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Show mm scored ii TUE WOT NURXET Plenty of Buyers in the Chicago Chi-cago Pit; Corn and Oats Also on Up Grade. CHICAGO, Feb. :7. It was more on account of a change of feeling than be-cauto be-cauto of a change of news that the wheat market today scored a substantial ad-vynro. ad-vynro. Intelligence that forty warships had forced a passage several miles up the Dardanelles did not reach hero until alter trading hours. Prices closed strong, -i'- to -lie above last night. Other net gains were: Corn, ?: to 2 2c; oals. He to 1K 16c and provisions, !e to ll'ic. Buyers ruled the wheat pit todav. Virtually all of the decline of the preceding preced-ing session was overcome. The violent setback had apparently accepted a drastic dras-tic clearing out of weak holdings and had given fresh stimulus to export and milling mill-ing demand. Sentiment favoring the buli side was also encouraged by the fact that Liverpool quotations failed to reflect fully yesterday's decline here. There tvere, besides, continuing reductions in the estimates esti-mates of the Argentine exportable surplus. sur-plus. Traders' opinions regarding the Dardanelles Darda-nelles situation leaned to the vldw that as far as the wheat market was concerned con-cerned immediate results need not be expected. ex-pected. It was in accord with this theory that nearly the highest prices of the day were In force at the wind-up. Shipping and export sales amounting to about 800, 0U0 bushels put the corn market mar-ket on the up graiV;. Most of the time shorts were in a scramble to cover. Rain and snow in the southwest formed a handicap on the bears. Seaboard demand remained urgent as to oats. Sales to foreigners however, were not reported. In provisions, the feature was a rally from early weakness. Grain strength finally gave the advantage to the bulls. RANGE OF THE LEADING FUTURES. Wheat Open. High. Low. Close. May 1.491 1.63J I.49J 1.53J J"ly 1.: 1.25 1.22 1.24.J Corn 'IS 741 71S 74 JulJ , 741 764 711 751 Oats May Bis 5?S B35 67i' Ju'y 52a S4J 52g 54J CASH QUOTATIONS. Wheat, No. 2 red, $1.40J(S:1.523; No 2 hard, $1.50ig.l.5:-!. c0-1;'!- No' yew, 6S69c; No. 4 white, cials, No. :j white, 651Q'56c; No. 4 white, Itye, nominal. Barley, 7liCnM Timothy, .l.iti::iC,.0. Clover, Si 0.50:6 14. uu. Pork, $17. Ou. I.ard, Si). S5. I'.ibs, $9.379.S7. |