Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-04-11 | Page 13 | New Potatoes Selling High

I ' JU oid Spuds Reach 8 Per Hun" TO;, dred and May Go Higher Wj Reports Indicate i , m "New potatoes with cream gravy." g a combination which many dream of, JR. at present but cannot realize, as mar-- p" kct quotations on new "spuds" show i Wr them retailing at 22iA cents per. ; mt P Reports on old potatoes from local ijR., grocers arc that they are also reach-( Mtt. ing high altitudes as far as their price' j,$Bk is concerned ,the present price being ; S per hundred, with indications that '.,V further increase will occur before the j California crop comes in. Local merchants are experiencing sSf difficulty in buying potatoes, it Is re- !pL ported. Wholesalers alao complain -3 tnal PtatoC3 are unusually scarce. IvBt' George "Wangsgard, manager of the f0!' ' American grocery, predicted last night that potatoes would not drop below $6 i per hundred until the Utah crop had ; started to mature. He said that with I I '. each shipment of California potatoes - ; ' Prices would drop a little but would v: r not reach a normal price until the Ljj)r Utah potato crop began to appear on i vmiT' the market in quantities, r'm. oo