The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-16


Columbia and Augusta first 5s, 106 bid, lO1
asked; Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta
second mortgage Is, 119 bid, l2i asked
Georgia Southern and Florida new 5s, lU91s
bid, 10 asked; South Georgia and FLOR
ida second mortgage Is. 100 bid, l0l asked;
Ocean Steamship per cent. bonds, 192o'
los bid, l06 asked; City and SUBURBAN
Railroad first mortgage per cent. bonds
l01 bid l02 asked; Alabama Midland per
cent. indorsed, 90 bid, 100 asked; Bruins
wick and Western As, 81 bid. 81 asked -;
South Bound Railway S. 101 bid, lO2
asked Georgia and Alabama first pre-
ferred 5s. 1O724 bid, l0Sla asked; Georgia
and Alabama consolidated 5s, 102 bid, 1903
asked Eatonton branch, 99h bid, lOOls
asked Central OF Georgia, Middle Georgia
and Atlantic division IS, 99la bid lOOA ask
ed.
Railroad Stocks-Augusta and savan-
nah, 107 bid, asked Southwestern. lOo
bid, l09,s asked; Atlanta and West Point,
stock, 125 bid, asked; Atlanta and
West Point per cent. certificates. lO5
bid 103la asked Georgia common, POS bid,
206 asked; Georgia and Alabama stock,
S5 bid, SO asked.
Gas Stocks-savanna Gas Light stock,
y bid, asked.
Bank Stocks, Etc-Citlzens' Bank, III
bid asked; Chatham Bank, JOB bid.
104 asked; Germania Bank, llS bid, -
asked; National Bank of Savannah, 121
bid, asked: Merchants National Bank
of Savannah, 30 bid, 81 asked; OglethorpS
Savings and Trust Company. 1864 bid. ~-
asked Southern Bank of the State of
Georgia. 1881 bid 129la asked: Savannah
Bank and Trust Company, l07 bid, ask
ed; Chatham Real Estate and Improve
ment Company, A. Sc bid, 81 asked; +, 50
bid, Sc asked; Peoples Savings and
Loan Company, 81 bid, 9S asked
Factory Bonds-Augusta Factory, l0l
bid 102 asked; Sibley Manufacturing Com
pany 6s 102 bid, 1903 asked; Eagle and Phe-
nix Mills, per cent. bonds, due 1928, 1917
bid 1903 asked; Bib Manufacturing Com
pany, 1903 bid, 1852 asked.
Factory Stocks-Augusta Factory o.
bid 50 asked Granileville Factory, l5C
bid. 155 asked; Langley Factory, 81 bid,
1919 asked; Enterprise Factory, common,
90 bid, 90 asked; J. r.. King Manufactures
Company, % bid, 10l asked Sibley Manu-
featuring Company 6S bid, Is asked; savan-
nah Brewing Company. l0l bid, 1906 asked.
New York. March 15.-Money on call was
firm at 3iad5 per cent. the last loan was
at Sih per cent. Prime mercantile paper,
3hd4A per cent. Sterling exchange, steady,
with actual business in bankers bills al
SAS5hGI4.S5lA for demand and al aS3iaQ
1881 for sixty days posted rates, $3.50
4.S5 and $4S6G4.a. Commercial bills, AS2k
04s3. Silver certificates, nominally 59lAd
6Olbc. Bar silver, $3.50 Mexican dollars
47Jkc Government bonds strong: state
bonds, weak railroad bonds, irregular.
New York, March 15--The changes In
stock prices to-day were mixed with losses
prevailing. For the greater part OF the
day stocks were under pressure, Ia paii
due to strength in call money, where
per cent was recorded for some loans, al
though most OF the business was at
per cent.
London, while trading both ways, dis
posed Of more stock than Il took The
selling of Manhattan was attributed TO the
underwriting syndicate of the issue OF new
stock, although there was no means OF
ascertaning the real source. The stock
closed with a Joss of nearly 2 points after
an earlier extreme decline OF S%. Kan
sas CITY, pittsburg and Cuff left Off 4
points down in anticipation of a possible
heavy assessment In the plan of Teorgani-
cation.
American Steel and Wire dropped 1874
with a smaller sympathetic recession In
Federal Steel issues. There were frac-
tional recessions, too, in Northern Pacific
Atchisons, the Readings and the Grang-
ers Chicago Terminal stocks were bene-
ntfeI DA Talk OF u contract WIN CDicdR0
and Alton, while Colorado Southern was
up on rumors of negotiations with Union
Pacific. Brooklyn got within a small
fraction Of par in expectation that an
other system was about TO be acquired
but the interests concerned largely In such
a deal were not communicative. Ameri-
can Tobacco rose points, but Continental
Tobacco, now dealt In In the unlisted de-
partment, made, compared with the OPEN
ing, a net loss of ~ for the common and
3 for the preferred.
New York Air Brake jumped 10A points
conflicting rumors regarding the proba-
bility of the success of certain gas legisla-
ton lent feverishness TO Consolidated Gas
which, however rose u. Metropolitan
Street Railway, Peoples Gas and Sugar
gave some evidence of strength. slight
recession in the strength of call money
although II closed with transactions al 3h
a, induced some covering in the after
noon. The closing tone was uncertain
with prices below the best and above the
worst.
The government trade statistics, showing
an excess of exports of nearly $34 1000
was not altogether fayorably received. be-
cause Of the imports exceeding any since
March year ago. while the exports show
ed shrlnkage of over 20 per cent COM
pared with any of the preceding four
months.
The bond market while irregular. show
ed a yielding tendency. with extreme
weakness in Kansas city. Pittsburg and
Gulf lists. Total sales, $2,550O00 United
States Is registered advanced X and Unit
ed States coupon 4 in the bid price.
The total sales Of stocks were $40. 100
shares. including 1856 Atchison preferred
1880 Chicago. Burlington and Quincy. g.
$50 Hooking Coal 36054 Manhattan. 5,sO7
Metropolitan Street Railway, $3.50 Reading
first preferred 11740 Missouri Pacific. $500
New Jersey Central. 622O New York Cen
trail, 1906 Northern Pacific, 5.30-
Northern Pacific preferred, SIP on
tario and Western s,3O5 Union Pacific
1866 Union Pacific preferred, 1893 st.
Paul, $3.50 Texas Pacific. 1884 American
Steel and Wire 5,025 American Steel and
Wire pref. 12765 American Tobacco. 1868
Federal Steel, 1858 Federal Steel prefer
red, $40 Consolidated Gas, &C, 1928 Brook
Ign Rapid Transit, 2O465 Sugar.
New York Closing Stocks.
sAtchlson .207stS. l.. & 8. w. ...Sb
do pref ..59s4 do do pref ......27
3 & o ............G9ISt. Paul ....... 1861