The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-03-10

O12 pei NSill-, ST. I1lOllIS or 10 D pei
cent. Money on call firm. al loans at
4 per cent, closed offered at 4 per cent.
Prime mercantile paper 5 to 81 per
cent. Sterling exchange easy with ac-
tuaI business in bankers bills at s4.SS.75
for demand and at s4.SS. 30 to Sass. 625
for sixty days. Posted rates s4.S4h'
and s4.S7h to SASS. Commercial bills
can dollars 1873. Government bonds
steady; railroad bonds irregular.
Atchison SOS
Baltimore and 90
Chesapeake and 45N
Delaware and Hudson............- 10
Illinois Central L0
Louisville and Nashville.......-... LIS
L 1404
METROPOLITAN Street Railway...... 1e5 =
Mexican Central .....-........... 26k
National r. r. of Mexico.......-- IN
New Jersey Central.............. liz
New York Central IA
Norfolk and Western..............
and Western pfd........- ~
PENNSYLVANIA 144as
Reading 57A
Seaboard 24k
Seaboard pfd Al
Pacific 561s
Railway ................ g
Southern Railway pfd............ a3k
Union Pacific W
EXPRESS COMPANIES.
Adams express ............-... Us
American 215
United States lao
Wells Fargo III
MISCELLANEOUS.
'Amalgamated Copper ............ .11s
Brooklyn Rapid TranSit.......... 65k
Continental Tobacco pfd.......-... 112
Pullman Palace ar............... go
Sugar 12o12
Tennessee Coal and Iron.......... So
United States Steel. 1864
United States Steel pfd............ S63s
Western Union Se12
Virginia Carolina Ch........-..... e.
Virginia Carolina Oh pfd......... 125
BONDS
United States ~refunding Us reg. 10iA
United States refunding Is cou... 1OlA
United States SIS reg.............. 107
United States SIS 1919
United States new AS reg......... 1%4k
United States new As cou......... 1851
United States old As reg.......... 1854
United States old As cou.......... 1O9A
United States SIS reg.............. 1929
United States SIS cou............. 1929
L. and N. uni. 100A
Southern Railway 5's...........-.. III
COTTON.
Liverpool, March Il p. m-Cotton:
Spot quiet. American middling 0.l6:
good middling 5.3S; middling 5.22; low
middling $40; good ordinary 4.9S; Or
binary 1896. The sales of the day were
1000 bales of which 500 were for specu-
lation and export and included 700
American. Receipts 5000 bales, in
Guiding 13, ZOO American.
Futures opened easy and closed quiet
and steady; American middling G.. o.
o. A--.1 = no
April and May sos; May and June 10;
Jun and July $40; July and August
5.O9@5.1O; August and September 5d@
SOL; September and October ATT; Oc-
tober and November 4.56; November
and December 4.51.
Galveston nominal at 1Oc; net receipts
1896 bales.
Norfolk quiet at sAc; net receipts
| LOSE bales.
Baltimore nominal at 1OAc; net re-
ceipts 4.O3O bales.
Boston quiet at 10c; net receipts 511
bales.
Wilmington firm at 9Ac; net receipts
SO bales.
Philadelphia quiet at 1920.
Savannah nominal at 9Ac: net re-
ceipts 1872 bales.
| New Orleans quiet at csc; net re-
| ceipts 6,363 bales.
Mobile quiet at 9ac: net receipts SOP
| bales.
Memphis quiet at sAc; net receipts
| 1,5O5 bales.
Augusta easy at sMc: net receipts
| sos bales.
Charleston steady at 9ac.
Cincinnati steady at 10hc; net re-
ceipts 312 bales.
Louisville firm at 10c.
st. Louis quiet at 9 13-16c; net receipts
100 bales.
Houston easy at 1Oc; net receipts 1852
bales.
New York, March 7.-Cotton dull at
9.95: net receipts 4S bales.
Total today at all seaports-Net re-
ceipts 20, 1890 bales; exports to Great
Britain 22,595 bales; to France 6.9O5
bales; to the continent 1875 bales;
stock $50. 933 bales.
Consolidated at all seaports-Net re-
ceipts 20,390 bales; exports to Great
Britain 22,595 bales; to rance s 900
bales; to the continent 1875 bales.
Total since September 1st at all sea-
pOrts-Net receipts 6,136, 400 bales; eX-
ports to Great Britain 1923, 113 bales;
to France 65,143 bales: to the continent
2.325, 465 bales.
Spot cotton dull at 5 points lower;
middling uplands 9.95: middling gulf
1920: sales none.
Futures opened steady and closed
very steady. March 9.65; April a.64;
Jun 9.45; July ga; August 9.15; Sep
tember $50; October S.S4: Deem
Der S.35.
GRAIN AND PROvISIONs.
Chicago, March THE leading fu-
lures ranged as follows:
Open. High. Low. Close.
Wheat No. =
May. -. 76k 7SA 74% AS
July. :. 72% 1925 71A IN
Sept. :. 7o% 70% 69A ssA
Corn No. 2
May. .. . AIS ATS Al 47h
July. . 45A Az 43A 43A