The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-21
|R0UND THE TICKER
| AND IN THE PIT
Gossip Of the Trading Floor and
| About the Brokers
Office.

EUROPE offered to sell some durum
wheat to New York.
NEW RECORDS were made in sew.
eralr leading stocks yesterday.
BANK STATEMENT was satisfac.
tory, yet not up to expectations.
LACKAWANNA reports say no
strike probable.
decline the smash will be something
terrific.
"MORE WHEATT by millions"
says Dennis, "and -four stocks 10000
barbrels less. Can it be that we are
eating the stuff?'
PROVISIONS will go higher later
on, according to Cudahy. Lard, he
says, will share in the advance.
UNION PACIFIC director says it
will be. two or, three weeks yet before
| action is taken on the dividend. :
CANADIAN PACIFIC has sold
| 100000 acres land to an English syn
dictate for about $3,500,000.
W. j. BETTINGEN formerly of the
| Minneapolis bobarbd, is the first Ameri-
can to hold an official position on the
| Winnipeg exchange. His election to
the vice presidency almost insures him
the presidency year hence.
| j. .. Adams, of the Minneapolis
chamber, and the late Marshall Field
Field was dry goods clerk in little
store in the east.
AMERICAN WOODEN director says
the increase in business is sufficient to
put the common stock on a permanent
dividend basis.
| NINETY-NINE roa.ls for November
show an average net increase of 1906
per cent in earnings and for five
months $3.50 per cent. Twenty-Five
! dc ha Of
show an average gross increase of 21.90
| per cent.
LOUIS WATSON SAYS it is thought
that for a time the trading in United
States Steel stock will be conferred more
upon the preferred than upon the com.
mon. nv
PIPER'S New York advices say it
was the rumor there in connection with
the recent activity in Twin City COM
mon that the rate would be increased to
a per cent basis. -
"SOUTHERN PACIFIC is a mys.
terry to the average trader, says G. E.
Lewis New York wire. TIT seems to
be purchase every time it gets around
to IS and sale above 70. ~
| WHALLON says that Brooklyn Rap
i'd Transit was taken in hand on the
revival Of merger rumors Predictions
of much higher quotations on this stock
are heard every day.
| LOCOMOTIVE common was strange.
ly unaffected by the sharp upward
movement in the railway equipment
shares. Gates says this is for the rea-
son that all statements from well-in-
formed sources are to the effect that no
dividend is likely at and early date.
! ATTORNEY-G GENERAL HADLEY-
Do you know John d. Rockefeller? H.
II. Rogers-The name sounds familiar.
Has he got heavy whiskers and long
hairg Hadley-No. Rogers (sadly)-
Then I don't know him.-Boston Post.
SCHAFTEL, the broker who has been
remarkably well posted on the Guggen-
helm stocks, advised Bache's customers
from the Stock Exchange floor that he
expected 200 for Smelters in the next
JOHN j. MITCHELL, president of
the Illinois Trust & Savings Bank, and
James C. Hutchins, attorney of the Chi
cago Clearing House committee, which
is handling the affairs of the defunct
Walsh financial institutions, have been
in NewaYork arranging for the reorgan-
j. ization and sale of the. chief Walsh
property, the Southern Indiana Railway
company.
UWALL STREET infers," says Ran
dolph, "that Sugar insiders are depress-
ing the stock in order to afford Wash
ington chance to accumulate line In
return for favors received. - 49,.