Show san diego co starts picking peas here about local people men and women boys and girls com commenced fenced work the first of the th e week in the pea fields of t the he san diego produce company according to mr al p I 1 williams who is si in n ech charge a r g e 0 f 0 operations p e r a here T this h i e company 0 p a n y h has a s 1 5 i acres of peas planted on oil pump well far farms in this valley and mr williams states that the harvest promises lse to be a good one if frost froit holds off the usual length of time as there seems to be a bumper crop on all tile the patches lie ile was wag in charge ot of the harvesting here last year and thinks the crop is better this year than last the san diego Corn company pany also al alls 90 acres of pod peas planted in the milford valley and they are expecting to harvest 40 oars cars of peas from the two places the peas are being trucked from here to the railroad at milford where the two crops are combined iced and shipped to eastern markets the growers are getting lc a pound for them this year c more than they have received before and with a better yield the returns per acre should be much higher also with the people P le employed by the san diego C company 0 m p any and as many or more by the pacific produce company which commenced picking operations the week before on their crops it makes the largest payroll this valley has ever had the combined payrolls should come to between and this week and will continue almost this high for some weeks to come and this amount include the money received by the farmers for their peas |