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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-04-03

y: 4
SPOT sStten o1Gsed qq6e 15 RSInts Fsf
io.5o; sales 400 bales, 81
cototn quiet mi, miadng; 81 1o IS il net cs
800 BALES; stock, 6o,026 bales. :,
Total to-day atall seaports1n = eet
S fs!Rsi $ ba RasS socf p4ssle bales
ceIpts, 1856 bales; export !, e !, Great
Britain 3,5ls bales:.to France l5 ole bales;
to The c9ntinesst bales sea.
ports-Net receipts. 9, 070, sSl bale export
722 424 bales; to the Continent, 1866
bales. t.5s IS;
VI NEW. ORLEANS, April 2,-COTTON:--
The spot cotton market was very firm to-
day. quotations unchanged.
Futures opened from 5ac points up 12 ,1 uni
der the lead 9f New YTr and later Fa aa94
ini'Juiys From the highest figures Of the.
morning this was q slight recession on a
.quieter feeling toward noon.g The pears ar
all seemed to have news from the coun-l
try Planting vas said to be progrsssthng
farmers were preparing to Rcu1tivate the
largest crop In years. This news was, not
at all alarming to the long side; when
crop outlook. After frequent lid fuctua.-I
tions the board at the close showed net
gains Of 96p14 points :. !, :, /, !,
Cotton 1, fnt y steaa Asa INV o7
us; August 's. e4sGs4s; september SIRE "a
S73; October, s.s4@S.35; November, s,2sQp
SIS; December, s.23@S.A. .ss.as
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EDITORS VIEWS.
What the New York Evening Papefs
Have to Say ofaYesterdays 7 rading

s (SpecInl to The Times Dispatch.)
NEW YORK, April 2.-The Mail and
Express says: To-dnys stock market
was an insipid affair and made a close
approach to stagnatlon at frequent inter-
walls. Nothing like it has been witnessed
ness was accompanied by weakness,
Northwest, Western Union and Colorado
Fuel and Iron falling 2to points, and a
with Southern Pacific and Pennsyl..i
svania In the lead. While the failure OF
4 the money market to, return t. normal
rs tho sothern
Pacific suit formed q still greater In
1luence In checking business and bring
ing about net losses s ms matter IS dasi
Street Is waiting the outcome with con-
siderable anxiety. "a
@ The Commer cial-Adyertlser SAYS Opera,
lions by. the bear con tingent were resumed
i'm n tentative fashion, yet with consid-
cradle success, In to-day's market. The
pressure, however, was confined mainly
another. were thought to be more syulner-
able than the rest. ANOTHER large de-
GREASE in the PENNSYLVANIA net earnings
attack on that stock which carried It
down point and half from last nights
u final.
j OF New York Central and the Wabash
{ stocks, The sharpest declines. however
y occurred among some Of the less i'm
lortant issues such y as Nv western uni era
I Eases where speculative holders who had
n managed to hold their own while the gem
Il )ral downward movement was III progress
ed as special objects Of attack. Prices
4 fell back slowly. but very steadily,
throughout the session. Selling. as rule,
was light and originated almost wholly
in professional quarters. But the dscour-
d desiro to to buy: So far as outside news
j stimulating. The banks lost heavily again
to the sub-Treasu they are indebted
now tor the week so far to the extent
new ! cause for depression In, the latest
ebullitons in Macedonia and London re-
representatives. again sold in the local
the ,,va m9st wSs
Southern Pacific hearing at Nashville
Opinion ~ many quarters Of VAL Wal stree e.
market until this incident Is out OF the
& way. The market closed heavy. but the
trading was too small TO make IT seem seen
resistance TO the decline could be said tc
i nave been very GOOD. h1t
The Evening Post says; Attention was
somewhat diverted to-day from prices
on the Stock Exchange 70 prices IN tht
Coppcr-something like sc per pound
Attracted attention, partly because of the
mysterious recent moves in, the copper
IS the first noteworthy check to the rise
in the price since the upward movement
started at l2c. pound, exactly three
Very extraordinary In the fact that tht
rise has halted. Even the optimsts o
K the copper trade--and IN this market the,
have been nnmcrous--neve believed tina
the price maintained In the copper trusts
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StllLCoc,Insiderlnr.

The Senate Committees on Roads and
Courts of Justice held a long conference
again last night and further considered
session, No conclusions were reached,
and Az Will take several other meetings
IL comglets the Toy|s,
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WALL STREET GOSSIP
Copper and Steel Stocks Affected by
Cost in Price Of Metal.

