The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-06
RICE.
FINANCIAL.

Money-The market is easy.
Foreign Exchange-Market steady.
The following are net Savannah quota
tions: Commercial demand. $4.S5A; sixty
days, s4S2; ninety days. $4.SOlA; francs,
Paris and Havre, sixty days, 522; Swiss.
sixty days, $685. marks, sixty days, 941s
Domestic Exchange-Steady. Banks are
buying at Is per cent. discount and selling
as follows: Up to S25, 10c premium: $25 to
$50, 15c premium; $50 to 500, zoe premium
500 to $500, Csc premium; $500 and over al
par
securities-The market is quiet and
steady.
Stocks and Bonds-State Bonds-Georgia
80 per cent bonds of 1880, 100 bid, 101 ask
ed; Georgia 31a per cent due 1915, 100 bid
101 asked Georgia Az per cent. bonds, 1915,
112h bid 1872 asked; Georgia per cent.
due 1926, Ill bid, 112 asked; South Carolina
AIS, 105 bid, 100 asked
City Bonds-Atlanta per cent, los bid
1O6 asked; Augusta 41ass 1925, 1O2 bid 1903
asked; Augusta per cent, liz bid, 113
asked; Augusta per cent, 109 bid, ITO
asked; Columbus per cent, 104 bid, los
asked; Macon, 6 per cent, III bid, 11S
asked; Savannah per cent. quarterly
April coupons. 1861 bid, 10714 asked; Savan-
nah per cent, quarterly February, cou-
pons 1071s bid, 108 asked; Charleston As,
"a bid, 95 asked.
Railroad Bonds-Savannah. Florida and
Western railroad general mortgage bonds,
G per cent. interest coupons, 1l2i2 bid, ia
asked; Atlantic and Gulf first mortgage,
consolidated per cent coupons, January
and July maturity, 1897, 100 bid, 10O1a ask
ed. Central Railroad and Banking Com
many collateral gold IS, 81 bid, SO asked /;
Central of Georgia Railway first mortgage
IS. J0-year gold bonds, no bid III asked /;
Central of Georgia Railway first CONSOLE
dated mortgage IS, IS bid, 80 asked Cen
a rn6
incomes, 81 bid, 80 asked Central of
| Georgia Railway second preferred in
comes. 1917 bid, 1872 asked; Central of
Georgia Railway third preferred incomes,
61s bid ~ asked; Georgia railroad 6s, 1910,
los bid. 10 asked: Charlotte. Columbia
and Augusta first IS, lO6 bid, 107 asked;
! Charlotte. Columbia and Augusta second
mortgage rs, 10 bid Ill asked Georgia
southern and Florida, new IS. SO bid, 50
| asked. South Georgia and Florida first
mortgage rs, 1903 bid, 105 asked; South
/ Georgia and Florida second mortgage Is,
/ 1902 bid. 104 asked; Ocean Steamship per
! cent bonds. 1926 100 bid, 101 asked; City
| and Suburban railroad first mortgage Z
/ ner cent. bonds, 70 bid rs asked; Electric
! railway S. due 1885, IA bid, - asked; Ala
! bama Midland per cent. Endorsed. SO bid,
| ss asked; Brunswick and Western As, -
| bid. 20 asked; South Bound railroad 5s, 70
! hid ~ asked; Southern Railway IS, SO bid,
/ 81 asked, georgia anu AldbdlHd lliSt pre-
ferred IS, 9Sla bid, 100 asked; Georgia and
| Alabama first consols so bid, 81 asked.
Railroad Stocks-Augusta and Savan-
nah 941h bid 1872 asked; Georgia common,
1ei bid 1917 asked; Southwestern % bid.
92b asked, ex-div.; Atlanta and West
Point railroad stock, 100 bid, l01 asked: A l.
lanta and West Point 6 per cent. certih-
Gates. 9S bid 80 asked Savannah Con-
struction Company, 20 bid, "A asked.
/ Gas Stocks-Savaunah Gas Light stock.
9qI bid % asked; Electric Light and
power Company. 67la bid 6S1z askei' ex-div.
! Bank Stocks, Etc.--Citizens Bank, l0Sl4
bid 1881 asked, eX-div.; Chatham Bank
a bid. 45 asked, ex-div Germania Bank
l0l bid. 100 asked ex-div.; Merchants Ma
tlonal Bank, go bid 80 asked, ex-div.; Ma
tlonal Bank of Savannah, l26 bid
1876 asked ex-div; Oglethorpe saw
ings and Trust Company, 100 bid
lOi asked. eX-diy.; Southern Bank
of the state of Georgia, 165 bid 1853 asked
| ex-div. Savannah Bank and Trust Compa-
ny. 100 bid. l0l asked, eX-dlv; Chatham
Real Estate and Improvement Company
A, 52Is bid, 49, asked; y, 30 bid, 50ls asked
ex-div.: Pcop.e's Savings and Loan Com
yany, 90 bid, 80 asked.
Factory Bonds-Augusta Factory. S. lV'
bid, l02 asked. slbley Factory IS, 100 bid