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Show Chicago Qsetatieiss CHICAGO, Oct. 16. Heavy buying on the part of one concern on 'change turned corn prices today sharply upgrade. up-grade. This concern alone purchased more than one million bushels within half an hour. The buyers professed to believe that liquidation hafl run its courso and that short selling had been overdone. Opening figures, which ranged from a shade off to c advance ad-vance with December at $1.12 to $1.13 and May at 31.08 to $1.0Sft, were followed by material gains all around. Rural complaints of car scarcity tended to strengthen oats. Offerings were HguL Absence of selling pressure allowed provisions to rise with corn. A decline de-cline in tho hog market was ignored. CHICAGO QUOTATIONS. Open. High. Low. Close. Corn-- Dec... $1.17 $1.14 $1.12 $1.14 May,.. 1.08 1.09 1-08 1.09 Oats-Dec Oats-Dec 58 Vb -58 .57 .57 May... .59 .59 .59 -59 Pork-Jan.... Pork-Jan.... 40.75 41.75 40.75 41.30 Lard Oct 23.47 23.80 23.47 23.70 Jan.... 21.41 21.75 21.37 21.70 Ribs Oct 27.12 Jan.... 21.65 22 00 21.65 22.00 |