HIGHEST AND LOWEST PRICES OF UNITED STATES SECURITIES FOR TWENTY-TWO YEARS, 1860-1881. 1867 1134 1061⁄2 1154 106 110% 104% 109 1064 1868 118% 108% 1154 105% 11234 10434 1869 125 111 125 109 1870 1182 112% 1871 119% 1104 11436 105% 112% 107 115109 114% 100% 11034105% 1879 107% 102. NOTE. It is to be understood that the prices quoted were in currency. 125 118 134 116 11934 11334 118% 11334 119 113% 125 117% 112 119 120% 106% 112 118 112 HIGHEST AND LOWEST PRICES OF LEADING STOCKS AT NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE IN EACH YEAR. 1860-1882. Chicago and Northwestern. do preferred. preferred. Chicago and Rock Island........... Hannibal and St. Joseph ...... Michigan Central......... Ohio and Mississippi.......... "Philadelphia and Reading, Western Union Telegraph...... 1865. 1866. 1867. 1868. 1869. H. L. H. L. 132% 104 64% 41 79 55 H. L. H. L. H. L. 125 115 126 1104 122 85% 53% 25 111 47 85 61 70% 47% 112 63 962 75 65% 29% 97% 58% 71% 48 84% 52% 68 113% 81% 123% 90 105 85 118 85 225 185 162 124 130 110 132 110 98% 44 97% 55% 77% 52% 82% 35% 42 21 60 30 57 45 91 51 139 90 114 95 1102 75% 118% 90% 11734 100% 113 102 129 106% 136% 114 119 80 123% 86% 118% 95% 159% 110% 217% 1541⁄2 34% 19% 36% 24% 30 22 34% 28 39 2244 329 151 234 1594 173% 108% 130% 86 123% 42 118% 88 118% 96% 1092 91% 106% 86% 101 91 55 39 53% 34 67 422 88 49%2 50% 30% 39% 33 44% 33% 552 31 1870. 92 115 100 113% 98 1062 85 109% 98 Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul 75 52% 64% 484 64% 51 62% 21% 49% 31% do preferred 894 71% 84 714 82% 72% 79% 43% 74% 48 53 190 66% 85 31% 62% 34% 81% 94% 83% 116 53 74% 48 74 1184 101 117% 83% 109% 92%1⁄2 79% 1123% 99 Chicago and Rock Island.... Hannibal and St. Joseph... Michigan Central.... New York Central... Ohio and Mississippi.. Pacific Mail..... Philadelphia and Reading. Western Union Telegraph..... 92% 804 125 125% 102% 131 112% 100% 111% 102% 1122 91 106 28% 20% 34% 19 75 30% 69% 35% 51% 26 81% 984 86% 974 574 84% 67% 102 81 116 126 116 126 114 120 113 84% 101% 89 274 51% 40 111 65 95%1⁄2 68%2 106% 77% 105% 95) 49% 21 36 21 76% 25 51% 33% 102% 86 103 *Hudson River Railroad consolidated with New York Central in 1870. NOTE. The prices are in currency in all cases. HIGHEST AND LOWEST PRICES OF LEADING STOCKS AT NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE IN EACH YEAR, 1860-1882. do Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul 40% 28% 46% 18% 42% 11 Chicago and Northwestern. do preferred. 6234 46 67% 54% 27% 82% 34% 844 64 10234 744 32% 94% 49% 59% 108 76% 98% 150% 119 55% 69% 37% 79% 2428 5 Chicago and Rock Island... 82% 122 Col., Chicago and Indiana Central.. 94 3 61/4 124 16% 10 41% 134 106% 120% 64% 77 11044 125 61% 74% 12 23% 7% 15 4% 15% 225 10% 15% 7 33% 18% 33% 17 80% 51% 68% 43% 73% 45 40 362 41 26 824 53 65% 34% 74% 35% 14% 72 72 3 7% 33 92 3 39 75 107% 100 117296 1094 854 115 32% 14% 24% 5 11% 45% 30% 39% 16% 26% 824 36 742 574 73 21% 22 8 32 %20%2 5 10/2 34 2% 11% 6% 33% 74 12% 23% 12% 39% 10% 594 73 23% 84% 70% 80% 63% 84% 56 102 88% LOWEST AND HIGHEST PRICES OF COMMODITIES FOR FIFTY-SIX YEARS-1825-1880. (Compiled from the Reports of the Secretary of the Treasury for 1863 and 1873, the Commercial and Financial Chronicle, Reports of the N. Y. Chamber of Commerce, and the N. Y. Shipping List and Price Current.) NOTE. In the American Almanac and Treasury of Facts for 1878, pp. 278-9, appeared a table of prices compiled on the basis of the average price of each article in New York, the 1st of January of each year. Such a table, however useful, fails to give the data which are important in forming a judgment of the whole range of prices for each year. The following table, carefully compiled from the sources indicated, takes the prices of the twelve months in each year, selecting the highest and lowest quotation for each article. It is to be understood, where no mention of quality is made, that the price quoted is for the cheapest grade of each commodity. The prices are those of the New York market. 1847. 8 25 1848.7 75 1849. 8 75 1850. 8 00 1851. 7 50 1852. 8 25 1853 7 00 1854. 800 1855. 8 25 1856 8 00 1857. 9 50 1858. 900 1859. 5 00 1860. 4 50 1861. 5 00 1862 5 00 1863. 5 00 1864. 5 00 1865.9 00 1866. 11 00 1867. 12 00 1868. 11 00 1869 5 00 1870 5 00 1871. 8 00 1872. 4 00 1878 8 00 1874. 8 25 1875 8 00 1876. 8 50 1877 9.56 1878... 9 00 1879... 9 50 1880... 8 50 42 75 13 27 3 25 4 25 7 11 83 9 14 4 25 5 75 8 11 75 8 12 4 37 6 50 10 12 62 9 LOWEST AND HIGHEST PRICES OF COMMODITIES FOR These tables of prices have been compiled upon the basis of selecting the leading articles entering Into general consumption, whether as semi-luxuries or the necessaries of life. The prices quoted being those of the New York market, still wider variations would in some cases have been exhibited if other markets, near the centres of production of some leading staples, had been collated with these. The tables exhibit the violent fluctuations of the civil war period in the United States-1861-65-and the years of expansion immediately succeeding, in contrast with the general decline of the past few years, which has not yet reached, however, save in a few articles, the minimum prices which prevailed before the war. |