| Show WILD IN GRAIN PIT Pandemonium Broke Loose in Cereal Market BULLS CARRY EVERYTHING Wheat Easily Led the Activity and Set Such Rapid Pace That It Was a Difficult Task to Follow Market Opened With 0 Jump and Disregarded Disre-garded the Usual Governing Factors Fac-tors Millions Bushels Unloaded Countryman and Capitalist Made a Break Into tho Trade Chicago Dec Pandemonium broke loose In grains today and with an enthusiasm enthu-siasm that has seldom If J ever been equalled bulls carried everything before them It was a wild day In the pltn with wheat In the lend and ns on other recent bulges an Incessant stream of buying orders or-ders from the country brought thc advances ad-vances Wheat easily edthe activity and set such a rapid pnco that it was a difficult I task to follow As has been tho fashIon I I fash-Ion for several days past tho pit opened with a Jump and disregarded the usual governing factors Bullish enthusiasm everything Tho country was crying for hugo quantities and It was a case of buy buy buy Such a market was a great temptation to holders of long wheat and soon a flood of It poured In from several points Ono prominent broker threw a million and a half bushels on tho market and It had practically appreciable I effect Where several largo l sellers were making ma-king fat profits there wero as many others oth-ers taking In all offerings with avidity Commission houses had orders that demonstrated dem-onstrated that the public was bigger than the professionals Tho regular trade was of tho oplnon yesterday that tho bull campaign was at an end and that prices would slump In a panicky market Tips have been going out to sell everything But todays business busi-ness showed the effort was wasted Besides Be-sides tim countryman the capitalist was I getting Into the trade And added to these very strong bull argumnts came the news of strength at Liverpool and In tho English country markets Receipts especially Northwestern were falling off Tho weather was unsettled and all outside out-side markets were showing corresponding itrcngth December wheat opened W < pc to Iti Iftc higher at 7W < J77Vc1 cased off to G con c-on tho heavy profittaking but In tho last hour of business Railed upward and closed very strong 2BV4c higher at 78c May opened 1f lo to WZil higher at 80o to Slftc sagged to S0c but near the last moment of trade ran excitedly l up to 83c and thus establishing a new crop record I The close was vnry strong 2c higher at 82iJ82c Corn was inclined to be fully sympathetic sympa-thetic with wheat Country offerings havo Increased somewhat the last fow days on tho big advanccs and the Inclination today to-day was for further profittaking Whl hIt h-It Is thought would have had a markedly depressing effect had wheat not taken matters In hand Trade was smaller than In wheat but cables were higher and offerings offer-ings temporarily hold off because of tIll wheat demand December closed strong Ftc higher at G4c May opened Vic to Ic higher at 6Sftc to 6Sc sold down to GSVc and then literally Jumped to roc a new record price where Jt closed very strong i Iftc up hero was a gqod all around trade In oats and a strong feeling In sympathy with wheat and corn May sold to I7c closing strong lc up at 47c Provisions In ll dtowrtJ dullness early and prides slightly down on a weaker hog market Strength In grains caused a sharp rally and they closed strong January pork IGRH cUp lard 2c higher and ribs EC higher RANGE OF THE LEADING FUTURES Articles 6pen High Low Close I Wheat No 2 December 1jE 78 7Gr 7504 May T Sift 83 80 82 July SI 82 801 2 O j Corn No 2 December J i 653t 65 i GB 61 May 03 M Sty 69 j July 6SV 6314 liB 03 1 Oats No 2 Dcc mb J ICfI6 f IG f Iii 1G3 May 4G 57 II 6 1711 July 42 I2h 11 42ft Mess Pork January 1GG7 1687 ae60 1685 May 1700 1732 1700 1725 Lard January 970 OEO 965 080 May 980 987 972 907 Short Ribs January 857 S57 8la i SDI May SK 875 800 S72 CASH QUOTATIONS Cash quotations were as follows Flour strong i winter patents 36Q7 370 < straights S3206150 clears 2flOjT330 spring specials 420 patents 335370 straights J300W32j No3 spring wheat 7575V No 2 red S00S3V4c No 2 yellow yel-low corn G5flfG5yc No 2 oats 4So No 2 white 49Vd60Vc No 3 white 49f50c No 2 rye C3c fair to choice malting barley bar-ley 5SG2V No 1 flax seed 5144 No 1 I Northwestern 141 1 prime timothy seed G10Qfl50r mess pork per barrel i5SY5 1300 lard per 100 pounds I97749S0 short ribs sides loose 2S45S60 dr snltel1 sliouldcls boxed 7 IJf1YzQshort clear sides boxed SS5iStb whisk bll sis of high wines 5132 clover contract grade J900 RECEIPTS AND SHIPMENTS Articles Rots Ship Flour barrels i 29000 37000 Wheat bushels OI1OOO Corn bushels 1GIOOO 73000 Oats bushels 225000 255000 Rye bushels 11000 1000 Barley bushels 121000 22000 PRODUCE EXCHANGE On the produce exchange today the butter but-ter market was llrm creameries 1424Uc dairies 131 20c cheese steady Qft10ftc eggs llrm fresh 24c Coast Grain San Francisco Dec 7 Wheat Firm December JlOIVb May 10SV6 spot llrm 1031 Barley Steady May S014c cash 7Sic New York Sugar Market Now York Dee 7SuSnrRnw steady i fair refining c centrifugal 05test 35ic molasses sugar 3c refined qtendy crushed 540c powdered 000c granulated granu-lated 4 SOc Butter and Eggs New York Dec 7 Butter Hecelpto 4100 I packages Firm Stnto dairy 15I3Ae creamery IGflSS ½ c Juno crepmcry 18fi 22c factory 12MP15o Eggs Receipts 1103 packages Firm Western at mnrlc 2Gc |
