The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-04-24
FINANCIAL.

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So;gvO' over 5000 at Sl.00 per 1000.
Foreign ENchange-Market firm. The
iol.owing are net Savannah quotations:
commercial demand, S4SS24, sixty DAYS,
Si.SI4; ninety days. S4S6Is; continentals,
steady; francs. Paris and Havre, sixty
u Ssri SS:lsA' Swiss; sixty days, $50;
marks, sixty days. IS 3-16.
rather duh.
State Bonds-Georgia, AZ per cent. 1915
ll4$4 bid, 1l515 asked; Georgia per cent,
1895, l04 bid. 105 asked; Georgia 3is per
cent, long dates. 1O2 bid 1O3 asked.
City Bonds-New Savannah 5 per cent.
July coupons, 1852 bid. - asked; new Sa-
vannan, per cent. May coupons, 1858
Railroad Bonds-Central Railroad and
Bsnking Company collateral gold IS. 80
bid. 50 asked: Central consolidated mort
gage per cent. coupons, January and
July maturity. l22 bid. asked: Savan-
nah and Western railroad per cent trust
certificates, 52l5 bid, 5915 asked; Savannah,
Americas and Montgomery s per cent.
bid, SO asked: Georgia railroad per cent,
1910, = bid, ITO asked; Georgia Southern
and Florida first mortgage per cent, Sc
bid, 81 asked; Montgomery and Eufaula
first mortgage 8 per cent, Endorsed by
Central railroad, 1917 bid, 1913 asked; Au-
gusta and Knoxville first mortgage Z per
cent, IS bid, l0l asked; Ocean Steamship
. per cent. due 1920, 97i2 bid, 9Sls asked;
Columbus and Rome first mortgage bonds,
Endorsed by Central railroad, bid, 43
asked; Columbus and Western per cent,
guaranteed Ill bid. 112 asked; City and Su
- bid 81 asked Savannah and Atlantic
per cent, indorsed Is bid, % asked: Elec-
trio railway first mortgage 6s, 43 bid, 80
asked; South Georgia and Florida first
mortgage per cent, 109 bid, 10 asked;
/ South Georgia and Florida second mort
gage, los bid, 109 asked; Alabama Midland.
- bid. 81 asked: Brunswick and Western
As. guaranteed, y asked.
Railroad Stocks-Central common, liz
bid, 1919 asked; Augusta and Savannah
per cent, guaranteed, q bid, 81 asked;
Georgia, common, 157 bid, 159 asked; South
western Z per cent, guaranteed, including
order for div, 69h bid 70 asked; Central
per cent. certificates, with order for de-
faulted interest 1914 bid, 171a asked; Atlanta
and West Point railroad stock SO bid, 81
asked; Atlanta and West Point per cent.
certificates. $40 bid, 95la asked
Bank Stocks, Etc-Citizens Bank, l03
bid 104 asked; Chatham Bank, 46la bid, A
asked; Germania Bank 1929 bid, 1881
asked: Merchants National Bank, 96l9 bid,
100 asked; National Bank of Savannah, l33
bid - asked. Oglethorpe Savings and Trust
Company, SO bid, 1Ol asked; southern Bank
of the State of Georgia, 1854 bid, l65 asked;
Savannah Bank and Trust Company l05
bid, 1906 asked; Chatham Real Estate and
Improvement Company, 52ls bid. 5S12 asked; ;
Savannah Construction COMPANY, 70 bid,
| II asked; Title Guarantee and Loan Com
pany 50 bid, asked; Brush Electric
Light and Power Company. Bog bid 56l2
asked; Savannah Gas Light Co., 20 bid Il
New York. April 2S.-Money on call has
been easy at lla@2 per cent. the last loan oar
fered at IL per cent. Prime mercantile
paper, Az per cent. ~ ,.
