New-York tribune., 1902-08-14
MINING STOCKS.
WHEAT.
WALL STREET AND EXCHANGES.

FOREIGN TRADINCT.-FOrelgn houses utsilt III
- 900 shares selling 1900 shares. In the London
market the Improvement in consols reflected
generally more cheerful tone. Paris exchange on
London was somewhat easier. and money was gem
orally plentiful in the various European centres
STOCK LOAN QUOTATIONS.-Final loan quo
tations were: Amalgamated Copper Anaconda
American Ice Atchson common and preferred
Brooklyn Rapid Transit. Baltimore and ONO com
mon Colorado Fuel and Iron, Canadian racine
Delaware and Hudson. Erie common, nrst ana sec
ond preferred; Louisville and Nashville Mahh'it-
tan Missouri Pacific, New-York Central, Nofth-
western Metropolitan Street Railway. Peoples
Gas Reading first preferred Rock Island 81. rdIi'
Southern Railway preferred southern AIM
Sugar Tennessee Coal and lron Union Fdc'"'
common and preferred, United States steel com
mon and preferred United States Leather pre-
ferred Wabash preferred, Western Union ana f'e-
public Steel common and preferred @'2 per 'eiit.
INTERN ATIONAL PAPER.-For the hrSI tl"ie
in many months International Paper issues not
bI,, tho common were active in yesterday mar
ket The International Paper Company' oe7ll,s
onnosition and other adverse factors last year
did n large business and showed a coinio' ''''
surplus after the per cent dividend on I''e P'
ferred stock. A per cent issue Se'lIhT d' So
cbaan and International Paper preferred oush.
+tar.for. to prove attractive. This issue soId
several wears ago above 90 IntriHSlcaHy IL l.
more valuable present and its ihd'Nt' >''"
ought to be advanced.
INDUSTRIAL FEATURES. Buying oil AM,
and
fact that the stock as prospective . per cent issue
ie selling under its actual worth lnterha ''oN''
Paper issues were taken by insiders Ieh'eSSee
Coal and Iron and the United States steer S.'i'''
were more active. The express company S"a'.
rnado sbarn advances on small dealings Reports
of an express company merger were ueli'e
RADIO Fuel and Iron was strong a'S'
Lead. .. ~.o,,r,>-1-
AMERICAN GRASS PRODUCTS CONF An =
II , :, Paul dispatch. J. O'ShaughheSsS' j., 50
ond vice-president Of the American ~ 'S'
C,o,,,an,. gives the details Of the plans OF ''T
,,.~ic,,, Grass Products Company, recently OF
canlzed with capital Of Sl5H'e" MI 9Ia uEI'
messy saws that the new company Is a Su'9''''S
co-,rar7v Of the American Grass I"lhe N'IlP'''S
o,5 ycas formed to take over the American Furhl-
.. nd Manufacturing Company, and the Curled
t-;rre Manufacturing Company. previously CON
troned by the American Grass irvine ''inPa'E-
The Furniture and Manufacturing company mas
heretofore been making furniture and similar proc
vote from grass tv,ne In a plant in Brooklyn y
much more extensive plant is being erected on
Ion, Island. The Curled Fibre Manufacturing
,,r,r,.r, y.1s organized TO utilize the new processes
for manufacturing into mattresses the grasses OF
the salt marshes so common along the Ne"-JeTsey
coast and elsewhere. The new plant on Long Isl
and Will make furniture from Western WiTegTaSS
and twine and mattresses from the salt marsh
grasses OF The East But additional product
which viii be important. and that is also new. viii
be China mating that is, mating made from
dbres imported from China
EXTRA LABOR DAY HOLIDAY--Membors or
the Coffee Exchange have peutioued the board OF
managers of the exchange to close the exchange on
the Saturday preceding Labor Day. 1t is under
stood that the Stock Exchange and Produce EX-
change Will also be pctuoned to close on the Sat
urGay before Labor Day.
SPONSORS FOR RUSSIAN APPLICATION-It
may be stated on authority tina, the application 10
list the 2.3lGVDoo rubIes Russian Government
bonds on the Stock Exchange was made Jointly by
J +. Morgan & Co, August Belmont Co. Barring
Magoun & Co and the National City Bank
SECURITIES LISTED. Securities listed the
Stock Exchange yesterday were those OF the Colo
RADIO Fuel and Iron Company. 100000 additional
convertible bonds. the Denver and Rio Grande Rail
road Company. NOoo05 additional four per cent
consolidated mortgage bonds. and the Irving Ma
tional Bank, 100000 additional capital stock.
A NEW CURB STOCk.-The stocks of the Uni
ted BoXboard ana Paper Company appeared for the
first time in the outside market The common sold
d I52s and the preferred at 69i2. 500 shares.
WELLS. FARGO-The balance sheet OF Wells
Fargo & Co. of July 81 1902 compares with last
year follows.