Show 89-year-o- MAI IM LE IITST The Salt !Ake Tribune S cowboy still driven to work hard ld Lifelong labor: Byron Fort was a child when he began his career on the plains among cattle horses and sheep 1 ' ' t l'1— I 't - 1 ‘ L- -- ---1 44-- I 111 : o : ---- - I ' : - - - ' - '"' 1 '''''' 1 10 T 9 "If we don't get a good rain in April it will do me in" Fort says "And at my age if I sell them I won't get them back" He took part in some of the last of the cattle drives moving herds from eastern New Mexico to the railroad just across the border in Seeagraves Texas Byron and Ruby Faye moved to Tatum in 1939 to work for the Dickinson Cattle Co a job that would last nearly four decades and permitted them to go into the cattle business themselves "I sent all my children to college on that little place I had on the side" he says Today Fort is white-haireand blue-eyethinner now than man who the robust stares back at him from old pictures of himself But that was 30 years two knee replacements and a heart surgery ago That was before the hearing aids and the prostate cancer he's being treated for now But that doesn't keep him still '''''' '' - " N !: ' '' 4 ' t1 4- A "' (' 's )0 4‘4II li0rN '''''' '- ‘4- -- ' 4T' t -- A 41 J i"4 1 '4 ' i tin a f 011 ‘ 1 1 i 1 I al t I' I - - - - r' ' '' - 4( ot -- p - t7:- - 11 - - t 4 4 o"' d) 1 N 4'( 000000 '4' 1 I 1n1 i 4 1— :64-- - r r-A w e - 0- i ( i 4: '' ' 1 4 14t '' Workman apologizes for child 'props' the picture: Students on a field trip became the backdrop as Workman declared she would seek another term as county mayor In BURR Tribune Salt Lake County Mayor Nancy Work mans office has apologized to a private school apparently upset that the mayor allegedly used its pupils as a political prop in her campaign announcement About 12 students from McGill is Elemen- tary School were visiting the Clark if them right in front of the podium" Officials from McGillis Elementary School could not be reached for comment Friday Word of the flap reached the morning whose listeners show on radio station accused Workman of using children for political purposes Workman's county spokesman Ted Phillips called school officials to apologize because he said it was a "mayor issue not a campaign issue" Meanwhile a verbatim section of Workman's campaign speech was on the county's Web site Friday in the "message from the mayor" tburr(a sltribcom 1 ' IA I s ' - Ii ''''741-- ''' 44 Jatididital 12I SUMNER of ilico Texas and John Miller of Prescott Ariz have claimed to be the real Kid The investigators say the most significant question involves whether Garrett really killed the Kid whose real name was William Bonney The investigators have a petition pending in stale district court in Silver City to exhume the remains of the Kid's mother Catherine Antrim They want to get a DNA sample from Antrim to compare to the remains in the Fort Sumner grave or the graves of the other self proclaimed Billy the Kids The petition is opposed by those who believe the investigation is a misguided publicity stunt Sok Lakr nintnt Salt Lake County Mayor Nancy Workman with her husband Lee Workman on Thursday morning announces her plans to seek a second term at the Gateway But along with supporters students on a field trip to the Clark Planetarium also were taped and photographed at the news conference prompting accusations that the mayor was using them as political props Workman's office apologized and said the pictures would not be used Planetarium on Thursday when Workman declared at a news conference she would seek a second term Dozens of kids from several schools inadvertently found themselves sitting in front of Workman while waiting for their tour of the planetarium TV cameras and Workman's campaign photographer filmed the children as though they were part of the event Worlunan's campaign says it will not use any of the images of the children and that the Republican mayor will apologize personally to the teacher whose students left partway through the event "There was no intent to use the kids like that" Campaign Manager Ted lielsten said there was we would have put Friday I Cottonwood city sponsors unveil information site I IKANcNou 4 011ie P "Brushy" Bill Roberts NM The sheriffs of Lincoln and De Baca counties want to exhume what are believed to be the remains of Billy the Kid in a Fort Sumner cemetery Lincoln County Sheriff Tom Sullivan Deputy Sheriff Steve Sederwall and De Baca County Sheriff Gary Graves filed a petition in state District Court in Fort Sumner seeking the exhumation They say they are trying to record set the historical straight about the actions of Lincoln County Sheriff Pat Garrett who is said to have fatally shot the Kid the night of July 14 1881 in a Fort Sumner home Over the years men such as FORT s " ' Here's looking at you again (Billy the) Kid ‘ t :' ! t ' 1 1 4 I ‘ - - - A - -- — 4 00amolo--- i c i- ' 0 c‘io 4"""141°'61'"' - - ' ittn 4 t A ' ') :if 4 '1- 4 k 1 I 'i r s:1s A 1 ? 