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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1919
Page
18
Erratic movements in steel shares hint at a two sided market. Am Oscodoc dividend prospects weighed against rumors of an extra on Oskeag. Telephone strength appears in the local market.
Yesterday's trading showed renewed strength in American International and Gas ton Williams Wigmore as rails and copper rallied. Steel stocks fluctuated with late buying fading, prompting traders to seek a two sided market. Cleveland Automobile Company attracted wide interest while American Locomotive and Amoskeag rumors of dividends lifted sentiment. Copper rose to 16.14 cents, Copper Range cut its dividend to 50 cents quarterly.
A compact listing shows multiple securities and company shares including Ames Shovel & Tool preferred and common 100 units, South Carolina Street properties 50 units, Georgia Street Power & Rail preferred 50, Hendee Manufacturing preferred and common 25, Gillette Safety Razor 100, Continental Mills 100, Milburn Mills 100, Massachusetts Breweries 50, Ashland Cotton Mills 50, Richmond Radiator preferred 5M, Guanajuato Redden Mines 50, Hargraves Mills 100, Worcester Consumptive Steam Railways preferred 50, U S Envelope common and preferred 50, American Glue preferred and common.
For sale items include 50 Waltham Watch com 200 American Invest See's com 100 American Thread pfd 100 Lincoln Mfg Co 1M New Orleans Gt Northern 5s 1955 100 Massachusetts Cons Rys pfd 150 Puget Sound Trac Lt & Pow com 50 Springfield St Rys pfd 300 Industrial Finance Corp 30 Crowell & Thurlow S S 15 Massachusetts Ltd pfd 25 Chace Mills 50 Pocasset Manufacturing 100 New Hampshire Elec Rys pfd 10 Columbian Natl Life Ins Telephone Main 460
The Boston Post lauds the Boston Stock Exchange as the recognized market for New England securities. It praises full publicity for trades, aims to extend legitimate markets, and notes the Post’s role in linking buyers and sellers through broad circulation.
A syndicate led by DB. H. Rollins Sons Bonright Co Inc and Lee Higginson Co plans a public offering of 3 000 000 Great Western Power Company of California first and refunding mortgage six percent sinking fund gold bonds due March 1 1949. The firm will fund a new hydroelectric plant and high tension transmission line expanding capacity from 87 000 to 140 000 horsepower with 60 000 horsepower steam auxiliaries. Gross earnings near 5 million and net earnings more than twice the interest on total mortgage debt including the new bonds.
Current money market prices show brokers' customers loans at 5 14 percent, outside brokers' call loans at 5 4 percent, customers' commercial loans at 6 percent, trust customers' collateral loans at 6 percent, paper at 6 percent, and year money at 6 percent.
New York markets rallied on May 16 as rail issues led a broad advance with gains from 1 to over 8 points in Pacifics Grangers coalers and cotton carriers. Major rails like Texas & Pacific Missouri Pacific and Chicago Great Western climbed, while profits trimmed late-day gains as trading shifted to specialties. total sales reached 1,600,000 shares.
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