The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-04-04

tatlouS. COmmerclal demand, SlSo, Sixty
days, A.S21s ninety days, $4SOSs francs,
Paris and Havre. sixty days, 5229s; Swiss
sixty days, 5.267s; marks, sixty days,
"a 3-l6.
Domestic EXchangc-Steady; banks are
buying at par and selling as follows
Amounts up to SIS, 10 cents; $25 TO $50, Is
cents; $50 to 500. 20 cents; 5000 to $500, 4
per cent. premium; $500 to 1900 at Is per
cent. premium; 81 Geo and over 81 per ST.
00O
securities-The market is inactive and
dull.
Stocks and BondsrState Bonds-GeorgIa
Sls per cent. bonds of 1880, l1S bid 1l6 ask
ed; Georgia. Sla per cent, due 1915. ll2
bid, ll3 asked; Georgia AZ per cent bonds,
1915, 1924 bid 123 asked; Georgia 4 per
cent, due 1920. 100 bid. l2l asked; South
Carolina ilas. III bid. us asked.
city Bonds-Atlanta fib per cent. 1928.
LOG bid. - asked; Augusta 3iks. 1923, 10li4
bid, lO2 asked; Augusta as 1925. l07 bid,
Jos asked; Augusta per cent, III bid, l12
asked; Augusta per cent. III bid, ll3
asked; Columbus per cent, l07 bid. l0S
asked; Macon percent, ll6 bid, 100 asked;
Macon 4Es. 1926, l05 bid, 90 asked; SaVan-
nah per cent quarterly April coupons,
ia bid - asked; Savannah per cent.
quarterly May coupons. ia bid. ask
ed; Charleston Is l05la bid 106h asked.
western Railroad general mortgage bonds
per cent. interest coupons, 1876 bid, 1877
asked; Savannah. Florida and Western
first mortgage per cent gold bonds due
1894 ll3 bid, ll5 asked: Central Railroad
and Banking Company collateral 5s 90
bid, "a asked; Central of Georgia Railway
first mortgage IS, m-year gold bonds, 1l7Ib
q bid. llSl9 asked; Central of Georgia Rail-
way first consolidated mortgage 5s. 81
nf oil ya
first preferred incomes. Al bid, AZ asked;
Central of Georgia Railway second pre-
ferred incomes, 1879 bid Az asked: Cen
trail of Georgia Railway third preferred
incomes, 7 bid, 8 asked, Georgia Rail
road 6s, 1910, 1861 bid, III asked; Charlotte,
Columbia and Augusta first 5s. 10S bid, 100
asked; Charlotte. Columbia and Augusta
second mortgage Is, 122 bid 1876 asked:
Georgia Southern and Florida new 5s, 109ls
bid, 40 asked; South Georgia and Flor
ida second mortgage Is. 100 bid, 1Ol asked;
Ocean Steamship per cent bonds, 1896,
lO5 bid, 107 asked; city and Suburban
Railroad first mortgage per cent. bonds,
10l bid, 1902 asked Alabama Midland per
cent Endorsed, 1912 bid, 1904 asked Bruins
wick and Western As so bid, SO asked;
South Bound Railway 5s, 100 bid t0l ask
ed, ex-int. Georgia and Alabama first pre-
ferred 5s, 107& bid, 1851 asked; Georgia
and Alabama consolidated IS, 102 bid, 1O3
asked; Eatonton Branch 100 bid 101
asked, Central OF Georgia, Middle Georgia
and Atlantic dvlsionfss. 99la bid 10Ob ask
ed
Railroad stoeks-Augusta and savan-
nah. il0Ia bid, asked; Southwestern, 11OJb
bid, asked; Atlanta and West Point
stock, 1876 bid, asked Atlanta and
West Point per cent. certificates. 1903 bid.
1Oi asked; Georgia common, POS bid,
20 asked; Georgia and Alabama stock.
IS bid. IS asked.
Gas stocks-savaunah Gas Light stock,
q bid, asked
Bank Stocks Etc.-Citlzens Bank, 1l7lk
bid, 1lSls asked; Chatham Bank 1O4 bid,
105 asked Germanla Bank, ZIG bid, $50
asked; National Bank OF Savannah 1928
bid asked; Merchants National Bank
of Savannah, 30 bid, 90 asked; Oglethorpe
Savings and Trust Company, 107 bid, -
asked; Southern Bank of the State Of
Georgia, 1919 bid, 100 asked; Savannah
Bank and Trust Company, 40 bid, III ask
ed; Chatham Real Estate and Improve
ment Company, A, IS bid, 81 asked; b, ssh
bid 56h asked; Peoples Savings and Loan
Company, "a hid, 80 asked.
Factory Bonds-Augusta Factory. 101
bid 1902 asked; Sibley Manufacturing Com
pany IS 1902 bid, 1903 asked; Eagle and Phe-
nix Mills, per cent. bonds, due 1928, 1Olh
pany. 1903 bid. 1854 asked.
Factory Stoeks-Augusta Factory 81
bid, SO asked; Granbteviile Factory. 1850
bid, 155 asked; Langley Factory 81 bid,
1Ok asked; Enterprise Factory, common
80 bid, 90 asked; j. r. King Manufacturing
Company, 81 bid 10l asked; Sibley Manu-
featuring Company IS bid, 70 asked; Sa-
vanneh Brewing Company. loi bid, los
asked.
New York. April 3-Money on call was
firm at 50iS per cent; the last loan was
at 5 per cent; prime mercantile paper, ~
d4A per cent. Sterling exchange steady
with actual business in bankers bills, AZ
S4.s6hGI4S61k for demand and at A.S4A1
4.S4Ik for sixty days; posted rates, 1850
a. S7m4. S71a; commercial bills, $4S3n4.S312 |
Silver certificates, 60M601zc; bar silver
59&c; Mexican dollars, 4715c. Government
bonds Irregular state bonds inactive; rail- |
road bonds irregular.
New York, April 3--The usual accumu-
Iation over Sunday Of buy at the mar |
kef orders caused a buoyant opening in |
many stocks. The dealings we're on a tre- |
mendous scale, particularly In the morn |
ing and the total transactions were over |
a million and quarter shares. The most 1
sensational advances we're among the spe- |
cialtes many Of which maintained gains
to the close, although the railways eased
off. The legal rate, per cent, was the
prevailing figure for call money on good
collateral but the range for the day was
from TO g. with the closing at the lower
figure. Although the London market was
closed because of the Easter holidays, ar
btrage brokers put out some lines OF
stock in the expectation OF getting them
back cheaper In London tomorrow. The
market throughout was highly speculative
with rapid advances and declines Man
haitian on tremendous dealings maintain
ed an advance of points. The stock was
apparently controlled by pool operations
support being extended on declines and
much realizing appearing at the high |
figures.
Federal Steel on transactions second only |
10 those OF Manhattan sold early at the |
highest figures yet reached and then re- |
coded sharply, leaving a net loss OF ~. |
The preferred advanced about as much. |
American Steel was pushed up three points. |
Missouri Pacific on trading OF over 100000 |
shares advanced 3 points on buying by a |