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Show POTATO PRICE GOES TO $2.40 A HUNDRED . . . . Special to The Tribune. POCATEULO, Idaho, Nov. 2. The price of potatoes continues to advance In the local market, the quotations on Wednesday Wednes-day being- 52.50 per hundred on Rurais and S2.S0 for Clems. The shipments Wednesday Wed-nesday from Poe.atello points in this section sec-tion of the state amounted to ninety cars. Owing to the impossibility of obtaining refrigerator cars, shipments are bolus made in ordinary box cars, in which false bottoms have been placed. In several instances in-stances men were placed in charge of the shipmenis. who will be prepared to arrange for heating the cars in ease of a cold spell. |