The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-19
FINANCIAL.

Money-Market steady.
Foreign ~, Excha9nIgenThe market is
vannah quotations: Commercial demand,
g. Sa9s; sixty days. $4Sl9s; ninety days,
marks sixty days, 94ss
Domestic Exchange-Steady; banks are
buying at Il per cent, discount and sell
ing as follows: Up TO $25, 10c premium;
s25 to $50, 15c permium; $50 to $780, 20c
premium; $500 and upwards at par.
Securities-The market is quiet and very
Stock. aua Bonds-State Bonds-Georgia
312 per cent. bonds of 1880. 1912 bid, 106
asked; Georgia az per cent, due 1915 104
1915, III bid, lis asked; Georgia per cent.
due 1926, ~ bid 11S asked; South Caro-
lima HIS 10S bid 109 asked.
City Bonds-Atlanta per cent, 1919
bid, 1852 asked Augusta AIS, 1925 1C5
bid, 1O6 asked; Augusta per cent, 10S bid,
109 asked Augusta 6 per cent, 1OS bid,
40 asked Columbus 5 per cent los bid,
1O6 asked; Macon 6 per cent, 116 bid, III
asked; Macon, AIS, 1926, 1861 bid, 1861
January coupons, 1161s bid, Iii asked Sa-
Vannah per cent, quarterly February
coupons 10 bid, Ill asked; Charleston As,
Railroad Bonds-Savannah, Florida and
Western railroad general mortgage bonds,
5 per cent interest coupons, 113 bid, ia
asked; Savannah, Florida and Western
first mortgage 5 per cent. gold bonds, due
1884, 10S bid. 100 asked; Augusta Southern,
firsts 5s, 1924, 50 bid SO asked; Central
Railroad and Banking Company collate-
raj IS, 80 bid, 911a asked; Central of Geor-
gia railway first mortgage 5s, 5O-year gold
bonds, 1141% bid, 1151a asked; Central of
Georgia railway first consolidated mort
gage IS, 9112 bid, 92 asked; Central of Geor-
gia railway first preferred incomes, 381a
bid, 1872 asked; Central of Georgia rail
way, second preferred incomes. 1212, bid.
1872 asked; Central of Georgia railway
third preferred incomes, ~ bid, 8 asked;
Georgia railroad IS, 1910, 1852 bid. III ask
cd. a
IS, 109 bid, 10 asked; Charlotte, Column
bia and Augusta second mortgage Is, 1l6
BID ~ asked &c georgia a. soHthern sand ana
Georgia and Florida first mortgage Is, 1929
bid, 1881 asked; South Georgia and Flor
ida second mortgage Is. 103 bid, l05 asked;
105 bid, 106 asked City and Suburban rail-
road first mortgage Z per cent. bonds, 81
bid, asked; Alabama Midland per cent.
indorsed, = bid, So asked; Brunswick and
Bound railroad IS, 60 bid, 20 asked; South
ern Railway IS, 81 bid, 92 asked; Georgia
and Alabama first preferred 5s 101 bid,
102 asked; Georgia and Alabama first con-
soils. rs bid so asked.
Railroad Stocks-Augusta and SaVan-
nah, 81 bid 941a asked; Georgia, common,
172 bid. 175 asked; SOuthwes tern, 1912 bid
81 asked; Atlanta and West Point stock
Point per cent. certificates, 102 bid, 1872
asked; Savannah Construction Company,
63 bid. IS asked.
q bid, 221a asked; Electric Light and Pow
err Company 81 bid 60 asked.
Bank Stocks, Etc.-Citizens Bank, 1091s
bid, 11Oh asked; Chatham Bank A bid Is
asked; Germania Bank, 1909 bid, 40 asked
Merchants National Bank, S912 bid 901a
asked; National Bank of Savannah, 126
Trust Company, 104 bid, asked South
'ern Bank of the State of Georgia 1853 bid,
155 asked; Savannah Bank and Trust Com
pany, 1O1 bid, 1902 asked Chatham Real
Estate and Improvement Company, A. Sc
bid, 81 asked B, SO bid, 5512 asked; Peo-
Piles Savings and Loan Company, SO bid,
Factory Bonds-Augusta Factory 6s. 1O1
bid 102 asked; Enterprise Factory IS, 100
featuring Company :, per cent bonds, 40
pany Is, 101 bid, 102 asked.
Factory Stocks-Savannah Cotton Fac
tory bid. Is asked; Augusta Factory.
80 bid, SO asked; Graniteville Factory, AS
bid 151 asked; Langley Factory 1O4 bid,
SO bid, 96 asked: J; r. King Manufactur-
ing Company 104 bid. 105 asked Sibley
Manufacturing Company 70 bid, 76 asked;
Savannah Brewing Company, SO1s bid, SO
New York. Nov. 1S-Money on call was
steady at 11sG2 per cent; the last loan
was at per cent; closed at 1902 per cent
Prime mercantile paper, 31k@41s per cent.
Sterling exchange was steady, with actual
business in bankers bills at $4S5A64. s51h
Posted rates, $4SSlk and $4S6ls. CONNER
cial bills, s4.82 Silver certificates. $50
59lhc. Bar silver, 577sc. Mexican dollars.
45i5c Government bonds were firm; state
bonds were dull; railroad bonds were
firm.
New York. Nov 1s.-The volume of
transactions on the stock exchange to-day
was even smaller and changes in prices
even less than yesterday. Prices of Sc
cuTities have apparently come TO an equil-
brium and speculation is for the time
being, dead. Even abe small changes in
prices which occurred to-day and which
manipulative opportunities with which the
room traders unused themselves As these
opera tons involve the matching of the
buying order with O corresponding selling
order for the purpose of attracting outside
buying or selling, the net result In the alb
sence of outside operations is very close
to nothing Sugar displayed some specu-