The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1849-12-23
com ERCIAL AFFAIRS.
MONEY MARKET.
Saturday. Dec. 23-6 r.

We have no variation Of consequence to report in
quotations for stocks, and change in the market
There were large sales of Reading Railroad to day at
the first board, at decline Of u per cent Hudson
Railroad fell of u; Erie Railroad, 4; Reading Bonds
u. The fancies weak and they in weak hands.
Aeudden contraction in the money market would start
prices down on the run, and the bulls would tumble
over like pile Of bricks At the second board, the
transactions limited and the market closed heavy
The Harlem Railroad Company will pay the semi
annual interest the preferred stock, the "a of
Jsnuary.
The directors of the Old Colony Railroad Company
have decided to pay dividend in January. They
have surplus of S47, 900 hand after charging OF
everything which would be about two per cent upon
their capitals and asfor the coming two months the
cepts are small they have thought it best to start this
year square with this surplus 1t is understood that
the income has been for the year S75 and the
income S108,000 after deducting running expenses,
and cost Of maintaining branches and second track
The income has increased 7 600 during the year The
expenses have been increased The increase Of expen
diture appears to spring from the east Of running
twelve miles of second trsckthe South Shore Branch
twelve miles long and increased mileage and cost of
fuel 1t is pity that of the railroad companies
in this part of the country would not do likewise
All we ask of them, however for the next year. is to
close up their construction account.
The Eastern (iass) Railroad Company have de-
clared dividend Of four per cent.
The Bank of Hamburg has declared dividend of
two dollars and fifty cents (s2 SOY per share being five
per cent for six months.
The jackson Manufacturing Company, OF Nashua
have declared dividend of per cent payable January
LIST. The Nashua Manufacturing Company, of the
fame place, A per cent.
The Hamilton Manufacturing Company, Of Lowell,
have declared per cent.
The Boston and Worcester Railroad Company have
declared dividend of per cent.
The Cayuga and Susquehanna Railroad has been
completed and the opening celebrated the 18th
Owego
was 195 pennyweights EACH were produced in the
Booker mine in Buckingham Va, by thirty hands, in
thirty four days. The bars valued at $4,000 As
the expenses rated at twenty dollars per day, the
clear profits of thiryfour days work upwards of
FIVE thousand dollars.
The bill for winding up the State Bank of South Ca
rolina, indefinitely postponed in the House of Re-
representatives. Of that State last week. after long and
exciting debate, by a vote Of 81 to co.
The Rutland and Burlington Railroad, connecting
Boston, by the way of the Fitchburg Vermont and Mas
saehusetts and Cheshire Railroad to the Connecticut
line, with Lake Chsmplain, opened, on Tuesday
last. On that day, for the first time, engine aud
train Of passed along the line from Boston Bur-
lington.
The annexed statement exhibits the quantity Of pro-
duce and merchandise imported and exported from
Milwaukee for the past year.
COMMERCE OF MiLwAuKIE-IMPoRrs AND EXPORTS, 1910.