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k 1 ' 1 1 ) k '""'"--- ''''''' ''''''' i'' k - ' i r - job" -- - k t:'4 I ' — t - '''''''‘ Ijilliot ' 4 one-roo- ' 41 tevil1 dike4 ' -- t Byron was no electricity He remembers when $330 a day was darn good money and you did everything in the saddle or on a wagon Fort unable to get the calf up on its feet goes looking for a bottle so he can hand feed it "I thought when I'd get old I'm going to write a book about 1-1' t I when there - -- ' r- - 0 - I He remembers I tf 7 1918 ' ' °1 ( e gray-whit- ' ' 0 ' 4 S 1 the way we used to do things the JR The Albuquerque Tribune people I knew" he says "Now I can't remember half of it" TATUM NM — Byron Fort Fort's wife Ruby Faye died walks out his back door into a in 1997 They married in 1935 winter morning as as raised three sons a daughter his mare Dolly and as cold and and more cattle than you can forbidding as a barbed-wir- e wrap your imagination around fence They worked hard every day of Leaning into the wind he their lives together He still works bard because bones pushes his across a thin layer of snow toit's the only way he knows and ward some corrals and stalls on because it helps stave off the the side of his house loneliness that grows out of his The snow had come in the wife's absence Since her death he's kept on night So had a calf from a young Angus cow Anticipating both milking his cow because that's Fort had put the cow in a stall the what Ruby Faye would have afternoon before so she wouldn't wanted He remembers that day not drop her offspring into an exposed pasture where it'd likely long before his wife's death freeze to death when he told her it would be Fort makes his way to the stall easier to get their milk at a store to check on the calf It is awake "She said 'If you quit milkbut still down and unable to feed ing I'm going to quit cooking" off its mother he recalls smiling at the memo"This morning I got to lookry "I kept milking" In 1912 Byron Fort's parents ing for something to dry it off with and it made me miss gunWilliam Herman and Bera Fort nysacks" Fort says "Used to be drove a wagon and team 11 days from their things would in come in gunhome to Texas nysacks and thought wizen I'd get old homestead a you could use I'm going to write a book place in Prathem for ev- erything about the way iwe used to do rie View from drying William off a newborn Fort things the people knew Herman dry-lan- d calf to making Now can't inemberhar farmed and torches" Fort was freighted feed ofit!' born on a and goods and back homestead BYRON FORT forth between just a few cowboy West Texas miles from owilmou and eastern little town in southNew Mexico eastern Lea County He has lived all his life Fort one of six children helped among cattle horses sheep and out as best he could too many coyotes on these plains "When I was 10 years old I had to crawl up on a field trough near the Texas border He remembers to get the collar on the horse" he schoolhouses cattle drives on says "And then I'd plow but I horseback and the blizzard of don't guess I did a very good ( i d BY OLLIE REED I B3 Saturday March 6 2004 Supporters of a proposed Cottonwood Heights City have unveiled a new Web site to provide information and court potential voters for the incorporation vote May 4 The site wood http:wwwcotton includes a heightscityorg map of the proposed city limits facts about the vote and its effects the history of the incorporation drive and brief bios of the the proponents If approved by voters the would become the city seventh largest in the Salt Lake Valley with about 34000 residents The proposed city would be bounded by Holladay and Murray to the north Midvale on the west the Wasatch Mountains on the east and Creek Road to the south Thomas Burr Revamped WVC library opens Residents are invited to see the newly remodeled West Valley Library today Salt Lake County officials cerewill have a ribbon-cuttin- g mony at 10 am with balloon artists and face painting as well as world champion yo-yo man Dale Myrberg The library 2880 W South looks the same on the outside but has been renovated inside to create a ml ire brighter inviting space according to library |