The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-02-01
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IumbIa and Augusta first 5s 100 bid, 1O7
asked; Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta
second mortgage Is. IFS bid, 121 asked;
Georgia Southern and Florida new IS. 1854
bid, l09la asked, South Georgia and Florida
second mortgage Is, 100 bid, 101 asked;
Ocean Steamship per cent. bonds, 1926,
100 bid, JOG asked city and Suburban
Railroad first mortgage per cent. bonds.
lVl bid, l02 asked; Alabama Midland 5 per
cent, indorsed, 80 bid, 100 asked; Bruns-
wick and Western Is, SO bid. So asked:
South Bound Railway 5s. 90 bid, 80 asked;
Georgia and Alabama first preferred IS.
l05 bid. l06 asked; Georgia and Alabama
consolidated 5s 100 bid, 10l asked; Eaton
ton branch. % bid, 100 asked; Central OF
Georgia. Middle Georgia and Atlantic dl-
vision Is, SO bid. q asked.
Railroad Stocks-Augusta and Savan-
nah. lo6 bid, 1917 asked; Southwestern,
1854 bid 106A asked; Atlanta and West
Point stock 1is bid, 100 asked: Atlanta
and West Point per cent. certificates.
lolla bid, lC2 asked; Georgia common 2o2
bid pos asked
Gas Stocks-Savannah Gas Light stock,
"a bid % asked, ex-div.
Bank Stocks, Etc.--Citzens Bank. HE
bid, = asked; Chatham Bank. 100 bid, 10l
asked. Germania Bank. 1l2 bid. asked.
National Bank of Savannah 1877 bid.
asked; Merchants National Bank of
Savannah. So bid, 81 asked; Oglethorpe
Savings and Trust Company, 1919 bid.
l0jis asked; Southern Bank of the State
of Georgia. l27 bid, 12Sta asked: Savannah
Bank and Trust Company. 10l1a bid.
asked; Chatham Real Estate and I'M
provement Company,A SPY bid, 53la asked:
B. SPA bid. 50 asked Peoples Savings and
Loan Company, 81 bid, 9s asked.
Factory Bonds-Augusta Factory. 1906
bid l06 asked; Sibley Manufacturing Com
pany Is, 100 bid. 1O2 asked; Eagle ana
Phoenix Mills per cent bonds due 1923.
l01la bid 103 asked; Bibb Mfg Co. 10o bid.
10 asked
Factory stocks-Augusta Factory, 50
bid. 65 asked; Granitevlle, Factory 140
bid, 1i5 asked; Langley Factory, 100 bid.
l0i asked Enterprise Factory, common, 30
bid. "a asked; J r., King Manufacturing
Company, 100 bid, l0l asked; Sibley Man
ufacturng Company. 20 bid Is asked sa-
vaunah Brewing Company, 105 bid. 106
asked
New York. Jan. 3l.-Money on call was
steady at 2hm3 per cent; the last loan
was at per cent. prime mercantile paper,
2Am3A per cent. Sterling exchange firm.
with actual business IN bankers bills, at
&S5A for demand and at @.S3a4S3A for
sixty days posted rates, A.846I4. Sc; COM
mercial bills &S2G64.82tk. Silver certin-
Gates, nominal; 59lsN60Ae; bar silver 5912c;
Mexican dollars 47lac. Government bonds
irregular; state bonds inactive; railroad
bonds irregular.
| NCW YORK. Jan. 3l.-~Ine average recess
| sion In stock values to-day was fractional.
There was no pronounced pressure 10 sell,
| as was shown by the diminished volume OF
| business. There were transactions i'm
| about three-quarters of a million shares,
which formerly would have been cosidered
a large days business. but which Is the
smallest amount traded in tn some time
for full days session. London continue
ed a moderate seller on balance and the
market showed alternate spells of strength
| and weakness. There was considerable
selling for Chicago account The traders
were free sellers at the opening and prices
1 ran off fractiOnally except for declines OF
a point and over in Reading first preferred.
| New York Central and Tennessee Coal and
/ Iron.
Buying orders appeared In various d.
Tections and there was a number of re-
coveries from one to two points, including
/ Tennessee Coal and Iron. A decline I'm
| Reading first preferred was on rumors
! that the coal deal was not developing as
/ well as expected. Central and Southern
| Pacific Mobile and Ohio, Cleveland Gin
| cinnati Chicago and st. Louis, Long Is
| land, Chicago Terminal issues. Southern
/ Railway preferred, American Cotton Oil
and some other speeialties were consistent
| ly strong. vigorous bear attack, which
was particularly directed against Sugar
caused that stock 10 drop points from the
| highest prices which 1t mad attained on a
continuance Of the talk Of some arrange
! ment with the Glucose Sugar Refining
/ Company. The facts concerning the COM
| pany's intentions are of course known only
! to the insiders
New York Air-Brake took dive of
| about points. There was activity and
| strength among hIgh-priced investment
! stocks including New York, New Haven
and Hartford, which touched 204; Great
! Northern preferred, which made a new
| high record Of f76; Consolidated Gas, which
| touched 20il5, and Brooklyn Union Gas
! l49A. The strength OF these two gas stocks
| was on various consolidation rumors In
! regard to the strength of Great Northern
stocks there was gossip that there might
| be another melon" to be cut by the COM
! pany, perhaps I'm the form of some distri-
! button to the stockholders.
| The time for such action was clothed in
| much mystery. Generally speaking, the
market went through the process of digest
ing recent realizing sales. and speculative
interest was largely centered in special
| ties.
The bond market was very irregular, with
| an easier tendency toward the close. Total
| sales, Sf.750000
United States 3's advanced n. and the
new As declined u in the bid price.
| The total sales of stocks were 7S8. 900
| shares, including ssh Atchison; 22.Sg5
| Atehlson preferred; 1860 Central Pacific;
| $3.50 Chesapeake and Ohio, 9,3l5 Chicago,
| Burlington and Quincy; 14.O64 Cleveland,
/ Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis; 65OO
| Denver ana Rio Grande: GAS Louisville
and Nashville; 1875 Manhattan 81. 2i0
| Reading first preferred; $3.50 Missouri Pa
! cific; 1910 Mobile and Ohio; $500 New York
| Central; $3.50 Rock Island; 6,430 Peoples
| Gas; 1871 St. Louis and San Francisco:
| LITE ST. Louis and San Francisco second
preferred; 11,225 Union Pacific; 19.ls0 81.
| PAU; 2il89 Southern Pacific; 1f.140 South
ern Railway 28.7i2 Southern Railway pre-
| ferred; 600 Texas and Pacific; 20, 2S5 Union
Pacific preferred; 6230 American Cotton
| OH 800 Tobacco; 1886 Federal Steel; a.
| 7a Federal Steel preferred 203S5 Console
dated Gas; 9OS0 Pacific Mail; $3.50 Sugar;
| 1880 Tennessee Coal and Iron; 13 O2O Chi
| cago Great Western
New York Closing Stocks.
Atchlson 223s 81. L. & s. W.. 10ssl
do pref ....... 81 do do pref 49, 26ia
Bait & Ohio e.. TN ST. Paul .12S5s
Can. Pacific -. S61z do pref. .1ss
| Can. Southern =. 50 81. p. & ON. "a
Cent. Pacific -. COS do do pref. lies
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