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Show RATE ON POTATOES. Having gone to l lie rescue of the potato growers of Idaho, the Oregon Short Line has performed a ninth needed service There are thousands of acres of potatoes In the Gem stato and the report of laic has been that i lie tubers would not be dug. but would remain in the ground owing to the Inability of the Farmers to reach a market. The Oregon Short Line lias fixed a i ate of 67 cents per 100 pounds to Missouri river points and this should be low enough to allow the producers to obtain a margin of revenue to pay for harvesting, sacking and hauling i .. , ihe crop. ; At the beginning of the season thou- i sands of farmers in Idaho and Utah started out on a big gamble They had received large returns on their potatoes pota-toes In 1921. due to a crop failure in the middle states, and so they rea- i soned that they could repeat the per formance. But this year there is a good crop everywhere and potatoes, like all farm produce, have slumped m price. l Had the railroad Tailed to obtain from the interstate commerce commission commis-sion the present emergency rate, the shipments of potatoes east would have been limited to B very small fraction of the total production, and a gr at( i misfortune would have ben upon thei farmers of this region. |