Show J I 1 i Sheep Ranch to Move For Ordnance v Plant N y a t t A T s. s I r h a 4 T II f b i 4 bt J f. f t w d f. f SURE ILL I'LL MOVE IF THAT'S HOW THINGS ARE Bill Harding with ith his dogs Nellie Pat Patch h and Toots Tools Bill Harding Old Resident o of f Valley Will Surrender His Farm Lands Editor r. r note notes Forty wilt will have hate to be bl mo rd from the site of the Utah ordnance plant Zany Many Ilan are lire om old timers who ho haw have Slued td 30 JO to 40 year ears How w do they f If feel I about moving I In is the sixth In la a n series rles telling telline who they are and ana g what t tf the t mote mo means Oe f for teem By ST STEFFAN FF AN ANDREWS Snow fell in in Weber cany canyon n the night night BUl t this Bill Harding moved his sheep into the va valley ley The night wind wind came beating down I the slopes slopes' like a rude commuter r and a snowy crust was forming form- form forming ing ng on the fleecy hides of f his ewes I There had been other snowfalls snowfalls' in the the canyons nyons but not as bitter as the one that night 14 years ago Nor an In the lifetime ne of Bill Hardings Harding's sheep ranching And that vas as was the the snow that tha changed his us life The next day h he appeared before before be- be fore ore the county commissioners and told them his story H He couldn't t graze his sheep on the he snow-drifted snow canyon sides in winter he told them It was to too cold He wanted a graz grazing ng lease on the odd 1200 county acres in inthe inthe the Salt Lake valley west of Red Redwood wo wood d 1700 West street road next to his home borne That would take care care of his sheep in the winter In ln the In-the the spring he could send them up into the canyon Gets Winter Grazing The commissioners listened scrutinized his papers and signed He has been winter grazing his OO sheep in the valley since since Bill Harding is the slight slim slim- faced aced man man who has lias been living 44 years years on a tract now to be occupied by the Utah ordnance plant His name nam is William T. T but mt even Bill has forgotten n what the T. T stands stands' for for Just Bill is fine with him A few Afew few weeks ago army appraisal al officials called at his home and told him he would have to move The land he holds two blocks of 5 and 17 acres north of 1300 South street they told him would be needed for a firing range He would have to find a grazing range somewhere else Could he move in a month The The Ther r request quest stunned Bill buthe but buthe buthe he never batted an eye Sure he said if that's how things were Hed He'd move For years Ive I've been scratching out a living with my sheep inthis in inthis inthis this territory he said W Wednesday at his home California avenue avenue ave ave- nu nue 1300 South street We were just getting on our our feet the 1 last 1st couple of years It cost me several hundred dollars to get all all' ll the grazing rights to this district But I fig figured figured fig ig- it t was worth it it I I would make it at up in the long run I told myself from pr profits f ts on on my wool and maybe from sale of meat la l May Take Along House Bill has permission to take his house away with him but he will have to moVe soon With him will go gO gObis his bis wife Edith his 14 year old daughter and acid his mother haired gray-haired Mrs Will Harding now in her year I 1 dont don't know now whether Im I'm going go going going go- go ing to to- take my sheep he said If lIf I could get a good price for themI would sell them but then I dont don't know the wool market is going Up lip and I may want to hang on to them After all they still are my bread and butter Bill began as a sheep rancher ranche ranc er r when he was 14 in m the days when it was vas easier to graze sheep His father t er a landscape gardener garden r moved out to the valley in 1901 Bill was 13 Collected Sheep While his father sold milk eggs anc and butter Bill ill co collected le ted a few stray sheep and started ranch ingv on his bis own When he hc mar mar- marred married married ried red he had eno enough gh sheep to tom tomake tomake m make ke a living for himself and his wife He bought a I little tUe church standing standing stand stand- stand ing since the ill-fated ill Garden City y venture on the west sid side in in the an and used its shingles an and d timber to build a home That was wa s the original Harding home H He e since since- built another home Of course Bill would like to stay in the valley if there were e anything at all he could get nea n near ar r by in the way of a home bome But lies lie s willing to do dohis his part for national d defense If If that's that s what Un Uncle le Sam wants he will cooperate H He e is no piker |