The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-04
RICE.


Money-The market is easy; demand
good.
Foreign Exchange - Market barely
steady. The following are net Savannah
quotations: Commercial demand, $4.S6%4 /;
sixty days, 81 .S4% ninety days, $4.84;
francs, Paris and Havre, sixty days, 5.19h;
Swiss, sixty days, 52l1s; marks, sixty
days, 94s4.
Domestic Exchange-Steady. Banks are
buying at par and selling as follows: Up
to S25, 1Oc premium; $25 to $50, 15c premium;
$50 to 800, zoe premium; 500 and up to
$1,000, Is per cent. Premium $1,000 and
over 81 per 81 900.
Securities-The market is quiet and dull.
Stocks and Bonds-State Bonds-Georgia
Slz per cent. bonds of 1880, 102 bid, -
asked; Georgia 31z per cent, due 1915, 1O1lk
bid. 1O2A asked; Georgia Az per cent
bonds, 1915, ia bid 1141k asked; Georgia 4
per cent, due 1926 40 bid, Ill asked; South
Carolina 41ss, 103 bid, 1O4 asked.
City Bonds-Atlanta z per cent, 1O4 bid
los asked; Augusta 415s, 1926 1O3 bid, 10i
asked; Augusta per cent, 112 bid, 113
asked; Augusta per cent, 10 bid, Ill
asked; Columbus 5 per cent, 102 bid, 1903
asked; Macon per cent. 1141A bid lis
asked; Savannah ) per cent, quarterly
April coupons, 10S bid, 1851 asked; Sa-
vannah per cent. quarterly May coupons
los bid, 1857 asked; Charleston As, % bid
"a asked.
Railroad Bonds-Savannah Florida and
Western railroad general mortgage bonds
6 per cent. interest coupons 1922 bid, ia
asked; Atlantic and Gulf first mortgage,
consolidated 7 per cent coupons, January
and July maturity, 1897, 1907 bid, 10l ask
ed; Central Railroad and Banking Com
pany collateral gold IS. 95 bid, 81 asked ;
Central of Georgia Railway first mortgage
IS, 50-year gold bonds, 112 bid, ia asked /:
Central of Georgia Railway first consoli-
dated mortgage SIS, 81 bid, 80 asked;
Central of Georgia Railway first preferred
incomes. 2715 bid, 291a asked Central Of
Georgia Railway second preferred in
comes 10 bid II asked; Central of
Georgia Railway third preferred incomes,
bid 63l asked; Georgia Railroad, 6s, 1910.
1861 bid, lG71A asked; Charlotte, Columbia
and Augusta first 5s, 106 bid, 107 asked; :
Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta second
mortgage Is 113 bid 115 asked; Georgia
Southern and Florida, new IS, SO bid 9Sb
asked; South Georgia and Florida first
mortgage rs, 10l bid, 104iA asked; South
Georgia and Florida second mortgage Is,
1902 bid, 103 asked Ocean Steamship per
cent. bonds, 1926, l0l bid, 102 asked; City
and Suburban railroad first mortgage Z
per cent. bonds. 50 bid, IS asked; Ala
bama Midland per cent. Endorsed IS bid.
90 asked; Brunswick and Western As, 65
bid, 40 asked; South Bound railroad S. GO
bid, Il asked Southern Railway IS, S9ls
bid, 90i5 asked; Georgia and Alabama first
preferred 5s. 100 bids, 102 asked; Georgia
and Alabama first consois, so bid, 81 asked.
Railroad Stocks-Augusta and Savan-
nah 9S1A bid. 9i1s asked, ex-div.; Georgia
common, 1853 bid, 100 asked; Southwestern.
so bid "a asked. ex-div.; Atlanta and
West Point railroad stock, 80 bid. 100 ask
ed; Atlanta and West Point per cent.
certificates, IS bid, 80 asked; Savannah
Construction Company, 20 bid, Y asked.
Gas Stocks-Savannah Gas Light stock,
22iA bid 23M asked, ex-div. Electric Light
and Power Company. 66 bid, 6s asked, ex-
div.
Bank Stocks. Etc.-Citlzens Bank, 1851
bid, 1924 asked. ex-div.; Chatham Bank.
ASK bid 1914 asked, ex-div. Germania
Bank, 1917 bid, 1857 asked, ex-div.; Mer-
chants National Bank. 81 bid. % ask
ed. ex-div.; National Bank OF Savannah,
126 bid, 12S asked, ex-diy.; Oglcthorpe Saw
ings and Trust Company, l02 bid, i05
asked, ex-diy.; Southern Bank of the
State OF Georgia. 100 bid, 1865 asked, ex-
div; Savannah Bank and Trust Com
pany 100 bid, lOi asked ex-div.; Chatham
Real Estate and Improvement Company,
A. 5ia bid "a asked; r, 81 bid, 50 asked.
ox-dlv.; Peoples Savings and Loan Com
pany. % bid, % asked
Factory Bonds-Augusia Factory. IS, 100
bid. 1902 asked; Enterprise Factory S. i0i
bid. l02 asked; Eagle and PheniX Manu-