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Show ;hw SHOW li IE MTERIEAT BELT Market Closes Unsettled and Lower; Corn Prices Higher and Provisions Up. CHICAGO, Feb. 3. Wheat sagged today' to-day' as a result of heavy snow dispelling dispell-ing cold weather danger In the winter crop belt. Tho market closed unsettled at a decline of lc to 5c not. Corn finished fin-ished a'S'lo to lc up; oats, unchanged to a sixteenth higher, and provisions dearer by 213Gc to 121c. Ohio, as well aa the southwest, had a share In tho snowfall that discouraged tho wheat bulls. Toledo sent word that the crop outlook was fine, tho best so far this season. Greatly Increased offerings of-ferings of cash wheat to arrive at Kansas Kan-sas City and hero reflected similar conditions con-ditions on a wide scale. Other depressing depress-ing factors were huge world shipments and tho smallncss of the visible supply decrease. Assertions that thirty-five boat loads had been taken by exporters at the seaboard sea-board brought about a slight upturn In the wheat market during: tho last fifteen fif-teen minutes. In this connection a good deal of notice was taken of tho small Impression that tho declines here have made on values across tho Atlantic Corn attracted remarkable support on account of statements that, owing to drought, tho Argontlno export surplus would be less than half the previous year's total. It was also current gossip gos-sip that farmers were selling but little at country stations west. On tho other hand, buslnoss in oats proved slim and fluctuations not moro than a shade. Provisions rallied owing to purchase of 3000 tierces of lard 'by brokers thought to be acting for packers. The world-slock world-slock of lard showed only a small Increase In-crease compared with a liberal gain a year ago. RANGE OF THE LEADING FUTURES. Wheat Open. High. Low. Closo. May 932 93 925 931 J"ly 91 911 90? 91 Sept S9S S95 SOU 893 Oats May 521 522 521 5211 I'Hi; 531 53 53 538 Sept 54 541 53 54 1 Corn-My Corn-My 34 34 e 333 311 J"'' 34 34t 31 341 Sept 34 34 331 34 Cash corn. No. 3, 4734S3c: No. 3 white. 501(7j)502c: No. 3 yellow. 4733!50c; No. 4. 46iB48c; No. 4 white. 48(ft492c: No. 4 yellow. 45947io. Rye 641fi)05e. Barley 19ft70co. Timothy $30)4.15. Clover $12(a)20. Pork ?18.7519. Lard $10,17122. Ribs 59.G2110.37. Now York Produce. NEW YORK, Fob. 3. Flour, quiet but steady; receipts, 27,000 barrels; shipments, ship-ments, 30,000 barrels. Whoat Spot, easy; No. 2 red, $1,091 elevator and $1.11 f. 0. b. afloat, nominal; nom-inal; No. 1 northern Dululh, $1,001 f. o. b. afloat. Futures are easier owing to Improved "weather In the west, largo world's exports and Indifferent cables, closing 3ilc net lower. Export salos were 35 loads, mostly old business. May. 9917j)90 7-lGo, closed at 99Bc; July closed at 971c; September closed at 951c. Bonded Bond-ed wheat: May closed at 9G2c; July, 90go. P.ecelptH. 125,000 bushels; shipment?, 22G.00O bushels. Hops, steady. Hides, firm. Petroleum, steady. Wool, steady. Raw sugar, steady; Muscovado. .89 test, 2.98c; centrifugal. .96 test, 3.4Sc; molasBcs sugar, .89 test, 2.70c; refined, steady. |