Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-03-16
ON WALL STREET.
Yesterdays Sales Of Railway Bonds
COtten six Points higher
Wheat was Lever.
Transactions in stocks Were Limited 10 n
Few Leading shares-rhe General
List Was steady.
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NEw loKk, March Railway bond
sales to-day were made at the following
prices Fort Worth Denver City rs II
aOk; Texas & Pacific income laud grants
al 59i Texas & Pacific Rio Grand division
coupons OF at S.; Gulf, Colorado & san.
IL Fe gold G's at los; Houston & Texas
Central at 51i; Galveston, Harrisburg &
san Antonio at99s Kansas &TeNas general
mortgage at 92b do SIS At Sii do rs nj
lla4i Missouri, Kansas & Texas s's al
S0s do rs at ia.
oil iluctuated ( OF cent, closing At 7s4
Wheat was from J TO points lower
than Saturday.
Cotton advanced G points The spot
market was quiet; middling 81 Gross
receipts at this port G2al bales. EST.
mated receipts at all ports 9aTS, against
l0,23s last week and $40 lSst year.
The coffee market opened steady at ex.
Change, advanced points up 10 1880
p. m. Six thousand pounds Of April
were sold at 7.i5.
The posted rates of foreign exchange
are unchanged; S4.sS for sixty-day bills
and 81 30 for demand TO the pouad Act
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The market Is featureless.
Money ON call Is 10 ample supply and is
lending at ID to per cent
GOVERNMENTS, STOCKS AND BoNDs.
NEW York, March l5.--Government
bonds dull and steady with currency 6's
weak.
quotations are mostly unlmportaut and
for the most part show declines.
st. Paul furnishes the leading feature
Oh the stock market, sales amounting 10
10000 shares against 10000 TO $4,000
shares for some time past, The renewed
security grows out of reports circulated
for the last two or three days TO the effect
that the company was TO Issue bonds 10
the extent Of 100000, con, er.ible Into
stock at so, and not on the Kansas City
extension, the presumption being that II
the statements are true the company Is IN
need of money for otherpurposes thar
construction OF the extension and that II
In time is 20 be bonded.
LAFER--No official statement has
been made in regard TO the matter
but some of the directors hay,
denied the reports in circulation The
stock opened I higher at 90B, and sold
down during the forenoon TO $50. Fol
lowing dispatch from Chicago, published
after midday, stating that the report:
were untrue, the stock rallied to 80
yielded again to so, and closed ON an
other rally at S9l, net loss OF g. LAX,
Shore, Lackawauna and Western Union
contributed 1873, 900 shares. This gives
Gl per cent. for the four stocks mentioned
The remainder Of the business
was widely distributed except moderat,
trading in Pacific Mail and Reading The
market opened generally a shade higher
and was very feverish for the first hour
and irregular. Western Union, however
showed loss of at the opening at 6Ss
but it rallied before noon to CA and later
rose TO Cos In the last hour after selling
at ga II rose to and closed at 50. Aftei
some weakness in the general list between
| | and II O'Clock the market was firm e
strong until late in the afternoon when u
again yielded fraction, but rallied ant
closed firm generally from ! to ( higher
than the final figures Saturday.