New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-12-16
MINING STOCKS.
WALL STREET AND EXCHANGES.

FOREIGN Reconsideration an active
factor in the local market. buying on balance up
ward of seventy-hve thousand shares.
STOCK LOAN QUOTATIONS.-Loan quotations
were: Atchison common, Delaware, Lackawanaa
and Western. Northwestern, 2; Atchison preferred
Chicago Burlington and Quincy. General Electric
Missouri Pacific. New-York Central. Northern Pa
ciic common and preferred, Rock Island. st. Paul,
American Tobacco common, Continental Tobacco
common. Southern Railway preferred, Louisville
and Nashville Pacific Mail, Amalgamated Copper
4; Peoples Gas, Reading 1st preferred, Sugar,
Union Pacific common, Manhattan Brooklyn Rapid
Transit, Tennessee Coal and Iron Federal Steel
common, American Steel and Wire common AZ;
Delaware and Hudson. Western Union. Erie 1st
preferred 3; Baltimore and Ohio common. 4a41z;
Erie common, Erie ID preferred. fiat. and Illinois
Central, 3.
HEAVY ADVANCES-The heaviest advances
were made by Buffalo. Rochester and Pittsburg
which gained points Chicago Great Western pre-
ferred 3, "a points; Consolidated Gas, points;
Great Northern preferred. points; Hooking Val
ley, 2* points Minneapolis. ST. Paul and Sault Ste
Marie preferred, points; Northern Pacific 8
points; Pressed Steel Car preferred 212 points and
Union Pacific. points.
Low PRICED STOCKS.-Low priced stocks were
strong and in good demand. Kansas and Southern
preferred taken by banking interests identified
with the Hartman syndicate. Inside buying was
reported IN Des MoInes and Fort Dodge and good
buying noted in the Mexican Central and
Texas and Pacific issues
INDUSTRIAL STOCKS.-AlI the iron and steel
stocks were strong. One per cent was bid to call
American Car and Foundry preferred at 80 for a
moderate period. and good buying OF the stock was
reported. The demand for Federal Steel was
strong and heavy selling of American Smelling
was noted The United States Rubber issues were
weak Peoples Gas was well bought. and the
shorts In this stock and Sugar were active buyers
VARIOUS BUYERS.-A A Housrnan a ~ -
heavy buyers Of Northern Pacific Bell 3 "a
took large blocks of Atchison issues Wasseruar
Brothers and Sterling Groesbeck also bought
Atchison Talbot J. Taylor Co. were heavy
buyers around the
AMERICAN WOOLLEN STOCKS-ThA cor,r,o,
and preferred stocks OF the American wooIIep
Company will be dealt in on the Stock EXCHANGE
for the first time tomorrow in the unlisted de-
partment
THE GRANGER SHARES.-st Paul sbousd
further strength and the rest OF the granger
advanced in sympathy. Good market Judges prs
dict much higher price for Rock Island AT the
opening there were sixty brokers in the ST. Paul
crowd.
ST LOUIS soUTHwEsTERN-Th earnings or
st. Louis Southwestern for the first four months
OF the current fiscal year show that ret earnings
are nearly 100000 II the month OF November
gives the same ratio OF Increase in net earnings as
October the net should be at least $4,000 and as
December Is usually OF the heavy months OF
the year. the net results for the first six months
are expected 10 be I'm the neighborhood OF 81 600
as against Sl,O5seOO for the corresponding period
last year.
CHICAGO GREAT WESTERN.-Chicago Great
Western stock 20 the amount OF 5000 shares went
abroad last week. Foreigners have been increasing
their holdings Of Chicago Great Western securities
for several weeks. and the present floating supply
Is small
NORTHERN PAcIFIC-street gossip says that
inside interests in Northern Pacific are making
plans for fresh advance in the stock. The stock
is well controlled and It Is thought that insiders