The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-10
FINANCIAL.

MOneN-M0rkct SteHuN.
Fcreign Exchange Market strong. The
following are the Savannah quotations:
Commerclai demand, S4.S59s sixty days,
4S03, ninety days &.7Sla; francs, Paris
and Havre. sixty days, 5.15h; Swiss, sixty
days. 5.2ga, marks, sixty days, 93 9-l6;
ninety days % 5-l6.
Domestic xchange-Steady banks are
buying at "a per cent. discount and sell
ing as follows: Amounts up to $25, 10
cents; S25 to $50. Is cents; $50 TO @OO, 20
cents; 500 to 5000, % cents; $500 and over
par.
Sccurities-The security market Is very
dun. and IT Is difficult TO quote with any
accuracy.
stocks and Bonds-stale Bonds-Georgia
So per cent bonds of 1880 1i2 bid, ia
asked; Georgia 3M per cent. do 1918, lO1
Bio 100 asked: Georgia Az per cent. bonds,
I20 bid 122 asked; South Carolina 4las,
ZIG bid 1is asked.
CITY Bouds-Auanta AZ per cent. 1923,
ll3 bid 11l asked; Augusta 3&s, 1893, 100
bid. 1902 asked; Augusta AIS, 1872, 40 bio,
ll2la asked Augusta per cent 100 bld.
III asked; Augusta 6 per cent, III bid,
ll3 asked; Columbus per cent. los bio,
10 asked Macon per cent, ilS bid, li0
asked; Macon 4lss. 1926. l0S bid. 10 ask
ed Savannah 8 per cent. quarterly Jan
uary coupons, 1l3 bid, III asked; Sayan-
nah per cent. quarterly November cou-
pona 1884, bid 1lih asked; Charleston As,
1Jl bid, lo6 asked.
Railroad Bou1s-Savannah, Florida and
Western Railroad general mortgage bonds,
6 per cent interest coupons, l25 bid, 127
asked; Savannah Florida and Western
first NOR gage 5 per cent gold bonds. due
1924 113 bd. ia asked Savannah. Florida
and Western Railway Company. ST. Johns
division first mortgage 4s, - bid, SO ask
cd: Central Railroad and Banking Com
trail of Georgia Railway first mortgage
as. 50-yenr gold bonds III bid, 1l9 asked;
Central OF Georgia cons per cent bonds
| 95 BID IS asked; Central Of Georgia Railway
first preferred Incomes IS bid, 30 asked;
ex-3iv; Central Of Georgia Railway second
preferred incomes, ~ bid, Y asked; Cen
tral Of Georgia RIA waY third preferred
incomes, bid. asked, Georgia Railroad
6s 1910 il6 bid. asked; Charlotte. Co
Iumbla and Augusta LIST IS. lOS bid 1903
asked Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta
second mortgage Is. bid l2J asked;
Georgia Southern and Florida. iO7la bi1
iGslk asked; ocean Steamship > per cent.
bonds. 1926, 107 bid, asked; CIV and SUI
| burban Railroad first mortgage per cent.
bonds. l07 bid, 10 ask ed; Alabama Midland
per cent, Endorsed, 9S bid 10l asked;
Brunswick ard Western IS. b'd, s. ask
ed: South Bound Railway 5s 97l5 bid, 9Si5
asked; Georgia and Alabama first prefer
red 50. 1CG bid. 1903 asked; Georgia and Ala
bama consolidated S., 100 bid l0l asked
Eatonton Branch, 80 BID, 81 asked; Cen
| tral OF Georgia Middle Georgia and At
lantlc division 5s. 90 bid, 95la asked.
Railroad Stocks-Augusta ana Savannah
| 1921 bid. 1l0la asked; Southwestern, 1884,.
| bid ll0la asked; Atlanta and West POINT
| stock 10 BID, asked, ex-div,; Atlanta
and West Point per cent. certificates
! 104 bd, l05 asked; Georgia common, ~
| id. 2C9 asked: Georgia and Alabama stock
| 80 bid. IS asked; Savannah Hotel Company
stock 81 bid, 81 asked.
Gas Stocks and Savannah Gas
Light Stock, 70 bid, z asked; Edison Elec-
trio Illuminating Company G per cent
bonds, l05 bid, 10S asked; Edison Il &C.
trio Illuminating Company stocks, 100 bi :,
1J7 asked.
Bank stocks, Etc.-Ciuzens Bank. 12l
bid, asked; Chatham Bank. ltS bid,
1903 asked: Gerpania Bank 10 bid. - ask
ed National Bank Of savannah, l4l
bid, - asked; Merchants National Bank
~ Savannah 1897 bid, i041a asked; Og'e-
thorpe Savings and Trust Company. 10i
bid. asked; Southern Bank of tle
state Of Georgia, 1l0 bid, 14l asked: Sa-
Vannah Bank and Trust Company, 1l2 bid,
ll3 asked; Chatham Real Estate and Inn
provement Company, A, 81 bid IS ask d;
Il. 5G bid, 81 asked Peoples Savings and
Loan company % bihf iNH dohfhs
Factory Bonds-Augusta Factory. 100
bid. re- asked, Sibley Manufacturing
Company 6s, 102lh bid, 1881 asked EaqI
and Phenix Mills. 6 per cent. bonds, d G
1925 1O7 bid, asked.
Factory siocks-Augusla Factory, Is
BID. 90 asked; Granlteville Factory, 49,
bid. 1G5 asked. Langley Factory 10S bid.
80 asked; Enterprise Factory. comm5u. SO
bid. 0S asked; j. r. King Manufac-
turing COMPANY 1854 bid, l07Ia asked;
Sibley Manufacturing Company 81 hid, 81
asked; Savannah Brewing Company, 10l
bid. 1851 asked.
New York, oct 9.-Money on call firmer
al 6d19 per cent; last loan, per cent.
Prime mercantile paper seas per cent.
Sterling exchange firm, with actual busi-
ness IN bankers bills at ASGA0i ssh for
demand, and al 81 SlA04S2 for sixty days;
posted rates. A.S2laGi4.SS and 81. S6lzaf4 81;
commercial bills, 81. S0a4 .sOla; silver eertih-
Gates, 58a59c bar silver, 5Sbc; Mexican
dollars, 47c. Government bonds steady: