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Show CHICAGO GRAIN Chicago. Jan. 25. Scarcity of offerings of-ferings here and a continuing advance ad-vance at Liverpool lifted the wheat market todav to new high war levels. Rural domestic holders were said to be letting go of hardly anything, and there were reports of further siorms In Argentina, indicating additional delays de-lays in the crop movement from that country. After opening 1-4 to 1 TSc higher, the market here continued to climb. May touching $1.46 a ?gainst 1.45 3-8 the previous top record rec-ord since the beginning of the war. Corn de eloped strength with, wheat The majority of the commission commis-sion houses were on the buying side and some of the leading professional speculators were also buyers. The opening, which ranged from l-4c off to l-8c up, was followed by a gradual upturn all around Firmness characterized the oats market from the outset. There were advices of a fresh reduction in the estimated surplus of Argentina. Provisions showed but little response re-sponse to the grain hulge. .The rea son appeared to be the weakness of the. hog market. big decrease in the visible wheat supply total led afterward to greater gains. The close was unsettled at 3 4 to 1 l-4c net advance. Cold weather and heavy feedinc kept the corn market tending upward. The close was steady, 1-4 ?(f3-S to 3-8 fal-2c above Saturday night. NEW YORK STOCK LIST. (Western i Alaska Gold 27 3-4 Amalgamated Copper 56 3-4 American Beet Sugar 33 1-2 American Cane 29 3-1 American Smelt - Ref'ng 62 American Sugar Refining, 106 1-2 American Tel. & Tel 102 3-S Anaconda Mining 27 5-S Atchison 95 1-2 Baltimore & Ohio 13 3-4 Brooklyn Rapid Transit 87 5-8 California Petroleum 16 1-4 Canadian Pacific 164 o-S Central Leather 34 3-4 Chesapeake & Ohio 45 5-8 Chicago. Mil. & St. Paul 92 1-4 Chlno Copper 35 7-8 Colorado Fuel & Iron 26 Colorado & Southern 26 Denver & Rio Grande 7 3-8 Erio 22 7-8 General Electric 144 1-4 Great Northern, pfd 116 1-2 Great Northern Ore ctfs 33 1-4 Illinois Central 109 Interborough-Met . pfd. 51 1-2 Inspiration Copper IS 5-8 International Harvester 97 Kansas Citv Southern 23 1-4 Lehigh Valley 138 Louisville & Nashvillo 120 Mexican Petroleum 65 Miami Copper .... 18 1-4 Missouri, Kansas & Texas. .. 113-; Missouri Pacific 13 National Biscuit 130 1-8 National Lead 46 Nevada Copper 13 New York Central 92 N. Y, N II & Hartford 54 14 Northern Pacific 1051-3 Pennsylvania 1075-8 Pullman Palace Car Co. 15 I 5-8 Ray Consolidated Copper 17 3-8 Reading, pfd 150 5-8 Rock Island Co 7-8 Rock Island Co., pfd 13-4 Southern Pacific S6 5-S Southern Railway 17 5-8 Texas Company 135 1-4 Union Pacific 1213-4 United States Steel 51 United States Steel, pfd 108 Utah Copper 54 1-8 Western Union 62 1-4 |