The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-11
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asked; Columbus per cent, 107 bid 10S
asked; Macon per cent, lis bid, ask
ed; Macon Fas, 1926, 105 bid asked Sa-
vannah per cent. quarterly April cou-
pons 113 bid, 115 asked: Savannah 5
per cent, quarterly February commons,
l12l6 bid. 1874 asked Charleston As, 101 bid,
1924 asked.
Railroad BOnds-Savannah Florida and
Western Railroad general mortgage bonds
per cent. interest coupons, ll8 bid, l19
asked; Savannah Florida and Western
first mortgage 8 per cent. gold bonds, due
1924, 1l0 bid, III asked; Central Railroad
ana Banking Company collaterals IS, "a
bid, 90 asked; Central of Georgia Railway
first mortgage 5s, 50-year gold bonds, 1lS
bid, 119 asked Central of Georgia Railway
first consolidated mortgage IS. 92i5 bid,
80 asked; Central of Georgia Railway
first preferred incomes, 40 bid Il asked;
Central of Georgia Railway second pre-
ferred incomes. 1919 bid, 1879 asked; Cen
tral of Georgia Railway third preferred in
comes, 5ia bid, 612 asked; Georgia Railroad
6s 1910 ia bid 1l6 asked; Charlotte. Co
lumbia and Augusta first 5s. JOG bid, 107
asked; Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta
SECOND mortgage Is. III bid, 1lS asked;
Georgia Southern and Florida new IS, 100
bid, 10 asked South Georgia and Florida
second mortgage Is, 100 bid, 10l asked;
Ocean Steamship per cent. bonds, 1926.
l05 bid l06 asked; city and Suburban
Railroad first mortgage per cent. bonds.
1872 bid, 1A asked; Alabama Midland
per cent. indorsed, 80 bid 95 asked; Bruins
wick and Western As, 50 bid. 50 asked;
South Bound Railway IS. 81 bid, 9215 ask
ed; Georgia and Alabama first preferred
5s 105 bid, asked; Georgia and Ala
bama consolidated 5s 100 bid, asked:
Eatonton branch, 81 bid, 100 asked; Gem
trail OF Georgia, Middle Georgia and At
lantc division IS, SO bid. 80 asked.
Railroad Stocks-Augusta and savan-
nah, 1852 bid, 1861 asked, ex-div.; South
western 1851 bid 1863 asked, ex-dv.;
Atlanta and West Point stock. JIG bid.
11S asked ex-div. Atlanta and West Point
6 per cent certificates, 1001a bid, 1919
asked. ex-int.; Georgia common, 1877 bid,
200 asked.
Gas stocks-savannah Gas Light stock.
% bid, 26 asked: Electric Light and Power
Company, So bid, 90 asked ex-diH.
Bank Stocks, Etc.-Citizens Bank, 100
bid, asked, ex-dlv; Chatham Bank, 4S
bid. 4sla asked, ex-div.; Germania Bank,
100 bid, asked. eX-div; National Bank OF
Savannah, ia bid. asked ex-div.; Mer-
chants National Bank SO bid. S61k asked:
Oglethorpe Savings and Trust Company,
10i bid, 105 asked, ex-div; Southern
Bank of the State of Georgia, 1876 bid 1271a
asked, eX-dv.; Savannah Bank and Trust
ham Real Estate and Improvement Com
pany, A. s. bid asked b 521b bid
asked, ex-div.; Peoples Savings and Loan
Company, 93l6 bid, 9i1a asked.
Factory Bonds-Augusta Factory, 1O5
bid LOG asked; Sbley Manufacturing COM
pany 6s, 100 bid, 102 asked; Eagle and
Phenlx Mills 6 per cent. bonds, due 1923,
l0llS bid 1903 asked; Bibb Mfg. Co, Jos bid,
10 asked.
Factory Stocks-Augusta Factory, So
bid, G5 asked; Graniteville Factory, 40
bid, Jas asked; Langley Factory, 100 bid,
101 asked; Enterprise Factory common, 80
bid "a asked; j r. King Manufacturing
Company, 100 bid, 10l asked; Sibley Man
ufacturing Company. 20 bid, 76 asked; Sa-
vannah Brewing Company, 1O3 bid, 10i
asked.
New York, Jan. 10.-Money on call was
steady at 2hM3 per cent. The last loan
was at 25 per cent. Prime mercantile
paper, SG3A per cent Sterling exchange
strong with actual business In bankers
bills at $l.s4hGAS4si for demand and at
$i.S2h for sixty days. posted rates. $500
1851; commercial bills, $4Sl. Silver GER
thcates, 5912d6OlAc; bar silver $3.50; Mex
lean dollars, 465sc. Government bonds were
irregular; state bonds were inactive; rail-
road bonds were irregular
New York Jan. l0.-For the first time in
the history Of the Stock Exchange there
was trading 81 over a million shares on
each of two successive days, to-day being
the fifth million-shares day in fifteen
years.
Practically all the railways, except
Atchison preferred, show gains Of point
at one time or another in the day In
the late selling movement when the spe-
cialties were hammered some of the adj
vances were lost and in special cases, as
in Missouri Pacific and Kansas and Texas
a.
Most of the Changers touched the high
est prices yet reached in the current
movement
The most conspicuous advances among
the railroads were those Of Great North
orn preferred. which made an extreme
gain of 5A Manhattan over 3, and the
Readings each The extreme rise
among the specialties was that of New
York Air-Brake, 1912, while Standard Dis
tilling, Standard Rope and Irvine and Bay
State Gas were very strong. Sugar, To-
bacco, Federal Steel American Spirits
and La Clede Gas lost ground. There was
a tone of confidence at the opening al
though there was evidence of much for
eign and domestic realizing. which in
spots brought recession, which, however,
were generally quickly recovered.
The prices Of most International stocks
were shaded and it was estimated that
London sold some 5000 shares. mostly
Atchison while there were some purchases
from that quarter of Chesapeake and Ohio,
and Southern Railway although 1t is es-
tlmated that the arbitrage business OF
yesterday and to-day, which on balance
were sales footed up to 10000 shares.
A number of high grade bonds were sold
for continental account Favorable fore
casts Of probable action on the Louis
Vile division tomorrow brought support
to that stock.
II was said the New York Air-Brake
Company had secured the contract for
equipping, in part at least, the New York
Central Railroad with air brakes, and 10
this may be attributed the sensational rise
of the air-brake stock.
Some of the most Important interests in
the street were prominent buyers after an
early reaction. These purchases We're
largely confined 10 the Changers. This was
accompanied by some realizing In other
quarters of the market.
Transactions in bonds were almost 49,
100000 below yesterdays total, and there
is also an absence of the violent upward
movement. Profit-taking was evident in