The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-14

ana BANKING company CoiIaNSfaiS oSs %
bid, 90 asked; Central of Georgia Railway
first mortgage S. 5O-year gold bonds. 1i7ls
bid, 11Si5 asked; Central of Georgia Rail
way first consolidated mortgage 5s. 90
bid, 96 asked; Central of Georgia Railway
first preferred incomes, Al bid, ~ asked;
Central of Georgia Railway second pre-
ferred incomes, 13 bid, Il asked Cen
trail of Georgia Railway third preferred
incomes, bid, ~ asked; Georgia Rail-
road 6s 1910, 1l5Ik bid, III asked; Charlotte,
Columbia and Augusta first IS. 106 bid, l07
asked; Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta
second mortgage Is, l19 bid, l2l asked;
Georgia Southern and Florida new IS. l09l4
bid, 40 asked; South Georgia and Flor
ida second mortgage Is, 100 bid 10l asked;
Ocean Steamship s per cent. bonds, 1926,
l05 bid, l06 asked; city and Suburban
Railroad first mortgage Z per cent bonds
l01 bid. l02 asked; Alabama Midland per
cent. indorsed, 30 bid, 100 asked; Bruins
wick and Western As. SO bid SO asked
South Bound Railway 5s 100 bid, 10l
asked; Georgia and Alabama first pre-
ferred 5s. 1O7% bid, 1OSIs asked Georgia
and Alabama consolidated bs, 1902 bid. l0S
asked; Eatonton branch, S9is bid. 1904
asked; Central OF Georgia. Middle Georgia
and Atlantic division IS, 1894 bid, 1904 ask
ed.
Railroad Stocks-Augusta and savan
nah, lO7 bid. los asked: Southwestern, 1851
bid. 40 asked Atlanta and West Point
stock, 1872 bid, rs asked; Atlanta and
West Point per cent. certificates, 1913
bid, 1OS1s asked; Georgia common, 2O5 bid,
2O6 asked Georgia and Alabama stock
SO bid 81 asked.
Gas Stocks Savannah Gas Light stock,
% bid, q asked.
Bank Stocks Etc-Cltlzens' Bank. III
bid, asked; chatham Bank, 1903 bid,
10l asked; Germania Bank, llS bid,
asked; National Bank of Savannah, lE
bid, asked; Merchants National Bank
of Savannah s6lb bid, So asked; Oglethorpe
savings and Trust Company, 1854 bid, -
asked, Southern Bank OF the State of
Georgia, 1881 bid 129ls asked; Savannah
Bank and Trust Company, l07 bid ask
ed; Chatham Real Estate and Improve
ment Company, A. 90 bid, So asked; II, So
bid Sc asked; Peoples Savings and
Loan Company. 1854 bid, 9734 asked.
Factory Bonds-Augusta Factory 10l
bid, lO2 asked sbley Manufacturing Com
pany 6s. 1902 bid 1903 asked; Eagle and Phe-
nix Mills, per cent. bonds. due 1923, 1914
bid 1903 asked; Bib Manufacturing Com
pany, 1OS bid, 1851 asked
Factory Stocks-Augusta Factory, IS
bid, 50 asked; Graniteville Factory, $50
bid 155 asked; Langley Factory, 81 bid
1919 asked; Enterprise Factory, common
30 bid 80 asked; j. II. King Manufacturing
Company, % bid, 101 asked Sibley Manu-
featuring Company 6s bid 70 asked; Savan-
nah Brewing Company, l04 bid, 1916 asked.
New York. March 13.-Money on cali was
hrmer at 2J903 per cent; the last loan
was at 2h per cent. Prime mercantile
paper 3h@4M per cent. Sterling ex-
change easier with business In bankers
bills at $4S5la@4.S5% for demand, and at
S4S31hai 1884 for sixty days. Posted rates,
$fS41104.S5 and $4.s6i@d4.87 Commercial
bills, $4821z6I4S3 Silver certificates nom-
nally. 59ls@6Olsc Bar silver, 5994c Mex
lean dollars, 471kc Government bonds were
strong, state bonds were inactive, and
railroad bonds were strong.
New York. March 13.-The market gen.
orally worked fractionally lower to-day
for the railway list with the most activ-
ity i'm the specialties, which, on the whole
were well supported. Tobacco was
feature, with a rise of points net
American Steel and Wire and the iron
and steel shares generally were couspic-
uously strong in the forenoon, but later
lost ground.
American Steel and Wire went up 2
points In anticipation of dividend which
subsequently developed, and the stock
eased on realizing.
Talk of rate cutting among the local
gas companies brought liquidation in Con-
soidated Gas, which ended with a loss of
points. Among the usually inactive
stocks there was, a jump of 8 points In
Flint and Pere Marquette, while Great
Northern preferred rose 6Ik half OF which
it subsequently lost. Strength appeared
among all the Southwestern railways and
Southern Railroad preferred got up 2
points, losing half of IL.
There was comparatively little doing
among the Anthracite coalers and Lack
awanna and the Reading seconds were
materially higher, while the rest were
fracuonally up.
The general list was irregular, and with
the rest of the market eased on the bid
ding UP of call money to per cent. In the
last hour. The rate for call money, how
ever, eased off and closed 21aQS per cent.
but the market closed weak. Advices from
the interior reported a plethora of money
in various sections, in some cases attrib-
utable to sums received for Industrial con-
Germs taken into the larger combinations
over million dollars in gold was receiv-
ed from California too late TO figure in
last weeks bank statement
London's transactions were IN small vol
ume, purchases apparently slightly ex-
ceeding sales.
While the aggregate of to-days bond
trading was considerably below recent to-
tails, there was no abatement of the con-
fident tone Of operations. and some issues
achieved record prices Texas Pacific Sec
onds were in brisk demand rising to a.
but sagged later. Total Gales 49, 1000.
United States Old As and the IS advanced
a and the Is * in the bid price
The total sales OF stocks were $50 900
shares, including 1881 Atchison preferred ;
S,58 Chicago, Burlington and Quincy;
1913 Metropolitan Street Railway; IS 700
Reading first preferred 80, 1920 Missouri Pa
cific; $50 Ontario and Western 1916
Union Pacific; 500 do preferred; 6,22O st
PAUL $3.50 Southern Railway: i, 1876
Southern preferred; 1877 American Steel
and Wire; 1884 American Tobacco; 81, $50
Federal Steel; 2S.445 do preferred: $3.50
Peoples Gas; $500 Colorado Fuel and Iron.
2l,680 Brooklyn Transit, BASIS Sugar; s,s40
Tennessee Coal and Iron.
New York Closing Stocks
Atchison -. e. 21sslst L. & s. w. sN
do pref. ....... co.'s do do pref. -. 27i6
Bait. & Ohio -. CD ST. Paul 80. ....127
Can. Pacific 80. S6M do pref. ......,.l6 gIb
Can. Southern 65aI 81. +. & ON. =. 92lk
Cent Pacific .. 50 do do pref ..170
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