Show PATTENS DEAL successful bull leader in chicago pit satisfied with a profit of a million dollars chicago what Is generally concel ed to have been the most successful wheat deal lit in the annals of the chicago board of trade saturday and it closed with without squeezing of shorts aborts which in other days was waa wont to furnish a show to the gallery visitors via and leavo la salts salle street staggering gering g janies A patten during saturdays Satur daya brief session made a fixed price of ft a bushel through his pit clerk ed wallter walker he bought or sold at that price the buying was almost purely theoretical on his part lie he did tako la in a few thousand bushels from some trailer who waited until the last moment for hla his profits ts but in tho the main lie he disposed of about a halt half million to shorts who had hoped against lion to the last moment anu ana then in the pari parlance ance of the pit took their medicine mr patten has made a fortune how much lie he cannot say until hla his cash wheat la Is marketed ills hla own admission sion however seems to make 1000 a conservative estimate it may run much larger no losses it is said have fallen mostly on professional speculators |