New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-04-08
O. 200 Total SAFES.
WHEAT.
WALL STREET AND EXCHANGES

FOREIGN TRADING.-Foreign houses bough.
$50 shares in the local market, chiefly United
States Steel preferred. In London cOnsols showed
continued Improvement. advancing 1-Is per cent. to
sszs for money and 81 lis for the account.
STOCK LOAN QUOTATTONs-LOan quotations
were: ArnaIgamated Copper Anaconda. American
Ice BROOKLYN Rapid Transit. Erie common. Ms
souri, Pacific Peoples Gas. Reading first preferred
Rock Island Southern Railway preferred. South
ern Pacific. Sugar Tennessee Coal and Iron. United
States Steel common United States Leather pre-
ferred Wabash preferred. Shelters common ana
Republic Steel common Il. per cent; Atchison CON-
mon and preferred. Baltimore and Ohio common
Canadian Pacific, Consolidated Gas. Delaware and
Hudson. Erie first and second preferred, Louisville
and Nashvf1ls. Manhattan. Norfolk and western,
Metropolitan Street Railway. Union Pacific COM
mon and preferred and United States Steel prs
ferred IA Per cent: New-York Central. Pennsy-
vania ard St Paul. IA per cent. ard Western
Union. Shelters preferred. RepubIlc Steel pre-
ferred and American Locomotive preferred. fat
ROCK IsL4AND.-It Is said that the Rock Island
management has intention to issue any OF tbs
SIS. 900 new mortgage "a IN the near future
There S150oOoo0 Of this issue available Tor ssus
forthwith" but II VIII not be Issued before Il IS
needed The official estimate OF the expenditurs
needed to complete the construction under way on
October 81, 1903, was s763.5S To meet this the
company had s. sS1fs in cash IN the treasury. and
has since sold the annual allowances OF general
mortgage bonds. Other current assets at the tins
totalled over S5.Ooo.oO0 There no floating debt
THE wOOI. TRADE-'"Ths American Wool and
Cotton Reporter says:
The wool market IS very Inactive. and the bust
ness doing IN most lines OF wool Is scarcely worth
recording Occasionally fair sized sale Is made.
but generally trade Is quiet Prices OF Wool may 20
quoted steady and unchanged The new woos
mus, mus lar nse,1 tbs ts e las. vsar IRE WOOL,
throughout the Southwestern districts are claimed
to be inferior 70 those OF last year ong = d mo
degree OF dehniteness what they are worth as com
pared with year ago.
HEAVY WINTER WHEAT CRoP.-A dispatch
from Omaha says that winter wheat n Nebraska
is looking we'll and the outlook Is favorable FOR
large crop. Spring rains have more than made
up for the deficiency IN tho snowfall. and the win
ter wheat crop IS estimated all the way from o.
10000 TO 100000 bushels. II present conditions
continue. ploughing VIII begin within week.
which will be two weeks before the normal time
The same situation prevails IN Kansas and Ni'-
souri,
APPLICATION TO LIsT-AppHcation has been
made to the Stock Exchange by the 81 Louis and
san Francisco Railroad Company TO list SslS"
FIVE year IA per cent gold notes OF faS The 81
Louis. Iron Mountain and Southern Railway Com
pany applied to list S26s2OOO additional River ana
Gulf divisions first mortgage per cent bonds OK
1858
ELECTED TO MEMBERSHIP. Walter WOOD
r. OF L. Won Hoffman s. Co. and George c Hoi'
lister. OF HaIsted & HOLSTER. We're elected mem
bers Of the Stock Exchange yesterday
SOUTHERN PACIFIC'S DEFiCTT.-The SOUTH
ern Pacific system shows for February denci1
after charges OF 5795. against a deficit IN 'as
same time last year OF SLs53.174 For the eisns
months Of the fiscal year the deficit IS A-t+DS'
compared with deficit OF $.3lS91 In the eoI''-
spending time in the preceding year
UNION PACIFIC.-CniOn PacidC'S net earnis'
for February increased Sf77f62. making for ms
eight months OF the fiscal year increase '1
81 Gs3. 2s2-
STEEL FOUNDRIES PREFERRED DIV
DEND.-The American Steel FOundries company
has declared the regular quarterly dividend OF n
per cent it's preferred stock. payable May -
II. Z. WHITNEY A DIRECTOR.-Harry Fa{{a.
Whitney. Of the late William C. Whitney, -
been elected a director in the National banA ".
Commerce. taking the place made vacant oy lA'
death OF his father.