2008-03-03_GENERAL DOCUMENTS - C1981008

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land in better or as good as condition as when they entered that piece of property. We also have the right to farm that ground right behind the mining and keep our production. When we gave that property to them, there was 30 years of rock picking, leveling, cultipacking, disking, fertilizing, and harvesting done. There wasn't a rock in the soil. It was one of the prettiest fields in the country. This is my personal feelings. I worked for the mine for 13 years and I am no longer there because of a dispute between me and Ross. The mine has lawyers on standby 24-7. They know they legally have to honor the contact in hand and let us fence(which they are presently in default) ,farm, irrigate and harvest that property. We spent years of hard labor getting it to where it was. If they can convince you that they do not have the water available to reclaim it to row crops or alfalfa, then they could classify it as "Improved Pasture" which means no fazming, little irrigating, one time fertilizing, and no harvesting, then they don't have to allow us to do anything because they found sloop-hole. They also feel they spend way too much money on reclamation which they think all of the farmers are getting this free stuff, but the property was in that shape when they entered it. Now as to the water. Ross said that Mike Boulay said that I said 1 shaze of water will do 1 acre of ground. This is an absolute untrue statement. When Mike and I talked with Mike Boulay prior to your meeting, We specifically told him that 1 share of water would do 2 not 1 but 2 acres of ground. I told Mike Boulay that Ross said that 1 shaze would do 1 acre and I told Mike Boulay that this was not true and that we had irrigated this property for all of these yeazs and 1 shaze will dot acres of ground. These were the things we were really worried about. Now I will give you the calculations that will mathematically back what I am trying to say. There are 86,400 Seconds in a day. Times 7.5(gallons per cubic feet). This equals 648,000 gallons per second feet per day. The number of gallons of water in 1 acre inch equals 27,000 divided by 4 to get to Ross' 1/4 or .25 of an inch per day (this is for evaporation and transpiration) equals 6750 gallons per 1/4 inch on ONE acre. 648,000 gallons per second foot per day divided by 6750 gallons per quazter inch an acre equals 96 acres per second foot. 48.75 shazes is approximately 1.5 second feet with a full head of water in the ditch. 1.5 second feet times the 96 acres per second feet equals 144 acres that can be irrigated with 1.5 second feet. Side rolls aze 70 % efficient which times the 144 acres come to 100.8 acres that can be irrigated very conservatively with 50 shazes of water which Morgans' have already agreed to lease to the Mine. There is approximately 105 acres to be reclaimed minus roads, ponds, etc. Ross' figures aze incorrect and with 50 yeazs experience and also the last 17 yeazs of actually using 50 shazes to make the production that we have should count..We aze the only ones in this entire asre that got 4 cuttings of hay this yeaz. Western Fuels have made many mistakes in the past by actually doing too good of a job on some of the azeas east of 2700 road which I myself planted, tilled, irrigated, etc. These areas they should have already gotten bond release. Plans were wrong, crops should have been able to be worked back up and replanted and there should never be a set 10 yeaz period to get your best production. Western fuels did everything above and beyond the call of duty as I did to make production and get bond release, which still hasn't happened. If everyone had actually talked with the farmer and listened from day ONE, bond release would have happened yeazs ago. Now Western Fuels is trying to cut corners. Their reclamation is such a very small amount of money for them compared to any other aspect of the mine, but there's that dime. We don't want to be shortchanged. We don't want shortcuts taken now that they have gotten to the very best farmland in all of the country. This is the only farm in all that has been reclaimed that is actual prime farm