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I <br />65 <br />1 and used it throughout the entire 15 years to <br />2 disqualify every piece of Barx soil there was in <br />3 that permit. <br />4 We're farmers. We don't know <br />5 anything. You know, we're stupid people. So we <br />6 depend on that division and that mine to do what is <br />7 right, and if you ask every time -- I was working <br />8 for them. And every time you ask, Well, isn't ours <br />9 prime soils? No. The state has certain criteria <br />10 and we can't classify it as prime. <br />11 Even prior to that -- and we talked <br />12 to Jim Boyd yesterday before we came here yesterday, <br />13 and he said they had documentation clear back to <br />14 1985 from them stating that Barx soil was a prime <br />15 soil if it was irrigated. <br />16 All of our pipe -- all of our water <br />17 is in a 26 -inch pipe now thanks to the mine. They <br />18 put it in a pipe, but it was not for us. It was for <br />19 them because of all -- they were afraid the water <br />20 would slough off the banks, and they was afraid <br />21 there was going to be too much water in the pit. <br />22 They wanted to put the pipe in. We wouldn't trade <br />23 it for anything, but it was not done for the Morgan <br />24 family. <br />25 And with -- just walk out there and <br />