL STREET GOSsIP-New York
STOCK 81 gossip, reported by Il Holbert
street, National German-Amertcan Bank
building. st. Paul. Strong, Sturgis Il Co.
wire US: I'VE have few grains of news
calculated to add f1rmness TO the market,
Of the full quarterly dividend on Sugar
and the proposed payment of IL on Atch-
ison. Both of these events are, however,
somewhat deprived of their unsefulness
by the uncertainty regarding their per-
manency In other words, il is already
questioned If that Is not the last full
Sugar dividend, and the inquiry is made
as to the exact meaning of the Atchison
declaration We are glad to have the
dividends made; however, no matter what
may be the conditions for all dividends
what we want now badly. Question is
rife as to the coming dividend on Ameri-
can Steel common, and our friends tell
US they expect 114 quarterly and urge
holding the stock very firmly for Is. Met
ropoHtanriss featureless, and the insiders
are apparently content to let 1t drift with
the tide OF general speculation. We
hardly look for much Improvement in it
at present. Consolidated Gas may go
lower, but it Is good thing to buy on
a scale. for 1t is very cheap and no sensi-
settled when the insiders are ready
Barrett, Farnurn & Co.. telegraphed the
following to Edwards & Bedell, stock
brokers and commission merchants lilo
weekly weather crop bulletins report eX-
eessive rains in Missouri, upper Missis-
sippi and Ohio valleys Rains on the
Pacific coast have been beneficial. In
California early wheat has suffered
slightly, but late sown wheat has i'm
proved. The same conditions exist is
oregon and Washington. The spring
wheat states show promising conditions.
conditions nave been more favorable for
corn, although cultivation has been re-
tarded. The last two or three days peo-
mr. Mt 70
and receipts Of wheat than they have
Tor a month. For long time no news
attracted the attention except crop dam
has been declared. Stocks continue strong
and higher on persistent buying by com
mission houses. Transactions relatively
light and confined to few stocks Sugar
and grangers- in most favor.
FOREIGN FINANCIAL-New York,
June The Commercial Advertis-
er,s London financial cablegram says:
krueger conference upset Africans
in the market here today, being accom-
panied PAM by wild talk of a British ultima
markets sympathized, consols falling
6-16 Americans were hardly mentioned
and the fluctuations in them were frac-
: TREASURY ~sTATEMENTEWas
ton, June !t.Today's statement of the
condition ofIthe treasury shows: Avail
able cash ash b. balance, s26s,So2,972; gold re-
NEW YORK MONEY-New York, June
Mooney on call steady at 2@2h; last
loan. q Prime mercantile paper, 3A@4.
Sterling exchange steady, with actual
business in bankers bills at 81 SO for de-
mand,. and at "a. $500. So for sixty days.
Posted rates, 81 S61b6D4. 81 and "a So Com
mercial bills. AS5A@4. S51a. Silver certi-
hcates, 6lQ62c. Bar silver 60Hc. Mex
lean dollars, 4Skc.
BANK CLEARINGs.
St. Paul, 1864, SOS. 35
Minneapolis, 81, $685. 210.
Chicago, $21, 454, 455.
New York, s1S1. 06S, 373
Boston, $22 063, 1893.