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Show ,-" I "a" lJ iJI Mical Quarterl), I '. , f!, .Hm·gml Call1/;IIg Forlnrr ill SIII;thfirlt/, (lw/..,/;1I 1919, of peas, Early Alaska, Yellow, and Green Admiral were planted that year. The cost of seed peas to the f&lrmtT W&lS $B,O() per bushel. Two weeks after Jack Rich rctul1lcd to :\Iorgan he was asked to move his family to Smithfield to act as field man for the new factory. ' The machinery for the factory was brought in from :Morgan on a two-ton Federal tnlck. which was used lat~r to haul the first load of lumber for the factory from the Anderson Lumber Company in Smithfield. The n('xt few months Smithfield was a beehive of acth·ity. The peas were being planted and the factory and machine))' had to be ready to care for the crop at harvcst time. Jack Rich assisted the farmers with planting, irrigating, and harvcsting thc crops. \V. R. Eddington, superintendcnt of the :\lorgan Canning Company, and F. LeRoy ''''cst, fornwrly employed at :\·1organ, mov('d their families to Smithfield and I)('camc forcm(~n in the cOllstJ'llctioll of the first vincI'S and warehollse. This warc'hollse, :-;ixty by thirty fC'C't with a C('llll'llt founclatioll and brick walls. was start(,d in March of l!IIB and completed on July 3 of that " , . |
