New-York tribune., 1903-04-08
MINING STOCKS.
WALL STREET AND EXCHANGES.

FOREIGN TRADING.-Foreign houses dealt In
10000 shares in the local market selling bal
ance. In London the general market had holt
day tone. owing to the approach of Easter. Con-
soils steady and featureess. and the copper
stocks were shade frmer Money was fairly
easy in all the European centres. There
change in the quotations for exchange in Paris and
Berlin.
STOCK LOAN QUOTATIONS.-Loa quotations
were: Amalgamated Copper. Anaconda, American
Ice, Atchison common and preferred, Brooklyn
Rapid Transit, Baltimore and Ohio, Colorado Fuel
Delaware and Hudson. Erie common, first and sec
ond preferred Louisville and Nashville Manhat-
tan Missouri Pacific, New-Yorlz Central. Norfolk
and Western Metropolitan Street Railway. Peoples
Gas, Reading first preferred, Rock Island, St
Paul Southern Railway preferred, Southern Pa
cifc Sugar, Tennessee Coal and Iron. Union Pa
Cifc and preferred, United States Steel
common and preferred. United States Leather pre-
ferred Wabash preferred, Western Union. per
cent; Canadian Pacific and Pennsylvania 5 per
cent: Republic Iron and Steel preferred. per cent.
MARKET GOSSIP-Keere brokers were rather
heavy sellers of stock in the day. The pressure
in Rock Island from Street & Norton was perhaps
noticeable in this connection. L. Wormser. who
had sold Sugar on Monday. attempted to rally It.
with Indifferent success. The room story that
prominent members of the Southern Pacific pool
were Iiquidatng and that the Hartman interests
were taking the stock it came out. The bull tip
on Leather was given out early, and was backed up
by the buying of the common by c. Knobauch and
the preferred by T Q. Buck. It looked if scat
tering long stock were coming out the advance.
There was. of course, plenty of bear news. most
Of It OF rather vague character. but the liquida
ton in such stocks Steel common had a dis
tincty unfavorable effect, as it felt that pub
lie holdings were coming market. The hard
coal stocks inclined to sell off on the un-
satisfactory reception of the Strike Commissions
terms by some of the miners and the calling in of
Mitchell to adjust the matter. The selling orders
tod
Western interests. The selling in Amagamated
Copper looked better than the buying
CONDITION OF WINTER WHEAT FAVOR
ABLE.-"The American Agriculturst's' returns
on winter wheat compiled for it's special crop
port to be published Saturday, stated in
advance summary showing 'the most remark
able conditions covering the whole winter wheat
belt ever noted at this time of year" The report
continues: "The average for the whole country is
$50 a figure which has been exceeded but once in
twenty years of crop reporting. The striking
feature is the remarkable uniformity of the State
averages, and the same of county reports. Scarce
" county in the winter wheat belt but shows
n crop promise at the beginning of spring growth
little short of perfect"
COTTON MARKET CONDITIONS-Atwood
Violet & Co say: Southern spot markets are keep
ing pace with our advance in contracts here and at
New Orleans where July and August at
premium July and August in this market of
"a and Il points respectively. That the invisible
towns or those not weekly repOrted-is much less
than last year at this time, firmly
vinced as of anything that cannot be positively
known. We anticipate very much higher prices,
because of the certainty that there is far less
ton in the South than the needs of the worlds
spnners require, in addition to what has been
brought into sight Of the American crop since Sep
ternber !. 1902
AMALGAMATED COPPER-According to the
records of the Butte Miners Union the number of
men employed in the mines of the Amagamated
company has been gradually increased for several
months. ard nearly many men now at
work as before the curtaiment of the output began
a year or more ago. 1t is stated that between six
thousand and thousand men again
work in the Butte mines including the Heinze prop
critics though the total down to about three
thousand time
ST LOUIS AND SAN FRANCISCO.-Gross
earnings of the St Louis and San Francisco for
February increased $S51,95 and net earnings in
creased $56176. From July 1 gross earnings have
sed 50 515S1, and net earnings S59S25 Surplus
for eight months. after charges. taxes rentals and
guarantees on stocks s2,359.92S. a decrease of
s5G7 267