| Show Farm Couple Bitterly Accept Orders to Vacate Land 31 ro w a r 1 c Y f ff hK f tl l t 1 S t 4 Nee v 4 i q 4 A a 4 a 4 4 y fi iii 7 s Y YM M I ITS EASY FOR OTHERS TO TALK PATRIOT THEY PATRioTISM ISM THEY ARENT AREN'T MAK MAKING NG SACRIFICES Harley Holmes and Bossy He Ie 10 loses ses home she goes on auction block Talk About U. U S. S P Patriotism's Cheap Says Dairyman Forced to Move Editors Editor's note Forty orty will III have ha hato to be from the alte alle of the Utah Itah ordnance o plant Many art arr old timers who have ho Cd there 30 to 40 ears care How Crow do they feel fer I about mn mos inc nc Till inn la is the me ae second ond In in a aerie truing telling who ho they are and nd what the move mon means tn to them By STEFFAN ANDREWS ANDREWSIn In the territory west of Redwood Redwood Redwood Red Red- wood road 1700 West street Hartley Holmes Is known as the best dairy farmer In Salt Lake valley He plants a little corn In n the spring harvests his hay and milks his 65 cows once a day For 39 years he has been repeat repeat- ing the process on the little 15 I acre farm on Thirteenth 1300 I South street east of West street that he and his six children I through long hard work have developed developed developed de de- de- de into the best farm In the I district Today he Is preparing to move Like his neighbors he has I signed finally the papers that give gh-e title of his land to the govern govern- ment His stock and cows will ill I I go before the auctioneers auctioneer's block In several weeks his house and barn will be razed his ground leveled and his stock sold And by late fall a plant of brick and stone will rise to manufacture munitions on the land I He stroked his mustache sighed deeply and told about it Friday It Isn't that I mind so 10 much for myself he said slowly but my wife and our kids they have lived here many years and now they're putting us out like Worse than he added at least had a place to togo togo togo go and a chance to get started We have nothing We have two weeks week to get out T That's ats at's all Were too old to start to start tart over again Im I'm 67 my wife Is 56 6 We have neither money nor land Just a lot of talk about patriotism patriot patriot- ism he said As he talked the cow he had started to milk switched her tail tan stomped angrily and pulled side side- ways Mr Holmes got up from his stool and adjusted her feed feedbag bag Whoa Bossy he com corn The cow quieted Its easy for others to talk about patriotism he continued when they are not the ones who are making the sacrifices But Its It's a a different matter entirely when they come and take from you the only thing thing the the only home youve you've known for nearly 40 years We are willingto do our share sharen Jn in n the right spirit But you cant can't Just pick yourself up by bythe bythe the boots overnight You must have time to adjust yourself he said Look at this place he said rising from the stool and pointing pointIng point point- Ing around the barn and the house it would cost me at least to outfit another place like It And then I couldn't get the location I wanted I would have to start all an over again Now you cant can't get get- any reasonable reasonable reasonable rea rea- land within 10 miles of here without paying a fortune for forIt forit forit It it he said And what did they offer me Thirty five hundred dollars dollars and and I have to take it The Holmes family husband and wife settled In the valley In 1902 As a lad of 5 Hartley Holmes came with his parents and two brothers and sisters from Yorkshire England and settled in Albion N N. Y Y At the age of 26 wanderlust seized him He set out to see the world A stonecutter by trade he followed fol fol- owed lowed this from New York to Detroit De De- troit to Windsor Canada and finally to the mining camps of or orthe the northwest In 1902 when stonecutters were needed to lay streets and curbstones he came cameto cameto cameto to Salt Lake City and married blond Minnie BJorkman For 10 years after they bought a five-acre five tract off Redwood road they lived hand to mouth The young husband worked In Salt Lake City The wife ran the farm The years were lean and arduous We had all we could do to rear our children and keep out of debt but we did It and were we're Continued on Pace Pate Twenty four Family amily Regrets Regrets' Move Orders Continued from Local Page mighty proud of it Mrs Holmes recalled The first fIrt real profit came in 1928 1928 when the ran their string of f COWS cows to and bought 10 0 more acres adjoining their farm arm on the east But the interest rates took whatever surplus savings the f fam- fam amly am- am fly ly fly had and the Hartley Holmes family amily was back again starting from rom scratch We were really happy this year ear Mrs Holmes said For Forthe Forthe he the the first time since 1936 we have been jeen able to make a profit and salt alt s something away at the same time me 5 Our brood we consoled ourselves ourselves our- our selves elves was grown and most of the he children married We started to o ship 10 70 gallo S of milk a day y Into nto town Price of butterfat jumped from 25 cents to 53 cents a pound Now we told ourselves we wean can an start taking it easy and live off olf ff the fat of th the land aneL Then look what h happened I Hartley Holmes and his wife are re bitter against the contractors running the construction work worl They tiey feel that under the c cloak al of necessity they are doing a lot lotof lotof of f things the army people dont don't even ven know about Its a note declared 1 Mr Ir r. r Holmes when you have to get jet a permit to get into your own own h home lome me We have to sneak around Ninth South street t to come on our ur own property At night the guards shine s searchlights into our ur windows like they do at escaped escaped es- es aped convicts he said What are we saboteurs he asked Weve only lived here 40 years ears They came yesterday Now they hey want to run our lives Mrs Holmes shakes her head sadly adly |
