The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-15
FINANCIAL.
Monev-Steadv.

Foreign Exchange-The market was
barely, steady. The following are net Sa-
%Sa3s; sixty days, $4.S65s; ninety days,
SLS6s; francs, Paris and Havre, sixty
days, S5.19A Swiss sixty days, 1921;
marks, sixty days, "a 1916
Domestic Exchange-The tone of the
market is quiet. Banks are buying at
1-l6c discount; selling at, up to SIS, 10c;
up TO $50 l5c; up to 500, Zoe; up to 500.
25c; up to $3.50, Is per cent; 500 and over,
Securities of undoubted solidity find
ready sale.
Stocks and Bonds-State Bonds-Geor-
gia, S1s per cent. bonds of 1880, 1914 bid,
102 asked; Georgia 81 per cents, due 1915
lO2 bid, 1O2iz asked; Georgia Az per cent.
Smiths, maturity 1896. 1O1 bid, 1917 asked; ;
South Carolina 41ss, 1O7 bid, los asked
City Bonds-Atianta Z per cent, 107 bid,
asked; Augusta z per cent. 112 bid, 11S
asked; Augusta per cent, ITO bid Ill
asked; Columbus per cent. 1C3 bid, l04
asked; Macon per cent, 1141s bid
1151s asked; Savannah per cent, quar-
terly April coupons, 10s bid, - asked ;
Savannah per cent, quarterly Feb
Charleston As, 50 bid, So asked.
Railroad Bonds-Savannah, Florida and
Western railroad general mortgage bonds,
6 per cent. interest coupons, 112 bid, llS
asked; Atlantic and Gulf first mortgage,
consolidated per cent. coupons, January
and July maturity, 1897, 101 bid, 102 asked;
RANKING v.
collateral gold, IS, 80 bid, SO asked; Gem
trail of Georgia Railway first mortgage
5s 1915, 112A bid, 1131s asked; Central of
Georgia Railway consolidated IS, 50-year
gold bonds, SO bid, 901a asked; Central of
Georgia. Railway, first preferred incomes,
Sc asked when issued; Central of Geor-
bid, % asked when issued; Central of
Georgia Railway third preferred incomes,
Is asked when issued; Georgia railroad
6s 1870 Ill bid, 112 asked; Charlotte Col
and Augusta
asked; Charlotte, Columbia and Angus
ia second mortgage IS, III bid 11S asked;
Georgia Southern and Florida new Is, so
bid, "a asked; South Georgia and Florida
first mortgage U.s. los bid, - asked; South
Georgia and Florida second mortgage rs,
105 bid - asked; Savannah, Americas and
Montgomery 5s, - bid, AS asked; Ocean
Steamship per cent. bonds 1920, 50 bid,
81 asked; City and Suburban railroad
SO asked Electric Railway 5s, due 1885,
% bid, 30 asked; Alabama Midland per
cent. indorsed. SO bid 81 asked: Bruins
wick and Western As, - bid, Is asked;
South Bound railroad 5s, =. bid, Is asked;
Southern Railway IS, 81 bid. 80 asked
Railroad lStocks-.Augusta and Savan-
common, - bid, 10 asked; Georgia com
mon, 17S bid, 1870 asked; Southwestern, S01A
bid 9115 asked; ex-div. Central per cent.
certificates, = bid, p asked; Atlanta and
West Point railroad stock, SO bid, 1O1 asked,
ex-div; Atlanta and West Point per cent.
certificates, SO bid, 100 asked, eX-interest;
savannah CONSTRUCTION Company, 20 Dtu,
Gas Stocks-savannah Gaslight stock,
% bid. "a asked Electric Light and Pow
er Company 90 bid, 70 asked, eX-div.
Bank Stocks, Etc.-Citizens' Bank ex-
dividend. 40 bid, III asked; Chatham
Bank ex-dividend, 40 bid. 80 asked; Ger
mania Bank, 1852 bid, 10714 asked ex-diy;;
Merchants National Bank, 101 bid, 192
asked. ex-div.; National Bank of Savan-
nah, 100 bid, 131 asked, ex-div.; Oglethorpe
Savings and Trust Company, 100 bid, 10l
nf Of Of
Georgia 162 bid, - asked, eX-div.; Savan-
nah Bank and Trust Company, 1851 bid,
1863 asked. ex-div.; Chatham Real Estate
and improvement Company, A. 81 bid,
5s asked; B, 80 bid, 81 asked, both eX-div.;
Title Guarantee and Loan Company, -
bid 50 asked.
1903 bid, l04 asked; Sibley Factory IS, 100
bid 10l asked; Enterprise Factory IS, 104
bid 105 asked; Eagle ana PheniX Manu-
featuring Company per cent bonds 81
oi Factory stocks-savannah Cotton Fac
tory so bid ga asked; Eagle and Phoenix
M Manu- Factory II bid, 50 asked Gran.
iteVille Factory 1855 bid, 1852 asked; Lang
lev Factory, 1914 bid, 10Slz asked; Enter
prise Factory. common, SO bid, l0l asked
p King Manufacturing Co., 10S bid,
asked: Sibey Manufacturing Company,
81 hid. 81 aaled: Savannah Brewing Com
nanv S5 bid 80 asked.
p9MS NV YORK jan l4-Money on call was
aasv AT Sd6 per cent; the last loan was
at per cent, and at the closing was Of
fered at per cent Prime mercantile
paDer sal per cent.
Bar silver, 67bc.
Sterling exchange steady with actual
for S1isi 60 DAYS and S. s904S9A for demand
Posted rates, $4.SsG4.S912. Commercial
DE C!o,varnment bonds firm; state bonds
d,1i1. railroad bonds were firm.
silver at the board was quiet
NauJ York Jan 14.-The treasury ball
80, 3ce" were as follows: Coin, s9S, AIS. 4S4;
currency 1922 49,
New York Jan. IA, noon.-Erie, 14lz;
N5orthwestern. 80; do preferred, 143; Lake
Sbnre 145Is: Norfolk and Western pre-
ferred. 81 Western Union, $50 South
ern Railway common, 9l4 do preferred,
0bioN4S: Canada Southern. 493a; ST Paul.
eaiI. Rock Island, e.: Delaware, Lacka-
wanna and Western, 16l; Manhattan, eS7si