The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-17
SLIGHT CHANGES
IN STOCK MARKE'I
PRICES NOT, AFFECTED AT WALL
STREET OPENING.
Large Purchases in Early Trading Sert
Pennsylvania Stock Up and othe
Roads Show Advance, but Movement
Is Not Prolonged and Prices Late
Flutter Around Lower Level.

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New York, April 17.-opening dealings in the
stock market today caused very small changes
from last nights prices AS rule, first que,
tatlons We're unchanged or 3s@A higher, ana
dealings were small. Pennsylvania was an ex-
ception, large purchases carrying it up II
American Locomotive and American Smelling
were large fraction higher.
Advantage was taken of the diversion created
Dy the bidding up of selected stocks to sell
at other points, 50 that the general response
to the rise in Union Pacific and the eastern
trunk lines was slight. There was renewal
or pressure against Consolidated Cas- which
yielded over point. The movement upward
was not prolonged and the advances of 1@1A
In Union Pacific. Pennsylvania and New York
Central We're not fully retained. Other changes
comprised advances of J. in Canadian Pacific,
st. Louis Southwestern preferred, Duluth, South
Shore & Atlantic. and 1 q In the preferred and
United States Reduction. Great Northern pre-
ferred, North tern, Colorado & Southern sec
ond preferred and Vulcan DEFINING preferred
fell /.
The tone unsettled by reaction Of IN
In Amalgamated Copper, a drop Of 2h in Con-
solidated Gas and weakness in number of
minor specialties. Previous gains were largely
reduced or wiped out. Dealings contracted and
prices huctuated uncertainty around the lower
level international Pump dropped 3A and raj
lied o. Other losses running from 1 to 2
points were by Northern Pacific, Hooking Val
Pacific Coast Dtstillerss Securities, Slosssh
held Steel, American Beet Sugar, American
Pneumatic Service. Virginia Iron and Corn
Products Refining preferred. There were gains
by United States Rubber and Third Avenue Of
lh. Bonds were steady at noon. a.v
Several stocks were pushed up aggresstvely,
but the movement did not impart enough SYM
pathetic strength to arrest the sagging else
where, Reading breaking to 1877.
A pause in the afternoon selling did not re-
suit In any important rebound, the market hold
| Ing only steady and becoming quite dull.
further rise of in Butterick restored all
but one point of yesterdays slump. The gen.
eral list sold off rather sharply. Amalgama ted
Copper got rs below last night, Anaconda 81
| American Linseed preferred 3, New York Dock
21a, North American and Great Northern pre-
ferred 2, Steel Foundries preferred, American
Pneumatic Service preferred and Hooking Coal
| " OILS, and st. Paul, Brooklyn Transit and
Sugar 1. The Pennsylvania group showed re-
sistance. Norfolk & Western rose g. Baltimore
& Ohio "a, Chesapeake & Ohio and Pittsburg
| Cincinnati, Chicago & st. Louis point. There
were some recoveries at different points, but the
| closing was irregular. --E r.. ss~. -.-s .
Close-Wheat. May, s7Ac; July, s5hc; Sep
TENDER. S3Ac. Corn, May, 53Rc; July, 531ac
September, 5SAc
Stock quotations reported for The Journal b.
/ Watson u Co., brokers'. Chamber of Commerce
Minneapolis. Closing prices are bid. s,-..