Uncertainty on Wall Street Weighs on Traders
Wall Street mood remained cautious with stocks wavering and no clear buy signals. Call money firmed and time funds stayed tight as brokers eyed potential gains from next year's margins amid state scrutiny of stock exchange practices.
Early trade at Chicago stock exchange lists mixed moves
American Can preferred eased while Edison and Subway softened. Swift rose to 105 and Title & Trust advanced to 115 as other issues showed minor shifts. Notable levels include Subway at 25 percent and various price marks across rail and utility stocks in a turbulent opening session.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Interborough
Third Avenue
Traction Group
New York Times
Chicago
Edison
Subway
Swift
Title & Trust
Commercial Edison
Chi. Ry
Ee i. Title & Trust
Hlimels
St. Kass
Kansas City
Northwestern
Sag Ieee Ee
ars-Roebuck
European markets show muted activity amid holidays and gold decline
London trading slows as holidays approach with new issues including 4% Boston United Fruit debentures worth 4.5 million. Beers stock weak on a profit decline report, while Bar silver remains quiet. Paris and Berlin bourses display quiet, firm to weak tone with modest exchange rates and rentes around 97f35c.
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London
Mongy
Paris
Stock Exchange
Boston United Fruit Company
Erie
Suissoun Pacific
Baltimore & Ohio
New York
Exchange
Wheat and corn futures temperate by government report and world price shifts
Weakness early gave way to late session gains as a bullish government report boosted Spring wheat. Liverpool fell on La Plata and crop news from Australia and India, with Seaboard clearances around 614000 bushels. New York cash wheat ranged from 1.05 to 1.16 per bushel, while corn showed early strength then declined on the report with No 2 corn at 68 cents elevator price.
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Liverpool
la Plata
India
Seaboard
New York
Duluth
Increase in Farm Products 1908 Final Estimates
Washington reports final revised Agriculture Department estimates for 1908 show higher crop outputs and farm values. Key figures include corn at 2,668,651,000 bushels valued at $1,616,145,000, winter wheat 437,908,000 bushels valued at $410,330,000, oats 443,668,000 bushels valued at $381,171,000, and hay at 70,798,000 tons valued at $685,428,000, with several crops up from 1907.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
Bureau
Coffee Market Mixed with Small Declines and Stable Close
Prices opened quiet and mostly steady with a small decline of about five points and closed steady to ten points lower. Trade reported 10 000 bales with Havre and Hamburg holding near unchanged to varied percentages at the New York Open. Rio coffee held around 64 0 cents with a range of contract prices shown for December through November, including highs and lows and the mixed monthly closings.
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Havre
Hamburg
New York
Rio
Ceee
Ecsess -S Ee
Cscceeee
Seseses
Ccseeas Oe Ee
Seeses Oe
Colorado mining stocks closing quotations in Colorado Springs
Colorado Springs daily stock roundup lists closing quotations for local mining shares dated December 15. Entries mention firms and percent figures such as 8 percent, 6T, 8e, and Isabella with varied values, though several names are garbled in OCR.
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Colorado
New York Times
Colorado Springs
Splanapee Na Eh
Jackpot
Portland
Isabella
United Coos
San Francisco
Julia
Overman
Chollar
iSag Belcher
Cal
Sierra Nova
Eoeese
Imperial
Union
Crown Point Secce
Utah
Ceces Gould & Curry
Hale & Norcross
Telegraph
Tonopah
Belmont Seasesees
Jim Butler
Higher freight rates plea from New York Board of Trade
The Committee on Railway Transportation urged business groups to back freight rates that ensure railroads receive adequate revenue. The resolutions call for support from New York legislators and Congress members and seek cooperation from commercial bodies. The Board cautions against actions that worsen public opinion toward railroads and clarifies it does not seek government laxity but fair rates comparable to private price setting.
