The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-04
FINANCIAL.
Monev-Markel steady.


Foreign Exchange-The market Is
easy. The following are the net Savan-
nah quotations: Commercial demand
S4S4A; sixty days, $4SS; ninety days,
4.S2$s; francs Paris and Havre, sixty
days. 5.2314: Swiss, sixty days, ). rs marks
sixty days 94A.
Domestic Exchange-Steady; banks are
buying al lie per cent. discount. and SELL
ing as follows. Amounts up to $25, 10 cents;
$25 to $50, 10 cents $50 TO 500, 20 cents; s1OO
to $3.50, rs cents; $3.50 to $3.50, Ito per cent.
premium, and $3.50 and over, rs cents per
81, 900.
Securities-The market continues firm
and light offerings.
Stocks and, Bonds-State Bonds-Geor-
gia 31z per cent. bonds of $780, 1OT bid 1881.
asked; Georgia 315 per cent. due 1915. lO4
bid, 10e asked; Georgia AZ per cent. bonds.
1913, III bid, 1lS asked; Georgia 4 per
cent, due 1920, 113 bid ia asked; South
Carolina 412s, ITO bid, Ill asked
City BondS-Atlanta, Az per cent 1928. log
bid. = asked; Augusta 415s, 1925, 107 bid, 10S
asked; Augusta per cent, 10 bid, III
asked Augusta 6 per cent. Ill bid. 113
asked; Columbus per cent, los bid, JOG
asked; Macon per cent, lis bid 116 ask
ed; Macon 42s. 1925, 1O5 bid, 1O6 asked;
Savannah per cent, quarterly October
coupons, Ill bid, liz asked; Savannah 8
per cent. quarterly November coupons.
Ill bid, 1111s asked; Charleston As, "a
bid, IS asked.
Railroad Bonds-Savannah Florida and
Western Railroad general mortgage bonds,
6 per cent interest coupons, lis bid, 119
asked; Savannah, Florida and Western
first mortgage per cent, gold bonds, due
1924, 1O5 bid, los asked Central Railroad
and Banking Company collateral IS. 81
bid, 80 asked; Central of Georgia Rail-
road first mortgage SIS. 5O-year gold bonds,
u71a bid, 119 asked Central of Georgia Rail-
way first consolidated mortgage IS. S7Ib
bid, SS1s asked; Central of Georgia Rail
way first preferred incomes, Az bid. 421b
asked; Central of Georgia Railway second
preferred incomes, 10 bid IA asked.
preferred incomes, bid. 6]k asked:
Georgia Railroad IS, 1910, 113 bid ia asked:
Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta first IS
1O5 bid, 106 asked Charlotte, Columbia and
Augusta second mortgage Is 11S bid. 12O
asked; Georgia Southern and Florida new
5s. 1861 bid. 1861 asked; South Georgia and
Florida first mortgage Is 1O21S bid. 103lL
asked; South Georgia and Florida second
mortgage Is, 1922 bid, 1882 asked; Ocean
Steamship per cent, bonds, 1926 1903 bid
105 asked; City and Suburban Railroad
first mortgage per cent bonds. 100 bid
102 asked; Alabama Midland per cent in
dorsed 9215 bid, 81 asked; Brunswick and
Western As, u bid, 70 asked: South
Bound Railway 5s, rs bid, 50 asked; Geor-
gia and Alabama first preferred IS, 1O3 bid
104 asked; Georgia and Alabama cons 5s
80 bid. 81 asked Eatonton branch 30 bid
80 asked; Central of Georgia, Middle Geor
gia and Atlantic division 5s. s1h bid. 50
asked.
Railroad Stocks-Augusta and Savan-
nah, 9S bid, 80 asked; Southwestern, SO
bid, SO asked Atlanta and West Point
stock 106 bid, 107 asked; Atlanta and West
Point per cent. certificates, 1O3 bid, 104
asked; Georgia common, 1872 bid, 1893 asked;
Savannah Construction Company, 81 bid
50 asked.
Gas stocks-savannah Gas Light stock,
22A bid, % asked; Electric Light and
Power Company, Il BID, 12h asked.
Bank Stocks, Etc.-Citizens Bank, 110A
bid, III asked; Chatham Bank. AZ bid, 4S
asked; Germania Bank, 110h bid, 111b
asked; National Bank of Savannah, 1875
bid, 1926 asked; Merchants National Bank
SO bid, $40 asked; Oglethorpe Savings
and Trust Company, 14 bid, 105 asked;
Southern Bank of the State of Georgia.
100 bid, 131 asked; Savannah Bank and
Trust Company, 1902 bid, 103 a sked; Chat
ham Real Estate and Improvement Com
pany, A, 5513 bid Sc asked; Is, SAY bid, 50
asked; Peoples Savings and Loan Compa-
ny, SO bid 95 asked.
Factory Bonds-Augusta Factory 105
bid, 106 asked; Sibley Manufacturing Com
pany. IS, 100 bid. 102 asked.
Factory Stocks-Augusta Factory So bid
65 asked; Graniteville Factory, 14O bid, Jas
asked; Langley FACTORY lO0 bid, 10l ask
ed; Enterprise Factory, common. 80 bid,
81 asked; j. r. King Manufacturing Com
pany, 100 bid, 101 asked Sibley Manufac-
turing Company, 20 bid, rs asked Savan-
nah Brewing Company, 80 bid. 1O1 asked
New York. Sept. 3-The following Is
the weekly bank statement: Loans, S672-
ia, 800; increase, So 210,000; specie, $14S 37S
300; decrease, $3.50 400 legal tenders, $54-
71O.200 decrease, $723 600; net deposits.
$752, 389 500 decrease, $zS44.6OO; CIRCULATION.
SAC 500; decrease. $74SOO The banks
now hold 81 ,s9l,O5O in excess of the re-
quirement of the % per cent. rule.