The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-06
FINANCIAL.
steady


Foreign Exchange Market weak The
following are the Savannah quotations
Commercial demand S4S334; sixty days
$4.S015; ninety days, $.7S5s francs. Paris
and Havre, sixty days, 5.25l4; Swiss, sixty
days. 5.29 marks sixty days, SO 9-16
ninety days 80 3-16.
Domestic EXchange-Steady; banks ar
buying al IS per cent discount and sell
ing as follows: Amounts up to $25, II
cent; $25 to $50 Is cents; $50 to 500, %
cents, 500 to 500, % cents; SEQ and over,
par
Securities-The tone of the market is de-
cidedly quiet, and quotations are entirely
nominal. excepting Central of Georgia in
comes, which are in demand
Stocks and Bonds-State Bonds-Georgi1
3i2 per cent. bonds of 1882 1l2 bid, III
asked; Georgia 49, ger cent, due 1915, 10I
bid. 1903 asked Georgia AZ per cent. bonds,
120 bid, 122 asked; South Carolina as,
III bid, 119 asked
City Bonds-Atlanta AZ per cent, 1928,
113 bid, 115 asked; Augusta 3i2s. 1929 100
bid. 1O2 asked; Augusta AS, 1925, 10 bid,
112i5 asked; Augusta z per cent, 100 bid,
III asked Augusta per cent, III BID,
113 asked; Columbus PER cent. los Did.
40 asked: Macon 8 per cent, lis bid, ll9
asked; Macon 41as. 1926, 1903 bid. 40 ask
ed; Savannah per cent. quarterly Oc-
tober coupons, 1872 bid, 1l5 asked Savan-
nah per cent. quarterly November cou-
pons, 1888 bid 1l414 asked; Charleston As,
104 mid, 106 asked.
Railroad Bonds-Savannah, Florida and
Western Railroad general mortgage bonds,
s per cent. interest coupons, 126 bid, Us
asked; Savannah Florida and Western
first mortgage 5 per cent. gold bonds, due
1924 ia bid, 115ia asked; Savannah, Florida
and Western Railway Company, st. Johns
division first mortgage As, 94l2 bid, 81 ask
ed; Central Railroad and Banking Com
an a &c n azlF D1 or
trail of Georgia Railway first mortgage
Us, 50-year gold bonds, III bid, 1l9 asked;
Central of Georgia cons. per cent. bonds
90 bidS7 asked; Central of Georgia Railway
first preferred incomes, 1872 bid, 40 asked.
eX-div; Central of Georgia Railway Sc cond
preferred incomes. II bid, u asked; Cen
trail of Georg Railway third preferred
incomes, bid asked; Georgia Railroad
6s 1910, 116 bid, asked; Charlotte, Co
lumbia and Augusta LIST IS, 1903 bid, $40
asked; Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta
second mortgage rs, 125 bid. asked
Georgia Southern and Florida, 107 bid
100 asked; Ocean Steamship per cent.
bonds 1926 107 bid - asked; City and Su-
burban Railroad first mortgage per cent.
bonds, 107 bid, asked; Alabama Midland
5 per cent. indorsed 9S bid 101 asked;
Brunswick and Western As, So bid IS ask
ed South Bound Railway 5s 971b bid, 9SIs
asked, ex-coupon; Georgia and Ala
bama first preferred SIS, l06 bid
Jos asked; Georgia and Alabama
consolidated IS, 100 bid, 101 asked;
Eatonton Branch, % bid 81 asked; Cen
trail Of Georgia Middle Georgia and At
Iantic division IS, SO bid, 95ls asked.
Railroad Stocks-Augusta and Savannah,
1O9 bid 10 asked; Southwestern, 10)
bid 10 asked; Atlanta and West Point
stock 105 bid, 10 asked; eX-div. Atlanta
and West Point per cent. certificates,
1O4 bid, 1O5 asked Georgia common, 207 bid,
200 asked; Georgia and Alabama stock. 20
bid 50 asked: Savannah Hotel Company
stock 81 bid, 81 asked.
Gas Stocks and Bonds-SaVannah Gas
Light Stock 26 bid, q asked Edison Elec.
tric Illuminating Company per cent.
bonds, 1917 bid, 1Os12 asked Edison Elec-
trio Illuminating Company stocks, bid,
- asked.
Bank Stocks, Etc.-Citzens Bank, 100
bid, asked; Chatham Bank, 10S bid,
100 asked; Germania Bank, 100 bid, ask
ed National Bank of Savannah, 40
bid asked Merchants National Bank
of Savannah 10i bid. 1O5 asked; Oglc-
thorpe Savings and Trust Company 1903
bid asked; Southern Bank of the
state of Georgia. 140 bid, 14i asked Sa-
vannah Bank and Trust Company, 1i2 bid,
113 asked; Chatham Real Ils ate and I'm
provemeut Company, A. 81 bid, IS asked;
B, Sc bid. 81 asked; Peoples Savings and
Loan Company 9Sia bid, 99A asked.
bid, 102 asked; Sibey Manufacturing
Company Is, 1O2ia bid, 1881 asked; Eagle
and Phenix Minis, per cent. bonds. due
1928, 107 bid. - asked.
Factory Stocks-Augusta Factory, rs
bid so asked Granitevirle Factory 100
bid $50 asked; Langley Factory, Jos bid.
asked; Enterprise Factory. common. 9S
bid, IS asked; j. r. King Manufac-
turing Company. 1854 BID. 1917 asked;
Sbey Manufacturing Company. 81 bid, 81
asked Savannah Brewing Company. 19i
bid 1855 asked.
New York Oct 5.-Money on call firm
at 41I2 per cent; last loan was offered al
per cent Prime mercantile paper. 51N
6 per cent. Sterling exchange. firm with
actual business in bankers bills at S4.S5N6l
4 .SJa4 for demand, and at 81 S1std 81 fer six
~ days Posted rates. $LS1iS048}. and
e. S6ia. Commercial bills. 9.Sg04. Slis. ST
vcr ceeiifcates, 590jsisc. Bar silver. 57sze.
Mexican dollars, a1c. Governments fonds
weak. state binds inactive. RaL GA 10 ds
firm.