New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-01-21

| Michigan Southern -.......... ~ 81 O.
| Michigan Central ............l1 i0b ~
| Illinois Central .............--l2J ITO -,
Cleveland and Pittsburgh. % sii IL
North Western .........-.-.- 5St sot e
/ North. Western preferred $50. os coz coz nj
Rock Island .........-......-.iVx Oh n
AT the second Board there was reaction. IN
Rock Island the advance was A per cent. The gen.
eral market was better with great disposition to
buy largely Later in the day the marke, was
a good deal better and buyers quite free.
| Money continues abundant at 60| per cent, anu
borrowers have had no trouble in getting all they
want. Commercial paper is unchanged ana dui''
The steady fall in prices OF most domestic pfoduc.'
and imported goods, casts discredit on Mercantile
bills.
Exchange is dull, and offered in large quantities.
Bankers Sterling 60 days, 109b0i09i; 3days, lloii
Merchants Sterling, 1881 100; Francs, 5.loa5l3i.
In Freigts the large decline in gold has COM
pe,ely checked the shipments, and in the absence
of engagements rates are entirely nominal.
Mr. Brandrcth's bill to enable the State Banks to
organize under the National Currency Act, has been
reported TO the Assembly.
The First National Bank paid 81 ioO, 600 Of Treas
ury drafts to-day, and sold 500, 900 of 7.3os.
Proposals for 1894 900 Central Park Improve
ment Fund Stock of 1876" will be opened at the
Controllers Office, on Saturday, January u, at =
o'clock p. m. This stock, which is duly authorized
by the Legislature, viii bear interest at 6per cent
per annum, payable quarter-yearly, and the princ-
pal viii be redeemed Nov. l. 1876. 1t should all be
taken above par.
The directors of the Delaware and Raritan Canal
and Camden and Amboy Railroad and Transports
ton Companies have declared dividend Of five per
cent, free Of tax, payable on the 3lst inst
| The February coupon on the old Galcna and CHI
cago bonds and the coupons Of the Northwestern
road will be paid by the latter company at No.
Wall-st.
The Racine and Mississippi road earned the first
week in January
Is.4..............ss ego ls6j...........si4 59i
Increase. t464
The work on the Atchison and Pixies Peak Rail
road is being pushed forward withyigor and energy.
1t is stated tina, at least fifty miles will be graded
By next Autumn, and the cars running on that far.
We are requested 90 state that the account Of
M w. $. Whitney at the PhGnix Bank, was not
oyerdrawn, as stated.
VI. II. Cruger Oakley, Of the firm Of l.. r. Morton
& Co., wall-st., Las been elected member Of the
Stock Exchange.
From the Marquette mines there has been
shipped in 1864, 2As, oo0 gross tuns Of iron, and
% 900 tuns used by the furnaces, making product
of nearly 800 900 net tuns for the district. The
price Of this ore on the dock has ranged from five
TO seven and half dollars per tun, or an aggregate
valuation Of 81, 100000. The sum total of ship.
mcnts for the several mines for the season have
been as follows:
jackson g. 20 gross tnns'
Pitshurg and Lake Angelina =. 10 900 gross tuns.
Cleveland ..-.-.-.....-..-... a. lfr gross tiBs.
Total. .2J5 200 gross tuns
Charcoal pig furnaces have become very valuable.
The Chicago Tribune Of the 10Th instant gives
description Of an excursion from that city, over the
Dixon Air Line, Of the Chicago and Northwestern
Railway Company, 10 celebrate the completion of
their new bridge across the Mississippi River at
Clinton, and concludes with the following state
ment Of the condition of that company:
No enterprise well placed before tie American mind tia,
does not meet the practical tesi Of hur,s How doe.
pay We have chosen 10 seek nom Official sources the
proof ,hat enterprise having 70 do Win .e maeis develop
sood hands Tho following data are impcrian, proofs Of
The bonded debt of,le Compsny sIooeloOO
The preferred stock s4Jo1DO
fs523 500
Tie common stock II $50 500
4
Total rost OF tho road 53 eco
The bonded debt bears per cent interest, IL Ie.
qurcs ,heIefoFetO pay Il; ......,......... $50
| Preferred stock IL entitled ~ dividend Il per
$50 100
|
10 pay Interest and dividend on preferred stock 81
| The road has earned since the Consolidation, June
lat, 422s st4
AT the rate per its earnings would be 72G0ly
|
II. operating expenses have been little les. than 81
per cent Of ii. earnings. ............ $4,000
Expenses for OF Iowa lines for sin months cad.
ing Nov. 20 have 25,657
At the same per year s03274
To pay and dividend preferred stock. 1895 6l0
|
Total expenses $500 38.
surlu. applicable dividend stock. VI 34 1875
Dividend vi per sock requires. 8J9J50
Surplus after dividend. s+74 7e5
Since consolidation there have been added 10 the equipment
1. locomotives $50 freight passenger bag
gage These Ill Of the best construction aud,