The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-02-05
RICE.


Money-The market is easy.
Foreign EXchange-Market firm. The
following are net Savannah quotations:
Commercial demand, $4;S5A;. sixty days.
%.8SA; ninety days, $4S2A; francs, Paris
and Havre, sixty days, 5.21; Swiss, sixty
days. 5227s; marks, sixty days, "a 1l-16.
Domestic Exchange-Steady. Banks are
buying at Il PEI. cent. discount and sell
ing as follows: Up to $25, 10c premium; SIS
to $50, 15c premium $50 to 500 2Oc pre-
MUM; 500 to $500, 25c premium; $500 and
over al par.
Securities-The market is quiet and mac
tive.
S1a per cent. bonds of 1880, 102 bid, 1929
asked; Georgia 31a per cent, due 1876 10112
bid, 1924 asked; Georgia Az per cent.
bonds, 1915, ia bid, 114la asked, Georgia 4
Carolina 411s, 1903 bid 1OI asked.
City Bonds-Atlanta per cent, l04 BID
105 asked; Augusta 412s 1925, 103 bid, 104
asked; Augusta 6 per cent, 40 bid, Ill
asked: Columbus per cent, 1O2 bid, JOB
asked: Macon per cent, 1141a bid, lis
April coupons, 1913 bid, 1854 asked; Savan-
nah 5 per cent quarterly May coupons,
10TH bid, 1854 asked; Charleston As, 81 bid,
Railroad Bonds-Savannah, Florida and
Western railroad general mortgage bonds,
per cent. interest coupons, 11215 bid, ia
asked; Atlantic and Gulf first mortgage,
consolidated per cent. c~lpons, January
and July Maturity, 1897, 1904 bid, 10l ask
ed; Central Railroad and Banking Conn
pany collateral gold IS, IS bid, 81 asked;
5s 5O-year gold bonds, 112 bid ia asked;
Central of Georgia Railway first CONSOLE
dated mortgage 5s, 90A bid, 9l% asked;
Central of Georgia Railway first preferred
incomes, 20 bid, 30 asked; Central of
Georgia Railway second preferred in
comes, Il bid, 12H asked; Central of
Georgia Railway third preferred incomes,
bid asked; Georgia railroad Is, 1870
1852 bid, l071s asked; Charlotte, Columbia
and Augusta first IS, l06 bid, 1O1 asked:
Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta second
mortgage rs. 113 bid, 115 asked; Georgia
Southern and Florida new 5s, 9li5 bid. $50
asked; South Georgia and Florida first
mortgage rs, 1872 bid, 1912 asked; South
Georgia and Florida second mortgage Is,
102 bid, 1913 asked; Ocean Steamship per
cent bonds, 1926. 101 bid. 103 asked; Clay
and Suburban railroad first mortgage z
per cent bonds, 50 bid, S. asked; Ala
hama Midland ) per cent. Endorsed, 80 bid,
IS asked Brunswick and Western IS, :
bid 70 asked; South Bound railroad IS. 20
bid u asked; Southern Railway IS, S912
bid 90ts asked; Georgia and Alabama first
preferred IS. 9Sl2 bid. 100 asked; Georgia
Railroad Stocks-Augusta and Savan-
nah 80 bid, 80 asked, eX-div.; Georgia
common, l5S bid 100 asked; Southwestern.
West Point railroad stock, SO bid, 100 ask
ed; Atlanta and West Point per cent.
certificates. 9S bid, 90 asked; savannah
Construction Company 20 bid, a asked.
Gas Stocks Savannah Gas Light stock,
q bid 21i5 asked. ev-dv.; Electric Light
and Power Company, 50 bid, 81 asked; ex-
Bank Stocks. Etc.-Citizen's Bank. 1OS
bid lOS1a asked. exdiv.; Chatham Bank,
Is bid, 46l4 asked, eX-div.; Germania
Bank, 107 bid los asked, ex.div.;. Mer-
ed, ex-div.; National Bank of Savannah,
1875 bid. 1851 asked, ex-div; Oglethorpe say
ings and Trust Company, 100 bid 1Ol ask
ed. ex-div.; southern Bank of the state
of Georgia bid 1853 asked, eN-div.;
Savannah Bank and Trust Company, 100
bid, 10l asked. eX-diy; Chatham Real Es.
bid = asked: -. 81 bid, 51R asked ex-
div: Peoples Savings and Loan Com
pany % hid, % asked.
Factory Bonds--Augusta Factory, S., 100
bid. lO2 asked: Sibley Factory 6s, 100 bid,
lBl asked. Enterprise Factory rs, i02 bid,
1913 asked Eagle and Phenix Manufacture
ing Company per cent. bonds, 20 bid,
Tactory stocks Savannah Cotton Fac
tory -. bid 80 asked: Augusta Factory. s.
pa. SS asked, e%-diN Granltiey1Ils Fac
i06 bid 1o7 asked. Enterprise Factory
common, 80 lid. lJ2 asked; J. r. King
Manulacturing Company, i03 bid, lOl ask.
bid 9s asked: savannah Brewing Com
pany - bid. - asked.
London FEB. i.-Bar silver 299ld. Con-
soils. ll3 S-l6 for money ana llS 5-l6 for the
New York. Fob. A. Money easy on call
at iia@2 per cent. TIE last loan was al
w per cont. and at the closing was Of
fered az ll, per cont Prime mercantile
paper. 2 per cent. bar silver, Gi#c. Ster-
ling exchange steady with actual BUSINESS
IN bankers bills Ht SiMlAGt4 Sisi for sixty
days. aud $LAia al siia FOR demand Post
81 rates. ai.h3iaN lNt'e. Com ucrcial bills,
81 SN4miM. Covelnmcm bonds firm; state
homds were steady: railroad bonds were
duh SILVER at the board was nagicctcd
New YORK. t'ch. i.-Ihc treasury bal
tr'.- were AZ follows: coin. S22Hi1G9;
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