The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-23
FINANCIAL.

Money-Marl1et steady.
Foreign Exchange-Market is steady.
The following are the Savannah quo
tations: Commercial, demand, 81 S6k six
ty days. &.s4; ninety days, $4.S3; francs,
Paris and Havre sixty days. 5.215s Swiss,
sixty days, 5.263s; marks, sixty days,
81 5-16.
Domestic xchange-Steady; banks are
buying at par and selling as follows:
Amounts up to $25. 10 cents; $25 to $50, Is
cents; $50 TO $780, 20 cents; $500 to $500, n
per cent. premium; $500 to 81 ,0o0 at "A
per cent. premium; $1,000 and over, 81 per
$1,000.
Securities-Business is fairly brisk.
Stocks and Bonds-State Bonds-Georgia
31a per cent. bonds of 1880, 112 bid 11S ask
ed; Georgia S1s per cent, due 1915. Ill
bid 1l2 asked Georgia AZ per cent. bonds,
1915, 1923 bid, 1874 asked Georgia per cent,
due 1920, 12O bid ~ asked; South Caro-
lima 4Hs, 1l6 bid, III asked.
City Bonds-Atlanta AZ per cent. 1923.
1O7 bid, asked Augusta S15s, 1923, 1914
bid 1902 asked; Augusta AZ, 1925, 106 bid,
10S asked; Augusta per cent, 10 bid, Ill
asked; Augusta per cent, III bid. 11S
asked; Columbus ) per cent 1O7 bid 108
asked; Macon per cent, III bid. 40 ask
ed; Macon AS, 1926 1906 bid, asked; Sa-
vannah 5 per cent quarterly July cou-
pons, 1884 bid, l1415 asked Savannah per
cent. quarterly August coupons, 1lS15 bid.
11412 asked; Charleston As, 106 bid, 107
asked.
Railroad Bonds-Savannah, Florida ana
Western Railroad general mortgage bonds.
per cent. interest coupons, 125 bid, l26
asked Savannah, Florida and Western
first mortgage per cent. gold bonds, due
1924, llS bid, ia asked; Central Railroad
and Banking Company collateral IS, 9S
bid, 100 asked Central of Georgia Railway
first mortgage S. 50-year gold bonds, III
bid lis asked; Central of Georgia Cons
per cent bonds, 95 bid, SO asked; Cen
trail of Georgia Railway first pre-
ferred incomes Al bid, AZ asked; Cen
trail of Georgia Railway second preferred
incomes, 10 bid, IA asked; Central OF
Georgia Railway third preferred in
comes, bid, z asked; Georgia Rail
road 6s. 1910, 1861 bid, III asked; Charlotte.
Columbia and Augusta first 5s 1903 bid, 40
asked Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta
second mortgage Is, 1913 bid, 1874 asked;
Georgia Southern and Florida new IS, 100
bid, 10 asked; South Georgia and Flor
ida second mortgage Is, 100 bid, 101 asked;
Ocean steamship per cent. bonds, 1876,
1O5 bid 107 asked; City and Suburban
Railroad first mortgage per cent. bonds,
1903 bid 104 asked; Alabama Midland per
cent. indorsed 80 bid, l01 asked; Bruns-
wick and Western As, 50 bid 50 asked;
South Bound Railway 5s 99la bid, 1O01s
asked; Georgia and Alabama first pre-
ferred IS, 1O6 bid lO7 asked Georgia and
Alabama consolidated IS. 101 bid, l02 ask
ed; Eatonton Branch, S916 bid. 100l5 asked
Central Of Georgia, Middle Georgia and
Atlantic division S., 80 bid, 100 asked.
Railroad stocks-Augusta and savan-
nah, 1lS bid, 1871 asked; Southwestern,
1874 bid ia asked; Atlanta and West Point
stock. 124 bid, 1926 asked; Atlanta and
West Point 6,per cent. certificates, 1924
bid, lOl asked; Georgia, common, 2Os bid,
2O7 asked; Georgia and Alabama stock.
"a bid IS asked; Savannah Hotel Co. stock
So bid, 90 asked.
Gas Stocks and Bonds-Savannah Gas
Light stock, 26 bid, n asked; Edison Islec-
trio Illuminating Company, per cent.
bonds, l05 bid 1864 asked.
Bank Stocks. Etc.-Citizens Bank, 12O