The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-31
RICE.
FINANCIAL.

MOneY-Ine market Is easy.
Foreign Exchange-Market easy. The
following are net Savannah QUOTA
tions: Commercial demand $4S6; sixty
days. $4S3A; ninety days, $4S27s; francs
Paris and Havre, sixty days. 5.21; Swiss
sixty days, 5.227s; marks. sixty days, 50.
Domestic Exchange-Steady. Banks are
buying at Il per cent. discount and SELL
ing as follows: Up to $25, 10c premium: SIS
to $50, 15c premium; $50 to 500, zoe pre-
mum; 500 to $780, 25c premium; 500 and
over at par.
Securities-The market is quiet and fair
ly steady.
Stocks and Bonds-State Bonds-Georgia
49, per cent. bonds of $780, 1902 bid, l025
asked; Georgia 315 per cent. due 1915, 1917
bid, 1924 asked; Georgia AZ per cent.
bonds, 1916 ia bid, 1141a asked; Georgia
per cent, due 1926 10 bid, Ill asked South
Carolina, 41as, 1O3 bid. 1O4 asked.
City Bonds-Atlanta per cent. 104 bid
1O5 asked; Augusta 415s. 1926 103 bid, 1O4
asked; Augusta Z per cent, 112 bid, 113
asked; Augusta 6 per cent, ITO bid III
asked; Columbus per cent, 102 bid, 1903
asked; Macon per cent, 1141s bid lis
asked; Savannah per cent. quarterly
April coupons, 1918 bid, 10S asked Savan-
nah 5 per cent quarterly February cou-
pons 1881 bid. 1894 asked; Charleston As,
80 bid. 81 asked.
Railroad Bonds-Savannah Florida and
Western railroad ger ral mortgage bonds,
per cent. interest coupons, 1121h bid. ia
asked; Atlantic and Gulf first mortgage
consolidated per cent. coupons, January
and July maturity, 1897, 1904 bid 101 ask
ed Central Railroad and Banking Com
pany collateral gold SIS, 80 bid, 81 asked
Central of Georgia Railway first mortgage
5s, 50-year gold bonds, III bid, ia asked !:
Central of Georgia Railway first consoli-
dated mortgage IS, 81 bid, 80 asked: Cen
trail of Georgia Railway first preferred
incomes, % bid 80 asked; Central of
/ Georgia Railway second preferred in
comes, 1115 bid, 121a asked; Central Of
Georgia Railway third preferred incomes
6la bid, ~ asked Georgia railroad 6s. 1910
1862 bid, 1919 asked; Charlotte, Columbia
| ana Augusta first 5s, LOG bid, 1O7 asked .
Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta second
mortgage rs, 1l3 bid, lis asked; Georgia
Southern and Florida, new IS, 9415 bid. 49,
asked, South Georgia and Florida first
mortgage Is, 1882 bid 1912 asked; south
Georgia and Florida second MORTGAGE 7s
102 bid, 1903 asked; Ocean Steamship ner
cent. bonds. 1926, 10l bid, 102 asked: Citv
and Suburban railroad first mortgage 2
per cent. bonds. 50 bid, So asked; Ala
bama Midland per cent. endorsed. 80 bid
rs asked; Brunswick and Western As =
bid, 20 asked: South Bound railroad s. 20
bid. 70 asked Southern Railway S. S9b bid
9Ola asked Georgia and Alabama first pre-
ferred IS, 9Sls bid, 100 asked; Georgia and
Alabama first consols, so bid, 81 asked.
Railroad Stocks-Augusta and savan-
nah. SO bid. 81 asked, ox-div; Georgia
common, 1888 bid. 100 asked Southwestern.
9l% bid, 92la asked, eX-div.: Atlanta and
West Point railroad stock, 90 bid 100 ask
ed; Atlanta and West Point per cent.
certificates, 9S bid. 30 asked: Savannah
| Construction Company, 20 bid "A asked
Gas Stocks-Savannah Gas Light stock,
q bid. 2lia asked. ex-div. Electric Light
and Power Company. 60 bid. G7 asked; ex-
div.
Bank Stocks. Etc.-Citizen's Bank. 1903
bid. 1851 asked, eX-div.; Chatham Bank.
As bid. 46l4 asked. ex-div; Germania
Bank. 1O7 bid. 10s asked. ex-dlv.; Mer-
chants National Bank. 90 bid 93h ask
ed. eX-dv.; National Bank of Savannah,
] 1876 bid, 1863 asked, eX-div; Oglethorpe say
ings and Trust Company. 100 bid, i0i ask
ed, ex-div.; Southern Bank OF the State
OF Georgia. bid, lGS asked. ex-div.;
Savannah Bank and Trust Company, 100
bid. l0l asked. ex-div.; Chatham Real Es-
tate and Improvement Company A, 50
bid, asked; Il, 81 bid. 5li1 asked, ex-
div: Peoples Savings and Loan Com
pany. o. bid, 90 asked
Factory Bonds-Augusta Factory Gs. 100
bid. l02 asked: Sibley Factory Cs 100 bid,
l0l asked; Enterprise Factory 6s. 1902 bid,
l03 asked; Eagle and Phenix Manufacture
int Company, G per cent. bonds. 40 bid.
70 asked.
Factory Stocks-savannah Cotton Fac
tory, bid. 50 asked; Augusta Factory.