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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1901
Page
3
New York July 26 The stock market opens with dullness and sluggishness and little change overall. United States Steel stocks edge up over a point on London demand but gains fade. railway bonds and other issues show muted activity as investors watch copper and gold flows and interior bank reserves amidst crop and currency concerns.
Roper reports in the mining district noting activity around several claims including Horn Silver Iron Silver Little Chief Ontario and Sierra Nevada with standard sees bas Cereuen teeee 07 gee.
New York reports money on call steady at 2 2%% per cent with last loan 2h per cent. Prime mercantile paper WW64 5 per cent. Sterling exchange steady. bankers' bills posted at 4.57 for demand and 4,843,44.847% for 60 days. Commercial bills 4.84 4.844. Mexican dollars, free, government bonds firm, state bonds inactive, railroad bonds irregular.
Bullish demand lifts spot tin to 27.7 to 28 cents with forward buys cheaper. Copper remains steady around 17 cents for Lake Superior and 16.62 cents for refined. Lead dull with London slip, spelter flat. Pig iron and English markets unchanged. silver at 58 1/2 cents.
The Commercial Advertiser's London telegram reports firmer markets with liquidation cooling. Americans sold earlier but revived at New York open led by steel shares amid talk of a near settlement to end the strike. other securities followed, finishing feverishly.
Chicago markets opened wheat steady to higher at 71 71 2 cents on reports of spring rains and crop prospects. Prices eased to 70 1 2 cents before a late uptick. Corn moved narrowly while oats fell slightly. Provisions traded dull as hog receipts weighed on pork lard and ribs.
A collection of rental ads for flats houses and rooms in Butte and Anaconda. Listings include furnished and partly furnished homes with prices from 20 dollars a month to 11 room brick houses. Also sales ads for a six room brick house and other properties plus miscellaneous notices and lost items. Includes requests for saddle horses and a team, found jewelry, and an umbrella factory ad.
Cash quotations list prices for flour firms grains and seeds with mixed barley flaxseed and pork lard and beef items. Chicago livestock prices show cattle hogs and sheep receipts and ranges for steers hogs and lambs with declines noted in some categories.
London July 20 and July 26 market brief reports mixed readings across railway stocks and silver prices. Atchigan and Canadian Pacific lead listed stocks with varied percentages, Union Pacific and its preferred share also noted. Silver tin dull and quoted around 2 and a quarter per ounce in London trading. Consols quoted at 92 15-16 with slight declines.
In Omaha livestock trade the market eased slightly with cattle receipts around 100 and sheep at 1 500. Native beef steers brought about 475.25 while western steers ranged to 4734 at 4.7 percent. Texas steers sold near 3 500 to 4.40 with cows and calves from 2.75 to 4.75. Heavy bulls and stags traded around 5 70 to 5 90 as bulk sales settled near 5 85. Wethers 3.25 to 3.55, ewes 2.75 to 2.50, lambs 2.75 to 3.25. Receipts totaled 9 000.
In Fairmont West Virginia on July 26 Fountain Gordon a black man shot and killed Btanti t mbeli meds of jelly wounded Mattie Simpson both white at Monon. The incident stemmed from a board bill dispute at a miners boarding house. Great excitement in Monongah and fear of mob violence as Gordon remains jailed. The sheriff has mobilized deputies.
Cattle receipts around 7000 with slow to steady tone. Texas steers and cows show varied prices, native stock ranges reported. Hog receipts about 15000 with market steady to lower and mixed pricing. Sheep receipts 1600 with market steady and lambs and muttons listed.
London July 26 In the house of lords today Lord Salisbury the premier introduced a bill authorizing King Edward to assume by proclamation within six months after adoption such title as he may think fit It would likely read Edward VII by the grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of British dominions beyond the sea king defender of the faith and emperor of India
A fragmented stock ledger lists Amalgamated Copper Calumet & Hecla and Tamarack mining shares with varied figures. It shows Centennial, Humboldt, and other prospects with price levels and percentages, reflecting active trade and valuations in a historical mining market.
Paris reports M. Pichon former minister to China now in Paris calls for considerate treatment of the Chinese arguing that violence would provoke larger uprisings and that a looming yellow peril is unlikely for Europe though he fears the Japanese in the region.
The North German Gazette reports Count von Buelow sent cordial sympathy to President Kruger after the death of Mrs Kruger on July 20. Kruger replied with thanks through Dr Leyds, representative of the Boer republics, at The Hague.
General Baden Powell arrived in Southampton and was welcomed by the mayor and civil authorities. He boarded a train for London amid an intense public reception.
An ammonia tank explosion at the Memphis Lee company's factory near Memphis Tenn blanks wrecked the works. Engineer John Smith was instantly killed and a stranger named Harrington fatally injured.
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