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Committee On Railway Transportation
New York Board of Trade and Transportation
New York
Congress
Charles Moore
Board of Trade
Poes
India
Moore
Northwestern Plans a Bond Sale
The Chicago and Northwestern Railroad likely will sell about 10 million dollars in bonds next year to fund 8 million dollars maturing in 1900. No sale arrangements have been made yet, but reports in the Street suggest a total bond issue of 25 million dollars.
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Chicago & Northwestern Railroad
East River Savings Trustee Elected and Exchange Amendments
James B. Clews was elected a Trustee of the East River Savings Institution. The New York Cotton Exchange schedules a noon meeting on December 28 to discuss proposed bylaw amendments on cotton inspection. J P Morgan & Co offer redemption of certain bonds at par by December 31 under a June agreement. United Fruit Company bonds and related notes are offered to investors at 95 percent yield.
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James B. Clews
East River Savings Institution
New York Cotton Exchange
Exchange
J. P. Morgan & Co
Wall Street
United Fruit
Ae Higginson & Co
Red Fruit Company
Etonmatip
Chase, Talbot & Co
Broadway
N. Y
Frederic R. Eaton
Sec’g. Etry
Cottier, & Co
East 40Th St
Jung H. B. Dominick
New York Insurance and Trust Company
Lincoln Cromwell
New York
George M. Corning
Fidelity
Fidelity Funding Company
Real Estate Board
Dearborn
Chicago
Sisters of Charity
Cincinnati
Ohio
Western Trust and Savings Bank
Howard T. Wilcoxon
el Paso
Pueblo
Las Animas
State of Colorado
Santa Fe
Bernalillo
New Mexico
Colorado
Paeblo
Mexico
T. B. of
Folie Western Trust and Savings Bank
Rosenthal & Hamill
Fort Dearborn
Heinze Wins Land Suit Reversing 1907 Ruling
United Copper Company reports the British Columbia Court of Appeals reversed a lower court order requiring F A Heinze to take title to half of about 600000 acres tied to a Columbia & Western Railway grant. Heinze and partners acquired the land in 1895. taxes were at issue if title passed. The case dates back to 1902 and a 1907 decision now set aside.
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United Copper Company
Court of Appeals of
British Columbia
F. A. Heinze
Columbia & Western Railway
Mr. Heinze
Richard B. Angus
Canadian Pacific Railway
Thomas Shaughnessy
Columbia & Western
Heinze
Railway
Boston Consolidated Mining Company expands board
The board grows from five to seven with four new members elected. New directors are Ernst Thalmann C D Smithers Sidney J Jennings and L N Schirmer. The executive committee includes Schirmer Thalmann Jennings and Smithers with Samuel Newhouse ex officio. Lafayette Hanchett is named General Manager.
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Boston Consolidated Mining Company
Ernst Thalmann
C. D. Smithers
Sidney J. Jennings
L. N. Schirmer
Messrs. Schirmer
Thalmann
Jennings
Smithers
Samuel Newhouse
Lafayette Hanchett
Dividend notices from multiple companies dated December 1908
A compilation of stock dividends declared by Guggenheim Exploration Company and several others. Notices include 2.5 percent quarterly dividends, 4 percent and 2 percent stock dividends, payable dates in January and February 1909, record dates in December 1908, and transfer book closings. Also lists bank and railway company dividends with payment and book-closure details.
