Ogden Daily Standard | 1908-05-29 | Page 1 | Million Dollar Corn

M I 1 L L I 1 0 I 1 N L tt MY I 1 I 1 COR 46 I 1 I 1 IT I 1 I 1 james A patten patte n has won a fortune in in the market chicago may 29 before noon noan may alay wheat reacted to 12 1 2 may corn to 82 and may abay oats oate to 53 later may alay wheat ad advanced vinced to and may corn to 83 82 12 1 2 wheat held steady but may corn dropped heavily in two minutes of trading going down to 80 to 80 12 1 2 where it closed desperate efforts were ere made today to till fill the local elevators with corn and oats it being estimated that more than one million bushels would be placed in a them before 6 p m although it la is too early to tb obtain any definite figures it is generally considered that james A patton and his followers have cleaned up at least through their may corn manipulation mr air patten himself declared today at the conclusion of trading abas tha ho he had no idea how much money he had bad made