The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-21
RICE.
FINANCIAL.


Money-The market is easy.
Foreign Exchange-Market steady.
The following are net Savannah quota
tions: Commercial demand, $4.S6A; sixty
days, $4S3A; ninety days. %.S21s; francs,
Paris and Havre, sixty days. 5.21; Swiss,
sixty days, 5.227s; marks, sixty days. 945s.
Domestic EXchange-Steady. Banks are
buying at Is per cent. discount and selling
as follows: Up 10 S25. 10c premium; $25 to
$50, 15c premium; $50 to 500, zoe premium;
500 to $500. 25c premium; $500 and over at
par.
Securities-The market is quiet, with the
exception of Brush Electric Light stock,
which has a declining tendency.
Stocks and Bonds-State Bonds-Georgia
80 per cent bonds of $780, 1O115 bid 1O21a
asked; Georgia 31a per cent, due 1915, 101
bid, 1O2 asked; Georgia Az per cent. bonds,
1915, 1872 bid, 1141s asked; Georgia per
cent due 1926 10 bid, Ill asked; South
Carolina, 41As, 1O6 bid 107 asked.
City Bonds-Atlanta per cent, 104 bid,
1O5 asked; Augusta AIS, 1925, 1O3 bid, 104
asked; Augusta per cent, 112 bid, 11S
asked; Augusta per cent, 10 bid, III
asked; Columbus per cent, 102 bid JOB
asked Macon 6 per cent, 1141a bid, lis
asked; Savannah 8 per cent quarterly
April coupons, 1071b bid 10S asked; Savan-
nah per cent, quarterly February, cou-
pons, 1851 bid 1881 asked; Charleston As,
81 bid, SO asked.
Railroad Bonds-Savannah, Florida and
Western railroad general mortgage bonds,
per cent interest coupons, 112R bid, ia
asked Atlantic and Gulf first mortgage,
consolidated per. cent. coupons, January
and July maturity 1897. 100 bid. 1O0h ask
ed Central Railroad and Banking Com
pany collateral gold 5s, IS bid, 81 asked +;
Central of Georgia Railway first mortgage
IS, 50-year gold bonds, 40 bid, 112 asked;
Central of Georgia Railway first consoll-
dated mortgage IS, 81 bid. 92 asked; Cen
trail of Georgia Railway first preferred
incomes, % bid, % asked Central of
Georgia Railway second preferred in
incomes, 1924 bid 1872 asked; Central of
Georgia Railway third preferred incomes,
bid, asked; Georgia railroad IS, 1910,
107 bid. 1O9 asked; Charlotte, Columbia
Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta second
mortgage rs, 113 bid 116 asked; Georgia
Southern and Florida. new 5s, SO bid, 941h
asked; South Georgia and Florida first
mortgage Is, 104 bid, 105 asked South
Georgia and Florida second mortgage Is
102 bid, 104 asked; Ocean Steamship per
cent bonds, 1926, 1O1 bid, lO2 asked; City
and Suburban railroad first mortgage 7
per cent bonds so bid, IS asked; Ala
bama Midland per cent Endorsed, 81 bid,
so asked; Brunswick and Western As, -
bid, 70 asked; South Bound railroad IS, 70
bid 70 asked; Southern Railway IS, 80 bid,
81 asked Georgia and Alabama first pre-
ferred S. 9Sla bid, 100 asked; Georgia and
Alabama arst consols 50 bid, 81 asked.
Railroad Stocks-Augusta and Savan-
NAH 92Ib bid, 9Slh asked, ex-div, Georgia
common, 100 bid, 1853 asked; Southwestern,
81 bid 92L asked, ex-div; Atlanta and West
Point railroad stock, 100 bid, 10l asked At
lanta and West Point per cent. certih-
Gates, 9S bid, 80 asked; Savannah Con-
.struction Company, 70 bid. "a asked.
Gas StocSs-Savannah Gas Light stock,
q bid 2l15 asked, ex-div.; Electric Light &
Power Company, 66 bid, G. asked, ex-div.
Bank Stocks. Etc-Citizens Bank 10S
bid. iOSis asked ex-div. Chatham Bank
Is bid, 1914 asked. ex-div.; Germania
Bank. log bid, lO7 asked, ex-dv.; Mer-
chants National Bank 92h bid, 1914 asked
ex-div.; National Bank OF Savannah, 1926
bid, ~ asked, ex-div.; Og.ethorpe Saw
ings and Trust Company, 100 bid,
10l asked. ex-dlv.; Southern Bank
OF the State of Georgia, 49, bid, 1853 asked;
ex-div. Savannah Bank and Trust Compa-
n.y. 100 bid 10l asked. ex-div.; Chatham
Real Estate and Improvement Company.
A. 52la bid, - asked; b, 5Ol5 bid, 81 asked,
ex-div. Peoples Savings and Loan Com
yany. 90 bid. 90 asked.
Factory Bonds-Augusta Factory 6s, 100
bid, 1902 asked: Slbley Factory Sc. 100 bid,
10i asked: Enterprise Factory 6s, l02 bid
1903 asked; Eagle and Phenix Manufactur-
ing Company. per cent. bonds, 40 bid, so
asked.
Factory stocks-savannah Cotton Fac
tory, 90 bid 80 asked; Augusta Factory, 81
bid 50 asked. cX-dlv. Granlteville Fac
tory. rs bid. lal asked Langley Factory
lGG hid. ~ asked. Enterprise Factory.
common. % bid. 102 asked; J r. King
Manufacturing Company. 1913 bid l0i ask
ed; Stblcy Manufacturing Company, IS bid,