New-York tribune., 1901-12-12
MINING STOCKS.
WALL STREET AND EXCHANGES.

FOREIGN TRADING.-London dealt in about
1900 shares IN the local market. buying about
Is 900 shares There fair demand for Baltl-
more and Ohio, Southern PACING. Atchlson ana
United States Steel.
STOCK LOAN QUOTATICNS.-Loan quota tions
were: Amalgamated Copper per cent; Anaconda.
Atchison common and preferred, Brooklyn faPo
Transit Baltimore and Ohio common. Delaware
and Hudson. Erie common. Erie first preferred
Erie second preferred Louisville ard Nashville
Manhattan Missouri Pacific. New-York Central
Peoples Gas Reading first preferred ROCK Island
St Paul. Southern Railway preferred southern
Pacific Sugar Tennessee Coal and iron. Union
Pacific common and preferred. United States Steel
common and preferred United States Leather pre-
ferred Wabash preferred Western Union, o1aao
MONEY MARKET FACToRS.-The Sub-Treas-
ury transferred for banks sSo0,oo0 TO New-Orleans
and bought from savings bank sl00o,ooo of the IS
of 1925 at 81 395 40 So far in the week the banks
have lost about 81 900 600 on b-Treasury opera
tfons Gold export engagements for to-days
steamers aggregate s11o0 600. Some Chicago banks
called on their New York correspondents yesterday
for funds incident to the financing Of the grain
speculation In the West. Call money lent as high
as 10 per cent and while renewals were made at
per cent. loans ruled at better figures
NEW ENTRY TO CURB MARKET.-For the first
time the shares of the Empire Consolidated Quick
silver Mining Company yesterday were traded in on
the curb The stock has been dealt in and is listed
on the Boston Stock Exchange. The property con-
ssts of the Sulphur Banks. the Abbott, the Empire
and Central mines, Lake and Colusa counties,
Cal, free and clear of all Indebtedness. The COM
pany is incorporated under the laws of New-jersey
and the capital stock is s5,0o0,000-
PAPER EARNINGS HEAVY.-An International
Paper Company director is quoted saying that
the Interna tional Paper Company is probably in
better financial condition than at any time
in it's history. The of cash hand is large
and the volume of sales satisfactory The COM
pany manufactures better paper than the constit-
uent companies manufactured Some customers
formerly preferred the product of certain mills, but
now the same customers cannot detect any differ
ence in the quality of the paper from the various
mills and this fact is important because IL has
bearing upon freight chargts'
DIVIDENDS DECLARED-Chicag and North
western directors have declared the regular quar-
terly dividend OF 1 per the preferred stock
and the regular semi annual dividend of per cent
on the common. Minneapolis and ST. Louis dj
have declared the regular semiannual divi-
dend OF 211 per the preferred stock and
mon. The Northern Pacific Railway Company has
declared the regular quarterly dividend of per
cent its common stock payable February l.
BALTIMORE AND OHIO.-G;ross earnings of the
Baltimore and Ohio November increased $685. 80
over November 1900. Net earnings increased
s278 COS From July gross earnings have increased
81 2S2. 453 and net earnings 2.0621p.
SILVER EXPORTS.-The steamship Deutsch
land sailing for Europe to-day. will take out 1890
ounces of silver shipped by the United Metals Sell
ing Company.
ILLINOIS CENTRAL MILEAGE.-The Illinois
Centrars mileage in October. 1900, was incorrectly
given in The Tribune as 1885, 1t really was 424S.
In October. 1901. 495- The increase in earn
ings thus proportionatey vastly greater than
hat