The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-07-23
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city Bonds--Atlanta z per cent. 102 bid,
asked; Augusta 4l2s, 1925, 105 bid 1906
asked Augusta per cent, 10 bid III
asked Augusta 6 per cent, 1l2 bid 113
asked Columbus per cent. 1884 bid, 1914
asked Macon per cent, lis bid. 1f6 ask
ed Macon iiAs. 1926, 1903 bid 1914 asked
Savannah per cent, quarterly October
coupons, HE bid. liz asked Savannah
per cent. quarterly August coupons, llilk
bid III asked; Charleston As, 951s bid, 96la
asked.
Railroad Bonds-Savannah. Florida ana
Western Railroad general mortgage bonds.
G Ter cent. interest coupons, III bid 118
asked Savannah Florida and Western
first mortgage per cent. gold bonds. due
1924, 1914 hid, 1051s asked Central Railroad
and Banking Company collateral 5s IL
hid % asked Central OF Georgia Rail-
road FIRST mortgage 5s, 50-year gold bonds
ll5A bid III asked Central OF Georgia RaiIs
way FIRST consolidated mortgage IS, IS bid
SO asked; Central of Georgia Railway
hrst preferred incomes, 80 bid 40 asked:
Central of Georeia Railway second
preferred incomes. 1914 bid 1891 asked:
Central of Georgia Railway third
preferred incomes, s bid. 6k asked:
Georgia Railroad 6s, 1910. 113 bid, ia asked:
Charlotte. Columbia and Augusta first IS
10S bid, 1903 asked; Charlotte. Columbia and
Augusta second mortgage Is, 100 bid i21
asked; Georgia Southern and Florida new
5s 1O3 bid, 104 asked South Georgia and
asked; South Georgia and Florida second
mortgage Is. 1902 bid, 1872 asked; Ocean
Steamship per cent. bonds 1926, 1903 bid
1N asked; City and Suburban Railroad
first mortgage 6 per cent. bonds. 101 bid lO3
asked; Alabama Midland per cent in
dorsed, s. bid, SO asked: Brunswick ard
Western As, ~ bid, IS asked; SCUM
Bound Railway IS, 6s bid. ~ asked Geor-
gia and Alabama first preferred 5s 1903 hid
104 asked; Georgia and Alabama cons. rs
DulFs at ton, ~
80 asked; Central of Georgia Middle
Georgia and Atlantic division IS, so bid.
81 asked.
Railroad stccks-Augusta and savan-
nah 96 bid, 81 asked ex-div;
Southwestern. 1914 bid, 97h asked ex
stock 1O6 bid, 10 asked, ex-div.; Atlanta
and West Point per cent. certificates, 1903
bid 10i asked, ex-interesi; Georgia COM
mon 1870 bid 1872 asked; Savannah Con-
struction Company. Il bid, 70 asked.
Gas Stocks-Savaunah Gas Light stock
22Is bid 20 asked; Electric Light and
Power Company, 40 bid II asked, ex-
div.
Bank Stocks, Etc.-Citizens Bank ITO
bid 1lols asked, ex-div.; Chatham Bank.
l6la bid ~ asked ex-dv.;
Germanla Bank, 1l015 bid, liz
asked, ex-dv; National Bank of
Savannah rs bid. 1926 asked, ex-div; Mer-
chants National Bank, SO bid 841b asked.
ex-div.; Oglethorpe Savings and Trust Co,
l0i bid l05 asked eX-div.; Southern Bank
OF the State Of Georgia. 129 bid. 100 asked.
ex-div. Savannah Bank and Trust Conn
pany, 1872 bid, 1903 asked, ex-dv; Chatham
| Real Estate and Improvement Company
| A., So bid, 651A asked; b, 81 bid, SAN asked,
ex-div.; Peoples Savings and Loan Com
| pany % BID IS asked.
Factory Bonds.-Augusta Factory 1Ol
| bid, I02 asked Sibley Manufacturing Com
pany 6s 100 bid 1O2 asked
Factory Stocks.-Augusta Factory So
bid, rs asked; GraniieWlle Factory las
| bid, 15l asked; Langley Factory, 100 bid,
1Ol asked; Enterprise Factory, common,
30 hid, "a asked; J. r. King Manufacturing
Company 100 bid. 101 asked Sibley
| Manufacturing Company. 70 bid rs asked:
Savannah Brewing Company, 95 bid, 100
asked.
New York, July %. 3 D. m.-Money on
call was steady at 1AM1k per cent; the
last loan was at 1ls per cent Prime mer-
camille paper, 3izN4 per cent. Sterling ex-
change was easy, with actual business IN
bankers bills at 4.S5Am4.s5h for demand
and at $4.84ltASih for sixty days; posted
rates, $.S5 and A.S615 Commercial bills,
1881. Silver certificates, 59K460hc. Bar
silver 59Mc Mexican dollars, Acc. Govern
ment bonds were strong.
New York, July 22-The stock market
continued in the hands of small room trad
ers to-day, who dealt almost entirely in
Industrial gpecaltics. They advanced
prices Of these early and held up the stand
ard railroad stocks. Realizing in the sDe-
cialties later in the day caused a sympa-
thetic decline In the railroads, carrying
prices in many cases slightly below yester-
days close. Except where stocks were i'm
luenced by Individual causes. the total
range of prices were narrow and without
significance The dullness may quite equal
~ be interpreted Hs indicating a disin-
clination to buy at the present level or as
an unwilllngness to sell.
The future of the international trade
situation Is stll so obscure that spectators
do not care 70 commit themselves. There
were evidences of pressure of funds seek
ing investment, but they manifested them
selves In bonds, rather than in stocks. The
large demand for the new government
threes which were traded In on the stock
exchange, when Issued had a favorable
sympathetic effect al through the mar
kct. This bond sold to 1915, the last sale
being at that figure. Bids were for small
bonds as well as for full share lots of ST.
0D0 The advance w other government
bonds was called sympathetic. The adj
vantages Of the new issue for purposes of
circulation make a keen demand for them
from the banks though the present and
prospective cheappess of money tends to
diminish their value for this purpose.
Railroad mortgages were absorbed on a
large scale to-day.
ne WGiA SetuItu bOnuS OF TGOfBdfliIeQ
roads whose value under reorganization
has not been clearly fixed. were the favor
ties. There was also active demand for the
more speculative issues of the roads stHl
to be reorganized or whose payments OF
interest are contingent upon earnings. The
plentitude of money also found reflection
IN Wall street la talk of syndlcates pre-
pairing for Hnaclal ventures IN Eeastern
Cubn.
Time loans were made for six months at
the rate of 3 per cent, and sterling ex-
change continued heavy under Offering OF
grain bills. London also bought stocks
here, in spite Of a stiffening of the London
discount rate IN sympathy with the fan
In London exchange here. Dry goods inn
ports at New York, on the other hand for
the week, rose above those for the corre-
spondiug period of last year, some S7l4,-
Isl. and above last week some 1905, 032.
Coupled with the decline in the exports
from New York for the week under those
Of last week of 81, 4O1 .sl2 these figures are
rather significant of the trend of The in