The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-15
FINANCIAL.

hlOuGy-Mdfket STEADY.
Foreign Exchange The market Is
firm. The following are net Savannah
quotations.: Commercial demand, &.8l5s;
sixty days, $4.SfA ninety days, 81 80la (:
francs, Paris and HaVre sixty days 5.215s;
Swiss, sixty days, 5.235s; marks, sixty
days, "a 3-16.
Domestic EXchange-Steady; banks are
buying at * per cent, discount and SELL
ing as follows: Up to $25, 10c premium
$25 to $50. 15c premium; $50 to $780, zoe pre-
MUM; $500 and upwards at par.
Securities-The market is quiet and very
duh excepting Southwestern stock which
is in demand with very little Offering.
Stocks and Bonds-State Bonds-Georgia
So per cent bonds OF 1880, 1912 bid, I06
asked; Georgia 3l2 per cent. due 1915. 104
hid, l05 asked; Georgia AZ per cent, bonds
1915, III bid, 118 asked; Georgia 4 per cent,
due 1926, 112 bid, 113 asked; South Carolina
41bs, Jos bid, 100 asked
City Bonds-Auanta Z per cent 1919 bid.
1852 asked; Augusta AS, 1925, 1O5 bid. JOG
asked; Augusta Z per cent, 108 bid 1O9
asked; Augusta per cent, 108 bid, 11O ask
ed; Columbus per cent, 105 bid, 1O6 ask
ed; Macon s per cent, 116 bid, III asked ;
Macon AIS, 1926, 1867 bid, 1862 asked; Sa-
vannah per cent, quarterly January cou-
pons, III bid, 111i5 asked; Savannah per
cent, quarterly February coupons. 110ls
bid, III asked; Charleston As, 94A bid, 95A
asked
Railroad Bonds-Savannah, Florida and
Western railroad general mortgage bonds.
per cent interest coupons, 1l3 bid, III
asked: Savannah, Florida and Western
first mortgage per cent. gold bonds, due
1924 10S bid. 1902 asked Augusta Southern,
firsts IS, 1924; bid, 90 asked; Central
Railroad and Banking Company collateral
5s 81 bid. % asked; Central Of Georgia
railway first mortgage IS. 50-year gold
bonds. III bid, 11S asked;Central Of Geor-
CHA railway first consolidated mortgage IS
9l1s bid 80 asked; Central of Georgia rail-
way first preferred incomes. Az bid. AZ
asked; Central Of Georgia railway, second
preferred incomes, IA bid, Is asked. Cen
trail of Georgia railway third preferred in
comes, 3 bid, asked; Georgia railroad IS,
1910, 1151a bid, III asked; Charlotte, Col
umbia and Augusta first IS, 100 bid, 10
asked; Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta
second mortgage Is. 116 bid, III asked
Georgia Southern and Florida new 5s 100
bid, 101 asked South Georgia and Florida
first mortgage Is 1924 bid, 1891 asked;
South Georgia and Florida second mort
gage Is, 1903 bid, 1915 asked; Ocean Steam
ship 5 per cent. bonds. 1926, 106 bid -
asked; City and Suburban railroad first
mortgage per cent. bonds, 81 bid, 49, ask
ed Alabama Midland 5 per cent. Endorsed
s. bid, So asked Brunswick and Western
Is, rs bid, 77iz asked; South Bound rail-
road, IS, - bid, 70 asked; Southern rail-
way S. "a bid, 50 asked; Georgia and Ala
bama first preferred s., 101 bid, l02 asked
Georgia and Alabama cons. 5s, 50 bid. 81
asked.
Railroad stocks--Augusta and Savan-
nah, 95 bid 96 asked: Georgia, common
172 bid IT'S asked; Southwestern, 95lA bid
9eA asked; Atlanta and West Point stock,
l02 bid, 1O4 asked; Atlanta and West
Point per cent. certificate. 1917 bid 100
asked; Savannah Construction Company,
Ga bid 6S asked.
Gas Stocks-sayannah Gas Light stock,
2lh bid, Q asked; Electric Light and
Power Company, JG bid. IS asked, ex-div
Bank Stocks, Etc,-citizens Bank, 1lOh