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Show COII PRICES UPHELD BY SCMEIPTS Weather Conditions Improving Im-proving and Movement of Crop Expected. CIIICSGO. -Ian. 24.-Skeptieism regarding regard-ing predictions of an increased movement move-ment of the crop tended stubbornly to-dav to-dav to uphold the corn market. Prices close,! unseiiled. r.t M.26 for March and .25Zl.;5i lor May. with the hnal range vaning from c decline to ?sc advance, compared with twenty-.our hours before. Oats gained c 10 :$c Provisions closed 5c off to 22c up. Ronorts were current that better, weather in the west was gradually br n 1-ius 1-ius about more favorable t,a 1. re. con ui tion.- on the railroads, and that snpplv had been somewhat in'l Illinois. Besides, advices were at hand telling of the largest rural- sl"I ' corn that had been made since t he recent storm. Nevertheless, the scanune.--s ot receipis here ana me Y,.,,,,4 thai hopes of liberal arrivals had turned out to be misleading discouraged sclle s. The result was to keep the market within with-in narrow limits, and to minimize ..10 volume of trade, despite a generallj promising outlook. All deliveries of oats advanced to the highest prices vet this season, l'erslsiont demand from tne seaboard was responsible, respon-sible, but in I he last hour it was sa id exporters had withdrawn trom the hv lo-al shorts led to upturns In provisions. Sharp breaks In hog prices received but little atlontion. RANGE OF THE LEADING FUTURKS. Open. High. Low. Mfrch". $127:i SI. 26'.4 81.23'i May 1.2n 1.2- 1-21' March 79-S. .SO;, -9 May 7, .'fcva ' January 47.30 47.30 47.22 Jlny 43.95 -lo.9i 4o.So Mayrd.TT 24.92 25.00 24. S7 .Tanua'rT 24.00 23.87 May 21.32 24.-10 24. u0 |