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Show WHEAT MARKET 15 ONJHE UPGRADE Huge Export Sales Lift " Market Out of Rut, Corn Also Higher CHIC VGO Dec 31 'Huge export sa e s 7 helped lift the wheat n arket today to a nw high price re ord for tl Is season s arop, Closlig quota tlo s were b oja t lo to Sc et ad ance w h Decern bar at $1 24 and May at $1 24!,1 6 Cora gained o to 7ic a d oa s ttOtic. Provisions f Uhed w h oases o 10c to 6"c LateBt fgures on export wheat busl ness today put the total at 3 000 000 bush 1 s against 1 760 000 b shels on the before In consequence notwi h standing that ho ders took prof t at times oa a broad sea e the market under ent no permanent reaction 1 favor of t e bears and wound up at vtrtua y the top moat point of the session The Brl Ish government was credited with being the heaviest purohaser todas the same as on yesterday Evert aside from this fact the Sews was strong bull sh especla y Jverpool ad Ices of decreas ng stocks and of fresh dtffieu ties in getting shtpn ents tJrom Argent na and Austra a V fur tJBier upturn In Argent ne vessel rates was jeported Assertions were current that the tail road congestion In the east appeared 1 ke tf to be remedied soon and that the re suit would be to fact tate to a large de ree the export moven ent of wheat Lit Jl or no attention was paid to a big in U?a,59 ,or he worlds salable supp y r wtak interest be ng centered chiefly on Wheat that could be gl en q ick trans porta tloh to Europe and not be subject to perhaps indefinite delas Corn rallied toward the last with wheat. During the greater part of the aa$r however the market was depressed bj talk of larger rece pts transactions in oats were genera y be i veen pit traders Quotat ons seen ed to depend on the action o corn Provisions gave way owing to o t nued big arri als of hogs The cash trade was said to be fair but not of suff c ent ol me to be alone a prop to the market Some of the sel ng eemed to be fo flickers J R4.NGE OF THE LEADING FLTLREP Open H gh Low Close Wheat De 1 '2 14 l '1 1 4 May 1 U 1 1 4 4 Corn Dec 69 OH b9 0 Ma 3 4 4 Oats-Dec Oats-Dec 41 , 4 410, 42 M?v 4 4 5s 44 -4 Pork Jan IS 6 1! 55 18 8' 18 3' May IS 6o IS 0 IS 50 18 50 Lard Jan 3 6 9 97 9 60 9 60 -da 9 9 9 97 9 90 9 90 R bs ' Jan 98 1 S 7 9 75 "May 10 1 10 1 10 15 CASH QUOTATIONS TV hea No red $1 24?, No 3 red $1 161 191, No hard $1 1 No 3 hard Jl 151 17 om No je ow nomi lal No 4 ye ow 66(967340 No 4 w e 666 Oa s No 3,whte 404 c standard 4343c Rje No 2 nomina No 4 Sb91c Bar ey 61(?69c T n o hj So 007 7o C over $10 0019 00 Po k $16 05 Lard $9 5 R bs $9 7o10 75 |