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<br />from me for mine use. Sometimes it was 3 weeks before I would get to use the irrigation water. <br />I have all of this documented as well as everything else. I have production records, dates of <br />irrigation. I have documentation showing they would make us shut the water off for arguments <br />with landowners, use for roads, or because they didn't think it needed for a week or so even <br />though I was telling them completely different. They would pull my pump for use in the pit, so <br />maybe I wouldn't have water on some of it for weeks at a time. Then they would wonder why <br />production was down. <br />The topsoil is ery big concern. A lot of our topsoil is BARX. This is some of the very best in <br />this area. The mine made a big booboo and mixed road base gravel in the topsoil that was to go <br />to B nsons. They thought they would just let me rock pick it out. My rock picker doesn't do any <br />bett e a asebail size. So, for th6mbooboo, they came and got topsoil, our very best, and put <br />another 18 inches on Bensons. When questioned, Lance said this is not a democracy, this is <br />communism, those who have give and those who don't take. Most of the ground over there does <br />not have anywhere near the type of soil we have. Some of our good topsoil goes to 74 inch <br />depths. How can they take our Barx and ever replace it. We thought we would get our own soil <br />back. This is a big controversy because they are taking some of our better soil and even use it on <br />the dryland parts and lots and lots on Bensons. When it gets to the end, where does the Barx <br />topsoil come from to put our ground back like it was? With the damages done to topsoil by just <br />moving it, it will take years to put it back similar to what it was. But, if the mine uses it, where <br />do we get it from? We have an excess of the good topsoil and it should not go to others, it <br />should go back to us. <br />We do not want a Ladak alfalfa or birdsfoot trefoil planted on these 140 acres. We want a <br />production alfalfa put back like it was. Just a legume is not good enough for any of our property. <br />We plant between 15 and 20 pounds per acre with a 70 pound per acre cover crop of oats. <br />We do not want any less. We fertilize 450 to 6001unds per acre, that's why we get the 5.5 to 6 <br />tons per acre of production. We are the only ones his area that raise crops and alfalfa for <br />production to sell only. <br />They have three topsoil classifications. One for irrigated/pasture, dryland, and irrigated dryland. <br />What happened to our Barx and the cropland topsoil? There is great variations between soils <br />here and on the eastern portion. There-are great variations of soils on our place that is so much <br />better than anywhere else. We should get the same soil back. Why are they mixing it? Why do <br />they do top soil rain, snow , it doesn't matter? They are doing damage to even the bad stuff when <br />they try this. <br />We would like to have satisfactory answers to these concerns in writing, since no ones word <br />seems to count for anything anymore. Whatever the mine tells you in person to get you to do <br />something, doen't mean anything unless it's in triplicate and signed by everyone and then some. <br />We would like them to honor what they have promised. We want them to get their bond release <br />as quickly as possible and retumour lands to us as quickly as possible. If the mine puts down the <br />right topsoil at the depths they should which ours is a minimum of 22 inches, and we can rock <br />rake and rock pick it and level it and do our cultipacking and the land is put back as good as I <br />have ever done on the mine prior to ours, and the production is there the T' and 31 years, why