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Show WHEAT IS UNSETTLED 01 CHICAGO BOARD Prices Break Sharply After the Government's Crop Figures Are Posted CHICAGO Dec 17 Wheat c4dQesiifok Bharnlv today after! tbe govMttdenra prop figures were posted. Tub. dwi Ta unsettled, but c to tSo netwWrV with December ax 81.16 and Hajff39 Corn nished 4o to tv doW,, and, oats off Ve to He Jn provlkloklB.&'s W-come W-come Varied from the same stfsftfeMaara NotwlUnUndlng that tthe 'eoft)rt tram BiBWrurton showed. SSnM re- the traaVappeaaed tibe chblmprtHsed -with the fact that another. fcDeKjrtefa was In prospect. As a resufl: Bears, pressed tbeaeUiBg with mncbnHm eonB deuce and there 'waS sFosai of unloading un-loading by speculative JhoMeet, BeitKMMtjF of tpV SrT One railway eraTae afl.ua m ntfFMfl tits peak Jn wneat. but temporarily the market responded to blxber quotations t XMerpooI and to fear that the switchmen s dispute with a nisxi ber of ntltroads here might out down re celpts at spme. critical lubctare. Txrirara the end of the daar the construction placed on the United States sxtvernnMnt crop report appeared to nullity afl otner' factors. Hea or profit taking sales puAefl down corn after the market et;the outset had touched the highest prices yet this season. Oats weakened In sgrmpatny wtth Catai Provisions underwent a matelal sac In all the active options. Lower prices on hogs Trero responsible. Paclrers fed the market carefully anj Sited up OH tiuyeas. RANGE) OP TUB LKADINa KOTtJRBS. Open. High. Low CJoae. Wheat " Deiember 1 U $1 18U tl 16 1 1U May 111 1 MS 1 Itii 1 17 Corn De e nber T1U ?0I4 76H May 78 H T 7jJ 7S Oats-December Oats-December 4-V4 4SU i3 a Mn 46 (4 454 46 45H Pork-January Pork-January Id 60 18 55 IS 40 . May 18 60 II 60 18 40 18 60 La d Jan nar 60 9 61 S 65 8 67 Mny 9 90 9 91 0 66 9 8T mb Janu rj 9 87 90 9 76 S 70 May 10 " 10 23 10 10 10 10 CASH QUOTATIONS Wheat No 3 red l 01 21, No 8 red tl I61 19U No hard L17H01.18 No 3 hard tl 11 1 18 Corn No 4 yellow nominal No. 4 yel I w new 68fe69Mo No 4 white new r769W(! Oats No 3 white 401442c standard 43Vt43Uc Kje, No i nominal No 8 91ttc Barlo 61lB68c 1 mothv tS 007 76 Clove 610 0019 00 Pork 116 6 lrd 0 40 K bs 69 6O10 6 po nts net lower December 6 65c Jan an. 6 67c February 6 67c March, 668c A.prtl 6 70ci'ilar 6 2c, June, 6 77c, July 6 8c August 66c September 6 900 Oc ober 6 9ic Spot qu et SJo 7s 7c 'Sajttos 4s, 9a. Cost and freight offers were about un changed with mrotatlons ranging from about 8 86c tti SD5c for Santos 4s, The official cables reported a decline of 75 rels.in tbe-flo inariet and -of 1 16d In the rate of iRk) exchange on London. Santos, ftnehanged. 1 |