The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-17
FINANCIAL.


Foreign EXchange-M Market strong. The
following are the Savannah quotations;
Commercial demand, $tS59s sixty days,
$iS09s, ninety days $4.7Sla; francs, Paris
and Havre. sixty days. 5.25A Swiss, sixty
days 5.292i marks, sixty days, 9S GIG;
ninety days % 5-l6.
Domestic xchange-Steady; banks are
buying at X per cent discount and sell
ing as follows: Amounts up to So. 10
cents; S25 to $50 Is cents $50 20 $780, ~
cents; 500 TO $500, 25 cents; 5000 and over,
par
Sccuritles-The security market is very
dun, and it is difficult to quote with any
accuracy.
Stocks aud Bonds-Statc Bouds-Gcorgla
So per cent bonds of 1880, 112 bid, IL
asked; Georgia 80 per cent, do 1915 l01
bid. 100 asked; Georgia az per cent, bonds,
100 bid, 70 asked; South Carolina AS,
l16 bid, lis asked.
city Bonds-Atlanta ~ per cent, 1928.
11S bid, lis asked; Augusta 3ias, 1929. 100
bid, 1O2 asked; Augusta 4iss, 1925, 40 bid,
l12ia asked; Augusta per cent, 1903 bid
III asked Augusta per cent, Ill bid,
1l3 asked; Columbus 5 per cent, los bid
10 asked; Macon per cent, llS bid, ll9
asked Macon 4lgs, 1926, i0S bid. 40 ask
ed, Savannah 8 per cent. quarterly jan
uary coupons 1lS bid ia asked Savan-
nah per cent. quarterly November cou-
104 bid, 106 asked.
Railroad Bonds-Savanuah Florida and
Western Railroad general mortgage bonds,
per cent. interest coupons, 125 bid, III
asked; Savannah, Florida and Western
first mortgage per cent. gold bonds. due
1924. 113 bid. ia asked; Savannah, Florida
and Western Railway Company, ST. johns
division first mortgage As 81 bid, 96 ask
ed; Central Railroad and Banking Com
pany collateral IS. 90 bid, 81 asked; Cen
trail of Georgia Railway first mortgage
5s 50-year gold bonds, III bid, 119 asked {;
Central of Georgia consus per cent.
bonds, 9534 bid. 961a asked; Central of
Georgia Railway first preferred in
comes 81 bid, 30 asked ok
div; Central of Georgia Railway second
preferred incomes. II bid, II asked Cen
trail of Georgia Railway third preferred
incomes, bid asked; Georgia Railroad
6s 1910, 1l6 bid asked; Charlotte, Co
lumbia and Augusta LIST S. 1O8 bid, lO9
asked Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta
second mortgage. Is, bid, 125 asked
Georgia Southern and Florida. 10 bid
10s asked; Ocean Steamship per cent.
bonds 1926, l07 bid asked; City and SUI
burban Railroad first mortgage per cent.
bonds 107 bid, 40 asked Alabama Midland
S per cent. indorsed 9S bid, l0l asked;
Brunswick and Western IS, bid, 80 ask
ed: South Bound Railway, So. 97j2 bid, 98la
asked; Georgia and Alabama first PREFER
ed IS. 106 bid. los asked; Georgia and Ala
bama consolidated SIS, 100 bid. l0l asked;
Eatonton Branch. IS bid 81 asked; Cen
trail of Georgia, Middle Georgia and At
lantic division S. SO bid, 95l2 asked.
Railroad Stocks-Augusta and Savannah,
1903 bid, 10 asked; Southwestern. lUJ
bid 1i0 asked; Atlanta and West Point
stock. 40 bid, asked, ex-dAv; Atlahta
and West Point per cent certificates,
lOi bid, 105 asked; Georgia common, 203h
bid 2041s asked; Georgia and Alabama
stock, 30 bid, 50 asked; Savannah Hotel
Company stock "a bid, 81 asked.
Gas Stocks and Bonds--Savannah Gas
Light stock, 26 bid, q asked; Edison Elec-
trio Illuminating Company per cent.
bonds 49, bid, 108 asked; Edison Electric
Illuminating Company stocks, lO5 bid, LOG
asked
Bank Stocks, Etc.-Citlzens Bank, 100
bid - asked: Chatham Bank, 10S bid,
100 asked. Germania Bank 100 bid. ask
ed National Bank of Savannah 1879 bid.
141 asked Merchants National Bank of Sa-
vannah, 104 bid, 104k asked; Oglethorpe
Savings and Trust Company. 10S bid, =
asked; Southern Bank of the state Of Geor-
gia 140 bid, 14l asked Savannah Bank and
Trust Company liz bid 1l3 asked; Chat
ham Real Estate and Improvement Com
pany. A. 81 bid, SIS asked; 3, So bid, 81 ask
ed Peoples Savings and Loan Company,
SO bid. 100 asked.
Factory Bonds-Augusta Factory, 100
bid 1O2 asked; Sibley Manufacturing Com
pany Ga, 1021a bid 103l5 asked; Eagle ana
Phenix Mills per cent. bonds, due 1923,
107 bid, asked
Factory Stocks.-Augusta Factory. Is
bid 80 asked; Graniteyille Factory 100
bid 165 asked; Langley Factory, 10S bid.
asked; Enterprise Factory. common, %
bid IS asked: j X. King Manufacturing
Company. l05l2 bid, l071a asked; Sibley
Manufacturing Company "a bid, 81 asked
Savannah Brewing Company, 104 bid, 1859
asked
New York. Oct 16.-Money on cali steady,
4lsM6 per cent; last loan, AZ per cent.
Prime mercantile paper, 5isn6 per cent.
Sterling exchange easier. with actual bust
ness in bankers bills at 81 S61aGD4 s634 for
demand, and $4.S21an4. S22s for sixty days.
posted rates, $iS31ad4 S7la. Commercial
bills. $4.Slh. Silver certificates, 5sAm59c
Bar silver. 5Sc. Mexican dollars, 47c Gov
eminent bonds irregular; state bonds in
active; railroad bonds irregular
STOCKS AND BONDS.