The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-03-10
The earnings OF the Great Northern for
the month of February increased s2e5 900.

| The earnings of the Great Northern for
| the month of February increased So, goo.
| The grangers all showed small net gains
yesterday, mostly accomplished during the
I last half hour of the day. Atchison closed
| at Sc, the highest price for the day; Bur-
| lington at 123 IA, and Rock Island at 107
also the highest prices reached during the
! session, and ST. Paul at 121 only, an eighth
on from the best price. London has
bought Atchison preferred heavily during
| the past two weeks, and also there have
been purchases for investors on this side,
| every day, with the February earnings
statement coming out shortly, and known
TO be extremely favorable. Again it seems
highly probable that the price of the stock
Will have a further advance, although it
is now selling near to its highest price.
The Western securities were not hurt
yesterday by the last and most absurd of
the iictions of the bear propaganda, 10 the
effect that the bubonic plague has reache
California and will kill business on the Pa
cific railways. Atchison preferred closed
at the top price of the day. Southern Pa
cifc was quiet, but closed within IA of the
top, and Union Pacific common closed at
the highest price. IS 12. The authorities
state that there is no evidence of any
plague at San Francisco.
Sugar sold EEK" dividend / 1-2 per cent
yesterday. Forty times before without a
break the company has paid per cent at
the end of each quarter. The street was
an interested spectator at the movements
OF the stock yesterday. but there was very
little business in it. All day it was strong,
however, and the close was at the highest
price, 81 12, showing l per cent OF the
dividend regained. There was nothing new
regarding the trust or its security yestog-
day.
The stockholders of the Consolidated Gas
Company held a special meeting yesterday
and voted with entire harmony It is said,
TO increase the capital stock of the COM
pany from s3S,01S,000 to s54, 594 GOO. The
stock has been weak for few DAYS. but
was well taken yesterday, and made
good net gain. The close was at 176 liz,
after an advance to III ga had been made.
Chicago Gas was again one Of the most
interesting stocks on the list. In the
first hour OF the day it made the lowest
price yet reached on this movement, 80,
which is only points above the low price
of the December panic. Later the stock
was bought heavily by shorts and for sup
porting orders and it closed at "a, within
Us of the high price of the day. The
bear attacks on the stock probably
reached their climax yesterday. The va
riety and vividness of the fiction circu-
lated on the eve Of the covering move
ment seem to indicate this. Yesterday
mornings contribution to the attacks on
the stock was story that the Standard
Oil Trust is backing the Ogden company
in a fight with the Peoples, and furnish
ing oil to it so cheaply that it can pro-
duce gas is cents a thousand feet cheaper
than the Peoples. This fact, with the
cutting of the price on the Chicago mu-
nicipal contract, it was said, would prob
ably force the reduction OF the Peoples
dividend.
The steel and iron securities were some