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Guggenheim Exploration Company
Broadway
New York
Chas. K. Lipman
Norfolk & Western Railway Company
Arcade Building
Philadelphia
Irving National Exchange Bank
Benjamin F. Werner
United Gas Inrovement Company
N. W. Corner Broad and
Arch Streets
Lewis Lillie
Federal Mining & Smelting Company
F. J. Kilner
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Cologne
Munich
Augsburg
Vienna
Frankfort-on-Main
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Grain and Provisions
Cambria Steel
United States Steel
Reading
Lehigh Valley
Eepeeaeea
Bell Telephone
Klyn Rap
Cambria Tron
At .Electric Co
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Asphalt Sevcee -Ins. Co
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Missouri Pact
Nsylvania
Penn
Steel
Philadelphia Electric
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Union Pacific
Union Oma Seeveee
U. G. Imp Co
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West Jersey & Sea
Board of Trade Committee
Pittsburg
STOC
Saaceesees Ass
Sonnie Steel
San Seepee
Seesenae
Pittsburg Brewing
Union Switch
West
Financial Notes
United Fruit Company
Boston
Exchange Place
State Street
the Rookery
Copper Company
Title Guarantee & Trust
New York City
Board of Trustees
Arthur Terry
E. H. Alden
Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago
Pennsylvania Company
National City Bank of New York
Ifer Books
T. H. B. McKnight
National Bank OF Commerce
Nassau Street
Ew York
National Bank of Commerce In
Borough of Manhattan
Neilson Olcott
Chatham National Bank
Banking House
Bard of Manhattan
William H. Strawn
Yukon Gold Company
Williamson & Burleigh
Watcer
Augusta
Maine
Dibs-Saba Realty Company
Realty Trust
Liberty Street
Merchants National Bank of the City of
Fifth Avenue Trust Company
Fifth Ave
43D Street
James M. Pratt
Cobalt
GREENE_CAN
Kerr Lake
Cumberland-Ely
Inpissing
Yukon Cone Goldfield
Seeane
J. Thomas Reinhardt
Exchange Pl
Broad &J
Mass
Overlook
Union Electric Light and Power Company
Standard Trust Company
Broad Street
Mississippi Valley Trust Company
St. Louis
C. W. Wetmore
Wall Street Journal
DOW, Jones & Co., Publishers
Broad St
de Ruyter Hollins Railway I Equipment Securities
Washington Life
Tel
Cort
U. 8. Steel
Blanche A. Thompson
Hayden, Stone & Co
Bank OF New York
National Banking Association
Wall St
Chas
Olney
American Apothecaries Company
Henry E. Frankenberg
Borough of
Manhattan
A. P. Warmington
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North American Company
Pace
A. M
Silas W. Burt
West Broadway
Tuesaday
the Mutual Bank
Hugh N. Kirkland
Hanover National, Bank of the City of
Paso
Wade Veer
Anaconda Copper
Republic Iron and Steel
Thomas Gibson
Corn Exchange Bank
Uptown
York Stock Exchange House
New York Stock Exchange House
Jan. J. Paul
Times Square
the Mahattan Savings Institution
Payal
Joseph Bird
Frank G. Stiles
Constant M
M. Bird
Mitropoltan Savings Bank
Third Ave
Cooper’ Institute
Jonathan B. Currey
Edward Sherer
Bank For Savings
Fourth Avenue
Gurchar
James Knowles
Empire City Savings Banig
Brooklyn
Thomas T. Barr
Samuel W. Boocock
George W. Chauncey
William N. Dykman
William Hester
Francis L. Hine
Theodore F. Mill
William A. Jamis
Frank Lyman
Willis L. Ogden
Joseph E. Owen
John J. Pierrepont
Charles M. Pratt
David
George G. Reynolds
Cherries A. Schieren
Edward M. Shepard
J. H. Walbridge Alexander M. White Willis D. Woodenman
Travellers
Letters of Credit Foreign Drafts
R. F. Westerfield
John
Albany & Hudson R. R
American Brake Shoe & Foundry
American Light & Traction Co
American Press Association
Atlantic Shore Line Railway
Brooklyn & New York Ferry Co
City Investing Co
Fort Smith Light & Traction Co
Great Lakes Co. Co
Herring-Hall-Ma. Co
Holly Nufactu
Jme Co
Hudson River Electric Power
Litchfield & Madison Railway
Louisville & Eastern Railroad
Manistee Light & Traction Co
Minneapolis Brewing Co
Honduras
Rosario Mining Co
Mutral Gas
Park & Tilford
Pennsylvania Coal & Coke Co
Pittsburgh, Bing. & Eastern R. R
Rochester
Syracuse
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