The following is apparently from an interview with Edward Ohman published in the Fargo Forum, June 29, 1948. The copy is handwritten by Holvik, who seems to have copied it out of the paper:

"The last time I was there I pounded an iron pipe into the ground on the spot, but I am afraid that will eventually rot away" he said, "I hope now tht we can place a stone marker on the spot and when I arrive home I shall talk it over with my brothers and sister..."

Ohman recalls vividly the finding of the stone, under four inches of soil
"The story that we used it for a dorrstep at our granary is an untruth," he said. "My father flopped it up with a mattock and I dust it off and noticed the characters. We took it home, cleaned it up and set it in a ahed in front of the granary. Neighboring farmers saw it and eventually they convinced father it should be displayed in nearby Kensington.
H. R. Holand of Ephraim, Wis., took it to make a study of the characters. He wrote two books about it. We eventually lost title to it. For a lont time it was displayed in a case in Alexandria, Minn."

During his boyhood days, Ohman developed an intense dislike for the stone and ran away and hid when aske to talk about it. The reason was that so many persons questioned and cross-questioned him about it many of them scholars and historians some of whom believed he and his father might possibly have carved the characters into the stone to win fame and notarity.
Ohman's eyes still blaze as he recalls the efforts of these doubting Thomases to undermine the true story of the find. "To think that my father and I could do such a thing is utterly rediculous," he said. "We never knew anything about runic characters."

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