New-York tribune., 1903-05-26
WHEAT.
WALL STREET AND EXCHANGES

FOREIGN TRADING.-Foreign houses deat IN
5000 shares I'm the local market or WhlCn oV'""
were sales. In London consols were heaFy, ana
the general market without feature. Money
and exchange rates showed no important c''iise :"
any of the foreign capitals
STOCK LOAN QUOTATIONS--Loan quotations
were: Analgamated Copper Anaconda american
Ice Atchison common and preferred, Brooklyn rap
id Transit Baltimore and Ohio common Cololddo
Fuel Delaware and Hudson. Erie common ilisC anu
second preferred; Louisville and Nashville Man
haitian Missouri Pacific New-York Central NOT
folk and Western. Metropolitan street fall"aS'
Fernsvlva MIA Peoples Gas. Reading nrst PREFERRED
Rock Island st. Paul. Southern Railway preferred
co,,+ba-r Pacific Sugar Tennessee Coal and Iron,
Union Pacific common and preferred. United STATES
steel common and preferred. United States Leather
preferred Wabash preferred and western oni'i-
215 per cent: Canadian Pacific per cent
IRA F~F'TC OF TRUNK LINES--A chicago dls-
e+ch saws that last weeks traffic figures OF east
hound railroads going out Of that city were sig
nifcant of two important things First, tnaI III
snte Of another decrease in the movement OF leao-
ing commodities eastbound the volume OF udiilC
7,assing over a majority of the roads Is repoItSo
a-.,d of last wear; and secondly, that westoound
freight consisting chiefly Of manufactured Peoo-
nets has not been appreciaoly aHected oS 'iio
unrest of labor. Shipments Of leading articles east
bo,nd from Chicago for the week made further
dec,ine and were the smallest In many fnoh'iiS
I-,o,, ebnrnens decreased about 70 per cent. com
nared with the former week The grain movement
Gained slightly but not more than the equivalent
of TWENTY-FIVE carloads, over the previous week S
forxardings Shipments of provisions decreased 'o+
+ore MANY empty cars being moved eastward
n eunnIv demands for Western shipments al
though officials of the various INES esu1nate tat
the loaded car movement Will easily represent 10
ner cent of the whole No fear Is entertained 'haI
t,a volume Of traffic will at any time before the
next crop movement Tan O7'' ~
year ago ,,, :; .bo
DECLINE IN PIG TIN-The decline in the
,rica Of mig tin in the London metal market Is
++rihutad to A falling off in the demand from the
I-ttad c+a+as induced partially by the dry weather
o1org tho Atlantic Coast, which has resulted IN
reducing the quantity of fruits and berries tnat
will likely be canned this season
MANHAT-TAN-The point is made that it is a
,,,r,o,,e illustration of the extent to which pes
ei,ero has run that Manhattan, with its rernarka-
bla earnings and its guaranteed dividend OF prac-
.ioo1Iv : ner cent should sell at ABOUT the leVel
Ground which it hung for months at time. When
earnings were smaller and the dividend rate only
per cent -r,
CT51CaC1O CRFAT WESTERN.-The Chicago
Great Western Railway has already begun running
trains over its extension to Omara Track
having on the new lire has been completed to Car
ro, iowa and passenger trains are being operated
+,ico a week 10 that point Freight II aims also are
IN service 1t is confidently predicted that the en-
tire line into Omaha will be opened by the latter
part of July.
APPLICATION TO IIsT.-Application has been
made TO the Stock Exchange by the Louisville and
Nashville Railroad Company Southern Railway
company to list S105Ooo additional per cent joint
bonds Cioncn coIateraD of 1852
MISSOURI PACIFIC's GAIN.-Gross earnings Of
the Missouri Pacific for the third week In May In
creased $4,000 making from January a gain
of 81. .335,226
WABASH EARNINGS HEAVY.-Gross earnings
Of the Wabash company for the third week OF
Nav increased SOS. .365 making from July an in
crease of $1.723 433.
GOLD EXPORTS-L Won Hoffman, & Co yes
terday ordered $4,000 gold at the assay office for
shipment on the Kaiser Wilhelm H. which sails
for Bremen to-day.
REPUBLIC IRON AND STEEL--The directors
of Republic Iron and Steel have declared the reg
ular quarterly dividend of Ia per cent the pre-
ferred. payable July l.