The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-12-12
Money-Market steady

FINANCIAL.
Money-Market steady.
Foreign EXchange-Market steady The
following are the Savannah quotations.
Commercial demand, %.s4: sixty days.
81 1914; ninety days, $477h; francs, Paris
and Havre, sixty days, 5 24is; Swiss, sixty
days, 5.2S12; marks sixty days, $3.50 nine
~ days, 93A.
Domestic Exchange-staady; banks are
buying at Is per cent discount and selling
as follows: Amounts up to $25 10 cents
$25 to $50, 10 cents $50 TO 800. 20 cents; 500
to $780, Is cents; $500 and over, par
Securities-Inactive and dull
Stocks and B6nds-State Bonds-Ceorgia
81 per cent. bonds of 1880, Ill bid. 1l2
asked; Georgia 3ia per cent do 1915 107
bid, 100 asked; Georgia AZ per cent bonds,
1915, 121 bid, 1923 asked; South Carolina 41ss,
l2O bid. l22 asked.
City Bouds-Atlanta AZ per cent, 1922, liz
bid, ll5 asked Augusta per cent, 1927 106
bid, l07 asked; Augusta AVS, 1925 112 bid,
1l3 asked; Augusta per cent, 10 bid,
III asked; Augusta per cent, liz bid,
1l3 asked; Columbus per cent, l07 hid,
1903 asked Macon per cent lis bid, 119
asked; Macon 415s. 1926, los bid, 40 asked ;
Savannah per cent quarterly January
coupons, 113la bid, 1l4I5 asked; Savannah
5 per cent. quarterly February coupons.
1872 bid. ia asked; Charleston As, l05 bid.
106 asked
Railroad Bonds-Savannah, Florida and
Western Railroad general mortgage bonds,
6 per cent. interest coupons, 1876 bid, 12S
asked; Savannah, Florida and Western
first mortgage 5 per cent. gold bonds due
1924, 1l51a bid, 11615 asked; Savannah. Flor
ida and Western Railway Co, st. Johns
division, first mortgage As, 941a bid,
50 asked, ex-interest; Central Rail-
road and Banking Company col
lateral 5s So bid, o. asked; Cen
&ral of Georgia Railway first mortgage 5s,
bO-year gold bonds, III bid, 11S asked ;
Central of Georgia consus per cent
bonds, 90 bid. SO asked; Central of
Georgia Railway first preferred incomes,
80 bid, 81 asked; Central of Geor-
gia Railway second preferred In
comes, 10 bid, II asked; Central
| of Georgia Railway third preferred in
comes. bid 6 asked; Georgia Railroad
IS, 1870 ZIG bid. asked; Charlotte Co
| lumbia and Augusta first 5s 108 bid, ITO
asked; Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta
second martgage Is, 119 bid, 120 asked
Georgia Southern and Florida, 1071b bid
1Oslk asked; Ocean Steamship per cent.
bonds, 1926. 107 bid, 1O9 asked City and SUI
burban Railroad first mortgage z per cent.
bonds, 100 bid 10 asked; Alabama Midland
5 per cent Endorsed. 80 bid 1O1 asked
Brunswick and Western 4s, SO bid, "a ask
ed; South Bound Railway IS, 96lk bid. g5k
ferred IS, los bid, 106 asked; Georgia and
Alabama consolidated SIS, 100 bid, 1O1 asked [;
Eatonton Branch, IS bid, 81 asked; Gen.
trail of Georgia, Middle Georgia and AZ
lantic division So, 81 bid. 921s asked.
Railroad Stocks-Auguste and Savannah,
11O1a bid. 111h asked; Southwestern, 11OA
bid, ll1lh asked; Atlanta and West Point
and West Point per cent. certificates
105 bid, los asked; Georgia common, 2O7
bid, 20S asked; Georgia and Alabama
stock, % bid, 81 asked.
Gas Stocks and Bonds-Savannah Gas
Light stock, q bid, 2S asked; Edison Elec-
bonds, 1914 bid, Jos asked; Edison Electric
Illuminating Company stocks. 100 bid, 105
asked.
Bank Stocks, Etc-Citizens Bank, 100
bid, asked; Chatham Bank, 1891 bid,
ll0oasked; Germania Bank. 1876 bid ask
ed; National Bank of Savannah, 40 bid,
- asked; Merchants National Bank of
Savannah, 14 bid. 1O5 asked: Oglethorpe
Savings and Trust Company, 1O9k bid, =
asked; Southern Bank of the State of
Georgia, 40 bid, asked Savannah
Bank and Trust Company, ia bid, lis
asked Chatham Real Estate and I'm
provement Company. A, 81 bid, So asked I;
3, So bid 81 asked; Peoples Savings and
Loan Company 9S16 bid, 1914 asked.
Factory Bonds-Augusta Factory, 100
bid, 102 asked Sibley Manufacturing Com
pany Is, 1924 bid, 1887 asked; Eagle and
Phenix Mills per cent. bonds, due 1923,
107 bid. - asked.
Factory Stocks-Augusta Factory, IT
bid, 50 asked Graniteville Factory, 100
bid, l65 asked; Langley Factory, lis bio,
asked Enterprise Factory common, 9S
bid, 80 asked; j. r. King Manufacturing
Company 1854 bid, 1071a asked; SlbIey
Manufacturing Company, 81 bid. 81 asked;
Savannah Brewing Company 80 bid, 100
asked.
New York, Dec I1-Money on call firm
at 30l5 per cent; the last loan was at 5
per cent. ruling rate 10G12 per cent. Prime
mercantile paper, 51zq6 per cent Sterling
exchange irregular, with actual business
in bankers bills at $4.s63sGI4.S7 for demand,
and at $4.S144.81A for sixty days Posted
rates, $4S2d4S2As and A.s7A. Commercial
bills, $4.SOa4.sOA. Silver certificates, 59Q
60c Bar silver. 59hc. Mexican dollars,
47I4c Government bonds strong; state
bonds weak; railroad bonds weak.