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Show uu IDAHO PROSPEROUS WITH POTATOES mB cm. P. F. Thompson, traveling freight and passenger agent of the Missouri Pacific railroad, passed a few hours In Ogden today, euroute to Salt Lake City from Idaho. The people of the Gem state, he said, are enjoying unprecedented un-precedented prosperity, largely due to the demand for Idaho grain and potatoes. po-tatoes. Last week the wholesale market price for potatoes was 2.35 per hundredweight, hun-dredweight, but yesterday the price was stationary at ?2. If cars were available, Mr. Thompson declared, 5,000 cars or more of potatoes could be shipped out of Idaho within two weeks into the southeastern states at $2 per hundredweight without filling j the demand for them In that part of the country. |