Potatoes Higher In Ann Arbor

POTATOES HIGHER IN ANN ARBOR

ARE PAYING 12 CTS. A BUSHEL MORE THAN IN DETROIT.

Framers Very Backward About Bringing Them In, Although Ann Arbor Is Their Best Market.

  Potatoes are selling at wholesale on the Michigan Central tracks today at 52 cents per bushel, while they are quoted in Detroit today at 40 cents. All around Ann Arbor they are selling at a price here. Ann Arbor grocers are having to pay more for them than grocers in adjacent localities. It would seem absurd for buyer to pay 52 cents on track here for the same goods that can be purchased in Detroit for 40 cents and landed here for an additional 5 cents for each bushel, yet buyer were found for about half a carload this morning. The peculiar situation is explained by the various grocers in slightly different ways. "The fact is," said one grocer, ''that the rain of the last week has prevented the farmers from bringing in their usual supply and we are charging 70 cents at retail."

   Said another: "The farmers are busily occupied doing something else beside digging potatoes and marketing them. They see they are quoted all over at a low rate and think they can get a better price by waiting. If the Argus should quote potatoes at 85 cents per bushel tonight, tomorrow we would have plenty of potatoes on sale here from all the neighboring farms. Yes, it is a peculiar situation when most anywhere else they are selling at a lower rate."