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Show WHEAT VESTS msiijiEiy Small Receipts and Hea7 Shipments Ship-ments From Primary Markets Mar-kets Boost Price. CHICAGO. Oct. 26. With receipts at primary markets less than half those of a"year ago and with shipments from the same points increased fifty per cent, wheat today advanced In a, manner that made short .sellers nervous. Tho close was firm at a net gain pf (5i2c to Sc. Latost figures for corn showed a rise of B'S'Je to lie over last night. In oats also there was an Improvement of ic to AfgiRc. Provisions formed an exception, finishing In general at a small decline. iThcro was heavy buying of December wheat by elevator ele-vator houses, and that mouth was relatively rela-tively stronger than May. On tho bulgo In prices the same concerns sold tho faraway far-away delivery. First aid to the bulls came from hints of smaller world's shipments ship-ments this year. Then It was noticed that export clearances wcro larger than usual. What gave the bear side a suro enough fright, however, turned out lo be tho announcement of the primary receipts. re-ceipts. SI. 000 bushels, against 1,051.000 bushels a year ago. Shipments from the total at the same cities reached 776.000 bushels. In contrast with 536.000 bushels a month ago. Covering on the part of shorts now began In earnest December fluctuations were between 958i0'952c and 93S931c, with the last sales 8c up lo 992c. ' Corn advanced chiefly because of wet weather predictions. December ranged from 456c to 47c, closing, strong at 46Jo, a net gain yrf 14c. Cash coi n was firm. No. 2 yellow finished at 49ig403c Cash grain houses were buyers of oafs, today, along with the shorts. December 'sold from 30X lo 31 e and In the end was 313(rj)31c, an advance or i!!c over last night. Pork closed 12c to 22o down, lard off 21c to 10c and ribs varying from a decline de-cline of 2$!5' lo an advance of 10c. RANGE OF THE LEADING FUTURES. "Wheat Open. High. Iow. Close. Dec 93 93 923 933 May 99? 90S 99 991 July 06! 90S 963 963 Corn , , Dec 6 47 458 46S May 494 49.3 483 193 July 504 50i 493 CO Oats Dec. 30; 314 301 :ili May 343 313 "43 343 July 33Z 34 333 31 Mess Pork, per barrel Jan 17.174 17.20 16.974 16.974 May 16.1-0 16.224 16.02 16.024 Lard, per 100 pounds Oct 13.10 13.10 12.90 13.00 Nov 11.57 11.65 11.524 31.55 Jan 10.274 10.321 10.174 10.171 Mav 9.72 9.77i 9.70 9.70 .Short Ribs, per 100 pounds-Jan. pounds-Jan. 9.05 9.10 9.00 9.00 May S.85 S.90 S.S2J, 9.00 CASH QUOTATIONS. . Cash quotations were as follows: Flour, steady. No. 2 rye. 761c; feed or mixing barley. SfiOSc; fair to choice malting, 67Q72c; flax seed. No. 1 southwestern. S2.54; No. 1 northwestern. S2.67: timothy seed, $7.509.10; clover. 58.50(7?) 14.00; mess pork, per harrcl. $17.75'18.00; lard, per 100 pounds, $13.00; short ribs, sides (loose). $13.00; short clear sides (boxed), 51O.O0fijilO.S7. -GRAIN STATISTICS. Total clearances of wheat and flour were equal to 463,000 bushels. Primary receipts wore 801.000 bushels, compared with 1.651.000 bushels the corresponding dav a vear ago. The world's visible sup-plv, sup-plv, as" shown by Bradstrcet's (corrected). (correct-ed). Increased 10S.OOO bushels. Estimated rccotpts for tomorrow: Wheat. SO cars; corn. 206 cars; oats, 114 cars; hogs, IS,-000 IS,-000 head. Evaporated Truits. NEW YORK, Oct. 26. Evaporated apples ap-ples steadv, with a fair Jobbing demand. On the s'pot. fancy Is ciuotcd at 10c. choice, SSOlc; prime, 73Sic; common to fair, 7c. Prunes quiet, steady on small offerings. offer-ings. Quotations 5 to 10 cents for California.; Cali-fornia.; up to 30-10s and 3 to 9 cents for Oregons for 60 -30s. Apricots quiet and steady. Choice. l!i (f?l23c; extra choice, 13iQ'lSlc; fancy, 134 Peaches fairly active and steady. Choice, 7ig'7c; extra choice. S8c; fancy. Sl.rfi'9c. Raisins dull and easy. Loose muscatels, musca-tels, 5i(?'61c: choice to fancy seeded. 6 CtfSc: seedless, 56c; London layers, $1.20 1.35. Coffee Quotations. NEW YORK. Oct. 26. Coffee futures closed steady at a net advance of 5g9 points. Sales. 31,250 bags, October and November. fS.45, December, SS.50: January. Jan-uary. S8.56; February. IS.G0; March. ?S.65; April. $8.60: May. $8.68; June. 58.69: July, $8.71: August, $8.72; September, ?S.74. Spot coffee steady; No. 7. 102c; Santos, San-tos, No. 4, 111c; mild quiet; Corvoda, inft"135c. |