| Show PATTENS DEAL deala successful bull leader in chica chicago go pit satisfied with a profit of a million dollars chicago what wh is generally conceded to have been the most bucce successful fu wheat dealin deal in the annals annais of the chicago board of trade dosed closed saturday ayi and it alb closed sed without squeezing squeeze ng of shorts which in fd other days was wont nt to furnish a sho show to the gallery visitors and leave la salle street staggering james A patten during satur saturdays saturday day s brief session made a fixed price of a bushel through his pit clerk i EV ed walker he bought or sold at ai that price but the buying was almost pu purely rely theoretical on his part he did take in a few thousand bushels from some trailer who waited until the last moment for his profits but in thia the main he disposed of about a hali half million to shorts who had hoped against hope to the last moment and then in the parlance orthel of the pit de took their medicine mr air patten has ha made a fortune how much he cannot say until his cash wheat is marketed his own admission however seems to make 1000 a conservative esti estimate diate it may run much lar larger larer e er the losses it is i said have fa fallen 1 len mostly on professional speculators |
