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Show WHEAT UNSETTLED IN CHICAGO MARKET Prices Higher Most of the Day; Setback Comes at the Close. CHICAGO. Sept. 30. Notwithstanding that adverse crop reports from Argentina today made what prices during most of the session decidedly higher, month-end closing out of contracts resulted tu a sharp sothavk Just before the finish. J. a tent (Dotations were unset t led at V&C to 2r not decline, with Dcrrmlier at $1.M and May at $1.53. Corn closer) un-cha un-cha nged to i (a gc down, oh In U off to advnnr-e, and provisions varying from 47 . o loss to a rlsn of 4-Vfec. Argentine advices regarding drought were more bullish than ever. A material reduction of the Argentine exportable surplus sur-plus appeared ineviiahle. The fact that the Liverpool market liar) failed lo Tollow yesterday's late decline tended further to Jiandlrap the bears. Regardless of advancing ad-vancing prices, shorts lost no time in seeking to cover sales. Belated holders. Instead of the shorts, were the sufferers in the final adjournment adjourn-ment of September wheat contracts. Liquidation Liqui-dation caused a sudden hreak of fiVjjC in the September option, the price dropping half a cent at a time, but with an immediate im-mediate rally of ic prior tolthe last tfong. Corn reflected the action of wheat. Changes In price, though, were comparatively compara-tively slight. Oats trading consisted almost al-most entirely of transfers from near-by deliveries. Provisions were notably Irregular. 1-ower quotations on hoys depressed the distant months, hut shorts hid up September Septem-ber and October options, especially In pork and ribs. RANGE OP THE) LEADING FUTURES. Open. High. Low.' Closo. WIlMf rioembcr tlJ,i $1.55'i $1.53 $I.M May l.NH 1.55', 1.S31 1.63 Corn December 73 .73U .Vs W7 764 Sd .76Vi .76 01 December it .4Si May 61 .51i .51 Porlt December ...tt.FO 28. fin 22.80 22.95 January 22.S7 22.35 22.45 22.60 Lard-December Lard-December U.R7 13.17 13.60 13.50 January IS .US 13.27 la. 15 13.16 Ribs October 13.85 13.90 13 S2 IS. 85 January 12.35 12. S7 12.20 12.22 CASH QUOTATIONS. Wheat, No. 2 red. nominal; No. 3 red. 5151',, 1.55; No. 2. hard. $1.674: No. 3 hard, J1.57fi1.64. Corn, No. 3 yellow, OOrffWHc; No. i yellow Si S4c; No. white, 8-KiislUo. Oata, No. 3 white, 46 'ff 17 lie; standard, '474c. Five, No. 2. J1.24l.;nj. Ilfirley. 7Rrii'J1.15, Timothy, 3. ."iDifo. 00. Clover. $U. on U. 00. Pork, nominal. Lard. $14.45. Itlbe, ljomlnnt. |