The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-02-03
RICE.
FINANCIAL.


Money-The market is easy.
Foreign Exchange - Market barely
steady The following are net Savannah
quotations: Commercial demand, SfS51b;
sixty days, $4.S312; ninety days, S4S2I5;
francs, Paris and Havre, sixty days, 521;
Swiss. sixty days, 5.227s; marks, sixty
days, "a l1-16.
Domestic Exchange-Steady. Banks are
buying at q per cent. discount and SELL
ing as follows: Up TO 49, 10c premium; SIS
to $50, 15c premium; $50 to $10O, zoe pre-
MUM; 500 to $500, 25c premium; $500 and
over at par.
Seonrities-The market is quiet and fair
ly steady.
Stocks and Bonds-State Bonds-Georgia
315 per cent bonds of 1880, 102 bid, 1929
asked; Georgia 31a per cent. due 1915, 1O1l5
bid, 102A asked; Georgia AZ per cent.
bonds, 1915, ia bid, 1141s asked; Georgia 4
per cent, due 1926 ITO bid, Ill asked; South
Carolina, AIS, 1903 bid, 1O4 asked.
City Bonds-Atlanta per cent, 104 bid,
1O5 asked: Augusta 41as, 1925, 1903 bid, 104
asked; Augusta per cent, liz bid, lib
asked Augusta per cent, ITO bid, Ill
asked Columbus per cent, 102 bid 1903
asked; Macon 6 per cent, Hay bid, lis
ASKED Savannah 5 per cent. quarterly
April coupons, 1O71a bid. 1O8 asked; Savan-
nah per cent. quarterly May coupons.
1914 bid, l07A asked; Charleston As, 92 bid,
"a asked
Railroad Bonds-Savannah, Florida and
Western railroad general mortgage bonds.
per cent. interest coupons, 112lh bid ia
asked; Atlantic and Gulf first mortgage,
consolidated 2 per cent. coupons, January
and July maturity, 1897 1907 bid 1O1 ask
ed; Central Railroad and Banking Com
pany collateral gold SIS, 80 bid, 81 asked:
Central of Georgia Railway first mortgage
IS. 5O-year gold bonds, liz bid, ia asked /.
Central of Georgia Railway Iirst consoli-
dated mortgage IS, 90A bid, 9l3t asked Can-
trail of Georgia Railway first preferred
incomes, 20 bid, 30 asked; Central Of
Georgia Railway second preferred III
comes, 1lls bid, 1919 asked; Central OF
Georgia Railway third preferred incomes
eib bid, ~ asked, Georgia railroad IS. 1910
1861 bid, 1914 asked; Charlotte, Columbia
and Augusta first SIS, 106 bid 1O7 asked !.
Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta second
mortgage Is, 1l3 bid, 115 asked; Georgia
Southern and Florida, new 5s, 9lIs bid, 95ls
asked, South Georgia and Florida first
mortgage Is, l03is bid, 1914 asked: South
Georgia and Florida second mortgage Is
1902 bid, 1903 asked; Ocean Steamship 8 per
cent. bonds, 1926, 1O1 bid 1902 asked; civ
and Suburban railroad first MORTGAGE z
per cent. bonds, 50 bid, SO asked Ala
bama Midland per cent endorsed. 90 bid
IS asked; Brunswick and Western Is. -
bid, 20 asked: South Bound railroad 5s 20
bid, 73 asked Southern Railway IS, S9h bid
90iA asked; Georgia and Alabama first pre-
ferred 5s 9Sla bid. 100 asked; Georgia and
Alabama first consols so bid, 81 asked.
Railroad Stocks-Augusta and Savan-
nah. 80 bid. 81 asked, ex-div.; Georgia
common, IFS bid 100 asked; Southwestern
9l2i bid, 1924 asked. ex-div.: Atlanta and
West Point railroad stock, 80 bid, 100 ask
ed: Atlanta and West Point per cent.
certificates. 9S bid, 90 asked: Savannah
Construction Company. 20 bid. "A asked.
FGas Stocks-Savannah Gas Light stock,
2l bid. 2liA asked, ex-div.: Electric Light
and Power Company 65 bid. 81 asked; ex-
div.
Bank Stocks. Etc.-Citizen's Bank, i0s
bid 1881 asked. ex-dlv.; Chatham Bank.
% bid. 464 asked ex-div.: Germania
Bank. l0I bid, JOS asked ex-div.: Met.
chants National Bank. 92A BID. 93L ask
cd. ex-div: National Bank Of Savannah
1876 bid, 1868 asked. ex div: Oelethorpe Saw
ings and Trust Company 100 bid lOi ask