New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-06-30

WALL STREET AND EXCHANGES.
FOREIGN TRADING.-Foreign houses dealt in
less than 1900 shares in the local market transac-
tions being emily divided between sales and pur-
chases. In the London market dulness was the
chief feature, with no material change in quota
tons The South African mining shares
steady, while the Japanese bonds were fractionally
lower The premium the Japanese per
cent loan 81.
STOCK LOAN QUOTATIONS-Loa quotations
were: Amalgamated Copper. Anaconda. American
Ice. Brooklyn Rapid Transit. Erie common. Louis
vile and Nashville. Manhattan. Missouri Pacific.
Peoples Gas. Reading first preferred, Rock Island.
Southern Railway preferred, Southern Pacific. Sugar
Refining Tennessee Coal and Iron. United States
Steel common. Shelters common and Republic
Steel common lax per cent: Atchson common
and preferred. Baltimore and Ohio common Cana
dian Pacific. Consolidated Gas, Delaware and Hud-
son, Erie first and second preferred, Norfolk and
Western Metropolitan Street Railway and Union
Pacific common and preferred. 1 per cent; New
York Central u per cent; Pennsylvania and St.
Paul, q per cent: United States Steel preferred.
&Q1 per cent: Western Union Car Foundry com
mon and preferred and Pressed Steel Car preferred
fiat; Shelters preferred. fiat GD1-256 Republic Steel
preferred and American Locomotive preferred 1-256;
United States Leather preferred and Wabash pre-
ferred. per cent
IRON AND METAL TRADE.-'The Iron Age"
says:
review Of the situation throughout the country
IT h S~t dhe faot n that here is better feeling
ing the market Raw materials have been suffer
iron taking Re al from 6s Bs Of r pig
let's A moderate tonnage has been placed in the
labor troubles in the sheet and tnpfate trades is
M Pb oy tne aG9epanee OF the terms proposed
The price of boiler tubes has been reduced
EXPORTS AND IMPORTS OF IRON AND
STEEL-The exports of iron and steel for the
month of May amounted to 81 15s 7l2 as compared
r-it ~ nc Oonc
the eleven months ended May the exports total
sO026566, compared with SS169525 for the eleven
months ended May. 1903 and 800 7sO.57t for the
eleven months ended May. 1902. This is the first
time in several years that steel exports for the
eleven months period bave crossed the 800 900
mark. The chief increase was in steel rails which
aggregated in the last eleven months 100 1913 tons.
worth s2,95o5s5, compared with 22O54 tons worth
s675.7i3 for the eleven months ended May 1903 The
imports of iron and steel for the month of May
s.. S4. compared with 50 679 ,s21 in May 1908
decrease of ST. 59 4S7 or nearly 100 per cent. For
the eleven months ended May 1904, the total iron
and steel imports S2499S O1o, compared with
S7.012 5S5 for the corresponding period last year
and s23544,317 in 1902. The imports for the eleven
months ended May last s23 ,52S below the
imports for the corresponding period last year
when the foreign iron and steel makers were get
ting the benefit of American high prices. The i'm
ports of pig iron in May 5.1S tons, against
81 139 May, 1903 For the last eleven months
the imports of pig iron 1908 tons, compared
with S76.324 tons for the eleven months ended May
1903.
CANADIAN PACIFTC'S EARNINGS.-Earnings
of the Canadian Pacific for the month of May
show an increase in gross of s2l0.664. and in
crease in net OF SS,207 From July to May 81 gross
earnings have increased 50 600 but owing to
large expansion in operating expenses, net earn
ings have decreased 81. S27597.
PHOENIX MINING COMPANY.-It Is reported
that the activity in Phoenix mining stock is based
IN for he datio OF tba
with the Mount Shasta Gid Mines Corporation
It is understood that there will be a readjustment
of the capitalization for the purpose of having the
stock traded in the basis of dollars instead of
cents.
APPLICATION TO INSTRUMENTATION will be
made to the New-York and Philadelphia Stock
exchanges to list slO75OoOO 4 per cent bonds OF
the Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Rail-
road Company.
GOLD COMING FROM SAN FRANCISCO
United States Treasurer Roberts announces that
$4,000 gold. the product of American mines
was yesterday deposited In San Francisco for teIe-
graphic transmission TO New York
CONSOLIDATED EXCHANGE To CLOSE
The Consolidated Stock and Petroleum Exchange
has voted TO close Saturday as we'll as Mon
day.
LACKAWANNA COLORED MAPS-The Iacka
wanna Railroad has just issued set of colored
maps large scale, showing the territory
reached by its lines in New-York New Jersey and
Pennsylvania These maps give every highway
postoffice, trolley line and railroad and are so
bound that they be conveniently carried in the
pocket.
SEATTLE LIGHTING PONDS OFFERED-N
". Harris & Co. offering TO investors $3.50 900
Seattle Lighting Company fms mortgage bonds
due 1914. but optional at 10 and interest on and
after March l, 1910. This company does the entire
gas business of the city.
NEW BANKING FIRM.-Announcement has
been made of the dissolution of the partnership OF
the we'll known banking house OF Redmond Kerr
& Co, consisting of Henry S. Redmond. Gilbert M
Plympton. Thomas A. Gardiner and William l.
McKenna The last three named men OF that
firm have formed copartnership under the firm
name of Plympton. Gardiner & Co. with offices at
No. q William-st.. corner OF Exchange Place New
York and No. 2s2 La salle-st.. Chicago, where
they will continue general banking business