2010-01-27_REVISION - C1981008 (2)

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0ECEIVE® Division of Reclamation, Mining, and Safety Z0'1Q 1313 Sherman Street Room 215 ?p,N 2 7 Sa ety n, Denver, Co. 80203 Division Of January 20, 2010 Mining and Dear Sandy, Marcia, and Dan: We checked all of the records at the CC Ditch Company. The Morgans from 1996 until the mining of the "Sunshine Corner", there were only 45 shares to do ALL of that property. Before that the maximum amount of shares for that place were 60. We were doing over 120 acres with 60 shares. We are gathering more and more proof all of the time. That entire place for more than 50 years was irrigated and productive with less water than what WFC was leased. We did over 120 acres with a maximum of 60 shares. More water is available with just the turn of a valve and they know it and we are not going to agree to anything less! We wouldn't even be having all of these fights if the State would just do their job and make the Operator put it back as good as it was! It seems very wrong to us that ALL of you sat and told us that YOU meaning DRMS could not get involved in contracts, discuss contracts, or look at contracts and then you not only allow WFC to included our contract in a revision, but also allow them to send you a new contract that we are absolutely refusing. This kind of looks one sided, doesn't it? Especially for a regulatory agency that is suppose to uphold the law and make sure the OPERATOR does his job and put the property back as GOOD AS OR BETTER. The purpose of not getting involved in a contract was that the DRMS had a job to do and that was to follow the laws that were set forth by the Federal Government and make sure that the properties being mined were put back better. When we tried to get your help and explain to you what our contract said and we were going to show it to Marica and Dan at Mrs. Morgans house, they said they could absolutely not look at it. We don't care that they lied about the PH which was an in house document, if you are going to get involved in contracts, LET'S GET INVOLVED! Why should we have to accept a substitute soil and let our prime topsoil which is like gold to us, just be shoved under a mat? Also, we have the right to farm, fence, irrigate, all of the Morgan property. So, if you are going to allow them to show you what they want, then I guess we should be allowed to do the same. If you know anything about the way Ross did his charts, then even his figures show that we have ample enough water. Proof enclosed. Some of Ross's figures are also wrong and if you take a plain calculator or even have common sense about figures, you will see that he altered some of those to make it look better for himself by rounding them up. We shouldn't have to prove SHARES at all. Follow your laws and we have shown with a HISTORY that there is enough water. They put the property back WRONG and the type of irrigation that we used which was gated pipe cannot EVER be used again. This is their fault, not ours. Siderolls must be used, but they will have to leave them when they go, because we cannot irrigate the way we were. You can't irrigate up and down with gated pipe, so they need to do it