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Show 4p CROP OF 1915 MAKES KW RECORD Prices Go Up on News From Liverpool That Ad vance Is Yet to Come. CHICAGO; Jan. C:. Highest prices yet for the 1915 crop were reached here today to-day in wheat, largely because of assertions asser-tions from Liverpool that the maximum advance there wag still to conte. Under heavy prollt-taking sales, however, Chicago Chi-cago prices closed unsettled, off to e up. with May at Jl.s:1.34 and July at J 1.25 . Corn showed a net loss of ?'a,aC to '5 5ic, and oata of H'S'Uc to Jc provisions finished irregular, varying vary-ing from 15c decline to a rise of 30c. Sharp differences of opinion manifested themselves In the wheat trade at the start and there were consequent rapid price changes. The previous uncertainty and relative weakness here seemed to have been, due mainly to reports that vessel ves-sel rates from Argentina had been lowered low-ered and that Increased shipments were expected from Argentina and Australia. On the other hand, export buying, that in th end was estimated at 850,000 bush-e'lped bush-e'lped to create a bullish sentiment. Talk that the cold wave would dimin- h offerings In the northwest, as well perhaps do serious damage to winter rtr-at, was current, but the effect on ices was more than offset In the last -half hour by a rush of sales to realize 'profits before the week-end. The out-' out-' come was a small net loss in the July option, op-tion, whereas May wound up at a little advance. Expected large arrivals Monday had a depressing Influence on corn. About the only demand came from Industries. Oats sympathized with corn, but held up better. The sustaining factor was export business on a liberal scale. Higher prices on hogs gave for the most part only temporary - strength to provisions. Buying orders became exhausted ex-hausted and the close was weak. RANGE OF THE LEADING FUTURES. Open. High. Low. Close. Wheat Mav . ..$1.31 $1.334 $1.3114 $1.32 July . .. 1.25U 1.26 1.25 1.25 Corn Mav . .. .78 .78 .7S?i -TSVi Julv . .. .78 79 .TSVi .78 Oats-May Oats-May . .. .534 .53 .33 .53 Julv . .. .49 .49 .49 .49 Pork-Jan. Pork-Jan. 20. 35 May . ..20.60 20.90 20.50 20.55 Lard Mav . ..10.81 10.87 10.60 10.60 July .. ..11.00 11.00 10.77 10.77 Ribs ' May . .-.11.15 11.17 11.10 11.10 . CASH QUOTATIONS. tVheat No. 2 red, ?1.34; No. 3 red, nominal; No. '2 hard, $1.29; No. S hard, Corn No. 2 yellow, nominal; No. 4 yellow, yel-low, 7273Vc; No. 4 white, 72 74c. Oats No. 3 white, 61oiy3c; standard, 5214c. Rve, nominal. Barfev, 6680c. Timothv, $5. 505. 65. Clover, $10. 0010. SO. Pork. $19.3520.35. Lard, J10.1510.35. Ribs, $10.37. New York Money. YORK, Jan. 22. Mercantile pa-7 pa-7 per, 33 per cent. Sterling-: Sixty-day bills. $4.71!r de-k, de-k, mand, $4.76; cables, $4.76. ' Bar stiver, 57c. exlcan dollars, 44c. Ternment bonds, steady. Railroad bonds, steady. London Wool Auctions. LONDON, Jan. 22. The offerings at the wool auction sales today amounted to S2S0 bales. There was & strong demand and prices were firm. New Zealand slipes sold at 2s 4d and New South Wales and Queensland greasy merinos at Is lid. Lower grades showed a hardening harden-ing tendency. The home trade secured the bulk of the offerings. |