Pleasant Grove Review | 1948-01-02 | Page 3 | World's Largest Potato Yard Found in Chicago

World's Largest Potato Yard Found in Chicago The world's largest potato yard is located not in Idaho, nor in Maine but in the largest city near the geographical center of the nation Chicago. In the Wood street yards of the Chicago and Northwestern railroad. . i - an average of 20,000 carloads of potatoes po-tatoes are handled annually. Many thousands of tons of other vegetables vegeta-bles also pass through this yard. The yard is the central marketing market-ing point for potatoes, which come in from virtually every state in the union. Dealers and brokers assemble assem-ble in the yard each day before dawn to buy, sell or reconsign an average of 36,000 bushels daily. The Wood street yard is a far cry from the wooden platform which served as a terminal years ago.