REPUBLICAN POST

August 30, 1907

 

THE POTATO TRADE.

 

            The opening of the season for potato buying commenced this week with several of the twelve dealers buying and prices ranging from 45 cents to 50 cents per bushel.  There has been an average of twenty to twenty five loads a day sold in this market.  It is however too early for digging late potatoes and no extra rush is expected before the middle or last of September.

            The regular dealers and buyers as named below ought to make business lively enough to move the tubers during the next eight or nine months:

            P.M. Olfson Co.

            The A.M. Penny Co.

            Northwestern Produce Co.

            Waupaca Produce Co.

            L. Starks Co.

            Hans Ebbe

            Mortensen & Nelsen    

            Peterson & Olson

            James Rasmussen

            W.C. Baldwin

            C.W. Holding

            T.H. Penney

            Theo Anderson and Talfred Penney are buying for the A.M. Penney Co. - Otto Olson for Peterson Bros; Hans Ebbe looks after his own purchases and H.P. Mortensen for his firm.