The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-12
FINANCIAL.

Money-Markct steady
Foreign Exchange- Market strong. The
following are the Savannah quotations:
Commercial demand, $4S59s: sixty days,
S4. s05s ninety days, %7S1a; francs Paris
and 1Iavre sixty days, 5.25hi Swiss sixty
DAYS. 5.293t marks, sixty days, % 9-l6i
ninety days, SO 5-l6.
Domestic sxchange-steady; banks are
buying at "A per cent. discount and sell
ing as follows: Amounts up to S25, 10
cents: $25 to $50, Is cents; $50 to SOD, 20
cents; 500 10 $500, 25 cents; $500 and over,
seourities-The security market is very
dun. and It is difficult to quote with any
accuracy.
stocks and Bonds-state Bonds--Georgla
80 per cent. bonds of 1880, ll2 bid, ia
asked Georgia S1a per cent, do 1915 lO7
bid, 100 asked Georgia AZ per cent. bonds,
800 bid, 122 asked; South Carolina AIS,
llG bid, IFS asked.
city Bonds-Atlanta AZ per cent, 1929,
1l3 bid, 10 asked; Augusta 3Ias, 1929, 100
bid. l02 asked; Augusta AIS, 1925, 40 bid,
if21a asked; Augusta per cent, 100 bid,
III asked Augusta per cent, Ill bid,
1l3 asked; Columbus ) per cent, 1903 bio,
10 asked; Macon 6 per cent. 1lS bid, 1l0
asked: Macon AS 1926, los bid, 10 ask
ed; Savannah per cent. quarterly jan
uary coupons. 1l3 bid, III asked; Savan-
nah per cent quarterly November cou-
pouS, llob2 bli. lltM dahtHs NHailNHtDu H.
lOt bid, 1O6 asked.
Railroad Bonds-Savannah, Florida and
Western Railroad general mortgage bonds
6 per cent interest coupons, 125 bid 127
asked Savannah, Florida and Western
first mortgage per cent. gold bonds, due
1924. 1l3 BID. ia asked; Savannah, Florida
and Western Railway Company, 81. Johns
division first mortgage As bid 96 ask
cd; Central Railroad and Banking Com
pany collateral 81, 96 bid, 81 asked; Cen.
trail Of Georgia Railway first mortgage
5s 50-year gold bonds. III Did. 1i9 asked;
Central Of Georgia cons. per cent. bonds
% bid SO asked; Central OF Georgia Railway
first preferred incomes, 80 bid, 80 asked;
ex-div.: Contra. Of Georgia Railway second
preferred incomes, A.. III, y asked: Cen
trial of Georgia Railway third preferred
incomes, bid. asked; Georgia Rallroad
Gs. 1910 1l6 bid. asked: Charlotte. Co
lumbia and Augusta LIST IS. 108 bid 100
asked: Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta
second mortgage Is. bid f25 asked;
Georgia Southern and Florida. 107h bid,
1cSib asked; ocean Steamship 5 per cent
bonds 1926, 107 bid asked; CITY and gu-
burban Railroad fret mortgage per cent.
bonds. lO7 bid, 10 asked; Alabama Midland
8 per cent. indorsed, 98 bid l0l asked:
Brunswick and Western As. 80 bid, s. ask
ed: South Bound Railway IS, 97Ia bid 9SIa
asked; Georgia and Alabama first prefer
red IS, JOG bid. 1OS asked; Georgia and Ala
bama consolidated 3d. 100 bid. l0l asked;
Eatonton Branch. s. bid. % asked Cen
trai of Georgia. Middle Georgia and At
lantic division 5s. % bid, 95h asked
Railroad Stocks--Augusta and Savannah.
109lb bid, li0ls asked; southwestern 1904
bid. HOY asked; Atlanta and West Point,
stock 40 bid, asked, ex-div.; Atlanta
and West Point per cent certificates.
i04 bid, 105 asked; Georgia common, 2O7
bid. 209 asked; Georgia and Alabama stock,
90 bid 80 asked; Savannah Hotel Company
stock. 81 bid, 81 asked.