The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-03-10
YINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS.
Review OF the Past weeks RuHInsaS by
the Hpublle,n


NEW YoRE, March 9.-From the Public
The exchanges at New York last weel
were the largest ever known, inclusiye o
stock transactions, the amount was thu
largest ever known except the first weel
Of the year.
Outside oil New York the exchanges
were the largest ever known except fo
first week OF the year, and the first weeI
OF December 1880, In short, business Il
at very nigh water. The market deslingI
in stocks amounted to s, ,462, ,7SO shares, Rnt
Notwithstanding fall IN prices the average
price was high, because premium stocks
were more largely sold than those Of lower
grades OF exchanges,
The market value OF the stock sold
amounted to $72l, GAL ,070, and outside ol
New York exchanges amounted to $3.50.
4Sl, ,l70, exclusive OF Hartford and st,
Joseph, and the largest returns ever made
Tor the same cities have been $S95 ,l76, 6SO
in December, $5,3l6. 236,7S3 January,
81, $50, ,4Sl ,l7O March, S270 O,453 Feb
ruary OH, and S279 ,06S $50 January 22d,
yet the dealings at Chicago, Milwaukee,
st. Louis and Kansas City were remarka-
bly, small because OF the blockade OF lines
OF travel, and at New Orleans there were
two holidays. Nine cities out OF the
eighteen which report weekly show losses,
and yet the aggregate Is very large be-
cause OF the heavy transactions at Boston,
Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Louisville and
PittsbuFH. Indeed the returns for the first
week Of the moAth Is chiefly notable as q
showing. The severity Of the Interrupt
tions at points was unprecedented,
as the volume OF business elsewhere was
Doing on while thus interrupted. The fol-
lowing shows the exchanges for the week
ending March 9th at the other cities, and
February 26th at San Francisco: New
York, 81, 24l ,050,579; Boston, $50. $40, ,374i
Philadelphia, $50, 1850, ,4S0i Chicago, $685..
$50 783; Cincinnati, ,Sl6, ,455. 400; Baltimore,
Sl6,0SS,0 ,075; st. Louis, Sl5, ,74S 1872; New
Orleans, 81, 1872, ,l64; Louisville, 81, ,S90, ,03l |;
San Francisco, ST, $50, III; Pittsburgh, &c..
3S2, ,055; Milwaukee, 8, ,720, 1872; Providence,
4,4lS,700; Kansas City, $l,S78 800; Indi'
annapolis, 81, ,l30, ,255; Cleveland, 81, 90l,-
000; Hartford, 81 49,, 500; New Haven, ST..
OIL ,76l; total, $l,523,0l4, 207; outside
New York, $2Sl ,0O3 0SS, The value Of the
business In February was surprisingly
large in view OF the peculiarly un.
favorably weather, which prevented
over great part Of the northwestern States
though the transactions last year were
enormous In February and the prices have
since declined materially, The returns
do not show the important losses at any
point, nor is there q single city at which
the decrease In the exchanges has been as
large as the decline in prices. The In.
crease OF the exchange at New York In
February was largely due, as it was in
January, to the extraordinary transactions
in the stock market, The sales on the
days corresponding with the month Of
February for the exchanges amounted 10
II, ,940, ,077 shares against II, $40 06G shares
in the longer month Of January. Deduct.
ing double their value the remaining in
the exchanges were about $2,560, ,9O6, $50
In February against $2,S2062S,l42 in
January.