New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-02-14
THE CHICAGO MARKETs.
INCREASED STRENGTH N wHEAT-cORN ADVANCING
IN sYMPATHY-THE PRICES OF PROVISIONS
LILY TrLrGR APH To TIE TRIBUSE.l

INCREASED STRENGTH IN wHEAT-coRN ADVANCING
IN sYMPATHY-rHE PRICES OF PROVISIONS
GDr TELEGRAPH TO THE TRrBUsE.l
CuICAGO Feb. 13.-Wheat, for May delivery.
sold to night the curb at 1888 to 1884, l2c Dusel
above Yesterdays close All the other options were also
l0ll4 higher than twenty -fOur hours before Tho
strength was not due manipulation. The concerns
which have been credited with bling" this market in
the interest of Baltimore clique to-day otener
sellers than buyers Close observers are pretty firm in
the belief that Ross and the other Malyanders VINO
have been the prominent wheat bulls are now
eycned up" The reports OF the Ohio floods had some
thing TO do with the advance, but the cable which
quoted The London Times saying that European crop
prospects were poor because OF alternate foods and
dronths WAS more influential than anything else. Tho
receipts OF wheat not at all increased by the mid
weather. while receipts of are very greatly
The very highest prices Of the day were those asked at
NIGHT after the call was The Ny option closed
on the call" at 1875 and advanced afterward 3 and
was very strong There In store here 9,oD9OOo
bushels Of wheat and 39l 1000 bushels II corn Ihls Is
two million bush less corn than was here yeafSo anu
million less than years at this time The pres
ent stock of wheat Is 100000 bushels greater IMAM
ostyear hut Is smaller by nearly two million bushels
Than i'm either February. 1881. or 1880. The crowd
bullish" on all sorts OF grain espgeaIS, @
some OF his Milwaukee friends who have been bears
from the very bottom prices are becoming converted
corn tonight Is s TO - above last night and strong
The trading in II small and the advance was appdr
entity half out Of sympathy with the boom about the
| wheat pit The corn crowd which for about three
months has filed the largest pit the onr known as
the wheat pit has reegated back to its own smaller
quarters The prophecies given last week by the rail-
road managers that with fair weather good deal OF
corn would he hauled In here are being verified. Six
hundred and eighty-seyen arrived to-day about 70
per cent OF IL grading No. . Provisions were hlgber
and strong Pork opened advance Of 10 10 cents
barrel and closed TO might 10 TO l2i2 aoye last night
The receipts OF hogs at the yards were estimated as
% 600 about 5000 less than yesterday Lard opened
| a little above last nights close, was strong anu
closed 10 10 I22 per hundred better than yesterday
| Ia. morrow the board will take some action Tor inc
relief of the sufferers from the Ohio Hoods IL Is hsely
Thai the railroads aud the Board of Trade WHO are Just
| now out" will come to an understanding Inc BOARD
recently prohibited the solicitors OF the railroads fon
,im ON the floor because they refused to agree To
bit.;e the disputes and the oad OF
from the Board all statements OF receipts ana shipments
To ay tic railroad men proposed TO the Board OF Trade
authorities that they meet at the Grand Paeihc ana l@A
| thcir differences over.