The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-02-17
FINANCIAL.

MOney-The market is easy.
Foreign EiXchange-Market steady The
following are net Savannah quotations:
Commercial demand. $i.S61a: sixty DAYS.
$4Si1a: ninety days, $4S5ai francs, Paris.
aud Havre, sixty days, $40; Swiss, sixty
days. 5.217s; marks, sixty days 943z
Domestic Exchange-Steady. Banks are
buying at par and selling as follows: Up
TO $25, 1Oc premium; 80 to $50, 15c premium
$50 to 800. 20c premium; $500, and up 10
81 900, 4 per cent. premium 81 600 and
over, 50 per $1,000
Stocks and Bonos-State Bonds-Georsia
Sla per cent. bonds of 1880, 102 bid, 102Jk
asked; Georgia 3ls per cent, due 1915. 1Oliz
bonds. 1916, ia bid, 1141z asked; Georgia
per cent, due 1926, ITO bid Ill asked South
Carolina as, 1913 bid; 1Ol asked.
los asked; Augusta 41as, 1925, 1O3 bid, 1Oi
asked AugHstta per cent cent 1lS BID 11S
asked; Columbus 5 per cent. 100 bid 1OS
asked; Macon 6 per cent, 1141A bid, lis
asked; Savannah per cent, quarterly
April coupons, 10S bid 1881 asked; Savan-
nah 5 per cent quarterly May coupons,
10S bid, .1CS1a askedi Charleston As 81 bid,
81 asked.
Railroad Bonds-Savannah, Florida and
Western railroad general mortgage bonds,
per cent. interest coupons 1121a bid, ia
asked; Atlantic and Gulf first mortgage
and July maturity, 1897, 1OOA bid, 1Oi ask
ed Central Railroad and Banking Com
pany collateral gold 5s, 95 bid, 81 asked;
SIS, 50-year gold bonds, 1l2 bid, ia asked /;
Central of Georgia Railway first consoli-
dated mortgage %, 81 bid, 80 asked /;
incomes, % bid, 80 asked; Central of
Georgia Railway second preferred in
comes, 111a bid, 124 asked Central Of
Georgia Railway third preferred incomes,
6 bid, asked; Georgia railroad 6s 1910,
1861 bid, 10712 asked; Charlotte, Columbia
Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta second
mortgage rs. 1l3 bid, 1l0 asked; Georgia
Southern and Florida. new SIS, 941a bid, 95lA
asked; South Georgia and Florida first
mortgage Is, 104 bid, 1912 asked; South
Georgia and Florida second mortgage Is,
102 bid, 10S asked; Ocean S teamship per
cent. bonds, 1926, 101 bid, l02 asked: City
and Suburban railroad fl rst mortgage 7
per cent bonds, so bid, So asked; Ala
hama Midland per cent. Endorsed, 80 bid,
30 asked; BRUNSWICK and Western Is, -
bid, 20 asked; South Bound railroad S. IS
bid, 20 asked; Southern Railway 5s, S9ia
preferred IS, 9S1s bid, 100 asked; Georgia
and Alabama first consols so bid, 81 asked
Railroad Stocks-AugusCa and Savan-
nah. 1872 bid 941a asked, ex-diV.: Georgia
common, l5S bid, 16O asked; Southwestern,
90 bid. "a asked, ex-div.; Atlanta and
West Point railroad stock G515 bid 100 ask
certificates, 9S bid SO asked; Savannah
Construction Company, 10 bid, ~ asked
22is bid, 23lh asked. ex-div.: Electric Light
and Power Company, e. bid, So asked, ex-
div.
bid, 1903 asked, ex-diE. Chatham Bank,
451s bid, 46h asked. eX-div.: Germania
Bank, lQ7 bid, l0S s,sked, ex-div.; Mer-
chants National Bunk, 92l9 bid, SO ask
ed ex-div.: Nation al Bank of Savannah.
1875 bid. 12S asked, ex-div; Oglethorpe Saw
ings and Trust Company 1917. bid, 1924
Of Georgia, I'D, 1866 asked, ex-div
Savannah Bank and Trust Company. 100
bid, lOl asked, ex-div.; Chatham Real Es-
bid, = asked b. 5l}a bid, 50 asked, ex-
d!v.s Paeoplefs Savings and Loan Com
i tory onds-Augusta Factory. S. 100
tory, - bid- l02 asked; Augusta factory, 80
lOl asked Enterprise Factory 6s 10l bid,
lO2 asked: Eagle and Phenix Manufactur-
Factory stocks-savannah Cotton Fac
tory, = Did. 20 asked; Augusta factory, so
tory, 1'5 bid, ISL asked; Langley Factory,
JOB bid. l0i asked: Enterprise Factory
comm on. 9f bid. 90 asked; J Il. King
Manu- occurring company. 1903 bid, iOi ask
bid. rs asked: Savannah Brewing Com
parry, 90 bid % asked.
] .ondon. Feb 16-Bar silver, % ii-16d.
Cpnsols ll2H for money, and ll2 S-l6 for the
paris, Feb. IL. Three per cent rentes 1902
francs. IS centimes for the account.
New York. Feb. 1e--Money on call wa s
and at the closing was offered at ns.
Prime mercantile paper. per cent. Bar
silver GlAsc. Sterling exchange steady.
with actual business. lin bankers bills az
for demand posted rates. S.S5isdi.S 81.
Commercial bills. 81 S3lhNASiia. Govern
ment bonds higher; state bonds dull: rail-
road bonds strong. silver az the board
New York. FEB fs The treasury ball