Alice and Wayne Ballard stand near the Linden tree his mother planted 60 years ago.
some 2,400 chickens. During WWII, Draper was the egg basket of Utah and local eggs were shipped across country. Today, a small patch of what was Ballard’s farm is still being used for growing crops. Wayne dedicates one acre of his property to a garden where he grows seven crops of corn, Moscow-variety tomatoes, and his pride and joy—12-pound cantaloupes, the seeds of which he’s used for 28 years. “I’ve been a farmer all my life. I can’t get it out of my system,” he says with a slight The Ballard home (now gone) that most people remember on the corner of Fort Street and 132nd South.
smile. He also runs a cattle ranch and a cotton farm in Utah and Arizona.
To honor their parents’ legacy, the Ballard family plans to erect a small marker
with the inscription “Ballard’s Corner Memorial.” It will stand as a tribute to a hard working, generous Draper family and a cherished bygone era.
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