Omaha daily bee., 1901-03-09
MOVEMENTS N STOCKS AND BONDS.
Heavy Animated specuInttons In
Few Industrial stocks.

NEW YORK, March S.-There was
heavy. animated specula tion In rev OF
the more prominent industrials IN the mar :
ket today and some large operations ~ ,l uI.e
or two railroad stocks. The oay M MaytiN,,Ia N,,.a
were much congested in the channels inul-
Gated. Trading I'm the general llst was ~ Ill
fact small and rather unimportant anu ~, r,Ie
movement OF prices was na,,sr sdussisr con-
tinues very large, owing TO the Cons'a,nts ~, I
disposition to seek out soft places IN tne t
lis for an sdjustment OF s, va'uTs T,e 70 recep. @
tiveness Of the speculative mind 10 ANY
thing in the nature of n Suggestion on cull-
solidation or a merger brings a QUICK re
Spouse to any manipulation In these minor
properties. But the purely speculatlNe
movement In the mercurial industr1als Wls
the leading Characteristic OF To-Day : n"'
ket.
Sugar and Amalgamated Copper were
most prominent In the deallnss; lnerc
were some evidences of speculative con-
test between the friends of the two stoSks'
very large dealings In which were TOT Bos
ton account. The latter was nttsa ,,n accom 0yer
panying rumors of adjustment OF uappe ~
rivalries. Inference was drawn from 'ns
the company made In Massachusetts, In
the amounts of the investments In other
companies, helped the advance Amaga
count of adjournment of the Montana Leg
islature, which was taken as averting the
probability Of hostile measures, put IN IN the
flood of offerings Az points to below W.
closing with net loss OF 2ss.
The market was weak all around at the
opening on continuation of YESTERDAY
realizing movement. Union Pacific es.
pecially was carried down lS. The large
buying of special stocks checked the down
ward tendency and caused general recoN'
cries. Among the notable gains MADE 6y
individual stocks were Burlington. IA; st
Louis & San Francisco. 2ss st. Louis
San Francisco second preferred, 3'4: chi
cago & Eastern Illinois, rs; Rio Grandt
Western preferred. 2Ss, Chesapeake one
and Pressed Steel Car, 80; New York An
Union Gas 3i2; Glucose and Pullman. ga
Ice preferred. 2, and the local traction
stocks, except Manhattan, from 2i9 to 3,s
An active realizing movement In the after
best the reaction in some cases ranging
from ] to over points The market nae
commenced to rally when the announce
ment of the increase In the southern Rail
way dividend induced proft-taking In thos
stocks and the violent break In Amalga
mated Copper coming In addition. Stee
stocks were neglected, as for several day
past.
The money market remained rather easy
although the Indications are for veal
treasury has taken A.2S20oo from the mar
ket, while the movement on balance to tn
| interior is small There have been SOM
| large local movements OF money inciden
! to corporate operations and II is felt tina
| these may complicate the result as the!
did last week. The change In the loan iten
| Is also much In doubt owing to the larF
| transactions Of the week. Some banks
| others have increased them freely.
| The railroad bond market continues quit
active and the movement Irregular. Tota
| sales. par value. $4,000. United state
| 90 advanced q per cent on the last call
| The following are the closing prices oil
4 Work Stock exchanges.