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Show BIG BUYING ORDERS SEND WHEAT HIGHER Wall Street Houses Said to Be Loading Up in Chicago Chi-cago Grain Market. CHICAGO, Oct. 6. Big buying orders, largely from Wall street houses, forced an unusually sharp advance today in the wheat market here. The consequence was an excited close at virtually the top prices reached, 6$c net higher, with December De-cember at $1-06 and May at $1.07. Corn gained lc to 2c and oats lc to lc to lc. In provisions the outcome varied from 5c decline to a rise of Although wheat showed strength right from the outset, the jumps In price were only moderate until the last half of the day. Then the market suddenlv went wild. Purchasing by strong interests had taken all of the surplus supply out of the speculative- pit, and had set the shorts bidding against one another in a manner that soon became frantic. It was in vain tliat attempts were put forth to represent repre-sent that the advance would check the export demand. The answers appeared sufficient that ocean charters had been made yesterday for as much as 1,400,000 bushels of grain at the highest vessel rates on record. So great a volume of foreign demand, with news of rains once more putting a stop to threshing in the Dakotas and Minnesota, left the bears almost helpless. Heavy profit-taking of the bulge in the wheat market resulted in one lively setback set-back to prices, but the downturn was not of a lasting sort. A fresh wave of buying, especially in the final cpuarter of an hour, brought about greater advances than before. Some, at least, of the great nervousness prevailing at the finish was due to reports that owing to excessive moisture the spring crop was beginning to sprout in the shock and might develop de-velop a seriously lowered condition paralleling paral-leling the widespread harm done in the winter wheat belt. Frost damage throughout Illinois and Towa gave independent strength to corn. The wheat bulge, though, counted also decidedly against the bears. Trade in oats broadened out in consequence of the enlarged demand for other cereals. About the only offerings came from standing orders in commission houses. Provisions continued their sweeping upturn. There were no signs of a halt in the active export demand. RANGE OF THE LEADTNG FUTURES. yVheat Open. High. Low. Close. Dec .....5 .J9;6 $1.06 5 .99 $1.06 May l.OOVi 1,08 1.00 1.07 Corn-Dec Corn-Dec MS .S6i .i -56 May 5614 -585i -56Vi .584 OatB Dec 36 U .37 May .29Vi .384 .C9 CASH QUOTATIONS. Wheat, No. 2 red, nominal; No. " rod. $1;08 1.11: No. 2 hard, nominal; No. 3 hard, JJ.0Sffpl.il. Corn, No. 2 yellow, (H)6S4o. Oal, No. 3. white, Co'i;itc; standard, 37'3 88Kc. Rye. No, 2. nominal; No. 3, 90c. Barloy. &3r)63c. Timothy, 5.007.75. Clover. S12.0019.00. Pork. SH.10. Lard, 39.17. Rib., S!M2(g9.75. |