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Show GOOD DAY FOR BULLS IN WHEAT MARKET Advance in Liverpool and the Showery "Weather in Kansas and Nebraska Stimulate. CHICAGO, July 1. Tho wheat markot mar-kot was strong almost ail day, owing to an excellent demand for September delivery. There was scattored selling of July by local longs at tho start, and this caused slight recessions In prices, but tho markot 6oon recovered from tho setback and continued strong tho remainder re-mainder of tho session. An advance at Liverpool and showery weather in Kansas Kan-sas and Nebraska, were the chief bull ish Influence. Delivery on July contracts, con-tracts, which totalled about 1,000,000 bushels, wero lesa than had been generally gener-ally anticipated, and this helped to strengthen tho markot. Tho closo was strong. September openod 5c hlghor at S6Ec, sold olt to 85lS6c and then advanced ad-vanced to 875c and closed at 87ic. Tho corn market was Inclined to bo weak early In tho day because of favorable favor-able woathor for the new crop, but toward tho end of tho first hour the sentiment sen-timent became bullish and throughout the remainder of the day tho market was firm. The closo was firm. Septembor opened 1Rc lower to a shade higher at 70lfj703c advanced to 71ic and closed at 702c. Oats wero Btrong all day, owing to active ac-tive demand by short for the July delivery. de-livery. September opened ic higher at 393c, advanced to 40c and closed at 39Bc. Provisions were easy bocauso of a do-cllno do-cllno in tho price of live hogs. At tho close September pork was down 2Jc; lard waa off 575c, and ribB were 2o lower. RANGE OF LEADING FUTURES. Articles Open High Low Clooo July 842 S64 S15 853 Sept 69 875 SO 876 Dec. (old) . 881 891 SSI 89 Dec. (new) . SSI S9i 878 8S2 Corn July 691 70 68J G92 Sept 705 705 701 702 Dec 60g 61 59! 60S Ma' 601 61 50i 606 Oats July (old) . 461 -171 46 471 July (new) . 45 46j 45 46 Sept 395 40 P.ng 39B Dec 40? 40J 40R 402 May 425 43 421 421 Mes3 Pork, per barrel July 14.55 14.621 14.55 14,60 Sept. 14.85 14.925 14.825 14.875 Oct. 1 1.925 11.975 14.025 14.925 I ard, per 100 pounds July 9,15 9.15 0.125 9.15 Sept. 9.25 9.30 9.25 9.27 Oct. .. .... 9.30 9.35 9.30 9.35 Short Ribs, per 100 pounds July S.225 S.275 S.225 S.275 Sept S.45 8.475 8.425 S.40 Oct S.55 S.65 S.50 8.50 CASH QUOTATIONS. Cash quotations wero aa follows Flour, firm; No. 3 spring wheat, 95cii51.05: No. 2 red. 875905c: No. 2 com, 70571c; No. 2 yellow, 73735c; No. 2 oatfi. 50c: No. 2 white, 53c; No. 3 whlto, 50(??G25c: barley, fair to choice malting, 57fi)62c: llax seed, No. .1 Northwestern, 31.212: prime timothy seed, 54: short ribs, sides (loose), S8.00((fiS.375; mess pork, per barrel, bar-rel, $H.62Ja14.75; lard, per 100 lbs., $9.15; short clear sides (boxed), ?8.50 8.75; whiskey, basis of high wines, $1.35. RECEIPTS AND SHIPMENTS. Receipts. Shlpm'ts. Flour, barrels 36,200 21,200 Wheat, bushels 11,000 97.900 , Com, bushels 413.900 420,900 Oats, bushels ., 249,000 279,100 Rye, bushels 1,000 1,000 Barley, bushels ....... 32,900 10,000 PRODUCE EXCHANGE. On the produco exchange today tho butter market waB easy; creameries, 19 322c; dairies, 1721c. Eggs, firm at mark, cases Included, lltfj145c; firsts, 155c; prime firsts, 171c. Cheese, ll(3115c. Somo Wheat Statistics. PORTLAND, July 1. Figures compilod by the Merchants' exchange of this city show that during the cereal year ondlng Juno 30, there wero exported and shipped to California from Portland and Pugct Sound combined a total of 40,757,756 bushels bush-els of wheat. This ls almost exactly 25 per cent more than the bumper year of 1905-06. when 37,672,477 bushels were shipped away from tho Pacific Northwest, nnd about 12,000,000 bushels more than lust year, when 34,829.129 bushels wore shipped. Of tho grand total, 25,911.776 bushels wero shipped from Puget Sound. This conslstod of 16,079,424 bushels of wheat In the grain, and 2,184,967 barrels of flour. The remaining 20,845, 680 bushels, bush-els, which were shipped from Portland, conslstod of 15.956.052 bushels of wheat in the grain and 1.086.5S4 barrels of (lour. In reducing flour to wheat measure, tho customary multlplo of 45 la UHod. Now York Flour and Grain. NEW YORK. July 1. Flour Receipts, 13,000; exports. 10,000. Firmer and fairly active. Wheat Rocolpts, 32,000; exports, 95,700. Spot, firm; No. 3 red, 9798c elevator ele-vator and 981c f. o. b. afloat; No. 1 northern, north-ern, Dululh, $1,161 f. o. b. afloat; No. 2 hard, winter, 51.001 f. o. b. afloat. Options As the result of a bullish private pri-vate crop estimate, wheat was more active ac-tive and decidedly hlghor today, commission commis-sion houses nnd shorts being largo buyers. Influenced also by strong cables and very light western receipts. Final prices showed He to ljc net rise. July, 9 97 5-16c; closed, 97c. September, 931ifJ 04 l-16c; closed. 94c December, 051 9GSc; closed, 9GJc. Now York Sugar. NEW YORK, July 1. Sugar Firm: fair refining, $3.83(53.S6; centrifugal .96 test, $4.3401.36: molasses sugar. S3.58(fj) 3.61: refined, steady: crushed, $0.10; powdered. pow-dered. 35.50; granulated, $5.40. Coffee No. 4 Rio, 61c; No. 4 Santos, SJc. St. Louis Wool. ST LOUIS. July 1. Wool Firm; medium me-dium grades oombing and clothing, 185'gi 20c; light fine, 16101c; heavy fine, 11 12c, tub washed, 20(527c. |