New-York tribune., 1901-01-20
WALL STREET AND EXCHANGES.

FOREIGN TRADING. - London prices were
lower and arbitrage houses sold In the local mar
ket. Total dealings amounted TO about fifty thou
sand shares
STOCK LOAN UOTATIONS-PrevaiIing loan
quotations Atchison common, 2a21z; Atchison
preferred, Chicago, Burlington and Quincy New
York Central Northwestern, Northern Pacific pre-
ferred, Reading first preferred, Rock Island, st.
Paul. Sugar. Union Pacific common and preferred,
American Tobacco common. Continental Tobacco
common and preferred, Tennessee Coal and Iron
Southern Railway preferred Louisville and Nash
Vile, Baltimore and Ohio common Pacific Mail
Erie common and second preferred, 8; Peoples
Gas, United States Leather preferred Brooklyn
Rapid Transit, Federal Steel common and Amert-
can Steel and Wire common 1854; Third Avenue
and Missouri Pacific fat; Northern Pacific com
mon, Western Union Illinois Central and Delaware
and Hudson, 2, and Erie first preferred, 21k.
ANACONDA--Foreign selling of Anaconda led to
a sharp break in that stock and in Amalgamated.
The decline Of over three points in Anaconda
shares in the London market thought in well
Informed local circles to have been in sympathy
with the general reaction IN the stock market
lowing the sharp advances OF the last six weeks
and that 1t also probably due 10 the extreme
dulness which characterizes the copper market at
the moment This dulness is said 10 be due largely
10 the fact that several prominent manufacturing
concerns are closed temporarily for stock taking
Local copper interests say that is no change
in the copper situation in the Northwest
MISSOURI PACIFIC.-NIissourt Pacific advanced
rapidly at the opening and 1t looked as II the pool
had the stock cornered. The price advanced over
3 per cent, but broke at the close There was no
news regarding the property, but dividend was
confidently expected.
THE STEEL STOCKS.-Reports that the Federal
Steel Company had secured control of the Amerf-
can Steel and Wire Company helped the Steel
stocks In the early dealings. There was however
good selling on the advance, and the close prices
we're generally at about Fridays final figures
DIVIDENDS DECLARED.-The Pullman Com
pany mas declared a quarterly dividend Of 50 per
snare The directors Of Colorado Fuel and Iron have
declared a dividend Of per on the preferred
stock Tor the six months ending December 81 1900
payable February is. Under the laws of the State
of Colorado. in which the Colorado Fuel and Iron
company Is incorporated action can be taken
on q dividend on the common stock before the fuiI
per cent for the year has been declared on the
preferred The present preferred dividend makes 4
per cent for the fiscal year date
AMERICAN SMELTING.-A special meeting Of
the stockhoIders of the American Smelling and
refining Company will be held February Is to
take action upon amendment 10 the certihcafa oF
incorporation increasing the capital to an aI-
thorzed capital of S00Og0Q00, one-haIf of the in
crease to be preferred stock and one-half common
BANK CLEARINGS.-The total bank clearings NJ
all the clearing houses Of the United States for the
week ending January 10 have been 81 5O4 3f9 500
against 81 65S 03 last week 81 CTS 097 4g The
corresponding week Of last year
OFFER OF BONDS-Redmond Kerr & Co IN
another column offer to investors a line of high
grade railroad bonds, bearing from 3k to per cent
interest, including bonds guaranteed by the New
York Central, the Pennsylvania and Delaware
LackaWanna and Western systems