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.~ ~ • • Mr. William C. York-Feirn 6 mine stockpile at the Valmont Mill, and that this waste rock was being used to control pH in the milling operation. He also stated that he would not process this rock until the inspection report issues were solved. In truth, all of the ore and waste rock at the Valmont Mill was shipped to the Gold Hill Mill, the pH in the milling process is controlled by adding soda ash to the ball mill feed, and the mill continued processing this material right through the last day of February, 1992. On February 26 of this year, Wayne Tatman told Mr. Robert Carlson from the State Water Engineer's Office that the water from the Cash mine was being processed in a water treatment plant prior to discharging it, and that the mill was using water drawn from Left Hand Creek. He recently told Mr. Gordon Mattson at the Cominco Metals Smelter in Trail, British Columbia, that the Gold Hill Ventures' ore stockpile at the Gold Hill Mill had been moved for safekeeping rather than being processed without the owner's consent in the mill. Now he is also denying that he was involved in working a gold property near Colorado Springs. I know of at least five other people that he boasted to about his extremely rich "High Plains Placer" deposit, and will provide their names if the Mined Land Reclamation Division is interested in pursuing this possible violation of Colorado law, Finally, I would like to address the theory that Mr. Tatman advances in his response letter of December 17, 1991, that I returned to the Gold Hill Mill and opened the decant line valve "no earlier that (sic) 9:30 p.m. the evening of October 24th, and no later than 2:30 a.m. the morning of October 25th." This theory seems predicated on the ridiculous idea that I would leave a warm, friendly bed in the middle of a snowstorm and sneak onto my own property to fully open a valve so that Summerville would be flooded. This requires belief in a really bizarre motive for my bringing all of this trouble down on a project that I have devoted most of my adult life to seeing succeed. I was born into the mining business, and I have stayed in it out of choice. I did not fall into it after failing at everything else in life, and I am not going to quietly accept the blame for someone else's incompetence and dishonesty. Very truly yours, Mark A. Steen Gold Hill Ventures cc. Mi Vida Enterprises Cosmos Resources Colina Oro Molina Mr. Rodney Knutson Mr. John R. Henderson Mr. Richard H. Fraser Mr. Bob Mason