(speclul to The Times Dlspatch)
NEW YORK, April 2.-T'he stock market
made about the tamest opening In any
lime In the past few weeks and showed
clearly that commission houses We're
without orders OF consequence, The acri-
monous Southern Pacific dispute made Its
inft,lence felt to q certain extent, and the
professional element seemed TO be rather
pessmistic. gH.
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at the clearing house on Wednesday $780,
600, the banks lost to that ins I'll,
81, ga 900 on the days business as foil s'sn
Customs s41S 600; retiring cirtulaton. s4f ~
counter, 1854 900. B
EARLY TRADING. 4, .
"a The first hours trading developed ra ther
moro weakness than might have been e *:
pecte and a resumption 81. aggressive
selling in Important Tt9oRs Ke
bearish and were helping the decline on ol1
the theory that the market only showed
activity on the down grade and merely
became dull on advances. az s- Al
WESTERN UNION: :, :.
The attack on Yves term Union seems 70
have been concerted and ,e enme fG9t
for the largest bear trader in the market
There were plenty of stories current, none
OF them very probable and mostly pear
1t looked, however, more likely that ,fle "a
stock we'll known to be widely held by the
public had been attacked to induce gen
eral outside liquidation.
COLORADO FUEL BONDS: 45
Tho moro the street looked at the pro-
posed Colorado anel 6ona ssre Ime ss5
to be bonded was thought BY some peopiie5
to be an insufficient security. as II could
probably DO duplicated at less than the
=
WABASH ISSUES WEAK:
Il Wabash issues were weak on the uncer-:
tainlabor outlook and the absence of any
support from the controlling interests n
the road. 1t is fairly sure hat the Gould
Deople have not done anything since they
mailing theIr control absolutely certain. VI
THE. SECOND HOUR.
"A The market In the, second hour was va,
was b s
iutely no factor, and what little the COM
mission houses were doing seemed to !, pc g
realizing Te mo1eS rae a aIs
tie Standard Oil banks, were lenders. The
talk of an adverse decision IN the Minnie mn
Healy case. which was use e. as = pear pea,
argument on Amalgamated Copper PROB
ably did not represent anything more than
guesses The reduction In, the . price % OF
pig-iron had some.unfavorable effect upon
the United States Steel issues
The heavy tone lin Pennsylvania was
partly caused by' the disappointing show
G Ing Of eao s t hnEE th ahasaS
s sapsoa about II the si last Of its kind.
AFTERNOON TRADING:
" The tone in the early afternoon was
extremely dull and the trading was n
too light Il volume TO nays any Eeul 81! SUI
firnnce Dyen the small room traders,
Who are content with fractional turns,
were doing nothing, and the public OFFICES
of the local brokerage houses were almost
deserted, 81 65ss gf
VANDERBILT ISSUES:
The room had a number, OF stories !, 70
account for the extreme dullness and the
sagglng tendency and among, them one
OF some Important interest said to be IN
close touch with the VanderbiltS getting
out Of stocks. Tho transactions contra
dcted the story and made IT. absolutely
unnecessary to attempt TO get conhrma-
ton. 9&! 5g
THE CLOSE:
The close was extremely dull and feat,
ureless. Traders covered shorts or sold
stock to even up but apart from ' this
! most that could be said was that no
stock was coming out, but on the other
hand the traders who took the bear yletv
said 1t would have been foolish to force
sale In such n market. seH;s WI
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u s. refundlng Unregistered. ......... 1o'
u S. refunding 2's. coupon. ........ lol
u s. 8's registered. ~ ~
n. 8. 3's, coupon. 1890. y! ~
u Is, New As, registered. Sos. ~
u. g. NEVIS, : l lo
u. s. old As, registered. -, III II
u. s. old As coupon... ..............ll y!
u s.. IS, registered. ~;
us 5's, coupons. ~ ~;
iAtchson, general 4's..:;. ..... Y
Atchison adjustment 4s..............,, ~
Baltimore and Ohio 3hs.: ........... 9
Baltimore and Ohio Conv. ls.......... ~
Canada Southern 2d's..."............l To-
Central Of Georgia 5's... ~
Central $of Georgia 1st 1nc.............1 I!
Ghesapeako ana Ohio AZ s..........,.1 10
Chicago ana Alton 31ks....... :.....,. I.
Chicago, 3. and Quincy new 4s:..... y;
Chicago, M. and st. Paul gen. ISL. ll'
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,atlx 8, adventura q 1eo1 could be reached

