New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-08-03
COMMERCIAL AND MONEY MATTERS.
For Sales Of Stocks, DC. see Fourth Page.

SATURDAY, P. NJ
There was a little reaction today at the Stock
Board and some Of the fancies fell of slightly ne COM
pared with Fridays Second Board. The transactions
were only 10 moderate extont In Investment Stocks
there is very ,tle doing.
The Bill Market for the steamers closed without
much activity and with good supply OF bills. The
amount RENTED b. this steamer has not been large.
In freights there is not much doing. Flour is
steady at % Sterling; cotton 3-l6d752 to Liverpool
The receipts OF the Long Island Railroad from
all sources for July is something $4,000, showing
a gain on July l5i5.
The Buffalo papers state that the death OF Oliver
Lee Esq will not interfere in any way with the bust
ness OF the Bank with which he connected
The receipts oftheW estern Railroad Co last week
show increase of about forty per cent the
responding week of last year Total $4,000, against
sl4,70O-gain $500 There has been increase Of
$4,000 in the receipts since January ls over those of
Inst year three per cent the whole capital stock
OF the $4,000 increase, 10000 have been received
since July lst a dividend of three per is due
August B.
The arrivals at Boston during July were 900, of
which go were foreign Of these bark, II brig and
40 schooncrs were British The clcarmces iG2,
OF which 242 were foreign.
By n recent law Of New Hampshire, Bank stock
holders are liable in their individual capacity for the
debts of the Bank TO the amount Of their stock This
individual liability does not extend 10 other corpora
tons
Among the reports OF Railroad corporations re-
Gently made that of the Portland. Saco & Portsmouth
Road remarkable for its clearness and particularly
By this the whole cost of the road up May 3st
81 25o279 and S6294 of property hand not required
.nt
Sl33C9i Tho increase for ychr ending may 3lst 1916
was sl26 1877 of which sJ2,530 came from 6s,7sl way
and $4,000 from $3.50 through passengers. The
freight ON l32j7 of merchandise gave Sls,54 ;
mails $6574 and rents se,l27. The expenditures were
s554s5 and the net receipts s7Ol, from which s43i9
in,cres, paid being deducted and $50 of balance IL
hand June Isl, ls45 added gave total Of funds uppl
cable to dividends o. $903le The dividends in July
and January took S66s70 and balance OF S234is was
in hand May 3lst meet July dividend. The number
of miles 10y passenger trains was 46 and iroish,
| 3l,S24
The York Manufacturing Company have declared
semiannual dividend oil 10 per cent; the Laconia
Manufacturing Company of per cent; and the
saco Water Power Company also one OF per cent.
At Baltimore money is in greater demand than
it has been for several weeks past, owing in part to the
fact that large negotiations which made for money
to meet the very heavy payments due in April and May
last are now maturing and must be provided for The
Banks have discounted literally
The amount received for tolls on all the New.
York State Canals during the third week in July this
year and las, was annexed:
Third week in July 1916 S700l2 81
Same period in 1915. 62097 Il
increase .'Sif -
The aggregate amount received for tolls from the COM
OF navigation to the 22d OF July. lsi6, in.
elusive, i3S'i i
During the same period in l033is9
Ircrcose SIS, 81
The Pittsfeld \ North Adams Railway viii be
completed probably in October. North Adams is one
OF The largest manufacturing towns in Western Nassa
chuse,;s and dis;sn, eighteen miles from P,;sheld
In short time is believed this Railway Will be eN
tended TO Bennington. VT and perhaps to Rutland.
The following is statement OF the amount Of
Coal transported over the Philadelphia and Reading
Railroad for the week ending Thursday the 3oth inst;
and also an exhibit Of the total receipts from the
Schuylkil mines for the Il Will be observed
that the pos, weeks work is unprecedentedly large
reaching over 81 600 tons