The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-08-06
FINANCIAL.

Money-Market steady
Foreign Exchange-Market is weak
The following are the Savannah quota
tions Commercial, demand, SlS61l; six
ty days, $4S3; ninety days, $S17s;
francs, Paris and Havre, sixty days, 5.21la;
Swiss. sixty days, 5.227s; marks, sixty
days, 9H4
Domestic Exchange-Steady: banks are
buying at 1-l6 per cent. discount and sell
ing as follows: Amounts up to S25, 10
cents; $25 to $50 Is cents; $50 TO 500. 20
cents; 500 TO $3.50 Y per cent. premium;
$3.50 to $3.50, lilo per cent. premium; $3.50
and over, 70 cents per $1,000.
Securities-The market is very quiet
Some bargains are being picked up on the
quiet by well-observing people.
Stocks and Bonds--State Bonds-Georgia
! 3l2 per cent. bonds of 1880, ITO bid 112 ask
ed; Georgia S12 per cent, due 1915, 1O8 bid,
10 asked; Georgia AZ per cent. bonds
due 1915, 1929 bid, 1881 asked; South Caro-
lima 4l2s, 1852 bid, 11719 asked
City Bonds-Atlanta Az per cent, 1924
1O9 bid, 10 asked; Augusta 3i5s, 1929 1906
bid, 1902 asked; Augusta 41as, 1925, 1l2 bid
1l3 asked; Augusta Z per cent l0S bid, 10
asked; Augusta, per cent, liz bid lis
asked; Columbus 5 per cent. 105 bid. los
asked; Macon per cent, III bid llS
asked; Macon 412s, 1926 1852 bid, - asked ;
Savannah per cent, quarterly October
coupons, 1872 bid, ia asked; Savannah 3
I
bid, lis asked; Charleston As, 104 bid, 105
asked.
Railroad Bonds-Savannah, Florida and
Western Railroad general mortgage
bonds, per cent. interest coupons, 127
bid, asked; Savannah, FLORIDA and
Western first mort gage per cent, god
bonds due 1924, ia bid, asked;
Central Railroad and Banking Company
collateral 5s, 80 bid, u asked; Central of
Georgia Railway first mortgage IS, 5O-year
gold bonds, III bid, asked; Central of
Georgia cons. per cent. bonds, 81 bid,
| IS asked Central OF Georgia Railway
first preferred incomes Ala Did, 4212 asked;
Central of Georgia Railway second pre-
ferred incomes, 10 bid, IA asked; Central
of Georgia Railway third preferred in
comes. bid, asked Georgia Rail
road Is, 1910 1l3 bid, lis asked; Char
lotte. Columbia and Augusta 1st 5s 108 bid,
1891 asked; Charlotte, Columbia and Au-
custa second mortgage Is, 1913 bid,
- asked; Georgia Southern and Florida
new IS, 1O8 bid 10S% asked; Ocean
Steamship per cent. bonds, 1926.
1O7 bid 1OS asked; City and Suburban
Railroad first NOR gage per cent. bonds.
106 bid, 107 asked; Alabama Midland 5
ner cent. Endorsed, 80 bid, 101 asked Bruins
wick and Western As, So bid, 81 asked;
South Bound Railway, 5s, 9S1a bid, 80
asked; Georgia and Alabama first pre-
ferred IS. 105 bid, 107 asked; Georg and
Alabama consolidated 5s 102 bid, 1903 asked;
Fatonton Branch, 96l2 bid IS asked; Cen
tral of Georgia, Middle Georgia and At
gantic division 5s, 50 bid, So asked.
railroad Stocks--Augusta and Savan-
nah 10 bid. 111la asked; Southwestern,
11O1b hid HE asked; Atlanta and West
Paint stock. l24 bid 125 asked;
Atlanta and West Point 6 per cent. GER
tifcates 1O8 bid l0l asked; Georgia COM
NON 907 b d. 209la asked; Georgia and Ala
hid &c cd
tel company stock, "a bid, 81 asked.
CO Stocks and Bonds-SaVannah Gas
rigb+ stock. % bid 26 asked; Edi-
con Electric Illuminating Company per
oent bonds, 1864 bid, 1914 asked; Edison
I1lectric Illuminating Company stock, 100
bid, 1O7 asked.
ia 191 asked; Chatham Bank 1912 bid
,oSiA asked; Germania Bank, 119 bid
20 oelad: National Bank OF Savannah
i97 lid 40 asked ;NIerchantsNational Bank
e savanna n 1882 bid, l04 asked; Oglethorpe
Savings and Trust Company 1914 bid, l0S
asEed. southern Bank of the State of
Saoroia 14O bid al asked Savannah Banks
"a 1rusr Company, Ill bid 1l2 asked.
Cbatharh Read Estate and Improvement
company. a, So bid, 81 asked; b, SOY bid
scit asked: Peoples Savings and Loan
Company, 80 bid, 96 asked.
Factorv Bonds-Augusta Factory, 1G21s
bld 1926 asked; Si0ley Manufacturing
Comnany. 6s 1929 bid, 1872 asked; Eagle
ana Phenix Mills, 6 per cent. bonds. due
5e3S nos bid. - asked; Bibb Manufacturing
company. lC3 bid 1852 asked.
Factory stocks-Augusta Factory, 6S
hid ~ asked; Grantevile Factory, $50
hid 155 asked; Langley Factory, 1O6 bid
- asked; Enterprise Factory. common.
a BID. 81 asked; J. r. King Manufacture
inc COMPANY. 104 bid, 1O5 asked: siblev
Manufacturing Company. rs bid. 50 asked;
| savannah Brewing Company, 1919 BID. los
asked.
New York, Aug. Money on call was
steodv al per cent; prime mercantile
noner. 4G42l per cent Sterling exchange
! etaadv with actual business in bankers
| Rms az S48604SGA for demand ana at
| a. e2a,64S21l for sixty days posted rates.
! si S2i%64Si ana $iS704S7l2; commercial
| Kills 4S1LdA8ila. Silver certificates 60:b
/ @ftc. bar silver, C0Ac Mexican dollars. t8c
| s,5te bonds were inactive; IA .lroad bonds
we're irregular. Government bonds were
New York. Aug 5.-The weekly bank
| statement show the following changes:
Surplus reserve, decrease, 500, 525.
loans decrease s542s,c0); specie. decrease.
! "a sg7 500: legal tenders. decrease, S1.922
| sod. dcposits, decrease, $12,2}j $50: ci-cuia-
ton increase, SSQoD.
The banks now bold 81 liog1 D excess
of the rcQu.fements Of the p per ceat.