costly adventure Of 1901 could be reached
= That price was tic. per, pound. AS h
Il should be obvious that the rise to- the
in ,e weeks figure, nearly 16c,, ala
good deal of "dlscounting for the tuIi,r IRE;
The slight decline IN to-day,s pig,lrto o
matte. 1t would DO no great misfortune ne
il It were. "A year ago, the high price
of iron and steel was pressing gg, hard ,y on
higher by 25 per cent. than that Of twelve
months me-, nth since, and had risen since 1902 4
\ On the Stock Exchange prices again ;ad n
went lower, though. the business done was 'as
small and the net declines as q rule OF no
great consequence. Taken as a whole,
the market closed at lowest prices. II
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{ CATTLE MARKET.

\ CHICAGO, ILL. April 2.-CATTLE-
good to prime steers, 81 5000. 40; poor to
medium $4Qpi75; stoekers and Is feeders,
$2,756p4.76; cows, N,6O1460; bulls, $2.60@
440; Texas-fed steers, S4@4 30. 5 Hogs-Re.
ceipts to-dy, 1900 head; tomorrow, 1900
head; left over. $500 head; average
steady, Mixed and butchers, T:25@7.35:
good to choice aaes heavy s745aa IS buk o e
head sheep and lambs steady TO 1ec low "
fair to choice mixed, $4.bOQ6bO; natlce
lambs. s5.6OQp7 so. IN III is 5 Us,
\ NEW YORK. April 2.--BEEYES--NSo
S Veeis 5S f cy s S5s o aSeep
and Lambs-Top grades steady to firm;
common and medium slow and easier.
.unshorn sheep. s4:25aSso; clipped, ,se; ,un-
sliorn lambs, So 75@8, 81; clipped. 50, 25@6.60;
State spring lambs $3Q0450 each; Jersey:
S. Dressed mutton, SkR11c:i dressed
lambs. 10H014c. Hogs-Ftrm; State and
Pennsylvania hogs, H.O.
u EAST nyEFA4o Il; n: !. AsprI!l Y, SAT "a
s7aa.25; e commen to GOOD s ss@d@ HossS S.
stays. IS. 6OQl6 sheep-Steady Top native
Westntn. $sdS10; yearlings, s7M1,25: top
mixed. $6,25G86o; culls to good 50, 2696,6o.l
CINCINNATI. o, April 2.-HoG
Quiet Mt s6@7.6o. Cattle-Easy at ;2.50M
Ass. : Sheep-Actiye and higher at g 7hds
6.25, Lambs-Actlye and higher at $5g7 20.
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c ID ~, [ on MARKET 4

NEW YORK. April 2.-Cottonseed oil
steady with sales Of prime summer y yell
nominal. prime crude, +. o. b. mills. $50
asc.; prime summer yellow. 41c.; of sum
1neriyeliow; 3Sc.: prime white. 45c.; prime
winter yellow, 45c.; prime meal, S2o.boQ27
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PRODUCE MARKETS. d
Richmond. Va, April 2, 1903
57 QUOTATIONS

e5 SRW Y9R RI rs5sMpa fTrSHnpP
stWSa6dy No so oetions
developed activity and strength! this
We higher cables. bulllsh Russian crop
f Tater fd sola ss s hs ass ON esprit
mand and further covering, with the
s sossd pm 9s 49, saya9se eptem Sbey
m eGfeTs sfes STEADY
predictions o fo rain ana s noon
Under pntIes small . clearance, PIT rallied again
and closed . firm at ss@,hc.a net advs:lce,
May closed AZ 6l%e IVY 5oH iS: s%e nf;nns
fairly fair: active and steadier, May closed
Cut sS1nlaap2 ,esl s
gsaay rsaea fu a5SSasnt $3.50
country, caSAc. Rosin-Quiet, Turpen-
opened steady and ruled fairly active, The
GoSe s eos at aa BLESS s.
I mte s2 2?' centrffuga 81 Test o-ido; mo mo-
1s ;na ,, sugar I;s Eet,ned unsettled
fiji \ cresm', fancy small, colored, ,lali
made, 1Sa,; small Whitehall made; l4 Ms
aS%o s"ts rs a
Steady; Southern 81 5000; State nnd, vest
ern. per $50 pounds $1,000; = t zoI,s I 5sland
nuts--Fnncy hnndnicked, 4A@A Ho'; OTHER
domestic, s1iMc. Cabbages Dull; domes-
tic, per barrel, old bOc. 0$l {; new, 81 ,bo92'5O.
Cotton-By steamer to LIVERPOOL l"c' H
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! MARINE j; /: W INTELLIGENCE.

