The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-08-20

For cash gold the inquiry was less active, but still
sufficiently so to occasion rates from six down to
three and a-half per cent for carrying. The opera
tons of the Gold Exchange Bank to-day were as fol-
lows:-
Gross clearances. slO3, 700
Gold balances OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. l,SbDO43
Currency balances ..................,. 2,oOo,oll
The government gold sold by the Assistant Trea-
surer brought fair prices as will be seen by the
following awards:-s500 COD at 1915, $4,000 at
1890 $4,000 at 1891 sl0O 900 at 1906 $50 at
1878 100000 at 1885, $4,000 at 1904 $50 600 at
l330o $4,000 at 1330S, $4,000 at 1876 $50 900 at
1872 100000 at 1884, s25o0Oo at 1904 500 900 at
1898, $1,000 at 1898, $1,000 at 1898. The bids
amounted TO over s4,000000.
Governments were steady after the dearth OF offer.
ings yesterday, but the proposals for the remnant or
the two millions being plentiful to-day prices weak
,ened and the whole market broke down with the
decline in gold and reported heavy sales OF bonds
foreign account The bonds purchased for the COM
plement OF the two millions were In the lots and at
the prices folowing-ijo,00o, 1861 coupons, new, at
1885, s35 0O0 1862, registered, 1885, $780, 1854,
coupons, 1895; $4,000. 1862 registered, l1o.ss;
$325oo0, 1862 registered, 1896 SAP 00o 1864, regis
tered, 1910.
The following were the closing street prices this
evening the '62's and 'e7's showing yielding OF
three-eighhs to onehalf per cent as compared with
122x 1913; do do, coupon 1921 1873; do. five
twenties, registered 12lA 1919; do. do, coupon
1852, 122h 122H; do. do, coupon, 1854, 12lh
12lH; do. do, coupon, 1885, 121x a121ls; do.
do, coupon new, 1865, 100 a 120is; do. do, cou-
pom, 1857. 1904 1908; DO. do, coupon, 1868,
40 12oK; do. tent res. registered. 1oI HOY;
do do, coupon, l13T a ia; currency bonds 100 a
l09X.
The annual report OF the Chicago and Northwest.
Railroad Company gives the following results Of
the years busness:-
Receipts from freight. So 1901, 47s
Receipts from passengers, mail, &c...... s,o49,s65
Total ending May 31..............,.... $I3 GAL 342
Az an expense oi $3.50 per cent........ 7507,6 40
Net earnings. Observation-Disclosures. SO, asa, 500
Taxes. Observation-Disclosures. $4l6,979
interest ..............'......... l,25S277
toWu aeas s; 's...''.'''.... biso,o3a
SINKING lund, &c............. 80, SAB 2 s67, 1913
Net on s3l, 24o 25s capital. $4,000, O7O
The following lie comparison Of the gross and net
earnings for the last two years:--
Gross Net
For the year ending May
81, lsos. ..,..,;....,,.. si2Slas4s $4,000, so2
For the year ending May
81, lSos..........,..... 1sei,sta a,5es,o7o
Amount OF increase" 81, 32e,497 81, 2o3, 7os
Percentage OF increase. 1852 CO. 90
The capita STOCK IL $3l,2i9,25S, and the funded
debt fl7, 400.
Foreign exchange was weak and lower under the
>~encct OF q better supply OF bills the prominent
houses being free sellers In order TO get gold for
shipment to California but the weaker feeling was
more manifest Ia The sixty day sterling bills which
the drawers expect to cover by shipments of Calf
forna produce. The range Of quotations was as fol-
lows:-Sterline, sixty days, commercial 1905 Ioo,a
bankers, 10ox . 1oeX; short sight, llOA lloN;