New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-04-24
FEATURES or raE CHICAGO MARKETS
10y TELEGRAPH I'd THE rRIBUNE.l

CHICAGO, April 23.-Ihe crop reports gath
cred b, The SEw-YoRK TRIBUNE and ielegraphed hefe
last gut buci, the topc OF the day Tue con-
cu,.ons reaeueu By The TRIBUNE ars din rrnt
irum the concusions reac0ed by most people hee wo
aye bnsieI themselves collecting wheat stltstics For
tbis very reason the sensation created all the
greater.
Inc confidence generally felt In the trusworthiDess Of
the pae figures Is atested by the fact that its report
a ed tue Wild advance t1at has been In vogue mere
for week and sent the 0gures little way back down
again.
Wheat was certainly knocked back cent. After ad-
yancng "a saturday. figures It lost the advance
and fraction besides; but tonight on the curb tue
clique brokers were busy buying again. Tue theory con
,nues 10 he bay on the breaks aud sell tue ouges.
Conservative ders continue to ak 81 20 for wheas In
Jdly vast quantity OF long wheat was realized upon
today by the Armour brokers bur ny the commission
men rspreentlng traders all over creation As likely rs
not, so it H. thought her, the break OF to-day was
des,red and even helped aloug by the areh
cons orator himself Il Idnt do for all the world TO
bc buy,ng wheat only to dump II on Mr.. Armour when
delivery day approached Tue msrket Is being success
fully mak.d" IL ia figured; bulls" are Induced to
unload by recurring breaks otner day or so
aud the bears by the same tactics Induced To sol
Tonight on the curb, Kershaw was buyer OF wheat
and SO were other who believed either TO be
acting tor Armour or 10 be aware OF his plans Tie
trading In this grain was not so Leivy
perhaps as Saturday but It not very much less
Within the ten dfteen minutes devoted 10 wheat ON
the afternoon CALL 1860 900 bushels changed hands. On
the curb alter the regular day had closed, May wheat
WA selling at 81 III y and Juno at 81 14ls.
Corn was dull comparatively, but followed the route
taken py wheat Its fluctuations. IL advanced at Que
time laa 81 cents above Saturdays figures, but closed
iaaa ceus lower. Toe receipts OF corn are apparently
little iucreasing but this apparent increase Ia partly
accounted certainly by the practices OF the inspectors
Of counting in grain snippel out OF "irreguar"
elcvatrs The loain q Of corn IN the country show
little Increase those Of wheat do not The receipts
here or whe ~ do not snow any Increase.
There was no more snt H. wheat to day than
In pruysions. Pork aiyanced 30935 CENTS per barrel
shortribs Lara IJ012a cehs ler hundred pounds
In mug Mcd On oousht 5000 u:Tcss % lufu,
ofere AL Jls wa put III 10 al ~ cents
above the arket Very litt Was prJner.d MAJ On Tue
two caIs p,Jvrols, LJRst Gi1 NOS LAST over
forts We minut;s, than 10000 ercss o ard anu
barrels porK ed ninds, aid the ugBc!its
OF tirse sa,tIons tie call Dlifi 10 oiy ia
inrx OF lie sagr gate OF the tran on on TIE regular
bour. The prJylr0D crowd ID 50 inBoh SIN iiief ani
generally spcagIJg snbstal that tie recent very
great Jysnc 10 making Cns STIR .iat tne vaJse Ia
wncut does ne ieang alb uS tie prov sioas nryert-e
less N ll "A grea tsnsieu MIOus OF do lars ave beeh
rra,lred 10 proAc uases Within three Trading Gays
po,k Ma aIv.uced 81 burrrl ado liri
40 cont. Ger hundre III eVery fierce inc ia er
product mas adyLncs1 steadily non ll.u7'9 oli'o
ATTAIN few werks-a big mJsonent the wfOnS way ios
the uan aazea English nodses nera wca age pi.issso