4 PORT OF! RICHMOND APRIL q, 1905.
g 3575 ARRIVED. s:
Steamer Berkeley, Guy. Norfolk. mer-
chandlse and passengers, OLD Dominion
line 35Ss
and passengers. Virginia vigntion 60.
and James River landings. merchandise
Steamer Wlnyah. o NELL. Philadelphia.
Pa, merchandise and passengers Clyde
line. ST. ~. y e . M X N. tAJS55
~ sa5 IN M sEiE SAILED. 5iiSi& sss
Steamer Berkeley Guy. Norfolk, mer-
chandlse, and passengers, Old Dominion
line, N l f5s
PORT NEWPORT \, + NEWS. APRIL 2, 1903
IS "a Ia RRIVED. 5i53}5 #
Steamer Elswick House, New Orleans. s4
Steamer Iran. Boston
Steamer E!swick House Rotterdam.
Schooner, Frank T. stlnson,, Boston. X
Schooner II. r, Hayward. Galveston,
Schooner Geo, a. MfcFadden, Bangor. n
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DRY GOODS MARKET

market has been featureles with buyers
refrainlng from making liberal purchases.
While stocks on hand are not large. there
Is no desire to speculate. and purchases
Jobbors' trade has been o little more
brisk, owing to the better wea ther con-
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OFFICIAL RANGE AND SALE OF STOCKS in NEW YORk#

SALES: WI
400 Ainerioa,, Can ootri....,..........
Il 1oc American Can pfd.....,...s.....
American Cotton OIL corn. ......i
/. COO !, American Ltoomotlye ooln......5
zoo Anglican Locomotive pfd.,...,,.5
go Anaconda ~. 90. =. .s..s
! 900 American Car and Fouhdry...
$500 American Sugar..... s...ts.t...t
1900 A Al T. ana Satlte TIE com..n...
< 200 Al, r.. and 5ante Fe pfd! .t...n.S
1880 Anal gatrlated Copper. .I..s.u...g
$500 Baltimore and OhiO.... .....Is..
roo Brooklyn Rapid Transtt..ss...s.4
$500 Canadian Pacific. ......l........s.4
1900 Chesapeake and Ohio..........ss.3
7 100 Canada Southern ...,..,..l.....
coo Colorado Southern com.........
K coo Colorado Southern 1st pfd,.....
Colorado Southern ID ,pfd.....
10000 Chi. Mil. and st. Pau l.......,..5
1000 Chi, Rock Island and Pao...n.i
1890 Colorado Fuel and Irotl...,......
1900 Chicago Great Western.
y q, &C. and st.. Louis.........
1000 Consolidated Gas ~. ...s....i
Delaware and Hudsotl...........E
,s3 Del, Lack and Western..'....,."..
5000 Erie ...............'F
1900 Eric LIST pfd..........
r 900 Eric I'd pfd.... ..........
200 General Electric......
{ 500 Illinois Central................s...lf
1000 Leather ...............;,;;;;...s ....' =
400 louisville and Nashville........,.
5000 Manhattan
1900 Metropolitan ......................
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MISCELLANEOUS MARKETS,
. PEA NIIT AND PEA MARKET.

4 ,t9t! PEANUT AND PEA MARKET.
\ NORFOLK, VA, April The peanut
in prices Is Spanish nuts. which have
dropped in price to The q bushel The
prices are az follows; 4 ! I, y, !, \, 1,
2Nc.; prime. 2Ae.;. low. grades. .2e,; ma
chine picked. 2@2Ac,; Spanish, 771kc: per
bushel, Blackeye peas, 40 hag; black
SOC. -Paanut bags in bales-6s in. l-l0c,
TETERSBURG, VA. April 2,-PIA-
,NUTS-Spanish new market very Arm at
7lMc. sellers asking more. Vlrginia's-
Quiet at So,
HIDES AND TALLOW MARKET.
h CHICAGO, I'LL, April 2-Allen & Mlles
market letter; Country market quiet but
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st. Louis and San! Francisco fs...... SGh
st. Louis southwestern 1st's.......... Seeh
ST. Louis southwestern I'd s.....:... SI.,f
San Antonio and Arkansas Pass 49,. s S55S3
southern railway SIS .......,....,......g 115M
Toledo, st, y. and Western 4s.....,.. g
Union Pacific 4s..... 1V5 ~
Union Pacific Conv. 4s.......... ~. 1gS
% $S$s:$ f.
lee ana Lake nrie 4 s............ 0oA
sconsirI Central As. .,.....,......... W ",
Con tinental T obacoo 4s.............. SS11N
r ncl. 11slanti .,,......... 95A
1oennsyivnnia 97N
M. ana g., Collateral trust 4's...... 92K
trn,ntrni ~ a eorria I'd Inc 3D.
Va. carolina Chemical Go, com.....,.. 62h
Va Carolina Chemical CO. pfd........ 1919
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RICHMOND STOCK MARKET.
Richmond, Va, April 2, 1903

