Show PATTENS DEAL SUCCESSFUL Bull Leader In Chicago Pit Satisfied With a Profit of a Million Dollars Chicago What is generally conceded conced-ed to have been the most successful wheat deal l In the annals of tho Chicago Chi-cago board of trade closed Saturday and it closed without squeezing of I shorts which In otherdays was wont i to furnish a show to the gallery visitors vis-itors and leave La Salle street staggering stag-gering James A Patten during Saturdays brief session made a fixed price of 134 a bushel Through his pit clerkEd clerk-Ed Walker he bought or sold at that price but tho buying was almost purely theoretical on hls part Ho < ardlako In l a few < iOu1i bushels from some trailer who waited until the last moment for his profits but In the main he disposed of about a half million to shorts who had hoped against hope to the last moment and then in the parlance of the pit took their medicine Mr Patten has made a fortune how much he cannot say until his cash wheat Is marketed His own admission admis-sion however scents to make 1000 000 a conservative estimate It may run much larger The losses It Is said have fallen mostly on professional profes-sional speculators |