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Washington Post

Location

Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America

Date

Mar 01, 1912

Page

3

Active Stocks Rally as Short Contracts Cover in New York

Foreign financiers especially Germany negotiating for credits in New York while Bank of England reports a decline in reserves to liabilities. Bonds steady as Amalgamated Copper leads with a new high. market shows short-covering and uncertainty amid copper and coal strike news. Toward close, copper and mining shares retreat while railway earnings for January surface, highlighting mixed tones in a featureless session.

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Wall Street Gossip on Erie notes and rail plans

Announcement that the Erie directors authorized an issue of 10.6 million dollars in three year notes subject to public service commission approval. Proceeds to fund double tracking on the main line with about 20 million more needed to complete work. Loutaville and Nashville Railroad awards 1.15 million for Alabama Tennessee construction covering over 150 miles of new trackage. Additional double-track contracts planned Birmingham to Mobile and Pensacola. Panhandle stock activity shows profit-taking after gains and speculative buying as Panama Canal traffic looms. Atchison activity supports sale of 18.9 million bonds. United States Steel bookings reach 11,060,000 tons yearly, a peak for shipments and optimistic demand despite low steel prices.

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Washington Gas leads with bullish trading on royal stock exchange

Trading activity was sparse in the land market with prices softening except Potomac Electric 5s in demand at 1018-4. Washington Railway and Electric 4s fell to 84 with a 52-4 bid. Washington Gas surged to 882-4 with strong demand and a later close around 863-8. Railway stocks were irregular and inactive. Georgetown Gas and other machine stocks showed modest moves.

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New York Stock Market Builds Big Apartment Complex

Harry Wardman, a butler, bought from the Biddle estate in Philadelphia the northwest corner plot at Fourteenth Street and Columbia Road Northwest once a public playground. He plans a large apartment house with ground floor stores at an estimated cost of about 259000, with a price around 50000. The Provident Savings Bank at Ninth and G Streets Northwest will rename today to the Mercantile Bank under president Andrew D Loffier. Sale of the Fredonia Hotel property was postponed awaiting a private offer, with a deed of trust of 110000 held by Mrs Danenhower. A bank case in Supreme Court concerns a national bank erecting an office building for its own use and rent. A Maryland stockholder of First National Bank of Hagerstown asks the court to reverse a decision to allow tearing down and rebuilding.

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YORE PRODUCE AND MARKET REPORTS NEW YORK PRICES

A dense early 20th century market snapshot listing prices and receipts for butter eggs flour beef lard corn meal and other commodities in New York. It notes filtered quantities such as firm receipts 125 for butter 700 for eggs and 375 bbls flour with shipments 612 bbls and includes metal quotes on sugar coffee potato and pennyweights along with bank and bond rates indicating steady conditions across commodities and financial markets.

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