New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-04-07
CONDITION OF THE CHICAGO MARKET.
4 BETTER FEELING PREvALENT-UPs AND DOWNS
PRICEs

4 BETTER FEELING PREvALENT-UPs AND DOWNS
IN PRICES.
CHCAGO. April 5.-To-night on the curb
Nav wheat sold sOa cents. May corn sold near %
cants To those who have been following this market
these figures are sensational enough without comment
The only encouraging thing 20 be said OF the whole Day
Affairs is that there failures with no failures
and calarnitous accidents" said trader believe that
the bottom has been touched everything This was
SAID shortly after the opening, when May pork was 10
cents above the opening and 10 cents above last night
close Tolay's opening was nothing Ike yesterday s.
and bv an industrious bcurTytng around anu ASKING
questions body had settled the question CT failures
There we're none and rumors Of them The iee
NO was better Sellers were the Little IN
dependent and buyers not so completely cIct4ofs
OF urces Interest the start centred about the pro
vision Dit where the speculative situation Is Just no"
the most interesting. and where Tor the past
,es the tone has oeen created ali the other markets
There were u trsdea II the tt!c pit who belize That
the biz "longs" we're anxious sell Brokers buy
ing and giving up Cudshys and this trader him
sef vas on floor evidently compacent observer Of
affairs The dispatch from the stock yards showed that
there were only 5000 hogs there anu that The oncl re-
eeipts yesterday were 5000 head less than estimated
NAY wheat opened weak AZ SIS cents, because OF e1
oeptonay bearish cable dispatches and May corn x SOS
cents Tie former very soon advanced % % cents AID
the latter 10 52b but wish znge trader cutting any
great re The receipts OF corn, III cars, were Larger
than w. anticipated aad weakened prices little when
they we're posted. The fact that there we're only
ten cars Of wheat receipts SEM that
cereal up for minute. EidrdGe
ras seller of corn. trading IN wheat genera!
10 TO noon. The receipts Of oais were l5- cars. Al
about - o'clock the corn pit, which uAd been male W
lie nervous by the unexpectedly large receipts was alo
getber upse by the unloading suddenly OF vast guam
M ~ gsfn Pope Davis sold enormously and tudany
and stevens and r. D. Logan Co, we're not inuch De
and them. Cudshy is believed 10 he snoring TIC
MARKET both on and wheat MS ufm
began selling at about % cents and sold do6a 10 !.
gefriuc nd OF probably 100000 bushels. Pope DaTl
SOD even more anu good deal Of curiosity Is fet as 70
their principal They receiving house, Out every
once 10 a whs take great izg OF stun for some trader
whose identity been disclosed PORK ana laru
ere weakened by the break In grain but heid up OccI
every body Is tired said commission man WHO was
mil mouths ago wheat nearly Az cents OCsAei
HIGHER natural situation R4S Deco ne very dlscOuraS
n prces break break Out buyers and &c nsleI
DO moi appear The stun does not move out traders
Tuo hought when wheat was 10 cents higher nave lost
their money and II they retained tAe Inclination 70 sup
nor prce. power Buyers now do not sahd
to.ses Tbey are tIinld and fraction OF cent decline
trI- them IJo sellers" Nay wae~t a. one moment "a
nornrnr sold at x cents MAY sold down 70 JOa
cent? The trading the dig pit without mel
dent Provisions not traded IN Oh any great sce
although Fowler took some thousand urrces Of lard In
corn how r.. there good deal OF Individuality
Reside Cud Any and stevens rope "a Davis, and Logan
Co. little Matthew'S Of Cincinnati Was Large seller even
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