Show f fL L C c Pr Proposed posed Route of Interstate Road Eradicates Many Farms Summit County is facing ing the loss oss of tax ue rc from some Ome two dozen rich highly productive c farms And nd the owners l of those these forms farms are arc facing the loss of their livelihood These dismal prospects arc are near nearing ing the tho reality stage and the farmers and taxpayers directly involved d led INI by Lyle Kyle Brown of Hoytsville leading dairy farmer fanner and Maurice l Boyden ch chairman lirman of the thc Summit County y Board of Commissioners Building of the new new four lane four lane Interstate Highway Highway High High- way t through rough the proposed route will cut up more than 20 farms making their either inaccessible or n leaving such small pie pieces es they cannot be farmed I profitably Brown points out oat The Tho fertile productive part of the valley alley between be tween Coalville and Wanship is already d narrow t said d. d what Think look t llOu I Hi sa what It h will like if the highway l leaves a the present route rO and copes comes tip up the middle of the valley This new arrangement would form four parallel I j lines lills of unproductive and highly expensive waste wastelands lands he reminded The preS present nt highway 4 TV The Union Pacific railroad tr treks tracks eks f The e Weber River D DAnd And the new highway WIlen you OU cris cross criss-cross these four lines Jines with access roads what roads what have you got left I Brown asked Right in dh my neighborhood Brown BrOWD said between my qty place and David Browns Brown's place plan there are 13 firms farms that will win be made practically nonexistent non Don existent and unable t to produce a l livelihood for the f families miU S which they now support Several opera operators operators tors of these farms will simply have t to move out out Chairman Hoyden Boyden said that this matter goes far farrust rust past the usual customary protests rOh tR of persons whose farms lire arc cut u up tip b by the the advance ance of progress Here it seems entirely unnecessary acid unnecessary and l J very cry costly in terms in-terms terms term of lost tax tux income rI Loss of this tax tux money will make further inroads on the county county's M s income incont wh which ll it can ill afford Two dams darts him have been built in recent years in the best st soil son areas In n alone 28 families s 's d acres ners I 1 t 11 T 4 of ot gr ground ground h have c b been n l the j. j taxpayers an and t RI to the school hool systems t i i. The fa farmers of the do mers area not object to the 1 highway going through ih the valley They in Insist that it could be routed to either the east or or the west side of the valley ey where less valuable acreage 1 i. i is sit situated sated and where fewer r residents will win be affected af at I State Stae officials have lave announced 1 that p public hear hearings hearings ings will be held in Summit County jn in the near future Knowing through experience that the these a are e usually cut and affairs which offer little opportunity to fly fly in the face of the advance of progress progress h all interested l parties of Summit Co County are fire banding handing together together to to- gether to gain s' s ort l ort in i Vin having their wishes brought out t i |