The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-01-31
MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH.


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New York. January 29.-Money on
call easy at 2 TO 2h per cent: closed
tad and asked "a 10 2ha per cent: prime
mercantile paper 4 to > Der cent: ster-
ling exchange steady with actual bust
ness in bankers bills at 4-S6s to 4-S7
for demand and at 4.s4A for sixty days.
Posted rates ASS and ASS: commercial
Mexican dollars 4iA: government bonds
frmer: state bonds inactive: railroad
sends irregular.
Atchison ........... 15S
Baltimore and Ohio .............. l02A
Chesapeake and Ohio ............ ASS
Chicago. Rock Island and Pacific. 15lh
Colorado Southern 14k
Delaware and Hudson ..........-. 1IlA
illinois Central 1884
Louisville and Nashville .......... 1881
Manhattan l. 134k
Metropolitan street Railway ..-.. 1o
Mexican Central 2SA
Mexican National ................ 15h
New Jersey Central .-.........-.. 192
New York Central .........:.. 1918
Norfolk and Western ............ 55A
Norfolk and Western rfd ......... STA
Reading .......... .............. 5oHs
southern Pacihc ............... 5s%
Southern Railway ...............- 50
Southern Railway pfd ............ 94k
Texas and Pacific ................ 50
Union Pacific 1905
Union Pacific pfd ................ 81
MISCELLANEOUS.
Amalgamated Copper ............. Hh
Brooklyn Rapid Transit .........- 60
Continental a ptd .-....... f1IH
General Electric ZliL2
PEOPLES Gas 1O1B
sugar 12sh
Tennessee Coal and hon .......... 62h
United States steel ............... 42Hs
western Union sO2
Virginia Carolina Oh .-.........-. 90
Virginia Carolina CHI pfd ......... 1909
RONDs.
United states refunding rs reg. lOS1s
United States refunding rs cou.. 10SSs
United States 3's reg ............. 1OSA
United States as cou ............. 1881
Omitted States new As reg ........ 139
United states new As cou ....... lao
United States old As reg .......... HE
limited States old As cou ........ 111k
United states SIS reg ............. LOG
limited states SIS cou .............. 107h
L.. and N. uni. As .-.............. 1O1
New Jersey Central gen SIS ....... 1861
SOutneTn halfway D = tx III -. 2
COTTON.
Liverpool, January 2s.-Cotton: Spot.
moderate demand: prices 1-16d higher;
American middling fair 4 29-32d; good
nliddling 4 21-32d; middling 4 1920;
low middling 4 7-16d; good ordinary
4 5-16d; ordinary 4 lid. The sales of
the day were 5000 bales. of which 500
were for speculation and export and
included 6.730 American. Receipts U.s.
n.a I,1aC inolrrIin0 % Ann american
Futures opened firmcr and closed
quiet, but steady: American middling
G o c January 4 29-64G4 30-64d sellers;
anuar and February 4 2S-64@4 29-64d
buvers: February and March 27-64Q4
2S-64d buyers: March and April 4 IL
G4@4 2S-64d buyers; April and May 4 q
64@4 2S-64d buyers: Nav and June 4 20
TAD buyers; June and July 4 2S-64d buy
CTS: July and August 4 2S-64d buyers;
August and September 4 24-64d buyers:
September and October 4 17-64d buyers.
PORT RECEIPTS.
Galveston firm at TIC: net receipts
Alb bales.
Norfolk steady at 7 15-16c; net re-
ceipts 837 bales.
Baltimore nominal at SIC.
Boston quiet at s 5-16c: net receipts
9o2 bales.
Wilmington firm at TIC: net receipts
SIS bales.
Philadelphia quiet at SIC; net re-
ceipts so bales.
Savannah firm at 7 1s-1sc: net re-
ceIpts 1887 bales.
New Orleans easy al TIC: net re-
celpts s.729 bales
Mobile quiet at 7 13-1sc: net receipts
25 bales.
Memphis quiet at TIC: net receipts
IA bales.
Augusta steady at sMc: net receipts
GA bales.
Charleston steady at I 13-1sc: net re-
Ceipts TAI bales.
Cincinnati quiet at SC: net receipts
i,499 bales.
Louisville firm at 7 15-1sc.
St. Louis quiet at 7hc: net receipts
665 bales.
Houston steady at I 1s-1sc: net re-
~ NEW YORK MARKET.
New ~York-Cotton quiet at SIC; net
receipts 321 bales: gross 6.0S6 bales;
sales 200 bales: stock 1i7.6s bales.
Total today-Net receipts 1854 bales:
exports to Great Britain 1850 bales; to
continent 36.s61 bales: stock s17,752
bales.
Consolidated - Net receipts 11S.726
baies; exports to Great Britain ss.1S7
tales; to France 13. 907 bales: to CONT
lent "a. 1853 bales.
Total since September Met receipts
o.is4.SSo oales' exports 10 Great britaln
z.22C, 40S bales; to France 542. lis bales:
10 continent 1.717.s 25 bales.
Futures closed quiet. January 7.ss:
February 500: March sos; April a11;
Nay s.12: June s.13: July Sis: August
S.0o: September L67: October 7.e5.
Spot cotton closed quiet. Middling
uplands SIC; middling gulf SIC; sales
20 bales.
GRAIN AND PROVISIONS.
Chicago. January 2s.-The leading fu-
lures ranged - follows:
Open High. Low. Close.
Wheat. No. p