Show CORNER IN HAS BEEN break in market follows Desert iq of leader and many fortuni For tuat tuti have been wiped out i mid mad scene in grain pit when I 1 cover covery I 1 Is made of patten unix pecked vacation red letter day in history lil atory of chicago board of trade chicago james jamea A pat patten en o it 0 wheat king has apparently a the fight and has sought the stalk seel blon slon of a ranch in colorado twenty averit ave miles from a railroad declining to 0 be interviewed on the pro babi babil outcome of the remarkable corner at lay and july jul wheat simply declaris arim that hat it 1 is time I 1 have pipat of f money have earned a rest reat sua bow ow I 1 am going to take it ahen seen at trinidad colo eg thursday he hurs day prior to ha departure fat to the ranch of AV 11 II bartlett Dar Uett hia his pan fier patten said sald there Is a short faga of wheat and that accounts 10 loi the high price I 1 have bava not maultis tho the market simply bough bought wheat and contracts acta to deliver wheal just like steel ra likera akers buy raw ira inn why not I 1 bought wheat yei in I 1 1 could get and when it was cheap VI at eold when tho the price went up all chicago but pattens disappearance troa from chicago has been taken by many manyu ti mean that he realizes that he has mel met defeat I 1 thirty million bushels at 0 wheat 9 low estimate were dumped into thi the pit on the chicago board of traci within the space of a lew few short hour hours thursday I 1 from the tap of the opening goci gorg until the bell clanged the closing of the he most sensational days trat traiani illiC experienced on the board th the heirs bears were in full control of the he ma ket the price of wheat carried along ta I 1 i a maelstrom broke with ith almost ii credible rapidity fortunes were wept a ay in tn minutes the pit was a howling fighting mass of men who looked and acte acted as if they suddenly had been ben bereft of all reason sell sell I 1 selli this was as the or oer er of the day and for every bellor sell amongst that mob of screaming tea it ing pushing money mad dpn thel there was ivas a buyer thursday april arii 22 1909 will go down in the history of at the cuica chicag board of trade as a red letter da dif wheat tor for the may stay delivery broke fro from tl 24 at the opening of the daal da trading to 1120 at the close wheat for the july delivery brol broks from rom at the opening to ak cheat for the september deleve dell verl broke from 1 05 at the opening 0 11 oily the losses that were arti dur ing ug these hours of wildly P cl trading arp known only tn to ik i riet who ho were on the wrong side 0 alio t neat wheat market dut but they abou amou amounted millions of dollars it seemed ai though the psychological moment had b coma for action for a break in the t prices a 0 chett the manipulations pt the ting king of the what pit james jana A patten had put the prices of SI alay and july wheat to a higher level ahm th they her had been in many years at the close of the nerve racking say george W patten the office omee ma man iger of the firm and in the absent absen of if his brother jim the field get ge fral in command figured up the alto that were handed to him by a wear bruised corps of traders and calm cald announced announced that his inn firm had bouti boush more wheat than it had sold aurli the turmoil this statement its I 1 not believed bi 1 ina many ny the charge being made that th patten has taken hip hi yonis others oth declared the wheat king Is a 1 ruland |