The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-02-17
FINANCIAL AND ConnERCIAL.
New York Money ana stocks.

New York Money ana stocks.
NEW YoRE. February l6.-MoNEI-Market
easy at Sac, closing at 8 per cent Prime mer-
camille paper 4R6 per cent, Sterling Exchange
bankers bills quiet at s. SS5<; demand 81 S6It,
GOVERNMENT BoSDs-Quiet but firm,
United satoa q Of 1851, coupons
New I've eouPona
sew fo0I1
taeiae " o. lsSo
RAILROAD BoSDs-In the market the special
feature was the Texas 4 Pacific income land
grant seYens, which rose to IS from S6x,
Peoria, Decatur h Evansville income ross to
SIX from S6k, Union Pacific sinking fund
Fights to l24k from FISH Lehigh & Wilkes
barre Consols to liz from Ill, Texas & Pacific
fists Trio Grande Division) to 100 from 89H,
Iron Mountain tirstS preferred income to OK
from o. and do seconds preferred income TO
So from 50 Q. @, l. !, o. income fell to 70 from
7ik and Indiana, Decatur & Springfield SEQ
onds income to Is from GIk,
STATE BoHDs-Dull.
LouiIAla COpSoS-,,,,, 64 Virginia 6a..,.....,, IS
Missouri i-s'''.''~i!S Do W..,,,.,,,,'.,,'r,, 30
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SToCEs-The market was irregular in tue
early dealings and subsequently became firm
and closed strong and buoyRnt. At the open.
ing some shares showed u decline, notably
Reading, which was per cent lower, but ut
the tist board speculation assumed q decided.
" strong tone and before noon an advance OF
| Y TO * per cent had been recorded, the lat.
ter In Denver Il Rio Grande, During the
afternoon the market occasionally reacted
slightly, but toward the close prices again
took an upward turn and closed ut an iul'
provement OF X to ~ per cent on the days
Transactions the latter In New jersey Central.
Denver & Rio Grande, Northern Pacific,
Northwestern and Iron Mountain were also
prominent In the improvement
The Public furnishes the following: The
clearing house returns last week are almost
"unaniInousn Providence and New Orleans
put In All insignificant decrease, every other
lcity Tor the Second week in February shows
an increase over the large transactions of last
year, San Francisco reports u small decrease
but Tor the preceding week, yet the gain
In the aggregate, outside OF New York, not
wlhstanding this unusual accord in reports
Is smaller than the usual gain; at Pbiladel'
phia quite small, and Boston, Pittsburgh and
several other Eastern cities fall below 10 per
cent. The exchanges for the week ending
February 9th at Ban Francisco, and Feb.
ruary 18th at all other cities, were
az follows; New York. $0i7Sl2,O76; Bos-
ton, S776Ol,l4l; Philadelphia, t47,6Sl, 1877
Chicago, S2S 900; Cincinnati, $l6, l47, 700;
St. Louis, lS,S2S 64S; Baltimore, $l9, 4s4, $50;
New Orleans, Sl0,60l,000; San Francisco,
50, 1877 100; Louisville, $S,l076l4; Pittsburgh,
$0,07I,sSS; Milwaukee, A0S9, 100; Kansas
City, $2,lS0,lOO Cleveland, $l,7lO,BS5; In
dianRpOlis, 81, 4S8, 1902, No one will overlook
the iact that business OF all kinds was greatly
interrupted last week by the great thaw,
foods and severe storms, Indeed II Is aston.
lshing that the exchanges at Chicago,
Milwaukee aud Kansas City are so
large while the means OF travel through
out the Northwest have been so generally
blocked by floods or snow. The same cause,
though In less degree, has affected transac.
lions at st. Louis and Cincinnati. The volume
OF business, notwithstanding tue extraordi.
nary interruptions OF mails and lines OF trans.
portation continues much greater than II
was In February last; although ut that time
the increase Ia exchanges outside Of New
York In comparison with 1879, was over AZ
per cent for the fTstand over 81 per cent for
| The second week In February. This incrGase,
notwithstanding the decline In prices last
year, shows a wonderful expansion in bust.
ness. The sales OF stock at New York last
week, ending Thursday, was 2,47l 600 shares,
and exchanges, after deducting the double
market value, the shares sold were about
$577, O70,774, nearly thirteen million less than
for the previous week, which included the
frat and fourth ofthe month.
II. IA inn Il.