The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-01-07
NiRKEiS By I LtGRAPH.
FINANCIAL.

FINANCIAL.
New York. January Mooney on call
STEADY at 5 per cent; prime mercantile
pE per 5 to So per cent: sterling ex-
change eady with actual business In
bankers bills az 1855 TO 4si for de-
mand and at 4.s3z to S4 for sixty days
posted rates 4.S4h and 4S5h. CONNER
cial bills 4.s3 to 4s3h; bar silver 5ss;
Mexican dollars Ah; government bonds
steady; state bonds Inactive: railroad
bonds firmer.
STOCKS.
Baltimore and Ohio .............. 1861
Chesapeake and Ohio ass
Chicago. Rock Island and Pacific l55is
Colorado Southern .............. ISL
Delaware and Hudson .......-..... la
Illinois Central liOi9
Louisville and Nashville .......... 10Ih
Manhattan L 1864
METROPOLITAN Street Railway 800. 1854
Niexiosn Ma ional 154
New Jersey Central ..--.-...-.... 1872
Norfolk NoM n0i and dT Western ....:.... $50
Norfolk and Western pfd .-.-..., 81
Peading ..... 81
ST Paul 1861
southern Pacific CHS
Southern Railway ................ $685.
Southern Railway pfd .....-...-.-. 1885
Texas and Pacific ..............-.. AOA
Union Pacific 1024
Union Pacific pfd ................. S94
EXPRESS COMPANIES
Adams Express 200
American Express ex CIV .-.....-. 2l2
llEited states W
Wells Fargo ex div ......-....... 100
MISCELLANEOUS.
Amalgamated Copper .............. 70b
Brooklyn Rapid Transit .......... 66A
Continental Tobacco pfd ........ 1854
General Electric eX div ............ $50
Peoples Gas 1865
Pullman Palace Car .............. PIT
sugar .....-.-..- NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. liz
Tennessee Coal and Iron ......... 65k
United States S eel ..........-.... 45A
Tr.ited. states Steel pfd ........... 95A
Virginia Carolina Oh ............. 62A
Virginia Carolina Oh pfd ex div. 1914
Western Union ex div ............ 92A
y
United States r%efundirg 2s reg. 1854
United States ref. 2s Cou ex I'm !. . 1887
Ini ed states 3S reg ...-....--.-.. 10IA
Lifted states 3s cou .............. 10Sss
United States new As reg........ 1884,
United states new As cou........ 1891
Tinted states old As reg .......... 111%
United States old As cou ex in go. 111&
United States SIS reg .............. 1878
United states SIS cou .............. 107A
L. and n. uni. As ex in ........... 10lk
New Jersey Central gen SIS ...... 1S2
Southern Railway SIS ex in ...... 12115
COTTON
Liverpool, January 4-Cotton: Spot.
limited demand; prices , SGD lower:
American middling fair 4 13-16d: good
middling 4 Sled; midGi:ng 4 lied: low
m;6dling 4 11-S2d; good ordinary 4 q
32d; ordinary 8 31-32d. The sales of the
dry were 5000 bales, OF which 300 were
for speculation and export and included
4.3GC0 American. Receipts 5000 bales
including 16. 200 American.
Futures opened easier and closed
steady; American middling G o G jan
Jury 4 Paid sellers; January and Feb
rUaTy 4 23-64d buyers; February and
March 4 23-64d buyers March and April
4 23-64d buyers; April and May 4 90
Cad buyers; May and June 4 23-s4T4 "a.
Gid buyers: June and July 4 23-64@4 "a
Cad buyers: July and August 4 23-64M4
2i-e4d buyers: August and Septembe-
4 20-64d sellers.
PORT RECEIPTS.
Galveston quiet at TIC; net receipts
L. .564 bales.
Wilmington firm at TAc:, net receipts
65T bales.
Savannah quiet at Z 13-16c: net re-
c. ipts 4.783 bales.
New Orleans quiet at TIC: net re-
ceipts 1909 bales.
MoDue quiet al i%c, net receipts 40
bales.
Augusta steady at Sc. net receipts go
bales.
Charleston, quiet; net receipts 99s
bales.
Houston easier at TIC: net receipts
S737 bales.
NEW YORK MARKET.
New York-Cotton quiet at s 5-1sc:
net receipts 1904 bales: gross 4.T65
bales: stock 121. 1S5 bales.
Total today and consolidated-Net re
ceipts 1894 bales: exports to Great
Britain 47,533 bales: to France 9.3S5
bales: to continent 2I.102 bales: stock
9S7.474 bales.
Total since September met receipts
4905. 500 bales; exports to Great Britain
1.S49.001 bales: to France 449. 355 bales:
to-continent 1.351. 339 bales.
Futures closed firm. January 7.91.
Februar" 1856: March 500: April sef:
May sos: Jun S.11: July s.12: August
$40: September 7.72: October 7.e0
GRAIN AND PROVISIONS.
Chicago. ~anuar 4.-The leading fu-
lures range as follows:
Omen. High. Low. Clos
Wheat. No. -
fan -QA 70 1917 10