0i Sterling exchange steady with actual
business in bankers bills; sales, @.SS44
4 .SSIh for so days and $4S9A az S9l2 for de-
mand Posted rates, S4S9q4.9O. CONNER
cial bills S4.S71ad4S8
Goyernment bonds were firm; state
bonds were dull; railroad bonds were &C
Silver at the board was quoted at 67l2a
New York. April 2S.-Treasury balances
were as follows: Coin, $o5,bOl,VJo' cur
New New York York, April Noon.-,Erie, 119s;
Northwestern 967s do preIeIreII, "a az Vs. Net-
eTn Union. ss7s: Southern Railway, com
mon. FPS: Southern Railway, preferred;
Si3 American Sugar lQozs; B 5sd g PAN ai,q
615s; Rock Island. 46$4; Delaware ana r Huu-
son. 129; Del, Lackawanna and west
ern 1917; Manhattan, 11S6; Michigan Cen
trail 100: New York Central, 99A.
New York April 23.-On transactions OF
aoi 703 shares the usually active stocks
closed with net gains ranging rom m 4 20
tions throughout the day, but the stocks
offered were readily absorbed, and in the
main speculation, closed strong ana con-
fdent London really set the pace, the
foreigners having taken fully $4,000 shares,
according to arbitrage brokers: Local.
bears, who profess to be dlsSappoltnLean at
cite Coal companies to arrive at an agree
ment in the matter of percentage, endeaV-
ored to bring about a REACTION, put me
decline was Insignificant. Jersey Central
ran off to 95Iz and Delaware and Hudson
to 1884. while Reading and LackaWanna
refused to sympathize. In the afternoon
the old stories of a settlement of the diff
culties of the companies were revived, ana
the stocks, notably Reading, responded.
Reading touched 1885, and the Junior
bonds on larger trading, moved up "A to
3 per cent, the latter in the first prefer
ences. In the late trading the Changers
were particularly prominent, st raul RS
ing to 621sc, Northwestern to S934, Burling-
ton and Quincy to 743s. and Rock Island
to 675s Among the low priced issues, Long
Island Traction recovered to l9s, on re
ports of a change in the directory. Rumor
had it that prominent New York capital
lists were to be represented IN the directory
in the early future. Chicago Gas, among
rise having induced realizations. Specu-
lation closed strong. with the active issues
anywhere from z to " per cent higher
The sales to-day of listed stocks aggre-
gated 262 900 shares, and of unlisted stock
New York Stock disclosing Bids
Stocks and Bonds-American Cotton Oil,
275s; do preferred, 76 Sugar Refinery; lOe9s;
do preferred s6A; 700 American T9 %oes
and Santa Fe, Sis; Baltimore and Ohio,
Sc: Canada Pacific, As; Chesapeake and
Ohio. 1915; Chicago and Alton, l4l; Chicago
I
73Ik: Delaware. Laclawanna and Western
16% Dstillers and Cattle Feed
ers 152: Erie, 12; do pre-
ferred %; Edison General Elec-
trio, 335s: Illinois Central. 81; Lake Erie
and Western, 203i do preferred. 1S; Lake
shore. 1875; Louisville and Nashville, 5524
Louisville and y; Al s; Manhattan ar : l,lS13
Central 1904; Missouri Pacific,
26; Mobile and Ohio, 1874; Nash
Vile. Chattanooga and st. Louis.
"a. T1nited States Cordage So:
do preferred. III; New Jersey Central,
aeA New York Central. 1914; New York
and New England. 392i Norfolk and West
ern preferred. 1914. Northern Pacific, ~:
do preferred %; Northwestern. 9sl2;. do
preferred. al: Pacific Mail "a. Reading.
iGN Rock Island. 677s. st. Paul, 81; do
preferred. lis; Silver Certificates. 6S4t;
Tennessee Coal and Iron, 22ih; do do pre-
ferred IS: Texas Pacific. i0i4 Union Pa
oiic. 1885: Wabash. ST. l.. and p, Z: % 10
preferred i6as Western Union, 50; Wheel
Ing and Lake Erie i8: DO DO preferred.
f3i5. Southern Railway 5s s9k southern
Railway common. i2if Southern Railway
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