p Virginia Centuries-$500 at 80. -,
4 Broad Street Banls-50 shares at 261e
virginia. Carolina Chemical common
shares at g.; 10 shares at g. -,
y Seaboard. Air Line preferred-lOO shares
Z seaboard Air Line common--loo shares
N STATE SECURITIES, BID Asked
North Carolina As. G., lslo... lo2 =:
va. Centuries, %. G. and Re-. sly "
FRAILROADe HONDa ri
land Alabama Con. IS, 1945.. III -.
n. and w. Ry.t Pocah ontasas. " ..,3}
Pet. Class A SIS, r, c., 1926, ~ ...9
Eft Rleb c ana M n ss i Isl Is Is, is4s S "
S. a. Il. Con. LIST As, 1s5o...,'.. SLY s2h
RAILROAD STOCKS, Par,
Atlanta and Charlotte.... ..100 16o
r. p & r., f. & P. Connec. 20 10
Seaboard Air Line pfd......lo0 20 ~,
Seaboard Air Line com.,.,..,loo = .z4H
BANK AND TRUST cos.
American National ,....,......100 15 lSo
Broad-Street Bank ..,..,.....'2See IVA wv
E SIEst Ma tionai 200
National Bank Of Vn..,....,!0o TX l291a
Planters National .......,.. 100 $40 =.
Savings Bank OF Rlchmond...:& g
Southern Trust Co......,....,lW ll2h !lGH
Virginia Trust Commemorate 80 10 f
INSURANCE COMPANIES,
Va Fire and Marne..........8 81 =.
MISCELLANEOUS,
Amer lob. Co. pfd,. p: ..,loo l6o 4
Va Car. Chem. pfd.. s p .,l0o l23 1S
Va Carolina Chem. com....,,loo 6lM WA
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-AAfAIGAMATED COPPER !:

COPPER'
Copper sold off on decline In Rio Tlntos
In London and the unsympathetlc attltf0e
Of the foreign copper trade generally. 1t
ia said. however, that Amalga mated Cop
per at these levels has been nccumNlate ted
BY interests who sold heavy line OF
stock between ~ and u. is
UNION-soUTHTRN PACIFIC;
Union and Southern Pacihcs were both
heavy and lower without any, serious
pressure. There was disposltl9n 70
suit, and III the meantime both stocks
sagged OF their own wessht.
BANKS I.osH CASH;
/. Altbovgh the apb,TyepsaFy wa asRs9g
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{ ( BALTIMORE STOCK MARKET, III
Y BALTIMORE, MD. April 2.-Seaboard
Air Line common, "a; do, preferred. 1914,
Seaboard AS. S1ss asked, 5S5 ,EE
Atlantic Coast Line common, l?6; do.
preferred, no sale. L.-a .lLs. .-AE. .
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BALTIMORE, MD April s.-,F Lounz
higher s SPOT ana April, 7sH 07sjic Nay
ifb97sX d.; Southern ~ sainple. 7t@1sssca,
CoTn-I 1riner 4sN APRIL i, fsf ~
d4s9 May @4Shq.; s9,itnsrn wnn9iitt9 eY
ia Hye-Dull Mo-. b $40. Butter, . Eggs
AID Cheese-V Firm and UNCHANGED. SuB
Stead ~ and low or refined ana coarse
grnnulnted. "A. 81 " s5ii II Al 8H
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CLOSING BOND QUOTATIONS.

