The age-herald., 1902-03-25
STOCK MARKET
 TRIED ID RALLY Prices Started Higher But Fi- nally ReIapSed Into DulInesS BIG DEMAND FOR READINGS Amaleamated Copper Was Notably Active and With Occasional Rallies Was Depressed On Account of
 Fear for Anaconda Dividend.
BIG DEMAND FOR READINGS

New York, March 24-Today's stock market made some attempt to rally rom the reactlonary tendency that developed before the close on Saturday and 10 re- sume the upward tendency which was becoming fairly general on frloay' Prices started higher this morning put the market during the day did not holo out the promise of the early dealings and again relapsed into dull and dr1tt- ing condition with the dealings almost entirely in professional hands and the more obscure stock moving without any degree of energy.
 There was a marked demand for the Readings and an apparent attempt to shift the leadership into the coalers from the western grain carriers whose strength last week was supposed to be due to the favorable prospects of the grain crop. But the obvious fact that the selling to take profits was going on in St. Paul showing the work of professional hands detracted from the influence of the new strength in the Readings. The renewed attendance at his office of the most prominent capitalists in the street and the
  sions of other large capitalists were look ed to by the more sanguine of the trad CTS to result in a resumption of market activity but except for the buying of the sings no such influence was apparent. Amalgamated copper was notably active and with occasional rallies was depressed on account of a fear that the Anaconda dividend to be acted on this week will not be maintained. There was an active Io4i tY, ad Hat lppt or stocks with advances of a point or more accompanied by reports subsequently cir culated that the accumulated dividends due on the preferred stock were to be funded into a bond. Louisville and Nash vile and Chicago, Indianapolis and Lou isville rose together in the late trading thus reviving old rumors of a combina- ton. Outside of these cases the market was spotty and uneven and very irregu- lar.
 There were wide advances in Evansville and Terre Haute, North American, Gen eral Electric, corn products and Keokuk and Des Moines preferred, but none of the gains were fully maintained and there were wide declines in other stocks which have had recsht advances. Colorado Fuel was active and cratic ranging both above and below Saturdays price and closing with net gain of a point Sooth-
 
 dition of the money market was perfectly safe but the forces of depletion at work upon the cash reserves of the banks and the narrow margin of their surplus re- serve kept awake an uneasy sentiment regarding the condition of the market until the April settlements. With the sub-treasury taking funds from the mar ket, an interior demand for currency and sterling exchange again hardening towards the gold export point, It is felt that there Is danger of flurries in the money market if a sustained stringency can be avoided. The market closed heavy The bond market was irregular but the active issues were inclined to recess. To- tai sales par value $1,720,00
 United States bonds were all unchang- ed on the last call
 New York Stock Market.
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