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Show A/organ Canni71f.! Comparl), 171 people in geJl('ral for the city to purchase the site for the canning factory. The foUowing resolution was then presE'lted to the council. WI\('n'a.~, it ill Jl('("('lI!I.·U')" for the people of Smithfield to furnish a site for a cannin~ factory fn'(' of charge, as an inducement to thc Andcrson brotht'rs of Mor~an Coullt}', Utah to erect and operate a fartory fOl" the canning of peas and probable other {ann products if ronditions are fa\"orable and wht'n'as the members o( the Fann Bureau of Smithfield has labored hard to land the (actory at Smithfield, being on a rompetith"c basis with the fanners of Hyrum who are zealous o( getlin~ the fartory at that place and whereas, City Council has been waited upon by tht' members of the Fann Uureau who earnestly solicit the City Corporation in raising money to buy the Charles Collett I prt?pertyon Main Street as suitable for' said factory and whereas, the members o( the Farm Bureau represent a good'" number of the (armt'rs of Smithfield and other citizt'ns and busint'ss~nen feel that the City Council should appropriate $1650.00 from the City General Fund for the purpose above referred toNow therefore, be it resolved by the :Mayor and City Council of Smithfield City, Utah that the cit)' recorder be and he is h('J'('hy authorized and required to draw a warrant on the city treasurer for the sum of $1650.00 and use the same (or the purpose abo\'e referred to.~ The resolution was unanimously adopted. A motion was also passed to enter into a written agreement with the Anderson brothers concerning the gravel necessary for factory and road construction and also for running a water line to their factory property. Early in 1918 Charles Fry, an employee of the 1\10rgan Canning Company, was sent to Smithfield in order to contract the planting of five hundred acres of peas in that vicinity. Frank ",Tinn, of Smithfield, was employed by the Anderson brothers to accompany Mr. Fry and help him in this task, but !-.lr. Fry returned to l\1:organ with only a pOltion of the necessary acres contracted. In March 1918 Jack Rich, a field man from the Morgan Canning Company, traveled to Smithfield in an attempt to secure the remaining neces.~ary contracts. Again Frank Winn was employed to acquaint l\1:r. Rich with the farmers and to encourage them to support this new project. Unfortunately, when Jack Rich had to return to Morgan he stiJJ lacked forty acres of the ncccs.l;ary contracts. WiJJiam L. Winn, father of Frank, told Mr. Rich to rcport the fu]] five hundred acres cOlltracted and said he would see that they were planted if he had to phlllt them himself. Later in March the sced peas wcre ship))I'd hy the Utah-Idaho Central Railroad til Smithfidtl :Inri ~tnrrcl in a w~I1·I·1J(l1Isc. Three varieties (' ." .. ....t. ' i.t r.o:".'. "· ... tl. 111 :t l"'Y""':'! "'''I'''Htnir:ltinli ,,·ilh 11 ... ~1I1I1"'r. ,' :d"I: ,hi" \\·'l~ lldlH"l'l |
