The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-05-27
FINANCIAL.


good.
Foreign Exchange - The market Is
weak The following are net Savannah
quotations. Commercial, demand, $4.S71l
sixty days, &.S5a4; ninety days, $4S51k;
francs Paris and Havre, sixty days,
5,1S; Swiss, sixty days. 5.197s; marks
sixty days, 50 lilo.
Domestic Exchange-Steady. Banks are
buying at par and selling as follows: Ur
to $25, 1Oc premium; SIS to $50. 15c premium.
$50 to 500, zoe premium; $500 and I'D tC
81, 0Oo u per cent. premium; $1,000 and
over, 81 per $1,000.
Securities-Market is quiet and dull.
Quotations, in many instances are nomi-
nal Georgia state bonds are scarce
Stocks and Bonds-State Bonds-Georgia
80 per cent bonds of 1890 1921 hid
asked; Georgia 31s per cent, due 1915. 1O11k
bid. - asked Georgia AZ per cent
bonds, 1915, 114% bid, 1151a asked; Georgia
per cent. due 1926, 10 bid, III asked:
South Carolina AIS, 1OS bid. 100 asked.
City Bonds-Atlanta Z per cent, 104 bid.
105 asked; Augusta 412s, 1926 1903 bid. 104
asked Augusta per cent, 112 bid, ia
asked Augusta per cent, Ill bid, 112
asked; Columbus per cent. 10S bid 1O4
asked; Macon per cent, lis bid. ZIG
asked Savannah 5 per cent, quarterly
July coupons, 1854 bid, 1OS% asked; Sa-
vannah per cent quarterly August cou-
pons, los bid, 1882 asked; Charleston As
"a bid, 50 asked.
Railroad Bonds.-Savannah, Florida and
Western railroad general mortgage bonds
per cent. interest coupons, 1121a bid -
asked; Atlantic and Gulf first mortgage
consolidated per cent. coupons, January
and July maturity, 1897. 1919 bid. 1921 ask
ed; Central Railroad and Banking Com
pany collateral gold 5s, 9O1A bid 911s asked /:
Central of Georgia railway first mortgage
IS. 50-year gold bonds, liz bid. 113 asked :
Central Of Georgia railway first CONSOLE
dated mortgage IS, SO bid, 80 asked: Central
of Georgia railway first preferred in
comes 271a bid. % asked; Central of
Georgia railway second preferred in
comes. 9 bid, 10 asked; Central of Georgia
railway third preferred incomes, 5 bid 6
asked; Georgia railroad IS. 1910, Ito bid
III asked; Charlotte. Columbia and Au-
eusta first SIS, 1914 bid, - asked; Charlotte
Columbia and Augusta second mortgage
IS ia bid, 1l5 asked; Georgia Southern
and Florida, new S. SO bid, 81 asked:
South Georgia and Florida first mortgages
Is. lO2lA bid 1894 asked South Georgia and
Florida second mortgage rs, 102 bid, 1903
asked Ocean steamship per cent. bonds,
1926. 102 bid asked; City and Suburban
railroad first mortgage z per cent. bonds,
- bid, 81 asked; Alabama Midland per
cent Endorsed, 30 bid, 92 asked; Brunswick
and Western As. Go bid. 20 asked; South
Bound railroad S., 67i5 bid, 69lh asked;
Southern railway IS, 81 bid, IS asked .
Georgia and Alabama first preferred -,
-02lb bid, l04 asked: Georgia and Alabama
first consols. 80 bid 81 asked.
Railroad Stocks-Augusta and Savan-
nah 80 bid. 93is asked: Georgia common,
l55 bid. 100 asked Southwestern, 90 bid
81 asked; Atlanta aud West Point rail
road stock, 80 bid. 80 asked: Atlanta and
West Point b per cent. certificates, 80
bid. 100 asked; Savannah Construction
Company. s. bid. 70 asked. ex-div.
lob
2iik bid. 22il asked; Electric Light and
Power Company. -- bid. 60 asked.
Bank Stocks Etc.-Cltzens Bank. 109Ik
bid, l10ia asked: Chatham Bank, IS bid, 46
asked; Germania Bank. los bid. 100 asked;
Merchants National Bank. s6lh
bid. 7ik asked National Bank
Of Savannah. 1875 bid. asked
Oglethorpe Savings and Trust
Co. iO4 bid 105 asked; Southern Bank
OF the State OF Georgia. i55 bid $50 asked
Savannah Bank and Trust Company i0l
bid. lO2 asked; Chatham Real Estate and
Improvement Company. 4. 54ia bid. 55h
asked p. 52h bid. 50 asked; Peoples Saw
ings and Loan Company, 9ih bid. 92k
asked.
Factory Bonds-Augusta Factory SIS. i0i
bid i0e asked: Enterprise Factory Gs. 100
bid lOi asked Eagle and Phenix Manu-
featuring Company. G per cent. bonds, 40
bid a. asked: Sibley Manufacturing Com
pany 6s. l0l bid. i02 asked.
Factory Stocks-Savannah Cotton Fac
tory -- bid. % asked: Augusta Factory, 81
bid. SO asked; Granitevillo Factory. i45 bid,
i5l asked. Langley Factory, iOi bid. 1914
asked: Enterprise Factory common. 80
bid % asked j. r. King Manufacturing
Company. lM hid JOS asked; sibey Manu-