Chicago and Northwestern CON- s....s 1Sa Y
Sc Z, mn St1"i.oi(s gen, 49,. :. 1OON
Chicago Terminal 4's.... ..............SS 2 2}}t
Colorado and Southern 4.s........... ~ s9A
Denver and gRio. Grande fs,..........S9 % % z
F fpie Worth and Denver CITY ists
Hooking, Valley - 4 Ii1n,asd l
Manhattan Consolidated gold 4s.....s 1 " 4
Mexican Central As .................... q, /,
Mexican Central LIST a. 9oN
Missouri, Kan. and Texas ls..,..... OOSS3 7;;
New York Central gem 3ls' s......,... 102A
Nav Iersey~ Cantral gen. s. s ,,........ 1870 4
Nnrt hnrn TI5a rlnc 4s..,,, 1O2M
Markham 7 Paclhc .i....,,...,..,,... n24
Norfolls and Western con, 4s........ OK
Rendinr Genera i .. 967k
al Land iron Mountain CON- IS - iii u
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III AR:A sI1 l1ss1IEs WNAK;

WABASH ISSUES WEAK:
tain labor outlook and the absence of any
support SUBJ from the controlling interests IN
the road 1t is fairly sure, that the Gould eI
people have; not done awning since they ~
mailing their control absolutely certain.
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NAVAL STORES.

WILA1INGTON. IN. c., April 2;-sP1R-
ceipts, 8 casks. Rosin--F Firm at 81. 50; re-
ceipts. "a barrels. Crude Turpentine--;EE,irm
at s24og4; receipts q barrels. Tar 1.s'l>-.
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~ CHICAGO. I'LL, April 2,-strength was
manlfested IN the wheat, market TO-DAY
due to bullsh foreign adyices and May
10, with oats unchanged Provisions
We're firm, the May products closing nu-
changed to &c. higher, N, t5st s$9
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COLORADO FUEL BONDS:
Tho moro the street, looked at the pro-
posed Colorado Fuel bond issue the less
It liked 1t, The railroad property proposed
to Id bonded was thought by some, people
to be an insufficient security as IT could
DO duplicated atifless than the
a n, onnt of tha bonds. IL ss}
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5s SAVANNAH, vi q A., April g2.-TURPEN-
TINE Nothing doing; receipts, ST casks;
Firm; receipts ii .2ls barrels; sales. .l43
barrels expuorts, 243 barrels I, !, !,
4. CHARLESTON. 8. M c., April 2,-TUR-
at &c. Rosin---N om-
y
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( 1HrrrRNoON TRA:pING

AFTERNOON tTRADING:
THE tone in the early afternoon was
extremely dull and the trading was IN
too light a volume to have any real sign n
Who are content with fractional turns,
were doing nothing, and the public OFFICES
OF the local brokerage houses were almost
deserted, aa ~ VI 559 ag
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W. 49,. A.. 10 .AH'' ..a : q E. 80 T.. e.. r
g second hour was
to sag on very mod
London was abso-
what little the COM
doing seemed to be
Tho money ra te had
1T tended easier, and
ks were lenders. The
ecislon in the Minnie
was used as q bear
mated Copper, prob
t anything more than
ion In the price ,&of
favorable effect upon
eel issues.
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The IN Ii heavy : tone in Pennsylvania was
partly caused by. the Disappointing show.
good GOO reason to'think that the decrease is
explicable on special reasons and repre-
serlts about the last of Its kind
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-04-03

Cotton futures opened firm md closed
very steady. ~ .iE, u
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-04-03
THE SECOND / HOUR;

LII II SESO1SDL AZ -
The market In tn
ragged and Inclined |
crate transactions. ]
lutely no factor, and
mission houses We're
scattering realizing.
some effect, although
the Standard OIL banF
talk. of an adverse dc
Healy case. which =
argument on Amalga
ably did not represent
guesses. The reduct'
pig-iron had some. un!
the United States st
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-04-03
VANDERBILT ISSUES,

account for the extreme dullness and the
Singing tendency and among them one
OF some Important Interest said to be :. N
close touch with the vanderbilts getting
dicted the story and made It absolutely
unnecessary to attempt TO get confirma-
ton, 355}tt Z. lt+s.ne i7fSr u. -t.. ISY 5ft%
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-04-03

at the clearing house on Wednesday, $4fo,
600, the banks lost to that institution
81 ,244,0 900 on the day business as folloWs:
Customs, s41S 600; retiring circulation, $3.50
600; n miscellaneous payments over the
count r, $S64, OOO. aIs l88
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-04-03

EARLY @TTADING. .ts q
The first hours trading developed r "a th he
more weakness than might have been i, e X
Selling in Important stocks like Pennsyl-
lvania and Western Union. Traders were
bea rish and were helping the decline on
the theory that the market only showed
activity on the down grade and merely
i7,acane dull on advances. {i s3a E5sll XII Z,