The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-16
FIN ANCIAL.
Monev-Market steady.

Money-Market steady.
Foreign Exchange The market IS
weak The following are net Savannah
quotations: Commercial demand, $4.S3B +;
sixty days, $4.S1%s; ninety days, $.8O3s;
francs, Paris and Havre, sixty days, 5.23A
Swiss, SIXTY days, 5.263s marks, sixty
days, 94A.
Domestic Exchange-Seady; banks are
buying at Is per cent. discount and sell
ing as follows Up to $25, 10c premium
S25 to $50. 15c premium; $50 to 800, 2Oc pre-
MUM; $500 to 81, 900, 4 per cent, premium
81 900 and over, 81 per $1,000.
Securities-There Is a fair business doing
but rather inactive.
Stocks and Bonds-State Bonds-Georgls
So per cent bonds of 1890, los bid, 10S
asked: Georgia 342 per cent, due 1915, 105
bid, 1O7 asked; Georgia Az per cent. bonds
1915, 116 bid, III asked; Georgia 4 per
cent, due 1926, 10 bid, 112 asked; South
Carolina 415s, los bid 100 asked.
City Bonds-Atlanta 7 per cent, 1903 bid
1O4 asked; Augusta 415s 1925, 1882 bid, 10l
asked: Augusta per cent, JOG bid 1O7
asked: Augusta per cent, 1U bid 10S ask
ed; Columbus per cent 1881 bid 1857 ask
ed: Macon per cent, ia bid 115 asked
Macon 41as, 1926, 104 bid, 105 asked; Sa-
vannah ) per cent, quarterly April cou-
mons. 11Ob bid, III asked, Savannah per
cent. quarterly February coupons, 110A
bid, 111A asked; Charleston As, SO bid, 50
asked.
Railroad Bonds-Savannah, Florida and
Western railroad general mortgage bonds,
per cent. interest coupons, III bid. 11S
asked: Savannah Florida and Western
first mortgage per cent. gold bonds due
1924 1OS bid. 109 asked; Augusta Southern,
frsts IS. 1924, - bid 90 asked; Central Rail
road and Banking Company collateral IS,
eO1b bid 911a asked; Central of Georgia Rail-
way first mortgage S. 5O-year gold bonds
11S bid. 119 asked; Central of Georgia
railway first consolidated mortgage 5s go
hid 90 asked; Central of Georgia rail-
wav first preferred incomes 49, bid, Az
asked. Central of Georgia railway. second
Dreferred incomes, 1415 bid, 1914 asked Cen
tral of Georgia railway third preferred in
com g bid. s asked; Georgia rail-
road 6s. 1910, 1l3 bid, 1l4l2 asked; Charlotte
columbia and Augusta first 5s. 10 bid, Ill
asked: Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta
second mortgage Is, 1l6 bid 1T asked;
Georgia Southern and Florida new IS, 100
bid fO1 asked; South Georgia and Florida
first mortgage Is, 1921 bid, 1885 asked;
south Georgia and Florida second mort
rage Is, 1903 bid, l05 asked; Ocean Steam
shin 5 per cent. bonds, 1926. lO4 bid -
asked; City and Suburban railroad first
mortgage Z per cent. bonds, 81 BID, - ask
Cd. Alabama Midland > per cent Endorsed
On hid. 81 asked; Brunswick and Western
Is * hid TIA asked; South Bound rail-
wav IS. 7S bid, rs asked; Georgia and Ala-
bama first preferred 5s. l@ bid JOB asked;
Georgia and Alabama cons 5s, ~ pa 81
asked. c.,-
Railroad Stocks-Augusta and Savannah
93lb bid, 9l15 asked, ex-div.; Georgia. com
mon. ia bid. 176 asked; SOUTH
western. 90 bid 93la asked,
ex-dlv.: Atlanta and West Point
stock, 1917 bid, 1O2 asked; Atlanta an, ana
West Point 6 per cent certificates, lolHs
bid. 1927 asked; Savannah Constructor
Company. rs bid, so asked
% bid asked; Electric Light and
Power Company, 6S bid, II asked am
Rank Stocks. Etc--Citizens Bank lVs
bid. no asked. ex-div. Chatham Bank, 4SA
bid, 40 asked, ex-div.; Germania Ban E, 100
hid. 100 asked, eT-div.; National Bank
~ savannah. 124 bid, 126 asked, ex-dlv.;
Merchants National Bank. 81 bid. 50
asked ex-div; oglethorpe Savings ara
Trust Company, 1903 bid, - asked eN-di'''