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WALL STREET WHISPERS. Special Dispatch to The Star. NEW YORK, April 9.-In his report President L. A. Cole of the National Lead Company says: "Ample provision has now been made for the large working capital required to conduct our business. Our directors now hope and expect that beginning with July 1 next dividends will be earned and regularly paid on our common stock.' * * * It is reported from Fairmont, W. Va., that Alexander Brown & Sons of Baltimore are financing a consolidation of electric light and railway franchises in Fairmont and Mannington, W. Va. The Pennsylvania raflroad has notified the Trunk Line Association that it will withdraw from the party rate agreements coverlabor, theatrical and military traffic. The reason given is that party rates are 11legal. * The quantity of coal moved from the Pittsburg pools in March was the greatest for that month ever known. Over 2,000,000 bushels moved, or an equivalent of 800 boats. This is 500,000 bushels more than during March, 1905. * * The Lehigh Valley railroad has ordered a cessation of all improvement work which can safely be postponed and has cut down other expenses as much as possible. The retrenchment is to last until normal operating conditions are resumed in the coal fields. * According to a dispatch from Denver, the Milwaukee Trust Company has filed suit in the United States circuit court for the appointment of a receiver for the Ophir Consolidated Mines Company of Telluride. It is alleged the Ophir Company did not set aside 15 per cent of its earnings each year as a sinking fund for the redemption of $250,000 bonds in accordance with the agreement made with the trust company, and also that the property of the company has been allowed to deteriorate in value. Persons who have excellent sources of information believe confidently that there will be a larger inflow of gold from Europe within the next few weeks. They understand that in addition to $3,000,000 due to arrive next Monday. negotiations are well advanced for $5,000,000 more. They believe also that these amounts will be materially supplemented in the near future. They look for the stock market to be somewhat irregular and perhaps fractionally lower, but they are still very confident that as soon as money is made to appear easier stocks will advance sharply throughout the list. * From Cincinnati it is learned that Thomas W. Paxtor, attorney for the Central Trust Company of New York, has filed suit in the United State circuit court for foreclosure on a mortgage for $50,000,000, covering all the properties held by the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railway Company. The suit is brought by the trust company in the interest of the bondholders. The Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railway Company in January, 1905, authorized an issue of $50,000,000 bonds, of which $17,500,000 were sold. The interest was defaulted in July and January, and the Central Trust Company, as trustee, asks for the sale of the road. The now trust company, in its action, also asks for the appointment of a receiver to represent the bondholders. * A Montreal dispatch says that in spite of all that has been said to the contrary, there is a strong effort being made by Montreal capitalists to sell the control Dominion Steel of and the Toronto Company and to it can the United States Steel Corporation, be added that confirmatory details may be forthcoming in a few days. It is said that a meeting of the interested parties has been held in New York within the past week, and that James J. Hill of the Great Northern is not by any means a stranger to the negotiations that have been going on for some weeks past. The statement is made that the promoters of the sale control already something like 100,000 shares of the Dominion Steel common. and that the acquisition of twenty or twenty-five thousand additional shares would make the merger or the control quite possible, This quantity the promoters of the new move will be able to secure on the open market as sobn as their New York principals tell them to go ahead
