The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-04-09
RICE.
FINANCIAL.

Money-The market is easy; demand
good.
Foreign Exchange-The market is
steady. The following are net Savannah
quotations: Commercial, demand, 4S7;
sixty days, $4S5A; ninety days, $4S412;
Swiss, sixty days, sci; marks, sixty days,
94%.
Domestic Exchange Steady. Banks are
buying at par and selling as follows: Up
to S25, 1Oc premium; $25 to $50. 15c premium;
$50 to 800, zoe premium; $500 and up 70
S1.000 * per cent. premium; $1,000 and
over, 81 per $1,000.
Securities-The market is quiet and dull.
Stocks and Bonds-State Bonds-Georgia
31h per cent. bonds of 1880, 102 bid, -
asked Georgia 312 per cent, due 1915, l011s
bid, lO2A asked; Georgia AZ per cent.
bonds. 1915, ia bid, lis asked Georgia 4
per cent. due 1926, 40 bid, Ill asked; South
Carolina 41as, 10S bid, 100 asked.
City Bonds-Atlanta per cent, 10i bid,
105 asked; Augusta 41as, 1925, 1O3 bid. 104
asked; Augusta Z per cent, III bid, 113
asked; Augusta per cent, 10 bid Ill
asked; Columbus per cent, 102 bid, lCS
asked: Macon, 6 per cent, lis bid, 1i6
asked; Savannah per cent, quarterly
July coupons 17 bid, 10712 asked; Savan-
nah 5 per cent. quarterly May coupons, 105
bid, 1851 asked; Charleston As, 9215 bid,
93la asked
Railroad Bonds-Savannah Florida and
Western. railroad general mortgage bonds,
per cent. interest coupons, 1l21s bid, -
asked Atlantic and Gulf, first mortgage
consolidated per cent coupons, January
and July maturity 1897. 1904 bid, 10l ask
ed; Central Railroad and Banking Com
many collateral gold 5s, IS bid, 81 asked;
Central of Georgia railway first mortgage
S. 5O-year gold bonds 112 bid ia asked;
Central of Georgia railway first CONSOLE
n 1. a .-Ir~s Il - ,f,.aI
of Georgia railway first preferred incomes,
271A bid, 2SJ5 asked; Central of Georgia rail-
wav. second preferred incomes, bid, 10
asked; Central of Georgia railway third
preferred incomes, bid, asked; Georgia
railroad s., 1910. 1852 bid 1917 asked Char-
lotte Columbia and Augusta first IS, l06
hid 49, asked; Charlotte, Columbia and
Augusta second mortgage Is, l15 bid, JIG
asked: Georgia Southern and Florida, new,
IS. 81 bid. IS asked; South Georgia and
Florida first mortgage rs, 1919 bid, l05 ask
ed: South Georgia and Florida second
mortgage Is 1929 bid lO3h asked; Ocean
steamship per cent bonds, 1876 lOl bid, -
n sllcd. city and Suburban railroad first
mortgage per cent. bonds, so bid, IS ask
ed: Alabama Midland 5 per cent. Endorsed,
"a hid 90 asked; Brunswick and Western
4s 65 bid, 70 asked; South Bound railroad
5s 50 bid, Il asked; Southern railway IS,
sra bid 8sis asked; Georgia and Alabama
first preferred IS, 102 bid. lN asked; Geor-
gia and Alabama FIRST consols, so bid, 81
asked.
Railroad Stocks-Augusta and savan-
nah. 90 bid 93ik asked; Georgia common,
15s bid iG0 asked; Southwestern. 9Sik bid
"a asked; Atlanta and West Point rail-
road stock. 9S bid 90 asked; Atlanta and
West Point 6 per cent certificates, IS
bid 100 asked Savannah Construction
Company, 67ia bid. 70 asked, ex-div.
Gas stocks-Savannah Gas Light stock
22ih bid. 23iA asked: Electric Light and
Power Company. G. bid. 50 asked.
Bank Stocks, Ictc.-Citizens Bank. 1851
bid 1O9h asked; Chatham Bank. 45A bid
iGh asked. Germania Bank, l0S bid. lOsih
asked; Merchants National Bank. Sc bid
- asked: National Bank of Savannah, 1875
bid i2s asked, Oglethorpo Savings and
Trust Company i02iA bid, i0SA Asked