The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-04-20
RICE.
FINANCIAL.

Money-The market is easy; demand
good.
Foreign Exchange - The market is
firm. The following are net Savannah
quotations: Commercial, demand, 81. S6% !;
sixty days. $4S5s4; ninety days. S4.S5A;
francs, Paris and Havre, sixty days,
5.1S1A; Swiss. sixty days, 5.212s marks,
sixty days, "a 1916
Domestic Exchange Steady Banks are
buying at par and selling as follows: Up
to $25, 1Oc premium; S25 to $50. 15c Premium;
$50 to 500. zoe premium; $500 and up 70
$1,000, Is per cent. premium; $1,000 and
over, 81 per $1,000.
Securties-The market is inactive and
dull.
Stocks and Bonds-State Bonds-Georgla
31s per cent bonds of 1880, 102 bid, -
asked; Georgia 31s per cent, due 1915, l0lh
bid, 1921 asked; Georgia Az per cent.
bonds, 1915, ia bid, lis asked: Georgia
per cent, due 1926 ITO bid, Ill asked; South
Carolina AS, 1903 bid, lU9 asked.
City Bonds-Atlanta per cent, i0i bid,
los asked; Augusta 41as, 1926, 103 bid, l04
asked; Augusta z per cent, 112 bid, 1i3
asked; Augusta per cent, 10 bid, Ill
asked; Columbus per cent, 102 bid 1(S
asked; Macon, s per cent, lis bid, JIG
as.1ed; Savannah s per cent, quarterly
July coupons, 107i5 bid, 1OS asked; Savan-
nah 8 per cent. quarterly May coupons,
1854 bid, 1881 asked; Charleston As, 92ls
bid, 1914 asked
Railroad Bonds.-Savannah. Florida and
Western railroad general mortgage bonds,
6 per cent interest coupons, 11215 bid, -
asked: Atlantic and Gulf, first mortgage
consolidated per cent. coupons. January
and July maturity, 1897, 101 bid. 1917 ask
ed; Central Railroad and Banking Com
pany collateral gold IS, IS bid, 81 asked;
Central of Georgia railway first mortgage
IS, 50-year gold bonds, 1924 bid, 1l31h asked;
Of frat
dated mortgage IS, 81 bid, 80 asked: Central
of Georgia railway first preferred incomes,
Is bid, 2Sla asked: Central of Georgia rail-
way, second preferred incomes 10 bid, 1912
asked; Central of Georgia railway third
preferred incomes, bid, 6 asked; Georgia
railroad IS, 1910. 107 bid 107l5 asked; Char
lotte, Columbia and Augusta first 5s, 106
bid. asked Charlotte, Columbia and
Augusta second mortgage Is. ll5 bid, 116
asked; Georgia Southern and Florida, new,
IS. "a bid, 95 asked; South Georgia and
Florida first mortgage Is, 10415 bid. Jos ask
ed; South Georgia and Florida second
mortgage rs, 1924 bid, 1882 asked; Ocean
steamship per cent. bonds, 1926, l02 bid, -
asked; city and Suburban railroad first
mortgage per cent. bonds, - bid, 81 ask
ed; Alabama Midland 5 per cent. Endorsed,
80 bid, 80 asked Brunswick and Western
As. 65 bid, 20 asked; South Bound railroad
S., 60 bid n asked; Southern railway IS,
drst preferred S., 1927 bid 104 asked; Geor-
gia and Alabama first consols, 80 bid, 81
asked.
railroad stocks-Augusta and savan-
nah % bid. 93la asked Georgia common,
1853 bid, 100 asked; Southwestern, 92la bid,
g3ih asked: Atlanta and West Point rail-
road stock, 9S bid, 90 asked; Atlanta ard
West Point per cent certificates, 9s
bid. 100 asked; Savannah Construction
company IS bid, 70 asked, ex-div.
Gas Stocks-Savannah Gas Light stock
% bid. 23ik asked; Electric Light and
Power Company bid. Gsla asked.
Bank Stocks. Etc.-Citizens Bank, 100
bid. - asked; Chatham Bank, IS bid.
AZ asked: Germania Bank. l0s bid. 100
asked. Merchants National Bank. SO bid,
" asked: National Bank OF Savannah. 1919
bid. 1854 asked; Oglethorpe Savings and
Trust Company, 1929 bid, l asked:
Southern Bank OF the State OF Georgia,
- bid 100 asked; Savannah Bank ana
Trust Company. 100 bid. i0i asked Chat
ham Real Estate ana Improvement
Company. A, 81 bid, HA asked. Is, 52h
bid ID asked: Peoples Savings and Loan
Company. 81 bid. q asked