The Minneapolis journal., 1902-04-03
ARE UP
St. Paul n in Demand and Leads in
Wall Street.
500 CONTINUES IT'S DAILY GAIN
'rremenlous Ab.orption OF st. Paul
the Feature of the Clos
ing Hour.

New York, April 3.-Prices hardened at tue
opening throughout the list There was a
notable demand for st. Paul. which lifted 1t
"a large fraction. and other recently active
stocks showed sharp fractional gains. Anal
samated Copper was depressed fraction.
st. Pauis gain aof point sustained the
t'ailroad list, but prominent stocks were neg
lected. Amalgamated continued heavy and
there were losses Of 1@11a in Colorado Fuel,
Pacific Coast and North American, the latter
recovering Its loss. The principal gains in
cluded GA In North Western preferred 8 in
American Telephone & Telegraph, 3A in
Hooking Valley common and 2lA In the pre-
ferred and 1@2 in st. Paul Omaha pre-
>ferred. Northwestern, General Electric,
Hooking Coal, Kanawha &-Michigan, ST. Paul
preferred, Iowa Central preferred, ST. Louis
& San Francisco, the Wisconsin Central and
the 500 stocks, American bicycle. preferred and
New York Dock preferred
The market was less active and became
feyer1sh on proft-taking sales and bidding up
at new points. The, New York public utili-
ties, as group, made the most headway,
Consolidated Gas, Manhattan and Brooklyn
Transit rising q point more. Chicago In
dianapolis & louisville also rose /, North
American 3 net, New York Dock Nv and
American Telephone & Telegraph jumped 10
altogether on Its good monthly and quarterly
statements Hooking Valley reacted IL and
then rose again Az over last night. Frac-
tlonal 1nroads We're made on. prices OF other
stocks and Mexican National preferred when
issued, and Amalgamated Copper ran off a
point or more, and Anaconda 312. North
Western was pushed up to 23s14 toward noon.
st. Paul rose point over last night and st.
Louis San Francisco, Canada Southern,
Distilling preferred and Westinghouse Elec-
tric first preferred gained 1@11a
The rise in North Western extended to Az
and to in st. Paul & Omaha. A movement
developed among the Vanderbilts which car
ried up New York Central, Cleveland, c., c.
& St Louis, New York, Chicago & St. Louis
and Peoria Eastern 1@19s. Hooking Val
ley rose in all and the preferred SA
Cleveland, Lorain & Wheeling jumpeda 61a
and Kahawha & Michigan 2A. The advance
i'll the New York Dock stocks reached 5 and
there were gains Of point more in Ilii-
nois Central, Colorado & Southern first pre-
ferred and a number Of obscure industrials.
In other industrials profit-taking was in prog
ress. Colorado Fuel, United States Leather
preferred and Continental Tobacco preferred
fell more than point under last night and
the minor steel stocks were heavy.
The exhaustion of the buying demand and
the heavy selling of Colorado Fuel and Anal
gamated depressed prices all round. Colorado
FUELS net loss reached two points, Amalga-
mated fell ~ and Tennessee Coal ~. New
York Central and Brooklyn Transit sold a
point or more below the highest. Louisville
showed strength and was point higher. Iowa
Central rose 1ss, the preferred ~, Union Bag
preferred 1&, and Fort Worth & Denver
City stamped 2A A later rally of 1ss in
Colorado Fuel and a rise of point in Sugar
did not enliven the market
The absorption of St. Paul was on an enor-
nous scale and the stock stubbornly rose
through all offerings to 1885, individual trans
actions running as high as 1000 shares. The
preferred rose 3 points, Northwestern IN,
the preferred 11A, St. Paul & Omaha H., Ann
Arbor preferred 4, Mating 2k, North Ameri-
can 4, Iowa Central preferred 2B, and num-
Der Of the junior Vanderbilts, Des Moines &
Fort Dodge, Union Pacific, Missouri Pacific,
Pennsylvania, Colorado & Southern second
preferred, and, Union Bag and Paper, Atchison
and Southern Pacific 1@2 points. The5 gen
eral market was not much affected, the realiz-
ing continuing at some points. Sugar, and
Republic Steel preferred ran off point and
Lake Erie & Western preferred lost IL. The
closing was active and strong.
Bonds were dull and irregular, but there was
a good distribution Of the dealings. ~
Stock quotations reported for The Journal
by Watson & Co., Chamber of Commerce,
Minneapolis
Closing figures are bid. -